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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1893
Page
3
Long list of scattered North Carolina items including jailing a Stokes county man for bigamy, Greensboro clergy changes, Weldon’s cotton factory progress, and highway quality notes. Local incidents include deaths, barn and house fires, hog prizes, horse theft warnings, funerals, and various small-town misfortunes across Concord, Gastonia, Charlotte, and Winston areas.
London reports Mrs Lillie Langtry in imminent danger of death. Across the globe: Cornwall Ontario earthquake, Snow Hill Alabama fire destroys most town businesses, Paris Kentucky blaze in Headquarters district, and a string of fires, floods, and cholera updates from New York to Virginia.
A dispatch from Guerrero Tamaulipas reports about two hundred revolutionists attacking a detachment of Mexican soldiers five miles from Camargo yesterday morning. The soldiers, overwhelmed, retreated in panic toward the town, confirming increasing revolutionary activity on Mexican soil.
Reports say revolutionists continue firing on government troops at Camargo as soldiers are wounded. Reinforcements have been sent to Camargo and a battle is expected unless rebels retreat to United States soil.
A dynamite explosion at a shaft tunnel mouth in Long Island City kills four men and injures ten, with one victim nearly beheaded. Thirteen nearby houses burn, mail and postoffice lost, as workers thaw frozen cartridges amid carelessness. Panic and fear grip residents as debris and shattered numbers spread across the area.
The cholera outbreak in Hamburg Germany grows as warm weather nears and fears of a renewed epidemic spread. Yesterday two new patients were hospitalized and one death was reported, with low case numbers but strong concern that last summer’s seeds of death may yield a spring surge.
In Bowling Green Kentucky December 26 Bob Harper a negro held for a week as the assailant of Miss Kate Anderson has been identified by her. A mob repeatedly sought his lynching and again demanded him from the jailer. Miss Anderson asked that he not be lynched as Christmas would be a dreadful memory for her. Citizens urged following the law. A committee was appointed to decide, and the mob agreed to abide by its ruling. The question of lynching was discussed and it was voted to hang him today with three voting for Christmas day. The men dispersed and planned to reassemble later at an unspecified time.
Receipts of hogs fall sharply and five thousand workers are laid off as Chicago packing houses run at under half capacity since December. November hog receipts show a drop of 1.54 million versus 1891, with Chicago totals down 780,000 from last year. Packers foresee no near relief, citing wet springs and rising hogs prices but stagnant meat prices, and expect continued losses for months.
From Winchester, the home of Governor elect Turney, comes word that the venerable chief justice, ill for a long time, is steadily sinking. Insiders believe he will not live to be inaugurated and that he is unlikely to prepare a message for the legislature meeting January 2.
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