The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
"a GIRDLR ROUND rHE WORLD"

ga GIRDLR ROUND THE WORLD
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole.
Nelson Dingley, father of Con-
gresham Dingley, died at his home in
Lewiston.
"A new -KIondike has been discov-
eredi in Pennsylvania, on Tussey noun
tain, % miles south Of Altoona. Gold
in paying quantities, assaying as high
as $500 to the ton of quartz. has been
found.
Louis E. Rossie, paying teller of
the Bedford Bank in Brooklyn, N. Y,
vas arrested last week charged with
e~mbeZzlement. He Messed to hav
ing stolen about Sc, $50 during his three
years as paying teller, and said that
he had lost the money in betting on.
horse races.
VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. 1 -NeWs
just received from the northern gold
fields states that 5000 Klondike treas
ure seekers are imprisoned in the Yu
kon valley, between Skagway and
Lake Tagish. Unless they are rescued
they will remain in the valley all the
winter, which means many deaths.
Fierce rains have caused a blockade.
An Illinois preacher stopped priza
fight by slapping the face of the sheriff,
who was in attendance. knocked down
the fighters twice and then bumped
their heads together until they pleaded
for merSy. This may not be a good
way of showing that fighting is brutal
and to be avoided by the righteous, but
it was eficacious as an antidote to the
immediate evil.
Senators Stewart and Jones, of Ne
vada, talked to a reporter for the New
York Times OF the rise of wheat and
the falliot silver. Senator Stewart said
it was no time for pessimism; that all
the railways would now carr dividends,
and that the West is the mother of
prosperity. Senator Jones said TIA
the gold yield Of the Ktondike region
would bring back good times, ven
though silver keeps on falling.
The pending campaign in Ohio is
pretty certain to be a very hot one, re.
marks an exchange. Each side will be
provided with the sinews of war, but
the Republicans will be more abund
Iantly provided than the Democrats.
Hanna's ''bar'" is by no means empty
as yet. On the other hand, Mclean,
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is an as
pirant for the Senate, and being a rich
man, is credited with willingness to
spend a good deal of money to help his
party. An effort is being made to
effect a fusion between the gold Demo
Gratis and the Republicans.
The Texas petroleum oil company,
composed Of local capitalists, says the
American Agriculturist of the 14sh
lust, has made an arrangement with
Senator r Q Mills to sink wells on a
1000 acre tract owned by him in the
heart of the oil district near Corsicane.
Senator Mills declines at present to un-
dertake an extensive development Of
his holdings. He says he does not want
to bore down and find himself rich in
oil, only to be impoverished by what
he styles the greatest Of all trusts Of
modern times, the Standard Oil Com
pRny All the flow of the wells there,
nearly ZOO barrels daily, is being used
for fuel, and the demand far exceeds
the supply.
CHICAGO, Aug. II The Grand
Army Of the Republic committee hes
approved of Prof. John Bach MacMes
ter's School History OF the United
Sta es. and it is now being printed.
The Veterans expect to introduce it in
the public schools Of this city, but this
is opposed by Superintendent Lane and
some members of the Board Of E1uca-
ton. Tee Grand Army of the Repub-
lie threaten to make it hot for those
who oppose the history, which was
written at their dictetion. They claim
that the school history now in use lauds
the South and d~isparages the North,
and they wish this corrected.
Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation Of Labor, has
sent out a circular to trade unions ex-
planning the position of the federation
in regard to the appointment of T. V.
az Commissioners of Immi
grafton. He fe els aggrieved that Presi
dent Mckinley appointed Mr.. Powderfy
after the Senate failed to confirm his
first nomination, because protests had