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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-12

astrous runs began on the banks OF
this city three months ago the Denver
Savings Bank had deposits of 81, 300,
900, and since then there has been Q
steady withdrawal under the legal
notices given by depositors.
The bank is capitalized at $3.50, 600.
It's stockholders and directors are in
dividually worth double that amount.
D. H. Ferguson is President; S. n.
Wood, formerly cashier of the First
National Bank, Vice-P President, and @.
H Smith Second Vice President.
The deposits have been very light
since July Is and have been kept sepa-
rate from the money previously de-
posted. They will be returned in full
at once to the depositors. The other
accounts, however, will have to take
their turn and be adjusted by the as
signee, but will be paid in full, as the
securities are perfectly good.
Attachments aggregating 1853, ia Is
were placed upon the store Of the
Green Smith Watch and Diamond
Company. The creditors so far repre-
sented are all Denver men.
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THE LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for q Week,

LONDON, Sept. THE Houee Of
Lords has rejected the home rule bill
by a vote of 428 to AZ.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 5.-Jealousy is
alleged as the cause for William Nc
Neil, a creole, getting out Of bed while
his wife was asleep and Draining her
with an axe.
PORTLAND, Me, Sept. 5.-The Dumas
Wooden, Warp and Bagging Mill, at
Westbrook, caught fire late last night
and the entire building was destroyed.
The loss is estimated at 800, 900, in
sured.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 5.-A few
DAYS ago Mrs. Sarah Scott, O white
woman, was assaulted by an unknown
negro. Late last night news was re-
ceived that he was lynched yesterday
by a mob at Centreville.
AURORA, Ind, Sept. 5.-A Big Four
freight, an hour late, crashed into the
Indianapolis express at Bates Hill, In
diana. Six are reported killed and
| twenty wounded. The engineer and
fireman are under the wreck.
| RoCKDALE, Texas, Sept. 5.-Dan
Woodruff betrayed the daugher OF
| Cornelius Wells. Wells learned of the
IdCGS anu dG ulSLg u16G dLu 5uOC WOOu-
ruff dead just when he was leaving
church with another woman.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Sept. ga
boiler connected with Al Brunfield's
| grist mill, at Harris creek, in Lincoln
! county, exploded this morning. John
II. Boyd was instantly killed and the
wife of Brunfield received injuries
from which she died later. Six other
people, whose names are not given,
| were badly hurt.
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THE DEBT
Over Ten Million Dollar Increase in the
Public Debt During the Month.

WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. 1.-The
debt statement issued this afternoon
shows a net increase in the public debt,
less cash in the Treasury during
August of $40, 442, 1913.
The interest bearing debt increased
$3.50. The non-interest bearing debt
~dencreased $3.50, 9G8, and the cash in
the Treasury decreased so, 6O3, CSC, 90.
The certificates and treasury notes
offset by an equal amount Of cash in
the treasury outstanding at the end of
the month were 1865, Ga, 881, a decrease
of 81, 747, 10.
The total cash in the treasury was
SIP, $50, 1877.
The gold reserve was 500, 0O9, 1913 90,
and net cash balance, 81, 274, 787. GA.
In the month there vas a decrease
in gold coin and bars of SO, $50, 100. 81,
the total at close being SIG, 423, 172. Al.
Of silver there was a decrease of ST.
3O3, $4,000. OF the surplus there was
in national bank repositories $17, 685,
476, against $17. O44, O03 at the end OF
the previous month.
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MORE BUSINESS TROUBLES.
North Carolina Hit This Time--Tax
Collector Reynolds Behind and Gen.
Vance Assigns-.The Asheville
Street Railway Sold.

