The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-15

WASHINGTON, June 11.-Everton r
Chapman, whose sentence expired at
midnight, but according to custom was
allowed to remain till this morning.
could have left in time to breakfast at
the Arlington, but he breakfasted at
the Jail instead. Chapman spent over
an hour looking at his mail. Hewaited
for friends who arranged to call with
carriages, and will remain in Wash
ington until Sunday, and then return
to New York. He left the jail at 10. So.
The Middle Atlantic and Central
States are breaking the record for
lynchings. At Princess Anne, Md,
last week, William Andrews, a young
negro, plead guilty OF rape and vas
sentenced to death. Just as he was be-
ing taken from the court house, a mob
o~verpowered the sheriff and deputy,
took the negro, kicked and beat him
until he was insensible and then swung
him up to the limb of a tree not 100 feet
from the court house door. Andrews
was only % years old.
DIR. Talmage is leading a move
ment to relieve the thousands who are
starving in India. The famine covers
a large extent of country; multitudes
are dying from starvation. Some kill
their children in order not to see them
suffer. Sometimes, when the last ray
of hope disappears, the despairing and
perishing father staggers to the JUNGLE
gathers q poisonous root, of which he
makes a fatal decoction, and husband,
wife and children end their earthly
suferings by drinking the Lothian drug.
"A dispatch from New York June
9Th, says: Joseph Richardson, an ec-
centric millionaire died here tS6aZ
| He made his fortune in railroad build.
ing aid was closely associated with the
Ysnderbilts and Goulds. He con
structed large sections of the Union
Pacific, Iron Mountain and other rail.
roads. He came as a poor boy from
England. Richardson's fortune is esti-
mated at $50, 900, 600. He dressed more
like a tramp than a wealthy man and
lived and died in a house which was
only five feet wide.
-''The plain truth is that Turkish
administration in Crete has been ad-
mirable, when compared with Spanish
administration in Cuba. Further than
that, the program Of home rule and
reform for Crete that the great powers
agreed upon last fall-ahd that they
still intend to put into efect-goes in
thoroughness and genuineness as far
beyond the Spanish reform proposed
for Cuba as could well be imagined
The Christians in Crete to-day are in
Paradise when compared with the
Cubans in Cuba, 'says that high author
ity, the Review of Reviews for june
DIR. Edward Matthias, of 724 Garden
street. Hoboken, N. J., believes in
spanking dogs when they do not be-
have properly. He was arrested a few
days ago on a charge Of cruelty to q
dog he owns, and Recorder MeDonough
set the case down for June 10. In talk
ing of the matter afterWard, DIR. Ma
thias denied the cruelty. My dog"
said he, lis full Of mischief, and until
I trained him he had a bad habit Of
chewing up all the rags ne could get
hold of. Dogs, like children, have to
be spanked sometimes, SO I spanked
him. That's all there is of it. Malicious
neighbors did the rest"
Undertaken Bartholomew Flynn,
of Watertown, N. Y, tells a startling
story of the earthquake shock last
week. A middle aged man, whose
name is not given, for professional
reasons, had been seriously i'll for some
time, and about 9 o'clock Thursday
night he gasped once or twice, and.
then to all appearances died. Flynn
was summoned and laid out the body.
He had just finished his work when a
rumbling as of a heavy wagon over e
rough pavement was heard. The house
shook and trembled to its foundation,
and the windows and doors shook and
ratified. This vibration lasted perhaps
90 seconds, anda it died away a tremor
passed through the limbs Of the sup
posed corpse, and the man slowly
raised himself to a sitting position. He
is now alive and is recovering.
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