The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-31
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires-Most Important
2 Events Throughout the World
FIR Week.

f3r q WeeF.
San Francisco. Oct. PA prema-
tuTe explosion of "a dynamite blast
killed two persons and seriously in
Jured another.
EFFINGHAM, Ill, Oct. PA pas
senger train was derailed near here to
day. Il is reported that thirteen per
sons are injured.
j.. 7. Griffin, a merchant of Leary,
Ga, committed suicide Tuesday night
0y taking morphine He left a note
directing how his estate should be dis
posed of.
WHEELING, w. v, Oct. 26. The
Mlngo Steel and Iron Mill at MiDgo
junction closed down indefinitely yes
Cerday. Six thousand men are thrown
out Of employment.
OSHKOSH, Wis, Oct. ga portion
OF the Normal School building fell here
this morning, burying six men beneath
the walls One of the number was
killed and the others we're badly hurt.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Oct. GA special to
the Chronicle from Beech Island, S. G..
says: John Bruce, a highly respectable
negro, was shot from ambush Thurs
day morning. The murderer is not
known.
The Loan Committee of the New
York Clearing House retired $50, 600
certificates. making the total cancelled
to date $50, $50. 900 and the total amount
outstanding 81. 8O5, 900. To day $40 900
will be cancelled.
VIM. Jelow shot and killed Raiford
Curry in a bar-room at Brunswick.
Ga, last night. Jelow was drunk and
the murder was unprovoked. Jelow
IS In Jail. The crime is free from SEN
sational features.
About three hundred negroes met in
the Superior Court room at Macon, Ga,
and organized the Afro American AS
ISOLATION of Georgia, pledged to use
every means In their power to put
down those crimes among the negroes
that have given rise to lynchings
In the United States Court at Louis,
vile, Ky, w. l Shaw, ex collector,
was found guilty on two counts Of in
~dictments, charging him with assess
ing government employees for cam
paign purposes. The jury vas out only
20 minutes. Shaw was held in $40, 900
bail, which was furnished.
LONDON, Oct. 24-H. T. Moore, editor
of the Mark Lane Express and Bells
Messenger, was summoned to answer
in the Bow street police court to day a
charge of embezzling the funds of the
papers He did not appear. however,
and it was stated that ne had shot him
self with a revolver. He is still alive.
The hearing was adjourned.
A special to the Birmingham Age
Herald from Camden, Ala, says:
Mark Montgomery, the negro mail
rider between Alberta and Camden,
disappeared last week and search was
made for him. The searchers found
the mail bags in the woods cut open,
A day later Montgomery was found,
He-had been terribly beaten and was
unconscious.
DUBLIN, Oct 26.-Owing to falling
off in American orders the mills in
Armagh that weav the superior kinds
of damask are running on short time.
Some mills in Lurgan making the
same kind of goods have stopped en-
tirely. Many hands have consequently
been thrown out Of work and there is
much distress. The mills manufactur
ing the ordinary grades of damask
have not been affected.
LANSING, Mich, Oct. 25.-Nelson
Bradley, cashier of the Central Michi-
gan Savings Bank, which last April
went into the hands of a receiver, was
arrested to day charged with misre-
porting under oath the condition of
the bank. Bradley reported ~overdrafts,
notes, ETC., at about $34, 900 when they
should have been placed at over $3.50,
900. This, it is claimed, was done to
cover up a systematic series of specu-
~l4tions and false bank entries covering
a period of years.