The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01
General News.
A FROM THR WIRES.


and Condensed for Pro.
gressive Farmer
Readers.
A shower of meteors is expected on
the 10Th inst.
The total enrolment for the volun-
teer army to this date is 5, 400.
Gan. Wheeler sailed for the Philip
pines from San Francisco on the 18th
ultimo.
Captain Dreyfus, whose case has ex
cited the worlds interest, is seriously
i'll with fever.
Two negroes have arrived in Boeton,
returning from Liberia. They say
that the negro has no chance to earn a
living there.
General Ulysses H3rreaux, President
of the republic of Santa Domingo, was
assassinated Wednesday after noon.
His murderer escaped.
The first bale of new Georgia cotton
for the season of SO and 1900 arrived
at Savannah Friday (28sh) morning.
Il weighed $50 pounds.
The New York World says that "the
New York Democrats are hopeful for
1900, and Bryan's attitude encourages
them in believing free silver may be
sidetracked."
The steamer Bertha arrived at San
Francisco this week from the Klondike,
with ninety seven passengers and about
81, 600, 900 in gold. TIE largest amount
owned by n person was SIS. 900.
Letters received at Topeka, Kansas,
from members of the Twentieth Kan
sas in the Philippines, put a gloomy
picture on conditions there. It is
claimed that the members Of the Kan
sas regiment r complete wrecks.
At Hattiesburg, Mi; s, Henry Novels,
a negro who attempted to assault Miss
Rosalia Davis Saturday (22i) was
captured Monday, identified by Miss
Davis, and Immediately tied to a tree
and shot to death by the angry crowd.
The Marshalltown, Iowa, preachers
who have been preaching to the in
mates of the State institutions, have
struck for S. a sermon, instead of &3,
the old price. The governor says
rather than pay it he will do the preach
Jog himself.
The Chicago Tribune has printed re
vised figures, gathered from representa-
tives throughout the country, showing
a loss of 141 lives resultant from the
last Fourth Of July celebration. Some
of these died July 45h, and others since
from injuries received then.
The Newton Enterprise, a Demo
cratic paper, says: "As matters look
now, Mr.. Bryan will surely be our can
didate. His chances Of election are
improving as he broadens his views
and gets farther away from Altgeld
and the Western Populists."
All Yu, of Shanghai, a Iandsman
who enlisted in the navy in 1884, and
was formerly attached to Dawey's flag.
ship, the Olympia, has been granted
a pension Of $50 a month, for lung
trouble. He has the distinction of be
ing the first Chinese pensioner of this
government.
The Secretary of State has received
a report from the Governor of L0uisi-
ana in response to Secretary Hays re
quest in regard to the lynching at Tai
lulah. The governor says be has been
officially informed that three of the
men lynched were n~aturaliz9d Ameri-
can citiz ms. No further trouble is ex,
pected.
Governor Gambler, of Georgia, has
ordered two companies of militia to
cambridge, Ca, to preserve order.
Williams, one Of the negroes impli-
Gated in the Ogletree outrage, was re-
moved under military escort to Savan-
nah. Quiet prevails at cambridge.
Albert Wright, another of the gang,
has been placed in the Atlanta Jail for
safe keeping.
There has been an eruption from
Mount Etna. After loud noises, dense
columns of smoke went up from the
crater and these were followed by en-
ormous masses of sand. There was a
strong earthquake shock in Rome
where little damage was done. Bat in
a village fifteen miles from Rome a
number of houses were destroyed. No
lives were lost.
An Omaha, Neb., dispatch says:
Among both officers and privates of
returned soldiers one may find a spirit
of general disgust at. the manner in