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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1891
Page
3
A wide roll of short items from the State Press notes cotton, tobacco, peanuts, and wheat activity across multiple counties. Depots rise, churches build, and a string of deaths, marriages, crimes, and accidents fill the day’s briefs with local color.
Reports from New York Boston Rio Janeiro and several U S towns note critical events including Cyrus Field illness arrest of Field firm members earthquake shocks in Tacoman and Olympia fire at Straight University library wrecks in West Virginia and Virginia and a fatal shooting in McMinnville Oregon. The items also cover bank troubles in Boston and Suffolk Trust Company disclosures and a suicide after a fatal feud.
A Wilcox Arizona dispatch says Apaches have attacked settlers causing fatalities and injuries. Major William S Downing reported a settler killed and another wounded. the assailants fled and are not yet located. The dead man named B H.
Telegram from Fort Bowie reports Major Downing shot from ambush while riding in a buggy. Lieutenant Irwin and ten soldiers were fatally wounded or severely injured, with others leaving the area.
Talley and Bob Newbern blount county farmers were jailed in Oneonta for the murder of neighbor Stephen Cates. An old feud preceded the shooting after Cates was shot at his door just after midnight. Two men fled the scene and lynching threats followed the arrest.
A dynamite factory at Haverstraw near Nyack exploded this afternoon. The blast killed the engineer and three workers in the frame building, and another man in a river boat died on impact. The 50 by 150 foot structure caught fire and burned for hours. nearby buildings with dynamite were spared, belonging to the Clinton Dynamite Company.
The British steamer Petrarch from Santos arrived at Plymouth with a yellow fever outbreak aboard. The illness spread rapidly after departure, leaving all but one seaman and one fireman prostrated. At Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, and Las Palmas authorities refused aid, forcing the ship to Gibraltar where proper care was given. The chief mate, chief and second engineers, and three crew members died between October 25 and November 15.
A large blaze damaged the Gladstone complex including an elevator flour sheds a coal dock and ore dock after starting in the elevator. The elevator valued at 70000 contained 30000 to 50000 bushels of grain. A flour shed worth 25000 held 8000 to 10000 barrels of flour. The coal dock valued at 40000 housed six hoisting engines and 5000 tons of coal. All insured.
A massive blast in Blackburn near Preston destroys three stores in the market area. About twenty people are reported dead with many injured as bricks and debris rain down. Firefighters struggle to control the blaze and search the ruins.
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