The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19

from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

IN CROSBY S SnlrG factory az Mechanics
vile, n. Y, struck yesterday against
"a reduction of 5per cent. in their wages.
Postmaster General John Haggart,
of the Province of Ontario, has assumed
the portfolio of Railways and Canals.
J. A. Onimet has been assigned the
portfolio of Public Works.
Martin Lautz, a regular attendant at
the German Lutheran Church at POest-
enkill, N. Y, Sunday night, in his pew,
cut his throat while the pastor was
prOnouncing the benediction. He will
die.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 12.-Thec county
court yesterday morning ordered $780,
900 to be appropriated by this Shelby
county for a proper representation at
the Worlds Fair, providing the $780,
900 will be raised by the State.
BETHLEHEM, Penn, Jan. LEX,
Chief of Police Wilson D. Snyder died
to night. He bic to death by ruptur-
ing q bloodvessel while lifting a whole
beef on a wager. He was a powerful
man and shouldered 900 pounds easily.
The revenue cutter Gallatin will be
a totalloss. The diver found her broken
in two in the middle. The Treasury
Department has directed that an inves-
tigation be instituted, with a view of
fixing the responsibility for the acct
dent.
Boston, January 12.-An explosion
Of blasting powder occurred at 1870,
at the corner of Hyde Park avenue and
Forest Hill street, where the city is
| building a sewer. One man was taken
| to the hospital, ald several buildings
! are reported shattered.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Jan. 12-The re
| ported collision between the Leihigh
Valley freight trains occurred this
morning near Castele, N. Y. Five oil
cars caught fire and were consumed.
Two men are reported being burned to
death, Particulars later.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 12-Detective
Tracy left last night for the East, hav-
ing in charge Florence \. Waterman,
the suspected wife of Marion Hedpeth,
| the St. Louis train rObber. His depar
ture was kept a secret until the last
moment, as it was thought her rescue
might be attempted by her friends.
CRAwFORDsvILLE, Ind, Jan. IL
| Between two and three o'clock this
| afternoon the north bound MOnOn tram
ran off the track about two miles north
of here at Nicholson Crossing. The
| accident occurred on a fifty foot en-
| bankment, down which four cars rOOled,
the engine and n baggage car keep
ing the track. Four persons were killed
and thirty six wounded.
ST.. PETERSBURG. Jan. 12.-The Rus
sian press denOunces those persons who
are engaged in the detestable work of
adulterating the -four with which the
government is straining every nerve to
supply the starving people. Private
holders of flour, who are for profit and,
in a similar manner, taking advantage
of the misery of the peasants, are alPO
held up to public eXecratlon.
KINGSTON, n. Y, Jan. 10.-Thursday
night the store of Burr Eaton, at Ellen.
vile, Ulster county, was entered by
burglars and money and goods to the
amount of $500 were taken. Yester
day morning Deputy Sheriff M. D.
Bradford arrested Edward Porter and
JacObus Citing, whom he found in the
mountains eight or nine miles back OF
Ellenville with the stolen goods in their
possession.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 12.-The
suit of j. J. Sweeney VS.. the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway
for thirty thousand dollars damages,
was heard at CastrOville and Judgment
for sixteen thousand dollars was
awarded him, for the loss of a leg a few
years ago. Defective coupling caused
the train to break in too and a collision
occurred, resulting in the injury OF
Sweeney and a man named Crawford.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y, Jan. 11.-Wil
liam Humphrey, chief of the detective
force of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad, has filed his
annual report, showing 303 arrests and
1856 convictions during 1891. Seven
were sent to State prison, 80 to the peni-
tertiary, 118 to the county jail, and 3
to the House of Refuge. Twenty were
arrested for burglary, % for petit lar
ceny, 3 for receiving stolen goods, 105
for riding on the cars, and Is for tres
pass.
BANGOR, Me-, Jan. 10.-To night
there is no reproducing tide water
river in Maine not open to steam YES
sells to the head of navigation. The
Kennebee River, from which over a
million tons of ice must be taken for
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
and New York, is in bad shape on &C
count of dirt, driftwood, and anchor
ice, which does not work out with the
tides. The Penobscot river is in fine
shape, but the water is as serene and
iceless as in summer.
CHARLESTON, West Va, Jan. 10
The elopement of a married mar and a
married woman in Calhoun county,
Saturday, almost ended in murder.
Abe G~arretson fired his fathers house
when the old gentleman was lying on
his deathbed, and then, abandoning
his wife and his children, he stole two
of his fathers horses and eloped with
Mrs. Marion Boyce, who left two young
children to the care of her husband.
| Garretson senior was rescued from his
burning home with difficulty.
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 1O.-Two more
! deaths have occurred from smallpox in