The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16
THE NEWS.
Sparks from the Wires-Most Important
Events Throughout the World
FIR Week.

for q Week.
Charlotte is arranging for a big cele-
bration of May Goth.
A chewing gum factory has been
started at Scotland Neck.
The. New England mill men visited
Charlotte's eight cotton mills.
A movement is on foot to give Bur
lington a telephone exchange.
Some of the fruit has been killed, but
it is thought that there will be a good
crop ye5. L
The programme for the Teachers As
sembly at Morehead next June is about
completed.
It is said that only IS persons in
Charlotte will have to pay the U. S.
income tax.
The Y. M. G. A. of Asheville has
called w. A. Wells, of Philadelphia, as
general secretary.
Two dwelling houses in Wilkes
county were destroyed by fire during
the high winds of last week.
The Red Springs Citizen hears of a
man in Robson county who made
1000 bushels of corn on 40 acres.
The State Convention of the Kings
Daughters will be held in New >Berne
from the 18th to the 18th of May,
Deputy sheriff E. W. Ward was &C
quilted in Line Olnton court last week
OF murder in killing John Logan, col
ored.
Editor Miller, of the Shelby Aurora,
has teen sued for libel by Smith &
Pinchback, the Bessemer City cotton
mill men.
Smithfeld Herald: The mad dog
season still continues. Mr.. D. A. Coates
killed five mor dogs Tuesday. He
came near being bit by one of them.
An effort is being made to get up a
lodge of Odd Fellows in Rockingham,
and the prospects are good for the sue
cess OF b enterprise, says the Rocket.
A freight train on the W. NC. Road
ran into a slide lear Marion last Tues
day, jumped the track, killing the en-
gineer and fireman, and demolished
several cars.
The Grandfather silver mine is at
tracing attention owing to the vein
being tapped in the tunnel, the ore is
said to be 80 per cent. silver, says the
Boone Democrat.
WadesbOrO Observation-Disclosures
Earnest Fincher, the young man who
stole old man Throatt's money in Union
county, has been bound over to curt
in the sum of 81, 500.
Elizabeth City Economist: The
cotton factory is an assured fact. Our
leading citizens are stockholders. Our
folks have done it without outside aid.
The capital stock is 800, 600.
Lexington Dispatch: We understand
A1~ 49, $780, F1---skV1n~ E11&~-- -@~
an assured fact. A lot has been bought
factory will soon be erected.
Louisburg Times: The Times regrets
to chronicle the death of Maj r A.
Speed, who died at his home in Sandy
Creek township on Friday morning
last. He was about sixty five years OF
age.
Those who have money to loan are
down On the new 6 per cent law; and
the best law in the world. 'Circum
stances alter cases." you know, says
the Lexington Dispatch.
Friday afternoon about 5 o'clock the
jury on the murder trial brought IN
their verdict that the defendant Peter
Hardee was not guilty. The jury had
uu0 CdSO O44N 0OOO9 OAAAAOy Liza
Says the Greenville Reflector.
Besides fine horses, Alamance FaI m
is going to have something nice in the
way of poultry. A small pen of the
choicest breeds of chickens wall be
added, which will afford a pleasing
sight, says the Graham Cleaner.
Stanly Enterprise: It is reported that
Charley Mills and John Duke stole
about 400 dWt. of gold at the Ingram
mine Monday. They we're working for
the company, and when they would
find a piece they would pocket it.
Mt. Airy is excited over an infanti-
eide that is supposed to have occurred
there On Sunday. On Monday the re-
mains of an infant were found in a
creek,in the edge of the town, but there
was notbGa2Sg about it to lead to its iden-
LITIGATION. N
Durham Sun: MS reaches Dur
ham that the shuttleSoo S59S
boro, near the railroad Station, Yves
burned to day, the fire starting just
before noon. With the exception of a
few saws and other minor things, the
entire plant was destroyed.
The heaviest rain ever known here
fell at this place on last Sunday night.
It was a perfect food, 'gulley washer
and trash mover" and the creeks in
this vicinity were higher than the old
est inhabitant remembers ever having
seen, says the Chatham Record.
A case of considerable interest, moved
here from Union county, is setfor trial
in the criminal court to morrow. 1t
is the State against J. Mack Price, a
merchant Of Waxhaw, charged with
attempting to burn his store, to get in
gurance money, says the Charlotte
News.
Townsville News: Monday morn