The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-12
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

LII. NIdVeS, Tue COuueiIlIoQ
at Denver, Col, denies the alleged con
fessiOns.
Miss Ethel Parton is preparing for
work upon the biography Of her father,
the late James Parton.
One of the biggest of the insurance
companies in this country pays to a
woman manager SO, 900 a year.
Europe consumes upward of $50, OOO,-
0G0 worth Of gold and silver annually
for platu, jewelry and ornaments.
CONCORD, n. H., Jan. 4-There are
over 1900 cases of grip in this city and
vicinity and the disease is spreading.
The Georgia encampment of the
Grand Army Of the Republic will be
held in Augusta instead of TallapOosa
The Brotherhood of Rail way Train
men paid $36, 900 last month for death
benefits; the receipts amounted to
$35, 800.
There is a very obliging judge in Ida
/ Grove, Ia. A juror in his court vas
granted a leave Of absence to enable
HIM to get married.
The EdisiOn Electric Light Company
Is to put up a One-milliOn-dOllar plant
in Chicago, which will be the largest
concern Of the kind in the world.
Wages are so low in India that men
may be hired for 50 a month to do
household work, A dollar is a great
sun to them, and one meal a day the
rule.
Boston, Jan 4-Gen. S. Armstrong,
of the Hampton Institute, Va, has SO
far recovered from his recent illness as
to be able to leave for his home in
Hampton
PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 4-John L.
Sullivan says he has sworn off drink
ing for a year. He wants a match
with Slavin, but is afraid that Slavin
won't come to time.
The 5000 people engaged in watch
making in the United States turn out
| about two million four hundred thou
sand watches, which are disposed Of by
about eighteen thousand retailers
LONDON, Jan. 1.-The Socialists at
tempted to make their usual demon
STATIONS in the streets Of Chelsea yes
terday. They were, as hitherto, sup
pressed by the police after brief resist
ance,
The domestic potato crop isestimated
at from 225, 900, COO to 22O. 600, 900, 600
bushels, the largest ever gathered. The
average was nearly ninety four bushels
per acre, against fifty-scven and one
half bushels in 1890.
NORFOLK, Jan. 6.-The wholesale
grocery firm Of J. NJ. Spindle & Co =,
No. "a Roanoke Avenue, to-day made
an assignment to 3. u. White, a trus
tee. The assets O. the firm are placed
at IS, 900 with liabilities Of 81, 600.
The President of the French Republic
has a salary of $3.50, 600, but when he
gives receptions to his thousands Of
fellow citizens there is something be-
sides sold tea on the side board and
cheese and crackers i'll the dining room.
CHICAGO, Jan 6.-Dispatches from
points throughout Illinois, Iowa. and
Minnesota, report the heaviest SHOW
storm Of the season, the falling mostly
III places over six inches. Intensely
cold weather prevails in the Northwest.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 6.-Tbe papers
have been forwarded to Secretary
Blaine against Chill for $50, 900. by
Patric Shields, fireman Of the steamer
Keweenaway, who was maltreated
while i'll Valparaiso by a CHILEAN mob.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. 2.-Jesse
Friersot, a negro, was hanged in the
| jail yard this afternoon, for the muir
der Of G. MusgrOve, who in the sum
mer of 1890 attempted to arrest him
and Oscar BurrOw, another cOlOred
man.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 6.-On the as
sembling of the legislature in joint SEES
| sion today, U. S Senator John Sher-
man was elected to succeed himself on
the first ballot by a vote of 50 to So, his
only competitor being e. Governor
Foraker.
CORTLAND, n. Y, Jan. 2.-David
Hannum died at his home this morning.
He was well known in Cortland county,
and at n time was reported to be
worth $40, 600, 600. He was noted for
his reckless expenditures on sports and
sporting life.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Ga dispatch
from Rio Grande City says Captain
Thomas CARA, the deputy marshal,
who escaped during the Retinal fight,
has come in and surrendered himself.
The revolutiOnists are reported to be
badly scattered.
JACKSONVILLE, Ill, Jan. 5.-A ter
rible collision occurred at AS o'clock
| this morning on the Wabash Railroad
at Aladdin, a small station east of
Hannibal. Six men were killed out
right, two fatally injured and many
others badly hurt.
LONON, Jan. 4.-There were nine
teen deaths from the grip in this city
last week. The disease is now preva-
lent throughout Great Britain. Whole
families are Frustrated and there seems
to be no prospect of a change for the
better in. the near future.
JASPER, Fla, Jan. 5.-The Tompkins
building with it's contents was destroyed
by fire at 8 o'clock this morning. The
building contained G. B. Tompkins
drug store, the p~os5ofice, and half
dozen professional offices. Total loss
is estimated at 81, 500; insurance not
over 81. 500.