AsHEvILLE, N. c., Sep. 6-Tax Col
lector D. L. Reynolds handed his
resignation to the Board of County
Commissioners yesterday, accompa-
MED by a statement to the effect that
on account Of the present stringency
in financial matters he was behind in
his collections about SIS, 900, and that
he desired the board to grant him
further time to collect the amount of
arrears. His resignation was accepted
and it is understood to be the purpose
Of the commissioners to give him a
reasonable time in which TO make up
the deficiency in his accounts. The
opinion prevails that he has failed to
account for quite 8 large sum collected,
and that his bOndsmen will be called
upon to make good this deficiency. He
has quite a number of bOndsmen and,
if there is a loss, it will be distributed
to such an extent that the individuals
will not be badly crippled thereby.
There were four c ndidates to fill the
vacancy occasioned by Mr., Reynolds
| r. signatiOn. John H. Weaver, who
was in the shoe business in this place
for a long time, was selected as his
successor.
Gen. r. B. Vance, brother OF Sena-
tor z. B. Vance, and eX member Of
Congress from this district, and his
son j. N. Vance. who has been in
business at Alexander, this county,
have made an assignment for the bene-
fit of their creditors. Assets are valued
at about $50, 900, liabilities aggregate
| $40, 600. Gen. Vance is getting along
in years and this assignment evidences
a sad state of affairs and will be quite
a shock to his numerous friends
| throughout North Carolina.
AsHEvILLE, N. O., Sept. 6.-The
| Asheville Street Railway Company's
property, including rolling stock, fran
chises and real estate, was sold here by
Master Commissioner in Chancery. A.
D. White, of New York, and his asso-
ciates, representing some Of the bond
holders, became the purchasers at
1925, coo. Objection by other bond
holders was made t. the sale, which
was subject to various outstanding
mortgages.
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WE'VE HAD A CHANCE.
Business Troubles Continue---Confdenc
has been Restored, but the Farmers
Wheat and Cotton has Done the
Work--The Sherman Law
Still in Force.

Still in Force.
The Noffett, Hodgens & Clarke Com
pany, Jersey City, is in the hands of a
receiver. Liabilities 5000, 900.
Twelve business troubles" were re
corded in New York City August 31st.
Marquis Logerot, proprietor of the
Hotel de Logerot, New York, has as.
signed. Liabilities $147, 900.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 31.-John
B. Koetting, cashier of the defunct
South Side Savings Bank, arrived here
last night from Denver in custody of
Detective McManus. He was at once
arrigned in the Municipal Court upon
a charge Of embezzlement and held in
$4,000 bonds in default of which he
was lodged in jail.
AUSTIN, Mimi, Aug. 31.-The Ex-
change Bank, of Lyle, in this county,
has closed. 1t was a private bank
owned by A. H. Anderson. It is be
iIeYed to have assets sufficient to cover
its liabilities.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-12
PANIC IN A
Thirty or Forty People Crushed in an
Ostend, Belgium, Opera House.

OStend, Belgium, opera Rouse.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 5.-Shortly before
the curtain was to rise in the Eden
theatre, at Ostend, last evening, a gas
jet set fire to the drapery Of the pros
cenium box. The persons in the box
tried to put out the flames, but failed.
They then hurried from the theatre.
The audience had risen and many were
going slowly towards the doors when
the curtain caught fire. Within two
minutes the stage scenery was ablaze.
The audience became panic stricken
and all made a mad rush for the doors
trying to fight their way out
Thirty or forty persons were thrown
down and trampled. When about two.
thirds of the audience had got out the
fire on the stage was extinguished.
Those most seriously injured were
taken to the hospitals and the others
were carried to their homes. Nobody
was killed.
The loss Of the scenery and stage ap-
planes is considerable, but the audi
forum of the theatre is not damaged.
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TEN THOUSAND IDLE NEGROES
4 Menace to Good Order--T The Situation
Serious.

SAVANNAH, Ca, Sept. During the
next seven or eight weeks ten thousand
negroes employed in the turpentine
belt of Georgia will be thrown out of
work.
Southeastern Georgia will then face
a serious situation. This vast army of
idle negroes, many Of whom are of the
most depraved and vicious character,
must live and will live largely by
plumber. The naval stores producers
are all forced to close down in self pro
lection, and their employees must
largely become a burden and a menace
to the section in which they have been
engaged. The result of this enforced
idleness will be an alarming increase
in crime of every grade.
The entire country is alarmed at the
trouble confronting it in this respect.
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ANOTHER DENVER BANK HIT.
The Savings Assigns with 100000 Due
to Depositors, Who Will Receive
Payment in Full.

