The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-30
HI LATEST NEWS.
Sparks FROM the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for . Week,

for a Week.
New YORK, Aug. 23.-The steamship
City of New York arrived st Queens
town today after five days and twenty
hours out, breaking the record.
BEDFORD, Ind, Aug. PA riot took
place yesterday at Limestone, a little
town three miles northwest Of here, in
which three men were fatally shot.
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 23.-Judge
Bond this morning appointed Mr..
Oakum, the temporary receiver Of the
Richmond Terminal, to be permanent
receiver.
Peoria, Ill, Aug. 22.-The Wesley
City coal mine across the river from
this city caved in this morning. Sew
eral miners are imprisoned in themine.
y rescuing party is at work.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, August %
Saturday night, D. D. Samples, q prom
inentmerchant of Elk City, was fatally
shot by q masked burglar. Phillip
Russell, a neighbOr of Samples, IS
charged with the crime.
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 23.-Iarry Brooks,
a man Of good family and social stand
ing, has been arrested here for burg
larry. He confessed to four burglaries.
Three, he said, were committed Satur-
day night. The thefts aggregate sew
eTal thousand dollars.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-A dispatch from
Swansea, Wales, states that a terrible
accidei { occurred at one of the mines
in that city. While ten men were at
work III the mine part of the roof fell
in, crushing eve miners to death and
badly iniuring three others.
GUERDON. Ark, Aug. ga negro
named BOwles, who recently perpe-
trated an outrage upon Is year. old
Nellie Wilkes, has been ~sumnIarily
dealt with by a mob He was strung
up to a tree. Shots were fired into his
body and the mob dispersed.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 23.-The off
cial returns Of new cases Of cholera
yesterday and deaths show a decrease,
as compared with Sunday figures, of
Is c0sCs and an increase Of III deaths.
The total number Of new cases reported
yesterday was 6,S06; the total deaths,
1929
DANvILLE, Va, Aug. 23-The most
distressing drought known for years
in this section was broken last night by
cOpiOus rains. The crop Of tobacco in
the bright tobacco belt has been mate
rally cut off by the drought, but the
rains insure q short crop Of good to-
baCcO.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Aug. 23.-General
Weaver started South last night. He
willspeak in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, the CarOlinas
and Virginia. He will return TO IOwa
early in October and devote the bal
ance Of the time to the Northwestern
States.
HAMBURG, August 23-Cholera is
chiefly prevalent IN Aistadt, nOld pOr-
ton Of the city, comparatively few
cases occurring in the Neusladt or the
new portion. Every p]recaution pos
sibl6 IS being taken to j~Ocalize the dis
ease. a number Of new cases were re
ported to day.
CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. ga writer
of aleUrer from Sasabe, State Of SOrOna,
to Ell PartidO Liberia, says that in q
northumberland ftllin that region
| q shower of fishes three inches long
and a number Of small pelicans, but
| no rain, while at MaZ3tlan the ground
was covered with dead winged ants.
LITTLE Rock, Aug. 23.-Acting Gov
| ernOr Handy received a telegram from
Mrs. Eagle yesterday saying that Gov.
Eagle had grown much worse, and was
in q critical condition. Gov. Eagle has
been quite i'll for two months. About
ten da2 S ago, at the advice Of his ply
s~icians, he was taken to Richmond, Ky.
New YORK, Aug. 25.-Mary Burns,
| aged twenty tw1, of 40 Christie street,
was arrested on the BOwery last night
for being drunk and dis0rderly. She
was locked up in the station house, and
this morning was found in her cell
| dead. She had torn her dress into
shreds and hanged herself to the bars
of the window.
RICHMOND, August 2O.-Last night
the beautiful sixteen year old daughter,
! and the only daughter of Mrs. Lizzie
Hicks, went into the pantry in the
rear of the house to get something, IN
known to her mother, and not taking
a light. AS she returned her mother,
who is a widow, seized a loaded re
volver and shot at the supposed burglar.
ROANOKE, Va, Aug. ga cloud
burst at II o'clock last night caused q
hundred thousand dollar damage in
half an hour. Stores along Salem
Avenue and jefferson street were
flooded with water, Barney Smith, a
blacksmith, fell into a ditch created by
the flood and was drowned. Other
deaths are also believed to have re
! suited.
MONTICELLO, Ga, Aug. 22.-Mr. R.
w. Price, living in the upper part Of
| Jasper county, committed suicide yes
terday by placing the barrel Of a shot
gun in his mouth and pulling the trig-
| ger with his toe. He had been on a
| Snree on new npach brandy and was
try ing to sober up. No cause beyond
the fact that he was dependent and
reckless is assigned.
TEHERAN, Aug, pa dispatch from
! Renshd, in the province of Ghilan,
states that every day hundreds of per-
sons are dying there from cholera.