The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-22
ga GIRDLR ROUND THE WORLD"
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole.

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dent and Secretary Alger have agreed
recommend that a standing army
be placed. on a permanent peace basis
of 100 900.
LONDON, Nov. Is The Hong Korg
correspondent OF The Daily
M&il says: "Wer preparations con
tlnue here without abatement, and the
mines in the Lui Mum Pass have been
charged.
The annual convention Of the Knights
Of Labor began at Chicago November
18th. Over 100 delegates were in at
tendance when General Master Work:
man Hicks, of New York, called the
meeting to order.
The newly elected Indiana legisIa-
ture, which is Republican by a large
majority, will have to choose a United
States senator to succeed Senator
Turpie. It is said that the election of
ex President Harrison is not improb
able.
Hon. Joseph @. Sibley is elected to
the Fifty-sixth Congress from the
Twenty seventh Pennsylvania district
by a majority of 8 600 His Republican
opponent was @. W. Stone, the pres
ent incumbent, who was elected to
Congress in 1896 by a plurality Of
5 719.
On Nov. 1, the amendment to the
Constitution of Texas granting pen
sions to Confederate soldiers was voted
on and carried. It provides that all
ex Confederates who settled in Texas
prior to 1859 are eligible to pensions,
but no one shall receive more than
eight dollars a month, and the appro-
priation for pensions shall not exceed
$3.50. 900.
Tie recent m%eteoric shower was a
show that came eff with the curtain
down, but a second performance lie
promised, and it is to be hoped that it
will come off under more favorable Cir
cumstances. Another swarm of me
teors, the Andromed8s, is scheduled
for the 9th or 28th of this month and
it promises to be a brilliant display, ap
pearing from a point in the sky over
the constellation Andromeda.-Ex.
PANA, Ill Nov. 17.-Another out
break between the white striking
miners and imported negroes occurred
this evening, and but for the prompt
interference of soldiers would have
cost many lives. The row was started
between a negro end a white boy, and
soon a number of miners and negroes
were on hand began firing at each
other. One negro is believed to be
m ortally wounded. Soldiers were soon
en- the scene and dispersed the mob.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 John Brisben
Walker has issued an address attack
ing Richard Croker as a man who had
gained complete control of the Demo,
cratic party, both in the city and the
State, and who is unworthy of trust. y
In his address Mr.. Walker urges the
f )rmation of a new Democracy. Tenn,
porary headquarters of the new De
mocracy will be opened after Monday
next in the Madison Square Building
William Sage will be acting secretary
to the committee on organization.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov.-8ecretary
Testers statement of the worlds visible
supply Of cotton shows an increase fol
the week just closed of 2O5 $50 bales
against an increase of 217, 1856 last yeal
and an increase of 147, 5O7 in 1894. The
total visible is 1852 343 bales against
3 876 5O6 last week and 3,211 366 last
year. OF this the total of American
cotton is 3 $50 342 against 8 677, sec last
week and 3 OO5, 366 last year, and of al
other kinds including Egypt, Brazil
India, ETC., 2O2 900 against 1919. 600 last
week and 2O6, 900 last year.
Gen. Joe Wheeler's suggestion thai
the colleges Of the United States give
free tuition to a number of young
Oubans is apparently meeting with
favor. Amos' g those who have writer
Offering their hearty co operation are
President Elliott, of Harvard; Presi
dent Low, of Columbia, and PresidenI
Raymond, of Union. Favorable replies
nave also been received from the Ro
man Catholic colleges in Washington
and Georgetown, the @ lakers' college
in Havertord and from many South
ern and Western universities.
A dispatch from New York says tina
in the smoke fog and gloom that dark
ened the rails of the Pennsylvania rail
road early Friday morning, between
Jersey City and Harrison, a belatel
| suburban train dashed into q gang o