The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-21
H LATEST NEWS.
from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

| Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.
Troy, N. Y, June IA 1t was 81 in
the shaie at moor to day.
READING, Pa, June IA Michael
Quartoska, aged nineteen, died here to-
day from the effects of a sunstrOke.
The thermometer ranged from SO to SO.
Two boys, John Lohr and William
Lays, have been arrested near West
field, Texas, charged with attempting
to wreck a freight train on the Interna-
tional and Great Northern Road.
PORTLAND, Me-, June 14.-Portland
has had three of the hottest days in
succession known here for nearly
twenty years. To-day the mercury
ranged from 81 to So on the street.
A boiler exploded at Larimore, N.
D., yesterday. Dick White was killed,
John Klemme, William Glenn, Milton
Scott, and an unknown man seriously
injured. John Klemme is not expected
to live.
Consel in the case of Bound against
the South Carolina r. R. Co. have
agreed upon November 18th as the date
of sale of the road and a decretal order
to that effect will be issued by the
court within ten days.
The officials of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company say there is no
truth in the report that an attempt
was made last Sunday night to hold
up the New York and Philadelphia eX-
press between Layton Station and
Connellsville.
BALTIMORE, June Tone Of the
largest fires that ever visited the water
front of Baltimore started a few min
utes after 2 o'clock this afternoon on
the old Bay Line wharf at the foot of
Union Dock. The loss, as near as a
be estimated, is nearly $1,000, 900.
The Methodist preachers of Worces-
ter, Mass, and vicinity, the President
of the City Mission, and the Church
protest to Bishop Hurst against the
appointment of the Rev. Alonzo Sander
son to a vacant passionate in that city.
SAN Francisco, June 14.-The
funerals of the victims of yesterdays
disaster at Mare Island Navy Yard
took place this afternoon. 1t is now
generally conceded that the govern
ment was to blame for the terrible loss
I'll Ill., Lulu o4O CO1AAAOOO u SRAAASA
as to how the accident occurred.
Samuel Lazarus, an engineer m
plOyed by the Barbour Asphalt Com
pany, was arrested last night and
locked up in the Eldridge street Police
Station charged with throwing shovel
full of live Goals on Wolf Fedlesky, six
ing him severely about the head and
Rec&
a Chieago dispatch says: Yester-
day afternOon'sBtopm was much more
destructive than at first repofoed~A At
least sever lives we're lost in Chicago
and vicinity and fifteen persons more
or Tessmipred, while it will probably
take hundredBSOf thousands of dollars
to repair the damage done by the tor
nado.
TRENTON, N. J.. June l4-Oounsel
for Rider Haggard, the novelist, today
asked for and obtained from Judge
Green. in the United States District
Court, a rule to show cause against the
Waverly Publishing Company of New
York. Haggard wants them restrained
from issuing in book form his novel,
"Naidi, the Lily"
A Peoria, Ill, dispatch says: Meagre
reports of the terrible cyclone at Galva,
a small village forty-fve miles north
of this city, on the Rock Island and
| Peoria Railroad reached this city late
last night. From what can be learned
almost the entire village, which con-
tanned 2, 1000 people, vas swept away,
with considerable loss of life.
ROCHESTER,, n. Y, June 1.-THE
postoffice at Genesee was entered by
burglars between 1 and 2 o'clock this
morning and they were cracking the
safe when Postmaster Olmsted appeared
on the scene. He had risen to catch up
on his extra work, caused by the accu-
mutation of mail in consequence of the
Normal School commencement.
ORLANDO, Fla, June 1.-THE pre-
Iiminary hearing of the train robbers
was begun here to-day. Futch Floyd
and Stafford waived a preliminary
hearing and were remanded to jail
without bail. Mcnamara was tried.
The evidence being rather contradic-
tory, he was held without bail. The
cases will come up again in about a
week or ten days.