The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-27
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the
Earth's Four Corners Selected
and Condensed for Pro.
gressive Farmer

J lined the Republican party, but says
he will fight the Democrats.
Chicago claims that she has 2 O88 DAB
population-larger than that of North
C~arolina-by a recent police census of
the city.
King Oscar, of Sweden INDUCES the
hope that Explorer Andrae may yet be
heard from in Greenland by the expe-
dition now searching for tidipgs OF him
In the Arctic regions.
As an outcome of the political feel.
ing over the Dreyfus case, che French
Ministry, headed by Premier Dupuy,
submitted their resignation to Presi
dent L ?ubet, June 18Th
Baron Christiani, who assaulted
President Loubet, was, on June Is h.,
senterc ad at Paris TO four years IN
prison, and eleven persons who parti
cipated in the riot were also sentenced
Two negroes we Iynched in AppIing
county, Ga, recently, . for sttemp
ted criminal assault, the other for at
tempting to shoot q constable who eE.
deavOred TO collect a tax against the
negro.
The report OF the tax assessors shows
the remarkable fact that the original
estimate of personal assessment in New
York city was yer eight billion dol
lars. This has been reduced by swear
ing off to a little over half a billion.
The Baker Howard feud is ''on"
again in Clay county, Kg. Tom b.
ker, the head of the Baker faction, was
assassinated recently in cold blood in
Manchester. Mrs. Baker says she will
train her eleven SONS go that the height
of their ambition will be to kill How,
ards and Whites.
Director of the Mint Roberts has az
nounced his final estimate of the pro
duction of gold and silver in the
United States for the calendar yaar as
follows: Gold, 1854 1853. 900; silver $50,
439 900. The commercial value Of sill
yer bullion for 1898 was 59;. pei fine
ounce, while in 1897 it was SOC.
A Santiago de Cuba dispatch, June
22nd, says: "The outbreak Of yellow
fever here is confined mainly to the
Fifth Infantry, quartered 10 the old
Spanish barracks. Four enlisted men
have died. One eff ,er and eighteen
men are in the hospital. There has
been one death among civilians and
three suspected cases..
The Standard Oh Company a few
days ego made n of the mcs5 re-
markable jumps in capitalization ever
made in the history of finance. Capt.
5al stock of the company was raised
from ten millions 20 one hundred and
ten millions of dollars and a certiiGase
to thai effect was filed with the Secre
tary of STATE New Jersey.
Attorney General Griggs has de-
cided that the concession granted by
Spain to the Western Union Telegraph
Company of exclusive rights to ley
cables to Cuba, though an admitted
monopoly cannot be voided by the
United States during the forty years
for which it was originally granted. 1t
is a property a vested right.
1T will take from 100, 600 to $50. 900
soldiers to subdue the Philippines and
hold them," says DR.. Charles a. Nc
@ ieston, of Gen. OGis' staff, who was
Health Officer of Manila, but has re
turned home an invalid. Unless
troops, thousands of them, are sent to
the aid of men there they will be
driven back into Manila during the
rainy season."
x.Governor Stone, of Missouri, is
in Chicago consulting with Demo
cratic leaders. He says he will cali a
meeting of the National Democratic
committee about July ooh, and that
he believes any Democrat who sup
ported the ticket in 1896 has a right
to q seat in the convention, provided
he be elected a delegate in the regular
way, even if he did work for the geld
standard IN the convention of 1896 y
Rev. DR.. L G BtoughtOn, a sensa-
tional preacher, of Atlanta, Ca, at
tackled the nay of that city IN his
sermon Sunday night, 17sh, calling
toe mayor a CONFESSED gambler, a
Iioer5ina, q sot and & Disgrace TO the
city" The audience cheered the
preachers words. The mayor says
the the preachers charges are ridicu
lous and asks for a suspension OF Judg'
mant. The people seem to have opin
ions Of their own, however, and the
city council has appointed a committee