The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-06

cars fer the races.
Merchants Of Kentucky towns have
begun the boycott of the trust goode.
They won't keep or sell stock thrust on
them. The trust forced dealers out
who sold any but trust goods. Turn
about is fair play. The ST. Louis Gro
GERS Association declared it to be
against their interest to push trust to
bacco. Chicago grocers are on the
same teck.
B~ARNsTABLE, MASS Dec. 1.-Great
masses of wreckage have been coming
ashore on the inside Of Cape Cod since
Sunday. a piece Of q vessel marked
Emma --, Philadelphia" with a
tonnage Of ]. 600, came ashore at Sandy
Neck, near Barns6ab!e light, and lest
night three bodies were found near
there on the beach.
Much OF the wreckage appears TO b
that Of fishing schouers.
MADRID. December 3-Advices from
the Philippine Islands say the insur
! gents there have decided not to recog
MIA the cession OF the Islands to the
United States and that they will resist
20 the last it is also claimed that the
Unite States will r q1iro 70 OCO troops
to put down the rebeilion and is is said
5ba5 the insurgentst hold 10. 900 Span
jsh prisoners whom they will force to
serve against the Americans.
TIE Philippine Insurgents demand
! 7.O0O OC0 pestas for the rel6aee of the
! forsy friaes m orisoned since the COM
mencement Of the war.
A record breaking Novembe@ biz
yard swept over the greater portion OF
New England Sunday November 9Th
completely demoral'zlDg traffic of
every description, and well nigh para
lying telegraphic and telephone com
m~unicatiou. while the northeast gale,
coming on O high course of tides drove
the sea far beyond its usual limits, and
made o mark along shore exceeded
only by the memorable hurricane of
| 1851.
Thirty bsrges and echooners Iyingin
he halb3r were wreckd and sunk, and
at leasG twelve lives were lost.
All the interests in the tinplate in.
dustry, says and exchange, ere getting
together in the formation of the trust,
which is to be capitalized at $50, OCO,O 600.
The promoters Of the combination have
been in Pi5tsbUrg for several days, and
their success has been such as to justi
fy the statement that the market will
soon be ia control Of those signing the
articles of agreement. There were
cf5rs made by banking firms Of
Chicago, New York, So. Louis and
! other money centres agreeing to pay
| 5 per cent premium on all stock that
| 0as been subscribed. Six new sigma
lures to the compact have been re-
/ ceived from Western Pa.
Consul Hanna q Porto Rico reports
to the State Department, regarding that
! now famous iele: This is a small
island, has a population OF about a mil
lion people, and is the most densely
populated country in the world The
population OF Porto Rico is SO mixed in
character that it is difficult to classify
it. Negroes and mulattoes constitute
fully two thirds Of the population,
while many of the other residents show
traces of African blood III their veins
The SpaDiards hev6 never enforced a
high ode OF morality among these
nondescrip5 inhabitants, and when the
heavy hand Of the United States Gev-
ernment comes to be laid upon them,
REFRESHING disorders and punching
tnefGs, symptoms of discomfort on that
fair isle mey become only too evident.
The American flag, however, Wher
ever it goes, mUs5 equally with the
British serve as the symbol of law and
order.-New York Observer.
Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor,
who has recently announced his per
fiction Of a System whereby he is able
to tranemit electric currents without
wires or other medium CT conveyarca c.,
says the New York Voice, has now
made public the claim that he has in
vented an eIe csric submarine tor pedo-
boat, capable Of destroying a whole
feet of battle ships, and which he is
able to direct, by means of his new sys
tenn of electric transmission, from a
distant station on land or from a vessel
hull down" away from the scene OF
action. While the effective use of this