The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

Events / throughout the "orlo
for a Week.
A whole business block was burned
at Columbus, Ohio, last Tuesday.
Several stores were blown up with
dynamite at Millen, Ga, last week.
The Chester cotton mills were burned
last Tuesday. Loss, $275, 600; partly
! insured.
\ Memphis, Tenn, young society
lady killed a young lady friend be-
week.
The new French cruiser Arethusa,
destined for the Atlantic squadron,
went ashore at Brest on returning from
her trial trip and had her keel carried
away.
The Paris Intransigeant continues
it's attacks on Minister Constans and
accuses him of accepting brides and
sharing the spoils of gambling dens in
the colonies.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
Ferdiland street station of the Bos on
Electric Light Company was burned
this morning. Loss 5000, 900. The
building and machinery a total loss.
The Sultan of Morocco has granted
permission to Great Britain to erect a
semaphOre on Cape Espartel, on the
northwest coast of his dOminiOns, at
the entrance to the straits of Gibraltar.
COLUMBIA. S. c., Jan. 26.-The Chi
cola gingham mills at Chester, this
State, were totally destroyed by fire
this morning between two and four
O'Clock. Loss 1926, 900; insurance
$I51 600.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5-Major-Gen-
eral Schofield this morning receives a
dispatch from Gen. Stanley, command
ing the department of Texas. in which
he states that he regards the CARA
movement as ended"
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 27.-The
Queen and Crescent Railroad shops at
Meridian, Miss, were burned at six
o'clock this morning. The round house
and master mechanics Office were
saved. Five hundred men were thrown
out of work by the fire. The origin is
unknown.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan. 25.-Specials
to the Times from Beverly, w. Va,
say that the entire central part of that
town was burned to day, including the
court house. The county records were
nearly all saved, but with great diff
Guilty. Over 500 people practically lose
their homes.
BRISTOL. Tenn Jan. 25.-Dr. Baker,
the wife %poisOner, convicted for muir
der last August and sentenced to hang,
will have a new trial beginning Tues
day. TaltOn Hall, the murderer Of 80
men, will be tried at the same time. in
Wise county, Virginia, a hundred
miles from here.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Cyrus w.
Field, who has been confined since his
many recent troubles. is dying and his
physicians say that he cannot live
through the night. He is very restless
though shows unusual patience. Great
sorrow is expressed and much sym
pathy has been aroused.
LAMAR, Mo. Jan. 25.-Tw0 men
boarded the Missouri Pacific train at
Sheldon last night and held up the train
men and passengers and robbed the
baggage and express cars and secured
quite a sum of money and valuables.
They made the messenger open the
safe, but there was very little IN it.
New HAVEN, Conn Jan. 25.-J mes
Reynolds, Michael and James White,
and another young tough named Massey
s~andbagged James Green, keeper of a
saloon in BranfOrd, while he was on
bis way home Sunday morning and
robbed him of $210. He recognized
them and all were arrested today.
They will be tried to morrow.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 25.-A Shep-
he~rdstown (W. Va.) special says: The
Bank of Jefferson, of this place, has
closed it's doors. The bank was in
vOlved heavily on the failure of the
NichOlson's bank, of Baltimore, and
the suspension is due to those losses.
The liabilities are not known, but the
loss to stockholders will be heavy.
PUTNAM, Conn, Jan. PA fatal
grade crossing accident occurred at
4:3Oth afternoons at Thompson station,
on the New York and New England
Railroad. The white train killed
William Cranska and wife instantly,
crushing the skulls of both. The horse
escaped, but the wagon was demolished.
Cranska saw the train approaching,
but evidently considered he had suffi-
cient time to o the track.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Jan. 25.-An order
in council will shortly be issued pro
hibiting the granting of licenses to fish
under the inland fishery protection
laws to any but British-bOrn subjects
and resident in the locality covered by
such licenses. This will utterly prevent
the catching of sturgeon in Lake of the
Woods by a United States canning
company, and will probably break up
the Pelee Island Bass Fishing Club.
LEXINGTON. Va, Jan. 26.-The body
Of Patrick Mccarthy, a young man
employed here on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, a native Of Harrisburg,
was found this morning at the base of
the six-foot abutment of the Lime Kiln
bridge, near Lexington on the North
river. Mccarthy attended a dance
last night at the Lime Kiln and got into
a difficulty with two young men. He