The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week. .

OF q caused bQ0 loss Oh II,
600 liters of petroleum in a refinery at
Aubervilliers, France, yesterday.
LONDON, March 29.-Several build
ings of the Great Northwestern Rail
way works were burned last night.
Damage ESQ, 900, mostly to machinery.
The workingmen of Sydney, N. S.
w, have protested in mass meeting
against the introduction of colored
labor into the colony while men are
without work.
Miss Mamie Roberts, of Oscaloosa,
Iowa, has sued her father, J.L Roberts,
and her uncle, T. A. White, for $40, 900
damages. They attempted to have her
adjudged insane.
The amalgamated FreemGn's Jour
nal and National Press was issued
yesterd 4y in Dublin, with the editorial
assurance that "henceforth we will
serve no party or clique"
The Treasury Department at Wash
ing has been informed that w. @.
Bonsel, of Berrien county, Ca, has
been arrested for raising notes and
making counterfeit silver dollars.
Frederick Winnie, a prosperous
farmer of Amsterdam, N. Y, was
stricken with paralysis while driving
in his cutter Saturday, and died in a
short time. The horse ran away.
The story of a petroleum fire in Bar
celOna and the sinking of a number of
vessels to prevent their burning, pub
lished by the Paris Temps, is denied
by the agent of Reuters Telegram.
Michael Hogarty, a book-maker, shot
j. @. Frost at Chicago Sunday night.
TVp0ct Mill rr0hah1v 1in Tho Ch0nfTnO
resulted from a quarrel over Rose Mel
son, whom Hogarty was to marry last
night.
Arnold JAM, a carrier for the Chicago
Stats Zeitung, was killed yesterday
morning, and Martin Techel, who
wanted to marry his daughter, isunder
arrest charged with shooting JAM
from ambush.
Gov. Merriam, of Minnesota, has
suspended from office H. O.. Petersen,
County Treasurer of Hennepin county.
Petersen's books do not show 81, 200
that was received. Petersen charges
the blame to a deputy.
GA "Jack-the-Ripper case has
been discovered in the village of Sin
sleben, Germany, the victims being a
carpenter named Zaeken and his six
teen year-old daughter. The bodies
were terribly mutilated,
At Arc ada, La, Saturday night,
Dennis Cobb, a well-to do negro, was
taken by five white men from his home,
hung to a tree, and riddled with bull
lets. Two men have been arrested,
charged with the murder.
A report of the meeting held in
Cooper Union Marcia, in celebration of
the eighty-second university of the
Supreme POntif, and forwarded to
Rome by Archb shop Corrigan, has
been received by the Pope.
The British Ambassador, Sir Henry
DrummOnd Wolff, presented his ere
dentials to the Court of Spain yester-
day, and was received by the Queen
Regent Christina with assurances of
the most friendly character.
COLUMBUS, Ca, March %. -James E.
Darlington, the clerk at the Central
Railroad Office, was arraigned this
morning under charge of having com
mitted assault on the person of Louelia
Allen, a girl only eight years of age.
"Prince Michael" who calls him
self the messiah" was arrested yes
terday at Detroit, Michigan, on com
plant of his wife. Lizzie Courts, one
of the women with whom the Prince
is said to have misbehaved, was also
arrested.
The holc ers of the bonds of the Por-
tuguese Government who decline to
await the conclusion of the projected
convention with foreign holders r to
have their April coupons paid in POr-
tugese money, subject to the 80 per
cent. tax.
FAYETTE, Mo, March pa sale
under the .vagrant act took place in
Fayette yesterday afternoon, when
three negroes were sold on a block to
the highest bidder. One brought $25,
another S., and a third 81. The negro
element is highly indignant, and threat
ems revenge.
In consequence of the disturbance a.
the Church of Merri, the Bishop Of
Paris has directed the clergy of thai
CITY to avoid politics in their sermons
and has forbidden the delivery of {
number of public lectures on religious
and social questions which had beer
announced.
BELLEvILLE, Ontario, March 80
Two daughters of Charles B. Hawley
farmer of Peterborough county, were
bitten by a dog last fall. The elder.
aged sixteen, was attacked with hydro
phobia on Saturday, and is dying, and
the other is also exhibiting signs OF the
same disease.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March pa
this hour, one o'clock p. m, new
comes from Boyles Gap, of a fight be-
It was suspected that an attempt would
be made to rob the Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train, and ten police
men went tothe scene
PrNEv1LLE, KY, March 29.-Anos hel
man was killed on Bechfork, in Leslie
County, Saturday, near the scene O
L. c.LH aLA.nA Ah.on Wo0kE 400 ne