DENVER, Col, Sept. 1.-The Denver
Savings Bankla this evening assigned
to the international Trust Company
of Denver, who will liquidate their
affairs and close the bank.
The statement shows approximately
that there is due to depositors 500, 900.
The cash on hand amounts to 1920, 600
and there are notes amply secured
amounting to $500, 900. When the dis
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-12

WASHINGTON, D. @, Aug. 31.-There
is every indication That the deficit in
the United States Treasury Of $50, O00,-
600 will exist at the end Of the fiscal
year, June 3Oth, 1894. unless steps are
taken to avert it.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. "A special
to the Commercial from Little Rock,
Ark, says:
A. Z. Reinhardt, sheriff and tax col
lector Of Prairie county, Ark, n of
the best known officials in the State, is
short nearly $40, OOO in his accounts.
This is the third sheriff in Arkansas
who has turned up short within three
weeks,
E. G. Rigney, confidential book
keeper for johnson & Grave at Mari
ana, Ark, one of the largest mercan
tile linen firms in the South, is 81, 600
short in his accounts and a fugitive
from justice. His populations have
been going on for two years, but the
shortage was not discovered until a
few days ago.
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ON THE ISLANDS.
Babcock Says the Loss of Life is
Not Exaggerated.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept. 6.-The
first report Of DR.. J. W. Babcock,
physician Of the asylum at Columbia,
who has been INVESTIGATING the cyclone
sufferers at Beaufort, has been re-
ceived. He visited Ladies and st.
Helena islands, and says that the pre-
vious reports from there r not exag-
gerated.
At Eustace, on Lady Islard, only ten
out of thirty-one buildings are left
standing, and they are badly damaged.
Fifty-one lives were lost at this place
alone, and forty-four were buried in
one grave. With few exceptions the
dead were buried in hastily prepared
collins, and on account of the water
logged condition of the soil, the graves
could not be dug deeper than two feet.
The FUMES from the decaying bodies
are fearful.
On ST. Helena Island at least one
hundred and fifty lives were lost.
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Eight business troubles was the
record in New York City Sept. 1.
ST.. LOUIS, No, Sept. 1.-Word was
received here to day that the six hun
dred shopmen employed by the Louis
vile and Nashville at Decatur, Ala 8,
quit work at midnight and the shops
are deserted. No trainmen have de-
serted their posts and no trouble is ex-
nected with them at that point.
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IN RECEIVERS HANDS.
Thomas s. Atkins Appointed Receiver
for the Nicaragua Canal Co.

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-In the United
States Circuit Court yesterday Judge
Benedict appointed Thomas B Atkins
Of New York, receiver for the Mica
ragua Canal and Conservation Com
pany on the application ofLouig Choble,
of the stockholders.
The application for a receiver is &C
quiesced In by Warner Miller, Presi
dent, who says that the company has
no longer means to meet its obligations
The offices Of the company are at Nos
A and 46 Wall street, in this city. It's
principal offices are at Denver, Col
The company was incorporated under
the laws Of Colorado,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-12
A FARMER CURSES GOD.
When He Saw His Crops Ruined by the
Storm He Vented His Anger.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. 4,-Joseph
Garrison, a we'll TODD farmer who lives
near the line between North and South
Carolina was one OF the unfortunate
farmers in this section whose crop was
badly damaged by the late storm. Gar
rison went out in one of his fields of
corn a day or so ago and seeing that it
was almost totally ruined he began to
curse God. declaring that He was not
a just God.
He immediately returned to his house
and has been in q Gelirious condition
ever since, In his wakeful moments
he repeats the epithets and these are
the only sentences he has uttered since
ne has been confined to his bed. The
case has attracted a great deal of at
tention and medical skill seems to be
baffled in its attempt to solve the mys-
terry Of the mans disease.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 4-M1ls
Nos. 5 and 6 of the DwifC Manufacture
ing Company in Chicopee shut down
to day indefinitely and $50 persons are
| out Of employment.
BIRMINGHAM, Conn Sept About
fifty moulders employed in the Biz
mingham iron foundry and in the Far
rell foundry and machine works of
Ansonia, Conn, struck to day because
of fifteen per cent. reduction in wages.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. Con
Briggs yesterday appointed Geo. J.
Terre Haute Railroad. It is charged
that the Lake Erie C st. Louis, (Air
Line(, PIERRE, Decatur & Evansville,
and Chicago & Ohio Railroads, owned
principally by D. J. Mackaye, are all
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-12

