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

Cecil BuiSsic, or Columbia county,
N. r, is said to have Caughta German
trout two feet long, 16 inches girth.
weighing Sc pounds. This story is
rather "ishy," even if it is true.
Squire VIM. Claxton, of Campbell
county, Tennessee, was shot from am
bush by an unknown party last week.
Claxton was a justice of the peace, but
stood indicted for two murders.
Steve Nichols, of Nashville, Tenn,
IS a liberty loving creature. He is a
one-year jail bird, but he escaped last
week by crawling through a sewer 800
feet to where it empties into the river.
Twelve students of the Northwest
ern Military Academy. at Chicago, will
ride on bicycles to Washington. They
ride in military fashion as bearers of
messages from Mel. Gen, Brook to Gen.
Alger.
An engineer on the Vandalia line
had a shocking experience recently. A
man, wishing to kill himself, got on the
track and laughed at the frightened en-
gineer as the train crashed into his
own body.
jerome Smeathers, his wife, and
seven children were poisoned at Vel
vington, Ky, with Paris green. The
poison was on a shelf, and mice cut the
paper and the contents sifted into q
b1cket Of water below
Eek Mayor John Tyler Cooper, of
Atlanta, convicted of embe zzling funds
of the county while serving as clerk to
the board of commissioners, was re
centlyLsentenced to three months i'm
prisonment and $500 fine.
"A dispatch from st. Louis says
Richard King, the Superintendent ct
Steel Works at BelIeville, has inveWted
a process Of annealing iron castings
which may cut the price in two and
revolutionize the industry.
AT Chicago, this week, a match
carelessly dropped by one of the work.
men in the re-works factory Of NJ.
Shure, caused a terrible explosion.
Twenty five persons were injured and
the loss is estimated at $50, 600.
Theodore Durant, the murderer
Of Blanche Lamont, was reprieved June
9th. Governor Budd named the 9th of
July as the day upon which the sen
tence will be carried out. Unless there
is a further stay of sentence, Durrant
will then be hanged.
AT last accounts the sheriff and
militia, whom the people hold respon-
sible for the death of several citizens at
Urbana, Ohio, were still hiding. North
ern pen drivers can now talk a little
about lynchings in the North. There
has not been a lyrching in North Caro-
lima in two years.
England will collect the most pow.
erful feet the world has ever seen for
the naval review at Spithead on June
26. There will be gathered together
100 ships of war, il Guiding the channel
squadron, the reserve squadron and
many ships that will be sent on foreign
service as soon as the mar uvres are
over.
Senator Tilln an and other South
Carolina Congressman called on the
President a few days ago and asked
him to retain Gen. Wade Hampton as
Commissioner of Railroads for awhile
yet. The request will be granted and
Gen. Longstreet will be compelled to
wait awhile before succeeding his com
panion. in arms.
Charles Barker, a young patent
attorney, of Washington, shot his
former typewriter last week, and then
killed himself. The typewriter in ques
ton, Miss Dorothy equires, will re.
cover. Charles Barker, in spite of his
brilliant talents, was a hard drinker
and gambler, and had a morbid desire
for notoriety.
-Jno. W. Collins, a free silver orator
of Alvin, Texas, had q sweetheart to
move to California. For twenty years
she heard no more of Collins, but she
recently read a speech by him in one
of the papers. She wrote to inquire il
he was the man she once loved. Cor
respondence ensued and as a result, the
hymenal knot was tied at Cairo, III ,
June 9TH.
-Terre Haute, Ind.-Coa1 operator
scmers, of stauntoD, has offered a re
ward of $50 for the names Of the per
sons who placed a campaign picture Of
Mckinley alongside of oneof his notices
of a reduction of wages. A finger
pointing to the notice extends across