The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-13
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

The Latest Reliable News From the
Earth's Four Corners Selected
and Condensed for Pro-
gressive Farmer
Readers
New York suffered much from heat
last week. In n day there were
twenty five deaths from the heat and
ten Of these victims were women.
The States which are to elect Gov
errors this year are Ohio, kentucky,
and Maryland, Iowa, Massachusetts
and Mississippi. Rhode Island has al
ready, at the April election, chosen it's
Governor.
Advices from Dawson, dated April
29lh, state that there are evidences Of
the most wonderful output recorded.
Thousands Of miners, who are waiting
for the first boats, have from 81, 600 to
$50, 900 each in gold dust.
Governor Sayers has t~elegraphed
all the Governors and Attorney Gen.
erals of the Southern States a call for
an anti trust convention, to meet in
ct. Louis on September 2Osh, for the
purpose of securing concerted action
against the trusts.
There has been one death in New
Orleans which the post. mortem showed
was yellow fever. As this is three
months sooner than that disease usu
ally shows itself, there was excitement.
But no other case has developed.
Asynopsis of the report of the Nicara
guam Canal Commission was made pub
lie in Washington June 1st. 1t esti-
mates the cost Of the canal at $118 .113,
79O Colonel H aims concurs generally
in the report, but submits a personal
estimate of 1884 818 3O8.
In a battle near Paranaque, L1zon,
Saturday, 10th, u army defeated a
band of insurgents after desperate re
sistance on the part of the latter. Their
loss was fifty dead; ours, two dead, %
wounded. The heat was intense and
40 per cent. of our army were pros
trated.
When the dispatch boat designated
by the French government to notify
D :eyfus of the revision of his trial
arrived at the Isle du Diable, Dreyfus
was waiting on the shore. Although
endeavoring to maintain his self-pos
session, he received the official intelli-
gence with a countenance radiant with
joy.
The South Carolina Superior Court
has reversed the decision Of the lower
court in an important case affecting
the dispensary law. The decision gives
a citiz IN the right to drive over into
North Carolina or across the bridge tt
augusta, Ca, or send his team Over
with an agent. buy whiskey for hi
own use and return with it.
Germany, it is announced, pay
25, 900, 900 pesesas for the Caroline
Palaos and Mariana Islands. Spair
still retains three coaling stations, on
in each group, and Germany under
takes to defend these stations in cas-
of war. Germany, in addition, grant
Spain the most favored national treat
ment in Germany and in the Colonia
i, Islands.
: General Lawton began on June All
{ a general movement to the west O
Manila against General Pho del Pillar
+. force Of rebels in the foot hills. TIL
| object was to drive the Filipinos int
Morong Peninsula, where escap
would have been impossible, but i
this the Americans were not successful
owning to the rough character Of th
county the insurgents escape to th
northwerd.
Mere than two weeks have passe
since the Paris grounded IN a ridge
rocks at the entrance of the Falmout
! harbor. Fortunately the steame
struck in such a manner that she We
firmly wedged in the rocks and I
: lives were lost. Repeated efforts haI
been made to get her eff the rock
! but they have all failed. She is n
far from where the wrecked Mohega
= still lies. The cause Of the strandir
is yet to be investigated.
b DIR. J. P. Greene, President Of Il
William Jewell College, at Liberty, No
who was asked to accept the Pres
dency of the Southern Baptist The
b logical Seminary, at Louisville, Ky
has declined the Office. He was sele
b ted by the board of trustees, to fill ii
office vacated on May 18th by D
st Whitsitt, and it was thought as he "
himself a member Of the board, al