The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-08

FROM the oPI 20 GuS EOAS'
"A woman at John Hopkins Uni
versity has leprosy.
"A statue of Peter Cooper has beer
unveiled in New York.
The damage from tie Mississippi.
foods is estimated at $14. 500. 600.
Virginia Populists will hold q
nominating convention in July.
-Whitelaw Reid will represent the
country at the Queens jubilee.
"A great reunion of Confederates il
to be held at Nashville, June 22nd,
"A negro in Tennessee recently
plowed up $40, 600 in buried money.
The Mississippi levees are being re.
paired. The water is at a standstill.
The Indian trouble-the rebellion
among the Cheyennes is about over.
Near Randolph, KY, a sawmilI
boiler exploded and killed four persons.
King George of Greece has been
invited to attend the Tennessee Expo
sition.
IS. R. Mallory, an ex. Congressman,
has been elected q. 8. Senator from
Florida.
The mother of Theodore Durrant
persists in her right to see her son
hanged.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is winning high
praise for his action while Consul at
Havana.
In northwestern New York there
was a snow storm June LIST. It lasted
an hour.
amount given by the sugar trust to
the various campaign funds, has been
acquitted.
1T is thought that Tennessee's Gov
ernor, Taylor, will resign and re enter
the lecture field.
New York is making a startling
record in the suicide line. June 2nd
a ''red,letter day."
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Donaldson of
Carlyle, Ind being first cousins, have
been indicted for marrying.
"A five story brick building col
in New York and two work
men were buried in the ruins.
At Dallas, Texas, three women
had a fight in which two were fatally
and the other slightly wounded.
j. 2. Johnson who wrecked a Lo.
gansport Qnd) bank while it's presi-
dent, will spend ten years in the ''pen."
j. E Doehring. ex city treasurer
Of Belleville, ILL.,, commits suicide be.
cause he had overdrawn his salary $500,
-Havemeyer, who was charged
with contempt Of the Senate in refus
ing to answer questions concerning the
1t is announced that President Nc
will leave Washington June
10th bound for the Nashville EXPOSE
ton.
Thomas L. Bayard, ex Ambassa-
dor to England, says he is tired of pub
lie life and prefers to live in quiet in
the future.
Judge Hutchinson, of Chicago,
has refused to allow Roentgere ray
photographs to be put in evidence in a
suit for damages.
"A Philadelphia baker is in trouble.
He buried a nice little sum of money
recently, but when he went to look for
it last week, it was gone.
There are 2, 900 homeless people in
Ell Paso, Texas. The Rio Grande, which
has broken all records since 1891
washed away their homes.
"A recent fire in Savannah, Ca, de-
stroyed the wholesale grocery of
Smith Bros. The loss, $25, 600, was
fully covered by insurance.
Over IL, o Hebrew voters in Chi
cago will be disfranchised because they
will not make crosses on the ballot, as
is the rule with the Australian ballot
system.
Adj Ludgate, "the champion long
distance-singer of the world" broke
all previous records this week. He
sang fifty. five hymns in fifty nine
minutes.
Rev. Sam P. Jones, the noted evan
geIist, is holding a big meeting" at
Rock Hill, 8. @. There are evidences
of wide spread religious interest in the
community.
"A Chicago newspaper asserts that
the late Superintendent of Insurance
for Illinois has not accounted for $685.
916 of the States money that passed