The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

Events throughout the ORIG
for a Week.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Rcpresenta-
tive A. H. Williams, of North Carolina,
introduced yesterday a bill for the free
coinage of silver.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Jan. 19.-The col
lege building at Torkio, eight miles
northeast of here, is burned. The loss
is $40, 900; fully insured.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 19.-The court
martial to try Major Lewis @. Over
man for irregularities in financial mat
tiers convened here this morning.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The offers of
silver to the treasury department yes
terday aggregated $40, 600 ounces; the
amount purchased was 800, 900 ounces
| .9340c.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 19.-John
Thompson, cOlored, early this morn
from a to ear after knocking her
down with the butt of a revolver.
LONDON, Jan. 2O.-The Frankfort
Zeitung has been suppressed by the
authorities for publishing an immoral
article on Maupassant, the French
author, now confined in an insane
asylum.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 90. Phil
lip & Bro, furniture dealers, assigned
to day to S. B. Brown Their liabilities
are $49, coo and assets $35, 600. Their
principal creditors are in the large
cities of the North.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Representa-
tive Mills returned to Washington
from Texas Saturday night. His
friends say he came back i'll good
spirits and will take an active part Of
in the business of Congress.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 2O.--The
manager of the Emma Juch Opera
| Company has filed a chattel mortgage
on the costumes and other effects of
that organization to secure advances
made by Henry Greenwall, of New
Orleans, to the amount Of s., 200.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. he P.
| DurandO & Co., a prominent jewelry
firm, are threatened with attachment
by local banks. They have filed an
assignment, Liabilities, $29, 600; assets
about $50, 900. The main creditors are
New York jewelry houses.
LONDON. Jan. 19.-But little interest
is taken here in the dispute between
| Chill and the United States. The idea
that there is a possibility Of war be
tween the two countries. is secuted.
Most of the illusions made in the
newspaper press to the affair, are pro
| Chilian.
MOBILE, Jan IA & named
Henry Hinton, implicated in the mas
sacre of the McNillen family by the
| Sims gang in ChOcktaW. was taken
from the Butler jail by a mob Sunday
night and hanged from the same tree
that served as a gallOws for Bob Sims
and others Of the gang.
JEwETT, Texas, Jan. 19.-Mr. Joseph
Evans, a respectable and influential
| citizen living SIX miles south Of here,
comnitted suicide yesterday by taking
strichnine. He took the fatal dose in
his barn. He leaves his wife and a
number of children. For some time
he has shown signs of mental trouble.
NORFORK, Va, Jan. 21-A destruc-
tive fire occurred here about 3 o'clock
this morning Ill the cotton district, in
Guiding the building occupied by Jones,
Lee & Co, J. B. Harrell & Co., Har-
rell Bros, and the American Peanut
Co., at the foot of Commerce street.
The loss is estimated at $50, 600; insur-
ance about $40, 900.
POINT PLEASANT, N. j.. Jan, 10
The schooner j. and H. Scull, from
North Carolina, which went ashore
Monday on Egg HarbOr Bar, is there
still. Capt. Willis landed One woman
and FIVE men in the surf boat. The
vessel must be unloaded to save her.
There is a bad storm to night, and the
vessel must break up.
BALTIMORE, January 1 9-The brig
Charles Purves, Capt. E. Small, from
this port Nov. 25th, for Havana, is
thought to be lost. Ordinarily the
trip should not occupy over fifteen
days, and she has now been out over
fifty. The Purves had G92 tons of
bituminous coal for account Of Henry
May, Of Philadelphia.
WOODBURY., N. j., Jan. 19.-Jacob
Slime, a we'll known farmer of Almmes-
son, was struck and mangled to pieces
this morning at North Woodbury. by a
West Jersey train. Slime was seen by
the engineer walking on the track and
he blew his whistle to apprise him Of
his danger. StIne paid no attention to
the signal and was killed instantly.
ST. PAUL, Jan. ia special to the
Dispatch from GAINESVILLE, Wis, says:
At 6:25 the Northwestern vest1bUled
train from st. Paul to Chicago cOllided
at Clinton Junction this morning with
a freight train. Eighteen cars are on
fire. It is rumored that many persons
were injured, and probably killed. A
train is starting from here with help.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan 19.-Famine
fever is increasing at a terrible rate in
Kasan and SaratOf, and the suffering
among the famished people where the
malady first made its appearance is
fearful. The dread disease is more
widespread and more devastating now
than it was during an epidemic which
ragged in Russia in the time of the Cri-
mean war.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 2O.-Mr. E. La.
Bourtin isa noted lawyer who received