The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-29

succeed TIC negro DEuC0, O6-
ceased, as Register Of the Treasury.
We omit in this summary the wild
reports regarding the Maine disaster,
| the Cuban situation, etc., Sent out by
conscienceless newspaper correspond
ents.
Thirty five States have already de-
| cided to participate in the Trans Mis-
sissippi Exposition. The number may
be increased to forty. We learn that
North Carolina will have no exhibit.
The funeral OF the negro Register Of
the Treasury, Blanche <. Bruce, ex-
slaves and ex Senator, was held in Wash.
ington City last week. Bruce was one
Of the greatest men his race has pro
duced.
DIR. Geo. Powell, of La Crosse, Mimi,
has accepted the Marquis of Alta
Villas challenge in Senator Billy Me-
sons stead. He says he will bore the
Marquis with an army pistol-the old
forty.four.
Two hundred and fifty sever men
and two officers were killed outright in
the Maine explowion. Seven others
have since died from wounds there sUE-
tanned, making the total number Of
dead 266.
Secretary Long, Of the Navy, last
week ordered that the Amazonas, the
cruiser recently purchased from the
Brazilian Government, shall hereafter
bear the name of New Orleans. The
cruiser Abrou8lI has been renamed the
Albany.
In writing our War News" in last
weeks issue we stated that Secretary
Long, Of the q. s. Navy, said there
will be war il fifteen minutes if the
Board Of Enquiry says Spain blew up
the Maine. We should have said Sec
rotary Gage, Of the Treasury.
Fridays dailies announce that Tom
Watson has refused to accept the nom
ination for Governor rendered him by
the Popuiists. He says he will never
enter politics again. Tom is too good
a man to dabbie in the dirt of which
present day politics is composed.
Senator Chandler, of New Hamp-
shire, says that President Mckinley
will Don take steps to have food,
medicine and clothing sent to Cuba's
starving people with the approval of
Spain, If she consents, or will be car
ried by American sailors and soldiers
without that approval, if she does not
consent"
Out in Kansas last week q safe rob-
berry occurred smacking much OF Jesse
James stories. The Bank of Nicker
son was robbed. Five men required
four OF five hours to blow up the safe.
Citizens who were passing the building
were held up and forced to go inside,
where they were kept until the safe
was blown open and the money secured.
About s., 900 was obtained, whereupon
the robbers mounted horses and fed.
A food in the Ohio river is reported. |
Thursdays papers reported that the
water was rising at the rate of four
inches per hour. Most of the damage
was done In the State Of Ohio,
The SciOto river wrought destruction
around Columbus, in that State, which
has passed the million dollar mark.
Three thousand are homeless at
GAINESVILLE and many are missing and
believed to have been drowned. A
number have been drowned at other
towns, also, it has been ascertained.
The railroads alone lose 81, 900, 900.
The West is still wild and woody"
in some portions, Two men stopped
the north, bound Los Angeles, Cal, ex
press last Tuesday on a high trestle,
blew up the express safe, and obtained
$50, 900 in treasure which had been
shipped from the Randsburg mines, as
we'll as considerable money from the
registered mail. The express messenger
refused to open the car. He was com.
PEELED to surrender. The robbers then
blew up the safes with dynamite, com
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