The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30
THE LATEST NEWS.
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
ing of all the Important Events

Friday.
The Alabama Legislature repealed it's
act calling a COZ s %iitutional convention
and also refrs ID to submit a suffrage
amendment.
O. H. ]. Taylor, the famous negro
Democratic leader, recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia, under
Cleveland, died Friday.
The Agricultural Department has
issued a report on the plant products
of the Philippines. 1t contains the
statement that the islands do not yield
enough food for their inhabitants.
Municipal ownership is in the air.
Following Detroit's lead, Toledo now
has declared in favor of municipal
ownership and control of it's street
railway system, and has authorized
the mayor to take the necessary steps
looking TO purchase.
The Wisconsin anti pass law went
into effect Monday and many public
officials who though it would no go
into effect until published were COM
PEELED to pay fares on the trains. Now
every one who presents a pes3 must
sign a statement that he is not a pub.
lie official or otherwise subject to the
terms of the anti pass law.
The New York State legislature,
which met in special session Monday
night, ad burned sine die, Thursday
afternoon, after having passed the
amended franchise tax bill and a bill
appropriating $75, 900 for the expense
of celebrating Admiral Dswey's re-
turn.
Three white men, James HUMPHREYS
and his two sons, were lynched last
week by a mob of ID masked men
near the village of Alley, in Hender
son county, Texas Several months
ago Constable Melton, Of the Alley pre-
cinct, was murdered and the murder
ers escaped, it is said, through the as
sistance Ct the HUMPHREYS.
Governor tanley, of Kansas, has de
cided to try the conditional pardon
plan on the better grade of prisoners
in the State p~enitentiary. The condi
tions, however, are likely to strike
some of the prisoners as hard enough
to take all the joy out Of the pardon
They are that the person released shall
not drink, gamble or loaf.
Governor Sayers, Of Texas, has
signed the anti trust bill, effective Jan
. uary 1, 1900. Many trusts doing buFi
| ness in Texas are already preparing tc
leave the State. One cash order fo1
half a million dollars worth OF steel
rails, sent to an Eastern manufacturer
by a Texas railroad builder a few days
ago. has been called back on account
of the drastic bill.
There seems to be a new sort Of color
line. In a speech to an organization
| of negroes in Brooklyn, DR.. VIM. d
Hunter said that many colored people
3 make the mistake of drawing the colo
> line among themselves; that the col
ored people of fair complexion werC
opposed to being led by others OF
darker hue, aud that there had beeI
much antagonism between the darl
colored people and the white colore'
people.
l dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn
: says: DR.. R B Garrett, pastor of tn
First Baptist Church, appeared bt
fore the grand jury this afternoon an
u stated that Governor Bradley Of Ker
, tucy, assisted in breaking the law
: the city while attending the recen
70 Kentucky monument dedication. Their
. is an ordinance requiring saloons an
~ alleged clubs to close at 10 p. m. D
70 Garrett says that at II p. m May Be
. Governor Bradley was treated at tn
% Mountain City Club, and that tu'
L nishing whiskey at said time and plaC
B" was q violation of the law. Governc
- Bradley may be summoned to testity
r. At the meeting of the country = lea'
% ing physicians in Richmond, Va, iaI
a. week, it was shown that during laI
~ winter there was an epidemic OF small
le pox throughout the country, Nortl
N South and West, and the fear We
IN expressed that uoless active ard vigo
,e GUS steps were taken the lo@thson
n disease would appear in more viruler
form next winter. The point whIc
- has 80 frequently been raised by thoi
= opposed to vaccination, that the vlrI
was harmful TO the system, was gel
- orally controverted, and the speaker
. asserted that vaccination was not dal
y dangerous, but an excellent prevent