The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-25
General News.
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A movement to organize negroes
against Mckinley and imperialism has
been started in Boston.
Count Esterhszy has again con-
tessed that he wrote the bordereau
which convicted Dreyfus.
English capitalists have absorbed the
most desirable investments in Cuba,
according to a report to the War De-
pRrtment.
The alterations to the United States
cruiser Raleigh, as decided upon by a
Naval Survey Board, will involve an
outlay Of about &246, 900.
The volunteer regiments for service
in the Philippines will probably be Or
ganized by August IL. Since July 10th
z. 1858 men have been enlisted.
The average price per bushel Of
wheat exported in the fiscal year just
ended was "A n cents, against SO 8
cents in the preceding year.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union of
America, in session at Richmond, Va,
protest against Mormonism and the
election of B. II, Roberts to Congress
from Utah.
O1e man killed and three wounded,
two of the latter fatally, is the result
of a fight with a band OF outlaws who
robbed a passenger train in New
Mexico; the robbers escaped.
A combination Of various New Eng.
land granite quarfies is under way.
There are about fifteen properties
which will be represented in the com.
bine, which will represent $12, 900, 900.
The Peary expedition steamer Di-
ana sailed from st. John, N. f., for
Sydney, Saturday on a foot expedi,
ton toward the North Pole. She car.
ried supplies for two years and a crew
Of Is men.
A Jersey man, who started for the
Klondike in 81 with IS OC0, has just
reached his home, sufficiently emuged.
It took him three months to heat his
way from Seattle to New York on
freight trains.
Secretary AIger has rendered to the
President his resignation of the wal
portfolio. The resignation will be-
come August 1st, though it was ten
dered "at the pleasure of the Presi-
dent, Elihu Root, of New York, will
probably succeed Alger. Later .-Dis
patches (23d) say Root hes accepted
the position.
The Winston Republican truthfully
says: Another outrage has occurred
in Georgia. On last Saturday morning
a mob obtained entrance to q jail, ever
powered the sheriff and proceeded to
shoot to death in his cell a man accused
Of murder. There was nc excuse on
the part Of the mob in this case that
the man accused would not be "cap-
tured," for he was safe in his cell; and
the alleged crime was not of a nature
that called for a display of "chivalry."
General Wood arrived at Santiago
de Cuba July 10, finding the yellow
fever epidemic worse than he expected.
He first ordered the removal Of head,
quarters to Congo, a pleasant noun
tain village twenty miles north of San.
tiargo. This will leave the city with
only a small guard of American troops
and the Sanitary Department. He a'Eo
ordered the Paymaster to stop the pay
ment Of troops during the epidemic,
in order to prevent the men from gee
ting money with which to buy liquor.
Colonel Robert G.. IngersolI, the
famous infidel lecturer, died at his
home, Walston on Hudson, near New
York City, Friday. His death was
sudden and unexpected and resulted
from heart disease from which he
had suffered since 1896. In that year
during the Republican National Con-
vention, he was taken i'll, and had to
return home. he never fully recov-
cred from the attack Ct heart disease,
and was under the care of physicians
constantly.
As a result of an interesting discus
sion on Academic Freedom in the
Colleges" at the recent Buffalo confer
ence brought out by the presence of
Presto ent Will and Professors Romis,
Ward, and Parsons, recently dismissed
from the Kansas Agricultural College
on political grounds, and Professor
Heron, who, after a long period of
freedom at GrinneIl, now finds him