The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

CLAUS Spreckele, the sugar king,
has decided to erect a 5000, 600 coffee
refinery in Brooklyn. The new refinery
will consist of a warehouse four stories
high and a &C fee roasting building five
stories high.
"A Liberty, Mo telegram says:
Fully 10000 blackberry pickers have
arrived here for the season, which
opened Monday and will last for g
month. The crop is estimated at so,
600 crates, the largest ever knownhere.
-Tyndale Palmer, who has sued
many newspapers throughout the
country for libel, secured a verdict of
$15 against The Leader in the Supreme
Court at Gloversville, N. Y, June 18th.
Palmer conducted his own case. His
motion for a new trial was denied, The
suit was for S.,
AT the annual convention of the
several liquor dealers organiz atoms in
Chicago, the following facts were made
plain: For the first five months of this
year 175. 900 barrels less of beer were
consumed in Chicago than in the same
period last year. The nun Der o saloons
is $50 less than a year ago.
Hanna had full control Of the Ohio
State Republican Convention, which
met June 23d, and was re-nominated
for Senator. Governor Bushnell was
nominated his own successor. The acts
1 of NOT1nrooo ord MoT1~l0- -, -
dorsed. The convention also approved
the Hawaiian treaty.
"A reward has been offered for the
arrest of Thomas Challender, the South
ern agent Of the Latin 6 Rand Powder
Company, Of New York, in nearly all
the Southern States east of the Missis
sippi. It is alleged his shortage in Nash
vile accounts is So 1000, and it is also
alleged that shortages in other States
may reach 800, 900.
Ross Williams, young farmer liv-
ing near Perry, Oklahoma, and Miss
Bessie Carroll, of Chicago, were mar
ried two days ago. Williams wrote a
love message OF an egg three months
ago. The egg was shipped to Chicago,
and Miss Carroll in cooking it read the
message. She answered it, and the
correspondence resulted in the mar
riage.
I'm the Tobacco Trust trial IN New
York Joseph II. Choate, one of the
lawyers for the trust, asked one of the
talesmen: ''What would you do if at
the end of this trial you found that
eleven of the jurors are of one mind
and you of anotherG" II would agree
with the eleven, {" was the reply. 'Why
so7" said lawyer Choate. Because l
should probably be in q hurry to get
home," was the reply. you are &C.
cepted," said MI. Choate.-Wash
ington Post.
"A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash
ington, says: More tea is now afoat
on the Pacific ocean than ever before
at, one time. The importers of New
York and other Eastern cities have
made large purchases in China and
Japan for immediate delivery and are
having it hurried acros the Pacific in
order to enter it before the Dingley bill
goes into effect. A thousand tons of
new crop tea has been landed here and
IL, 600, 5000 pounds are OF the ocean be,
tween Yokohama and this port.
AT Richmond, June 10Th, Jack
Robinson, a negro desperate near
Hampden Sidney, in Prince Edward
county, defed arrest by Constable Nc
Craw, and shot the constable through
tho thigh. Robinson then barricaded
himself in his cabin and swore he would
kill anyone who attempted to enter.
A sherif's posse set fire to the cabin
and smoked him out, and in the pur
suit that followed Robinson was shot
three times. He was finally captured
and taken to Prince Edward jail. His
wounds are not necessarily fatal.
"A dispatch from Philadelphia, June
Dist, says: Christian z. Ross, the
father of Charles Ross, whose ebduc
ton on June LIST, 1874, from his parents
home became a matter of world wide
interest and still remains largely an
unsoIved mystery, died early this
morning at his residence, in German
town, aged seventy four years. The
abduction of Charles Ross, who was a
beautiful child, practically wrecked
the life of his father, and from the time
the boy was stolen, nearly twenty three
years ago., life seemed a burden to the
once hustling business man.