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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1896
Page
3
State-wide notes report varied economic activity and local incidents. Farmers edge tobacco focus, banks collect funds, and subscriptions push for a Raleigh Baptist university while rail and law updates touch taxes, building projects, and court matters across counties.
Walter Clark writes from City of Mexico January 15 1896 praising Mexican prosperity and low currency costs. He contrasts U S bondholder driven price inflation with Mexico where silver remains valued and public debt stays stable, urging Americans to resist monetary power and defend individual ownership and national sovereignty against monopolies.
Memphis January meeting of the American Cotton Growers' Protective Association drew fully a thousand delegates led by Hector D. Lane. They urged reduced cotton planting to raise prices and safeguard profits, while promoting home production of corn hay meal and other supplies.
A deadly accident at Ohio Steel Company in Younstow n Ohio occurred this morning when an elevator fell. Three people were killed outright and several others were seriously injured, possibly fatally. Wounded workers are receiving careful care as the incident shocks the local community.
A five story Crown street building in New Haven was gutted by fire after an acetylene experiment on the second floor. Firefighters controlled the blaze after several explosions. two men, Hauser and later Toof and Stevens, died amid ruins and rumors of many casualties.
The strangest case of insanity in this section centers on Mrs. Catharine Miles, wife of farmer William Miles of Greenwood township. After trial she was ordered to the asylum. She believes she is dead and in torment, shrieking with pain. Eyewitnesses cannot bear to witness her apparent torment. A few nights prior, her husband was nearly burned when she, in a fit, dragged him from bed and flipped a lamp onto him, though flames were smothered. Also reported, Ambrose West and wife suffocated by coal gas in Germantown, Philadelphia.
Christiania reports Lieutenant Eyvind Astrup, Arctic explorer linked to Peary's Greenland expedition, found dead in Lilleelvedal Valley near Jerkin after disappearing before Christmas. Twenty five snowshoers searched the area Sunday, confirming his death. The 1894 sleigh journey from Inglefield Gulf to Prudhoe Peninsula marked his Arctic travels.
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