The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-03
THE LATEST NEWS.
from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

for a Week.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Mrs. Lille Lang
try is reported to be worse, and is now
in imminent danger of death
CORNWALL, Ontario, Dec. 25-An
earthquake lasting forty seconds began
here at 6 :32 this morning. 1t was very
severe at first.
SNOWFALL, Ala-Fire broke out here
l ast night and destroyed every business
house III the town except one. Total
loss $25, 900, insuran e about one-half.
PARIS, Ky.-The business portion of
Headquarters, Nicholas county, was
burned this morning, Communication
is cut off and particulars cannot be
had.
AUGUSTA, Ga Dec. 27.-The heaviest
now storm in five five yea is falling
10 day. It was preceded last night by
a big snow storm. The weather is now
mOderating.
ROANOKE, Va.-Hanes hotel at Mont
vale station near here. was destroyed
by fire this morning. The fire caught
from a defective fue. Loss $40, 900;
insurance 81, 500.
NEW YORK.-Lewis Desear, a cloth
ing merchant, who assigned yesterday,
filed schedules to day showing liabilities
$166, 379, nominal assets 1874, 661 and
actual assets $113, OBJ.
GENEVA, N. Y.-Fire early this morn
ing destroyed the Linden Opera House
and the stock Of three stores under
neath. Total loss is about $1C0, 900;
covered by insurance.
{HICAGO.-J0hn D. Rockefeller has
made another big donation to the Uni.
versity Of Chicago. The sum is under
stood to be over 81, 600. 600, but the ex-
act figures are not given out,
ROCKAwAY BEACK. L. Mrs. Mary
Ann Denny BrardeJh, wife of DIR. Geo.
Braudeth, of pill fame, was found
dead in bed this morning, from heart
disease. She was about so years Of
age.
ATLANTA, Gao. r. Watts was
murdered near Fairburn yesterday
evening, is is supposed, by a negro
named Wood, against whom Watts
had testified in a law suit. Wood has
fed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ga cabIemes-
sage las received at the State depart
ment to day from the United States
Consul at Hamburg, saying: In cigy
seven cases cholera, Of which one died;
none in port"
HAMBURG -Four more cases of
cholera and two deaths yer reported
to the health authorities in the city to-
day. Besides these eve persons sus-
pected of having the disease were sent
TO The hospital.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 27.-The
sheriff has closed up the office Of Chas.
w. Dacosta, the largest and most i'm
pOrtant job printing concern IN the
State on attachments for some SIS 600.
He published several periodicals.
NEW YORK-GeorgeJ J. Gould. Helen
NJ. Gould and Howard Gould appeared
before Probate Clerk Finney to day
ana qualified, by taking the customary
oath, as executors of the Will of their
father, the late Jay Gould.
LONDON.-The British ship Minister 1
of Marine, Capt. Smith, from Liverpool
for Rio Jeneiro was towed into Belfast
Tough with her cargo Of coal and
petroleum on fire and has been scuttled.
The ship was burned to the. waters
edge.
SALEM, Va Dec. 29.-The Algenia
Coal and Coke Mines in Mcdowell
county, w. Va, are on fire. The mines
are extensive and are located three
miles from Elkhorn. Two hundred
men are employed, but it is not known
whether any of them persisted by the
fire.
CHARLESTON, S. C.-The city council
at it's meeting to night, gave a first
reading to a license ordinance. Licenses
for selling liquor for one year will be
granted in spite of the law passed at
the recent session of the legislature
limiting the sale of liquor to the State
agents after July 1, 1898.
Observation-Disclosures Samuel H.
Dickson of the navy was today granted
a divorce from Mary Dickson. October
4th, last, Surgeon Dickson accompanied
by two friends broke into a room at
the National Hotel in this city where
he discovered his wife in the company
of an E~nglishman named Carter.
MARsHALTOwN, Iowa, Dec. 29.-The
high school building in this city was
destroyed by fire early this morning.
Loss 800, 900; insurance $95, 900. Tie
building was one of the finest educa-
tional institutions in the State. 1t was
unoccupied at the time of the fire. No
cause is known for the fire.
AIA'-JdnGS MOUTHS, d
railroad man, was sitting in the coach
of a train yesterday, when George E.
Moody, o of Judge R. E. Moody, of
Tuscumbia, Ala, entered and shot him
in the face, killing him instantly.
Keorns was seated by the side of his
bride of two weeks. Moody was cap
tured.
CAMDEN, S. CA fire, which de-
stroye ed property to the value of $50, 900,
broke out in this town at 1870 last
night. 1t is supposed to have originated
from the explosion of a lamp in the
grocery store of n. @. Elliott & Go.
Five stores were destroyed and the
bank building was damaged. The
losses exceed the insurance.