The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-07
THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.


for a Week.
ATLANTA, Ga March Miss Julia
Force, who killed her two sisters last
Saturday, was adjudged insane this
morning.
PITTsFIELD. Mass, March 3.-Wil-
liam Coy vas hanged in the county
| jail at 10:43 this morning for the muir
der Of John Whalen last August.
ATLANTA, Ga March 1.-E. G. Don
aldsOn, for years a lawyer in the office
Of HOke Smith, was found dead in bed
at his home in Decatur this morning.
ATLANTA, Ga, March 1 Maj Robt.
n. Ely, ex Attorney General of this
! State, was adjudged of un8ound mind
by a jury III the Ordinary this morn
ing.
MARKsvILLE, La March ga tor
nado swe pt over a section Of country
we It Of this place, demolishing some
thirty houses. Four people are re
ported killed and about forty injured,
LITTLE Rock, Ark, March 3-The
Senate to day. passed with only one
dissenting voice. the house DILL abolish
ing the convict lease system. 1t is ex
pected the Governor will sign he bill.
PHOENIX, Ariz., March 1.-The legjs-
iative assembly has passed a illauthOr
izing woman suffrage. In the territory
it is conceded that it will pass the Sen
ate and receive the governors sigma
turG.
PORTLAND, Oregon. Fob.-There is
great excitement at Ellensburg, Wash
ington, where it IS reported a valuable
gold vein has been struck IL the SWauke
Tunnel. L. is said to be a rich strike,
bringing 500, 600 a ton.
GAINESVILLE. Tenn March Am
epidemic Of measles prevails III the
city and vicinity. About thirty etu
dents at the Southwestern Presbyterian
| University are down with the disease
! Several cases Of S .arleG fever also re
ported.
NEW York. March 1-Typcgraphi-
! cal Union No 6appOinted 4 committee
to visit President Cleveland and pro
test against the appointment Of O. e
Edwards, of Wilmington Delaware, as
| public printer, Edwards, they say, Is
an Old bitter opponent Of organized
| labor.
REDWOOD FALLS Mimi, March i
The immense elevator of 6. w. Van Du
zen Elevator Co, vas totally Ges row ed
by fire last evening Il contained 12,-
OUO bushels Of wheat AID 5000 bushels
Of fax. Total loss, $50, 900; partially
covered by insurance.
AUSTRIA. HUNGARY March 2 -Thsre
is fierce ri5tIng ~ SznbOszle growing
out of the ne market tolls The J.
| dicrs who were ordered out were
stoned and fe 20 the town hail They
| fred on the rioters. killing four
and inJaring many others. including
women.
CHARLESTON. S. c.. March The
wreck OF a freight train at Moncks
! Corner, on the Atlantic CoaSC line, de
lay ed the northern travel several hours
this afternoon. The train for Wash
IngtOn, however, ran over the Sou h
| Carolina railroad to KipgsviLle and
then struck the main line again.
BERGEN POINT, n. J, March "A
fire at Constable Hook at $50 this
morning destroyed seven buildings and
rendered fifty families homeless. They
were mostly Hungarians. The in
mates had barely time to escape in
their night clothes. The loss ia esti
mated at between $50. coo and $50, 900.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Comp
trOller Of the Currency is advised that
| the defalcatiOn of Assistant Cashier
| Redwine, of the Gate City National
bank, of Atlanta, Ca, will foot up $95,-
600. The bank will probably re re-
opened soon and the necessity of put,
ting il in the hands of a receiver
avoided.
ST LOUIS, March IA special to an
evening paper from GreenvilIe, KY,
says: The residence of Cyrus Lee,
about four miles north of G~reenville,
was consumed by fire last night. The
occupants, Cyrus Lee, a sister and
brother, wife and child, we're burned
with the building. There is no III left
to tell the rale of how it originated.
Nothing was known Of it until this
morning.
GUTHRIE, March 2.-The negroes
lately imported from the South are
again becoming abnoXious, and trouble
is brewing between them and the
whites at several places. At Lexing
ton the negroes were ordered to leave
town, and in several localities in King
fisher county vigilance committees
warned them to leave Governor Seay
has been applied to and will give them
protection.
NATCHEz, Miss, March 1.-Meager
details have been learned of a cyclone
that passed twelve miles south Of here
at 4 O'clock yesterday afternoon. Sew
eral houses we're blown down and others
badly damaged. A negro woman was
killed and several other colored people
were injured. A boy was picked up
and lodged in a tree top 100 yards away.
| So far as learned the storm did not
cover a very large area.
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