The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-31
H LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for z Week.


for a Week.
ROME, Ca, May 22.-Robt. 7. Wall,
a prominent builder and contractor,
dropped dead at 5 o'clock this morning
at his home on Second avenue, from
heart disease.
PARIS, May 24-Deacon, the Amerl-
can who was convicted and sentenced
to a term of imprisonment for shooting
Abeile, his wife's paramour, will be
pardoned July 18th.
LONDON, May PA dispatch from
Mont Evallo says that a umo is cur
rent that the Brazilian cruizer, Bahia,
has foundered at sea. There is no
official confirmation of the report.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, May 23.-By
a collision between monitor engine No.
PSI and work engine 243 on the Hudson
River Railroad at Clinton Point, n. Y,
this afternoon six persons were in
jured.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 25.-There
has been a desperate fight between the
three fugitive express robbers and the
posse five miles below Palatka. One
rObber was killed and one wounded.
Two r in custody.
JACKSON, Miss, May Ex-Governor
Stone, the grand commander of the
Confederate veterans of Mississippi,
has called a grand camp and re union
of that organization to be held on the
second Tuesday in July at this place.
QUARANTINE, S. l., May % Deputy
Health Officer Talmadge has sent to
the reception hospital Andrew Beerg,
aged eleven, a Russian Pole, who de-
veloped small pox on the Aurania
which arrived last night from Liver
pool.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 23.-Dr. Nc
Kenzie, of Chester, reports that 500
people in that vicinity have been res
cued from drowning and are quartered
in the hotels, barns and stalls at the
fair grounds Tents will be forwarded
to the point at once.
LITTLE Rock, May 24-Walter
Smith, colored, assaulted a young white
girl at Cabot about q week ago. He
escaped and was arrested here yester-
day. Officers took him to Cabot. A
telegram last night states that Smith
was taken from the jail by a mob and
hanged.
VICKsBURG, Miss, May 25.-News
from below on both shores is alarming,
Bayou Macon has OVERLOOKED and
caused heavy losses to planters. The
Boeuf and Tensas rivers are rising fast,
over five feet in twenty-four hours,
and Tensas parish is being heavily
flooded.
PITTsBURG, May 25.-Cora Nichols,
the 26 year old daughter Of James
Nichols, Of Wealthy Stowe township,
farmer, was found dead in the barn, by
her father, Monday night, with a bul-
let hole in the right temple. It is not
known whether she was accidentally
killed, committed suicide, or met with
foul play.
New ORLEANS, May 24-The a
drivers strike continues. But few
cars are running and those few are
projected by a strong guard of police
men. Mayor Fitzpatrick this forenoon
| commissioned a number of volunteers
as policemen AM they will assist the
regular force In protecting the non
union drivers.
FAIRFIELD, Cal May 23.-Fire yes
t-rday destroyed Joyces' hotel and
caused the loss of two lives. The build
ing was frame, and so rapid was the
progress Of the flames that those in
mates who escaped did so with great
difficulty. Charles Bailey, Red Bluff,
and James Linn, San Francisco, were
burned to death.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 25.-The fire
last night, starting on the third floor
of the building occupied by Bray &
Landrum, manufacturers of Jeans
clothing, caused a loss of 800, 900. The
stock was completely destroyed. The
fire is supposed to have been caused by
an explosion of gas. It is nearly COW
cred by insurance.
DENVER, May "a Brigham City,
Utah, special to the Republican says:
"a most disastrous fire broke out here
at 3 o'clock Sunday morning, in the
saloon of r. T. Wilson & Co. Before
the flames were gotten under control
approximately 800, 900 worth of dam
was done. The fire was confined en-
tirely to business houses.
SEDALIA, Mo, May 25.-A young
white man who gave his name as T. J..
| Williams, was arrested in this city last
night charged with the murder of the
four women in Dennison, Texas, last
week. The arrest was made in the
Western Union Telegraph office by
Marshal D. E. Long, who had a message
to be on the watch for Williams.
AsHELAND, Wis, May 24.-Rosa
Young, twelve year-old daughter of a
prominent grocer, was criminally as
saulted by Fred Egan, proprietor of a
milk farm. AS soon as the child re-
covered she told of the crime, and the
police sent after the culprit, who was
captured. The excitement is high, and
summary vengeance is talked of.
MARIANA, Ark May 25.-Appalling
reports come from the lowlands on St.
Francis and White rivers. 1t is esti
mated that at least 10, 600 people we're
rendered homeless. Thirty-two lives
were lost in the Arkansas bottoms, and
the report comes from White and St.
Francis rivers that several negroes and
Indians nave been drowned there
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