The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
rHR LATEST NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires--Most Important
Events Throughout the World
e.. Week.

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called as a witness.
CLAREMoNT, N. h, May 16.-The
public schools are closed because OF an
epidemic of small pox.
LONDON. May ia number of ware
houses and factories near the Leather
market were burned today.
MADRID, May 1.-THE government
is preparing to send fifteen hundred
cavalry to Cuba Immediately.
WASHINGTON, May. 16.-The rumor
is renewed that the Supreme Court
Will declare the income tax law uncOn-
stltutional.
lien TsIN, May 1.-THE troops sta
toned at Shan Hal Kwan openly re-
VOTED last evening and looted the city.
The people are fleeing.
LONDON, May16 The British steamer
BllIlton, from Lengkat, w6s burned
outside of Penang. Ali aboard are
supposed to have persisted.
LONDON, May 16.-Gladstone has
written a letter commencing the move
ment for a reunion of Scottish and
other Presbyterian churches.
WASHINGTON, May 16.-The Foreign
Office has made a reply to the note of
Secretary Gresham on the recall of
ThurstoD, whose course is upheld.
TROY, N. Y, May 17-Richard Du
bois, one of our Oldest and best-knOwn
ply ~sicians, took a large desc Of chlOral
by mistake this morning and died.
THE HAGUE, May ia severe storm
has been raging along the coast of
Holland for several days. Large tracts
of country r completely submerged.
LYNN, Mass, May 1.-THE residence
of Edward Dearborn, a carpenter, wa
completely wrecked by an explosion of
giant powder in his cellar this mOrn-
ing. His wife and son were seriously
injured.
PARIS, May lathe Chamber of
Deputies opened it's session to-day,
without especial incident. The budget
was laid upon the table of the Chamber
by M. Ribot, Premier and Minister of
Finance.
LONDON, May IA The four thousand
troops which paraded at Portsmouth
to. day suffered greatly from the in
tense heat, and ten of them were pros
trated by sunstroke, and sent to the
hospital.
ALBANY, N. Y, May IA THE As
semblv defeated the motion to insert
the referendum in the Halpin greater
New York bill by a vote of ayes 43
noes 50 The bill then passed with
out amendment.
WELLsvILLE, N. Y, May IA AT
fifteen miles from here, five men were
killed and three fatally injured this
morning by the blowing up of a go
horse power boiler.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-Secretary
Gresham has made rapid progress to-
wards recovery in the past two days.
Yesterday the Secretary was able to
see Acting Secretary Uhl and converse
briefly on official matters.
SAN Francisco, May 16.-Advices by
the Australian say a crisis shortly, IN
which the present government will be
overthrow, is inevitable 1t is ap
parent that there will be no harmony
until the Queen is restored.
WASHINGTON, 6.-Rear Admiral
Almy, retired, died after a long illness
this morning. He vas e~ighty-One years
of age and it had been known to his
family for a long time that he could
last only a short time. 1t Is said his
end was peaceful.
NEW YORK, May 17.-Miss Rosalind
Richmond, eighteen years old, the
grand daughter of the railroad mag
nate, Dean Richmond, is about to con
test the will of his second wife. She
received but a small portion of the
estate of six millions.
MAssILLoN, O., May 1.-THE officials
of the Lake Erie and Wheeling road
deny emphatically the story that the
miners were obstructlng the operation
of their train, near thu Ohio river,
where, it is reported, trains had been
stoned by the strikers.
ALBANY, May 16 -Assemblyman
Vacheron, who has been missing for a
few days, this morning surrendered
himself to the District Attorney to an
swer the charges of bribery preferred
against him. He gave himself up and
made a statement to the Assembly deny
ing the charges.
KANSAS CITY, May 17.-Wheat sold
for rs cents yesterday, an advance of
so cents from the extreme low price Of
last fall. The fact is due to the c
sity of Kansas, for the first time in her
history, having to import seed owing
to recent crop failures. Wheat is be-
ing shipped from Chicago to Kansas
City.
STOCKTON, Cal, May IA levee
near here broke yesterday. The water
Of the San Joaquin river is flowing over
the country from Balk's to Moore's
Landing, a distance of forty miles.
One fourth of the land inundated ia IN
wheat and the rest is grazing land. The
San Joaquin is higher than ever before
known.
LOWELL, Mass, May LIT is re-
ported this morning that a serious
freight wreck occurred at Somerville
T,1nction Lowell division of the Boston