The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-02
THR LATEST NEWS.
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
icg of all the Important Events
of the PAST Week
of the Past Week

1870 AS@ I'm
B ~'lieving that peace is now near at
hand, Mckinley has sent q message of
congratulations to the soldiers in the
Philippines. The President may be a
little too previous. An old proverb
says there is catching before hang
ing"
ATLANTA, Ga April % At today's
session of the international Sunday
School Convention, the executive
committee, to which was referred the
matter of giving negroes representation
on committees where white men were
chosen, reported against the negro.
a bill to protect birds, passed in Ar.
kensas, appears to have no loopholes
1t provides a fine of from $25 TO $50 for
having in possession ANY feathers or
skius or parts Of birds for use ia mil
linery Or similar purposes" or for kill.
ing any birds in the State such pur
poses.
And now the negroes have learned
to lynch. Ches. w. Williams, alias
Jones, colored. was shot to death in
the Jail at Galena, Kan, Tuesday, by
q mob OF negroes, Williams killed
Laura Canafax, a negro woman The
mob, composed of 25 masked negroes,
went to the Jail and four gained an en-.
trance by breaking in the door.
Now is beginning the most trying
season for our soldiers IN the tropics,
both in the new ard old world Fever
and plague will do more to defeat them,
will kill more of them, and succeed IN
discour8ging more than ell the hostile
guns. We shall not be surprised be
fore next fall there is gen Grated q
sweeping sentiment in favor Of letting
go the Philippines by one way or an
other at the earliest opportunity Elk.
Sjgnor Marconi's system Of wireless
telegraphy continues to attract atten
tion. 1t was put to practical use Sat
urday when the Goodwin Sands Light
Ship on the Euglish coast was struck
by a passing vessel, and the crew no
titled South Forelend that the ship
was in a sinking condition. Tugs were
thereupon dispatched to the assistance
Of the lightship.
o. last Friday evening Mrs. Henry
7. Sloane, the wife Of the we'll known
society man of New York, was grant
ed an absolute divorce from her hus
band, the law giving him the custody
of their children and depriving Mrs,
| Sloane of any right to his property.
That night she married Perry Belmont,
the famous Tammany anti Bryan
Democratic leader.
Hon. Wharton Barker, Of Philadel-
phia, the Anti Butler PopulisE candi
date for the Presidency in 1900, Is in
Atlanta attending q meeting Of the
| Georgia Reform Press Association. Mr..
| Barker was nominated at the cOnven
| ton at Cincinnati in 1898 and is alrea
dy pushiDg the campaign. He says he
feels sure Mex nley will be the R3pub
lllcan nominee, but he does not think
VIM. J. B.yan will be egain put up by
the Democrats. Mr. B .rker is the ed
tor of the American, published at Phil
adelphia, and is connected through his
mother with the family Of B9Djamin
Franklin. In personal appearance
Blrker is said to bear a striking re
semblanca to pictures Of the famous
American.
o ALL FOOLS DELD YET.
There is in New York an anti vacci-
nation society, which combats the gen
orally accepted theory that vaccine
tiOn ia q nreventative of SMALLPOX, Il