The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-27
ga GIRDLR ROUND THE woRLE.
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole.

Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole.
AT Tacoma, Wash, a forty ton f.
wheel of the City Railway Company
went to pieces, completely wreckipa
the plant and building causing damag.
to the extent of 500, 000.~
The Central Labor Union of New
York City, have adopted the following
resolution: ''That the appointment OF
7. V. Powderly as Commissioners OF
immigration is the greatest official in.
suit ever offered by the Federal Gov
eminent to organized labor"
The principal. interest in the coal
miners strike is conferred in the plan to
end the struggle by arbitration, says
the Baltimore Sun. There are indica-
tions Of coal famine confronting the
country within the next few days.
Labor orators will go into Maryland
coal fields to urge the miners to quit
work.
The silver Republican national COM
mittee has advised against any seperate
silver ticket in Ohio this year. In a
telegram to John E Owens, secretary of
the Ohio Valley Bimetallic League,
Chairman Towne says that such a move
ment would destroy all chance of de-
festing Hanna, and would ruin the repu-
tation Of the silver men as dovotees of
the cause. 1.-The national organization"
said Chairman Towne, land ellleading
silver Republicans here are absolutely
opposed to such a programme"
Since the terrible tornado that al
ried death and desolation to hundreds
in ST. Louis a year ago last May, Mrs.
Andrew Celia has had symptoms of
mental disorder at the approach of a
storm. She was injured by the lorna
do. On the morning of July 2O5h st.
Louis was visited by a rainstorm &C
companied by heavy winds. Mrs. Celia
became excited and talked of a cyclone.
At noon che was found dead in the
bathroom. She stood before a mirror
and cut her throat from ear to ear. Size
was only thirty, we'll to do, with a hus
band and two children, says a recent
dispatch from ST. Louis.
"A dispatch from Seattle, Washing
ton, last week says @. B. Mcintosh,
Governor Of the Northwest Territory,
in which is included the far famed
KIondike district, is in Seattle. The
I Thu N1-op14a 4unNl1 crnhuOrShna RI tho
truthfulness of the stories sent cut as
to the richness of the new diggings.
He estimates that the Klondike and it's
tributaries yielded w So, 900, 600 in
gold last winter. Of this amount he
says 50, OO0, 900 and upward came on
the steamships Portland and Excelsior.
More than a million dollars in dust, he
says. is now stored away in the cabins
of miners along the creek, The British
Yukon yield Of gold for 1897, the Gov
ernor said, will not be less than 80,
coo, O00." He says surveyors are at
work trying to ascertain the feasibility
of the construction of a railroad into
Yukon. One route contemplates a
line Of steamers from Fort Wrangel up
the Styken RIVER.
A prizs OF $25 was offered by the
Southern Office of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for the largest water
melon grown in the South this season,
and at the time the prize was offered
it was stated that it would be would
be presented to the President of the
United States. The weight of the
melon is seventy eight pounds, is forty
inches in circumference, and was
grown by Mr.. J. B. Rowan, at Sarks,
Ga , a station on the Georgia Southern
and Florida Railroad. The melon was
handsomely incased in white corded
silk ribbon, on the ENDS of which are
printed the flags of Georgia and the
United States, "B 6 O. prize melon
1897" in gold letters, and On the other
end Presented to Hen. VIM. Nc
Kinley, President q. S.. A." The melon
was competed for by the States of
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
Alabama. IN the presence of the en-
tire Georgia delegation in congress the
presentation will be made tomorrow
morning.
Representative Simpson, of Kansas,
says the Knight Watchman, has in
troduced in the House a resolution
directing the Speaker to appoint a com
mittee OF five to investigate the sugar
trust. The resolution is preceded by two
w~hereases, the first Of which declares
that it is currently asserted" that the