The bank Of the Bernhard Weinber
ger Company, New York, closed on the
Srd inst.
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Unger Bros, New York, failed on
the 5th for a large amount.
DANBURY, Conn, Sept. 5.-The New
York Betting and Packing Company
has reduced wages in all departments
in,its woIarge factories at Sandy Hook,
1t has also reduced rates of rent for
the company houses 30 one half the
former price.
BENNINGTON, VT, Sept. 5.-The slate
manufacturers of Granville and vicin-
ity have agreed to shut down all the
Quarries October 1 for an indefinite
period, or until there is a demand for
slate.
Norton Brothers have nearly twenty
thousand squares of slate on hand and
nearly every quarry is loaded up. The
shut down will affect nearly two thou
sand employees, many Of whom have
families.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 5.-All black
smiths, machinists and boiler makers
employed by the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad at this point struck yes
terday morning.
AT other points on the line the ten
per cent. reduction Of wages has been
accepted and the men are working
right along.
DENVER, Col, Sept. 5.-The trouble
which has threatened the Rio Grande
Railroad through a reduction Of it's
operating force and wages has been
averted by the officials Of the road,
from the president down to the subor-
dinate officers, voluntarily accepting a
decrease of salaries with the trainmen.
The reduction ranges from ten to
twenty per cent, according to the eX-
tent Of the different salaries.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 5.-There are
indications of further trouble in the
Louisville and Nashville system. Ten
trainmen met on a street corner, tore
off the badges of their respective or,
CARNATIONS and crushed them to pieces
| with their heels.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Wall street is
active to day, but stocks r slightly
lower.
MINNNEAPoL1s, Sept. 6.-Phillip NJ.
Seheig, paying teller Of the Bank Of
Minneapolis, has left the city, and the
bank say they are SIS, 900 or more
short.
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STATE NEWS.

Cresnn Of the state Press-DrOps of Turpentine
I'd Grains of Rice from the E~ast-Clusters
of Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
North-StaIks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
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and at Harvard law school. His law
partner is A. c. Matthews, IL Republican,
who was first comptroller Of the treasury
under President Harrison. An anus
ing story is told in Washington Of Mr..
Wilkes candidacy for the position he
now occupies. It relates that when he
went to put in his application for the
Office he took Mr.. Matthews with him.
and they walked up to the White House
arm in arm. President Cleveland smiled
as he took in the situation-one partner
Republican and the other u Democrat,
one just quitting Office and the other try
ing to get in-and laughingly remarked
"Well, there is pretty pair Of YOU
But that is not the only story Of Mr..
Wike. One of them. an old one, will bea1
repeating. In Pittsfeld they follow the
common law practice of summoning al
absentee to court by calling his name
three times from the courthouse door
One day when court was in session re-
,vivalist was conducting meeting in g
field just across the street. He was des
canting on salvation, and as he neared q
climax called out in clarion tones:
''Show me the man who would refuse
salvation so freely offered!'
'Scott Wike! Scott Wike! Scott
Wike!'' shouted the sheriff, who had jus1
been ordered to call the absent lawyer
into court. The evangelist had not ex
pected an answer, but he was not to bt
disconnected.
II do not know who Scott Wike ma,
be- he shouted back to the sheriff, ''no:
do 1 care how wicked he is. Even HI
can be saved!'
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MABEL CAHILL.
ANNIE OAKLEY,

