The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-11
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the
Earth's -Four Corners Selected
and Condensed for Pro.
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Readers.
The Homestead strike at Pittsburg,
Pa, is still on in the big Carnegie Steel
Cos plant; $500 men are employed.
State Senator VIM. Flanagan, of
PowhataD county, Va, was shot and
killed Monday by W. G. Plkinton, in
a quarrel over politics.
Havana newspapers say Gen. Brooke
is to be sent to the Philippines, and
Mr.. Robt. P. Porter will be appointed
Governor of Cuba.
Mrs. Emma D. E. N. S0uthworth,
the authorees. died at her residence in
Washington, D. O., Friday night after
an illness of several weeks.
An Industrial Commission" ap-
pointed by Congress has been making
an Inquiry into the causes and effects
OF trusts. Bead u summary of re-
suits on page z.
Mayor Woodland, of Atlanta, has
confessed to the truth of the charges
which Rev, Dr.. Broughton made
against him a sermon recently, and
has promised to reform.
At Patrick, Va Saturday, six men
we're convicted of murder in the second
degree for lynching a white man who
attempted to outrage a young white
lady, and wer sent to the p~enitentiary
for five years each.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
the Hon. Thomas J. Semmes, who died
in that city last week, was the last of
the members Of the Confederate States
Senate; also, that but member Of
Mr.. Davis Cabinet is now living
Judge Reagan, of Texas.
Disturbances between colored and
white miners continue in Illinois. A
few days ago a train load of iopor-
ted negro miner s we're fred on by union
miners. A woman was killed and 30
other persons injured. The next night
the negroes retaliated on the union
miners and burned their homes after
a battle. The situation is very critical
AID the sheriff has asked the Governor
for troops.
The grand jury of Andersen county,
8. c., have recommended that the
courts of South Carolina be opened
with prayer, and that a bill be
introduced in the next legislature ccm.
peling this. Judge Gage heartily en-
dorsed the recommendation and in
structed the solicitor to send copies of
the recommendation to the legislative
delegation Of the county and ask them
10 draft and press the proposed bill to
passage.
Captain Dreyfus arrived at Rennes,
July 1st, end was Immediately put
under charge of the governor of the
prison there. He seems iu good health
and although somewhat aged and
stopped, not to have lost intellectual
power from his imprisonment and the
long ervou strain. His wife was
at once permitted to visit him, the
meeting being very affactionate. But
for her untiring efforts he would prob.
ably never have obtained justice. Such
is the power of woman.
A company of negro miners, who
formerly worked in the Pana, Ill,
mines, arrived on the Illinois Central
last week. They were intercepted by a
small crowd, who explained che situa
tion in Pana and the feeling against
negroes, and they were ordered to
leave town Immediately. This, it is
reported, is the treatment which will
beaccorded to all blacks who attempt
to land in Pana in the future. Such is
the race situation in the North.
Senator NJ, Q. Butler Dam of South,
Carolina, has inaugurated a crusade
against the unfair election laws of that
State. Says he: Il shall never be a
candidate again for any political Office.
But l am interested in peace and good
order in the State and I say to you,
just 30 sure as these laws remain IN
changed shotguns will play a promi
nent pars in future political cam
paigns, and voters will walk through
blood to the ballot boxes. That is
why 1 am interested in the matter at
the present time"
The Social Forum truthtully say s:
PARTY ties are exceeding strong and
politics p~roverbially makes strange
bedfellows. There are Russell A Alger
and Hazan s. Pingree. for instance,
with slumber robes and night caps of
identically the same pattern, tucked