The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-17

Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for q Week

LNCOLNTON, May I0.-Thls State IL
to day flooded with water.
LONDON, May 12.-The Gazette pub
fishes IN order prohibiting sealing III
Behring Sea until May, 1898.
TOLEDO, O., May 1O.-Theg great floods
continue. Many bridges and other
property is being washed away thereby.
NEW YORK, May 1O.-Erving, a wit
ness in the present Park trial, hasagain
succumbed. He is now dying of brain
fever.
New York, May 1O.-Henry F. Ran
dolph, a well known publisher of this
city, died this morning. He took
~strychnine through mistake,
NEW ORLEANS, La, May 1O.-The
floods throughout the West are increas-
ing. However, there is no v~erihcatiOn
yet of a break in the Morganza levee.
LOUISVILLE, KY, May 8.-A report
from Western Kentucky is that buffalo
gnats are causing great loss. 1t is esti-
mated that one thousand horses have
been killed by them,
LONDON, May 8.-Scott's oyster bar,
in Coventry street, London, was burned
tonight. Four corpses have been
taken from the ruins and it is feared
| there are more under the debris,
BRIDGETON, N. j., May 9.-There is
| excitement in bar room circles in this
city. The men want their whiskey
straight, but the women insist hat it
shall be mixed with a proper proper
ton OF prayer.
AUBURN, Ala, May 8.-The weather
| crop bulletin of the State Polytechnic
Institute for the week shows that there
has been deficiency of rainfall, the
averag e for the State being less than
one-balf of an inch, and at least one
inch below the normal.
PHILADELPHIA, May 8.-The Mount
Vernon Baptist Church, at Fourth and
| Mount Vernon streets, Camden, was
seized by the sheriff yesterday on exc
cution held by the pastor, the Rev. J..
D. Elansburg, for So, 728. The church
property is said to be worth $22, 600.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 1O.-The
Missouri river continues to rise and
farmers report that the wheat in many
places On the low lands is rOtting in
the ground, and they will be compelled
to pillow it up for a late corn crop which
was planted, and is in very bad con
ditiOn.
| AKIN, IN. 81, U1cby y IA D. oy O1I1C
| Frank. aged u years. whose home is
| at 80 Lewis street, took a dose of poison
| tonight on the street near her home,
whittier she was soon carried. She
died a few hours after reaching the
house. Her act was due to a family
quarrel.
CREsTON, May 1O.-Again Southwest
Iowa is flooded and washouts are re
ported on all railroads. Rain has been
falling in torrents. All the creeks AMI
rivers are out of their banks, and bot
tom lands are under from n to ten
feet of water. All seed now in the
ground is rOtted.
LONDON, May 9.-Upon the arrival
to-day from New York of the Guion
Line steamer Alaska at Liverpool, one
of the passengers, William Galloway,
head Of the firm of Burns & Galloway,
solicitors of London, was arrested on
the charge of having defrauded clients
of the firm of 92O, ZOO.
BERLIN, May 1O-At yesterdays in.
spection of the Guards the Emperor
called from the ranks and, before the
whole regiment, cOmplimented and
shook hands with a sentry who re-
Gently shot two men in Wrangel street,
one of the men being killed. The incl
dent has caused a most unfavOrable
impression.
LONDON, May "a special to the
Times from Shanghai says that the
military students at Shun King have
taken fOrcible means to expel the
British missionaries from that city. It
is claimed their action was taken with
the connivance Of the viceroy of the
province of Sc Chun, in which Shun
King is situated.
ALTOONA, Penn, May 8.-This after
noon a riot started among the Italians
of Ninth Avenue, this city, and for half
an hour a general fight ragged, knives
and clubs being freely used. Joe Partre
went into the crowd to quell the dis
turbance, when he was instantly killed
by a brick which broke his neck. Nc
one was seen to throw the missile, and
the coroner's jury was unable to reach
any decision.
ACCRA, May ct was thought that
the troubles between the British and
the Egba and Jebu tribes, growing out
of the closing by the native chiefs of
the trade routes to the interior, would
be settled with little difficulty, but it
appears that the natives have no idea
Of submitting to the British demands,
and consequently the British expedition
to enforce these demands will start
against the Egbas and Jebus on Thurs
day.
VIENNA; May 8.-The residence of a
district notary named Papp, in Yer
secz, Hungary, was wrecked today
by a dynamite explosion. The roof of
the notary's dwelling was blown bodily
into the air, and the windows of all
buildings in its vicinity we're shattered.
It is supposed that the motive of the
perpetrator or perpetrators was re-
venge ARoumanian has been arrested
on suspicion of being connected with
the affair.
BRUSSELS, May "A fatal accident
ooo,,nnnd Of Trioridionn nnllinrv al