The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-12
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

ANh" LINN. OOA1 u LII WV
burned to death in a stable which
caught on fire this morning.
ST. LOUIS, July 5.-Ex-C Congressman
N~ickringhans' tin plate mills were
burned down this morning. A whole
block was consumed. The losses were
considerable.
The Illinois Central Railroad near
New Orleans, is covered by ten to
twenty inches of water and trains are
run over the Overaowed portion with
the greatest difficulty.
LIMA, o., July "A tornado passed
through this section at 1 o'clock yes
terday morning. At Foraker, several
houses we're blown over and three
barns were unroofed. The cyclone did
$50, 900 damage lee Bluffton.
WASHINGTON, July Mr.. Bland has
returned from Missouri and is ready to
take hold of the big end of the silver
fight. His return was entirely On &C
count of the silver bill having passed
the Senate, and he is here to try to get
it through the House.
WASHINGTON, July NO official re-
port regarding the seizure Of the Brit
ish steamer Coquillon has yet been re
ceived at the State Department, but
the officials Of that department have
no doubt whatever of the accura " of
the press dispatches on the subject.
The question Of illicit sealing is in no
wise involved in the case.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 5.-The
mammoth storage warehouse of B. B.
& r. Knight at the River Point, to-
gether with 5000 bales of cotton and
1000 pieces of cloths was burned late
Saturday night. The loss is estimated
at $500, 900. The building was of wood
and covered cal an acre of ground.
The Knights are the largest cotton
manufacturers in the country.
CITY OF MEXICO, July GA number
of passengers of the steamer City of
Panama, from San Francisco for
Panama, came near losing their lives.
A launch which was acting as tender
to the steamer a ashore at Papachula
and subsequently foundered. The pas
sengers aboard were in great danger,
but finally ell of them were saved.
They lost all their baggage, however.
BOSTON, July 4.-The balloon ascen-
sion from the Common this afternoon,
one of the features of the celebration of
the Fourth prepared by the city gov
eminent, had a sad ending. The aeron-
aut, Prof. Augustus Rogers, of Maiden,
Me-, and his assistant, Thomas FentOn,
we're killed, and the third occupant of
the balloon is now in the hospital suf
fering from the shock and inhalation
Of gas.
NEW ORLEANS, La, July Am in
ternatiOnal complication is liable to
grow out of the seizure Of the steamer
Joseph Oteri, Jr., by the Honduranian
revolutionists. Mr.. Joseph Oseri, the
owner, states that he will make a de-
mand through the United States gov
eminent on Honduras for $40, 900 dam
ages for detention Of the vessel, she
having lost two trips by the action of
the revOlutionists.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July GA duel
to the death occurred last night in the
billiard hall of Blount Springs Hotel.
E.. r. Benson was drinking and Viii
liam King demonstrated with him
about it. Suddenly Benson opened
was bad and. the bullets went wild.
King returned the fire and put four
bullets in Benson's body, anyone of
which would have caused death
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July GA sensa.
ton was created to day by the an
nouncement that Lester H. Gale,
| CCAlC1S II " 14O19 OOOA ACCpCl9
of the City Savings Bank had both fled
the city with between $40, 900 and
81, 600 of the bands funds. The feel
ing of uneasiness on the part of some
of the depositors did not last long, as
all the checks presented were promptly
paid. The bank had plenty of avail
able money to meet all demands.
BERLIN, July "A number of the
anarchists tried by the Imperial Tri
bunal. at Leipsic for high treason, in
having distributed seditious fly sheets
among the soldiers, were sentenced to-
day. HOener was sentenced to five
years, three months of penal servitude;
Camin and Bennthaler each to six
years, six months penal servitude;
Buff to five years, six months of the
same punishment, and Wiener to four
years Imprisonment. Dobberstein was
acquitted.
W~ILKEsBARRE, Penn, July 6.-By a
fall of coal in the South Wilkesbarre
shaft of the Lehigh and W~ilkesbarre
Coal Company this evening, two civil
engineers and a timber man we're in
stanly killed. The dead are: Tohn
Williams, aged twenty-six, civil en-
gineer, a recent graduate of Lehigh
University; John Nc Cafferty, aged
twenty-one, of Philadelphia, a civil
engineer, who is comparatively I'm
known here, and Thomas Jones, aged
forty-fve, a timber
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July "a story
of outrage and lynching comes from
Clay county. Mrs. Wilkins, a widow,
lives in a cottage with her daughter
Julia. They heard a noise at the
chicken coop and Mrs. Wilkins went
out to see about it, carrying her pistol.
While she was at the chicken house a
negro named Ed. Prater stepped in
through the door she had left open and
assaulted Miss Julia When Mrs. Will
kins returned she was met with the
pitiful story of her daughters outrage