The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-09
H LATEST NEWS.
from the Wires-MOst Important
Events Throughout the World
for a Week.

Tor q Week.
NEW YORK. Jan. 2.-The message of
Governor Flower states that for the
nrst time In seventy five years the
State is out of debt.
New YORK, Jan. 2.-Francis P. Wal
ton, familiarly known as 'Plunger
walton" proprietor of the Grand
Hotel, 1884 Broadway, made an assign
ment to day.
BOSTON, Jan. 2.-The Globe theater
burned this morning. Loss $500, GOO.
The house was completely Quilted. The
Hanlon company playing "Superba'
lost everything.
BOSTON, Jan. 2.-Three men were
killed and several injured in a prema-
ture explosion Of blast at Townsend
and Washington streets, in Boxbury
district this morning.
Redhead, Norton, Lathrop 6 Co.,
wholesale book dealers of Des Moines,
have made a general assignment. The
assets OF the company are about $780,
OO0; the liabilities are not known.
Athousand deaths from cholera have
occurred at Teneriffe, one of the Canary
Islands, since the beginning of the out
break a few weeks ago. At present
the epidemic is subsiding rapidly.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2.-Cholera
has broken out among the students
boarding at Nicholas Seminary. Yes
terday the girls attending the seminary
were dismissed andsent to their homes.
SARAGOssA, Jan. 2.-The chief of the
Spanish Anarchists has been captured.
During the struggle he shot himself
n then tried to take poison. He was
concerned in several dynamite out
RACES. Important documents were
seized at his house.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. "A cheap
lodging house on Swain street kept by
Lizzie Hackett, was destroyed by fire
at 8 o'clock this morning. OF the
score o r more of dodgers, Isaac Bradley
and an unknown woman were burned
to death and all the others more or
less seriously burned and injured.
LOWELL, Mass, Jan. 2.-The Lowell
Carpet Company, which began work
last week, posted notices yesterday
that a general reduction of 10 per cent.
will be made in the wages of the en-
ployees, to take effect next week. The
weavers met last night to discuss the
matter, and voted to have a confer
ence with the agent if possible.
BELLAIR, Ohio, Jan. 3.-Yesterday,
about one-half of the coal mines in this
part of the Ohio valley we're closed
down on account of the miners refus-
ing the reduction of 10 per cent. de-
manded by the operators. They are
awaiting the action Of the State Con
vention at Columbus on January 9th.
Twelve hundred employees are out of
work.
COLUMBUS, o Jan. 2.-Last evening
the Columbus Watch Company's prop
erty was placed in the hands of Philip
H Bruck, as receiver, upon applica
ton of @. T. Pfaf and Louis Lindfberg,
who say they are sureties upon about
$50, 900 of obligations the company
must soon meet and it has no funds to
meet them with. The total assets OF
the concern are about $400, 900; liabili-
ties $3.50, 900.
LONDON, Jan. "a binding snow
storm, accompanied by heavy WIND
and a furious sea, prevailed in the
English Channel last night. Packet
service between English and French
ports is interrupted, and some of the
steamers suffered damaged. Thepacket
from Ostend unable to land at Dover,
owing to the tremendous sea, put out
into the channel again to await high
water, when it is thought the storm
would abate somewhat.