In every city and in many small towns
there are girls who think nothing of rid
ing 100 miles on their bicycles, and Miss
Alice Waugh, pretty Chicago school
teacher, has ridden century in is hours,
or at the fast rate of ever six miles al
hour. The numerous very creditable
performances Of such professionals as
Jessie Oaks, Elsa Won Blumen, Lottie
Stanley, Lille Williams. Hattie Brown
and Helen Baldwin are too well known
to require description here. Women bi-
cyclists are not deficient in nerve, as
Mrs. c. c. Candy, Philadelphia girl,
proved year ago when she rode down
Pixies peak on her wheel. at the peril Of
her life.
A woman horse dealer is a decided
novelty, but Idaho possesses a pretty one
in the person of Miss Kitty G. Wilkins.
She has been selling horses seven years,
and when it comes to swapping hosses'
she never gets the losers end Of the bar
gain. Mrs E. A. Beach, the famous
New York equestrienne, teaches the la
dies of the Four Hundred how to sit a
horse and has ridden many blue ribbon
winners in American horse shows Miss
A. H. Whitney Of Boston has oficiated
as judge Of St. Bernards ct many bench
shows and knows as much about dogs as
most male EXPERTS. The late Miss MILDLY
Morgan of the New York Times was fos
years one of the best judges of cattle and
horses in the world; and her unusual tai
ent won fortune for her. Mrs. W. j.
Baird Of England has composed chess
problems of rare excellence, and her
work compares very favorably with that
Of the best male chess analysts. IS
In the large cities there are scores OF
women who bowl well. and women
gymnasts. club swingers. aeronauts and
pedestrians have all performed remark,
able feats of skill and endurance, while
women cricketers.. fencers, canoeists
scullers and skaters are on record as
having acquitted themselves very credit.
ably-"for women"
EARLE H. EATON.
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TENNIS CHAMflON CHA1tLOl IL DoDDs
physicians and politicians, but it is also
the era Of women swimmers, wrestlers,
pugilists, tennis players, bicyclists, gym
nasts, expert rife shots, bowlers, horse
dealers, cricketers, weight lifters, Judges
of cattle and dogs, baseball players, fenc-
ers, billiard experts, chess analysts, ca
noeists, scullers, skaters, golf players.
club swingers. aeronauts and pedestri-
ans
Women may lack the ability to keep
secret. but they certainly do not lack
pluck, determination and ambition when
they enter the athletic lists to show man
what they can do. They are wisdom it.
self, too, for the reason that they rarely
attempt to outshine man-only to meet
failure-but are usually content to do a
thing very we'll and then fall back upon
the qualifying phrase '.for woman"
This statement, however, is hardly
true of Miss Winifred Leale of the island
of Guernsey, who one day shouldered
her rifle, marched to Bisley common
Englands new Wimbledon--and COM
peted at the rifle butts with the best
marksmen among the citizen soldiers of
England, Canada and Australia. When
| her turn came to shoot, she sat down
tailor fashion. put the rifle to her shoul-
der, closed one eye like a veteran, and
although it was her first or sighting
shot she put bullet in the very center
of the bullseye 200 yards distant. She
shot with the regulation Martini-Henry
rifle, was not favored in the least, and
the emphatic 80 pound kick of the
| ,nt tn
more than the kick of an ablebodied fly.
At 200 yards Miss Leale scored u out
of possible 35, and at 500 yards she hit
the bullseye 5 times out of possible I.
OF all the expert rihemen present very
few equaled her record. Miss Leale's
father was surgeon major of the Chan
mel islands militia, and when she dis
played such expertness she had only been
shooting under his direction for 1S
months.
On this side of the water Mrs. Frank
Class and Miss Annie Oakley are two OF
the best 1narkswomen. Mrs. Class, who
lives in Jersey City, has frequently killed
10 out of 10 birds on the wing with her
II pound shotgun, and such scores as II
out of 20 and % out Of 25 bluerocks
show that she is sure death to almost
any bird that gets up in front of her
breechloader Mrs. Class has only been
shooting two years, but she has had the
training Of Frank Class, the well known
marksman, who is her husband.
Annie Oakley is an Ohio girl, ~ years
old When she was only 10 years of
age, shewas so fond of shooting that she
would run away with her brothers mus
ket and practice i'll the woods. She has
broken 984 out of l 1000 glass balls and
holds the worlds record for this num-
Der. She has also broken 4, 772 out of
5000 in nine hours-a most remarkable
feat. She breaks glass balls in the all
about as easily with the rifle as she does
with the shotgun and has a record of
killing 943 out Of 1000 with a % caliber
rifle Sitting Bull was SO pleased with
her shooting about 10 years ago that he