The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-08
NEWS or H WEEK.


Ga Monday a blizzard began in
dead earnest in New York City.
Three inches of snow fell in Rich
mond, Va, and four in Lynchburg.
TUESDAY, FEB 1,
Congress discussed the question OF
General Prosperity. It is believed
that the General will prove an abb.
Friends of the Hawaiian annexation
scheme claim that it will pass the Sen
ate by at least sixteen maj 1rity.
WEDNESDAY, FEB 2
An unknown negro who was refused
the privilege of warking through a
tunnel OF the Norfolk & Western Rail
road, near Bramwell, W. Va, shot
Harry Draper, the Waterman, killing
him instantly. A posse soon formed
and captured the negro, and at mid
night fifty men took the prisoner from
the jail and lynched him.
The blizzard in the North grew de-
cidedly worse. In Boston it was the
worst in % years. Several lives were
lost. In four hours a foot of heavy,
wet snow fell. In some parts Of New
York the mercury went 30 degrees
below zero; business is at a standstiIl
in many places. Great loss of prop
perty. At Albany, Troy, Saratoga
and many other places in the State,
as much as two and three feet of snow
has fallen, and reports are to the effect
that the blizzard is the worst since the
memorable one Of 1888.
Several accidents on railroads re-.
ported. Dispatches say that the storm
at Gloucester, Mass, vas one Of the
worst in many years, and the damage
which lies in its wake will foot up
about 5000, 600. About 1000 fishing
and other vessels were wholly or par
TALLY wrecked. Eighteen lives are
said to have been lost, and q great
number of vessels we're driven ashore
and more or less injured. A three
masted schooner was wrecked near
Boston. The body Of one of the men
was found among the wreckage, frozen
20 a plank. Southwest Virginia re-
ports a blizzard and Newport News a
4O-mile gale.
Six people were burned to death in a
hotel fire at GloveTsville, N. Y. Ole Of
the men was said to be from Raleigh.
The trial of Sheriff Martin and his
deputies for shooting the striking
miners near Wlkesbarre, Pa, last
fall, began. Much interest is NANTES
ted.
THURSDAY, FEB. 8.
Friends Of John Wanamaker want
him to be the Republican candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania.
A o of persons drowned
and s, 1000, OOCloss inflicted by the storm
that has just swept over eastern Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island.
Thousands of sheep are reported to
have persisted from cold and starva,
ton in western Wyoming. Old timers
say that it is the hardest winter they
have seen for the past 10 years. Gar
bon county has 500, 900 sheep and it
is feared that the loss will amount to
% per cent. Loss among cattle will not
be so heavy.
FRIDAY, Feb. 8
MI. L. Banks Holt, q well known
North Carolina poultryman, is elected
Secretary of the National Pet Stock
Association.
The blizzard continues. Storms re
ported from Great Britain.
SATURDAY, FEB. 4
The trial of Sheriff Martin and his
deputies, who are jointly charged with
the murder of the striking miners at
Lattimer, Sept. 10th, was continued at
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
DR.. q. NJ. Kellar, who viewed the
remains OF the strikers, and attended
to many of the wounded, was then
called. He testified that a number OF
the strikers were shot in the back.
The pastor of a church at HazIeton
was examined. He saw the miners and
said they were orderly and saw no
weapons. A lady who attended those
who e wounded, said she was
laughed at by the deputies.
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