The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
THE LATEST NRWs

BlizzaPdsR and snoWstorms areroOo.l
from the South and West. someds Il.
from freezing, etc.
Oannibalism is not yet a thing q,
past. Recently IL shipwrecked ssa
we're eaten by New Guinea savapoa
The sale of a seat on the stock
change for $38. 600 was reportss
Wall Street Saturday. This beat
record.
February goth is the day fl,
trial of Senator Quay and his IN,
the charge Of misuse of Pennsylvan;
public funds.
The bodies Of American soI5s
killed in Cuba during the recent |
are to be brought home. For this
pose, 5000, 600 has been sppropristas
An ''unlucky thirteen"-he lacb,
votes of a mejority-still Stands
tween Senator Matthew 8. Quev .
re election. Long live the thirteen
Uncle Sam is to pay Cuban sold.
S.. 600, 600, not as payment of the Avn
for its services, but as a re ward nv
United States to Oubans. One hun5.
dollars will be given to each solde,
Addison G. Foster has been eliza,
United States Senator from Weahi
ton State. Foster has not figured d
spicuously in politics, but has made
half million in the lumber business
The largest combination of wbisb
and distilling interesty yet attemua
has been concluded in New York cl
under the title of the Kentucky Dist
ers and Warehouse Company. Capi
$32, 600, 900.
In New Jersey Friday the New Ft
lard Dairy Company, with authorid
capitalization of $3.50 900 was orgs
ICED. This is known as the milk tynI
Now let the farmers organize th
cotton trust.
The President has taken up the ca
presented by General Miles crid5n
of the army and beef with the der
mination of directing official act.
that will prevent discipline in the ara
from going to the dogs" 1t is thou5
that the whole matter will be tht.
oughly investigated.
The Lower House of the Tenness
Legislature has passed a bill by a lsr
majority making the keeping and I'd
ming of a crap game room a felu
punishable by fine and imprisonmel
If the Senate sustains the bill, SAYS
exchange, it will go far toward kill
one of the means of running maj.
young boys.
Great excitement exists on the ri
ing stock exchange at Colorado Sprin
over a fabulously rich strike in d
Isabella Mine, at Cripple Greek. a
says from the strike run from $4O,0
to 800. 900 to the ton. The sta.
jumped from gu to 81 so per share
day. Over 100, 900 shares chang
hands. Six weeks ago the stock ID
at % cents.
Only three new trusts were report
last Wednesday. One was a combl
ton of freight and passenger car bull
ers; another a consolidation of all ID
large Eastern potteries; the third, ]
consolidation of the Union TobaC
Company of America and the Nu
American Commercial Company vii
the title of the first named compaI
being retained. The capital stock
$19 359. 900, divided in $I2 900 600
common and 81, 359, 900 of preferFi
stock.
On the seventeenth ball OF the n.
tania Legislature last week elecI
Hon VIM. A. Clarke, Democrat
Butte, United States Senator to succa
Hon. Lee Mantle. Mr.. Clarke is |,
largest individual owner of copf
mines and smelters in the won
his principal properties being in Bu.
and Jerome, Arizona. He has extend
beet sugar interests in California.
has a plantation in Mexico devoted
growing coffee, tea and tobacco Cd
rubber. His net income for 1895 vi.
not far from 100000.
The most ardent supporters OF .
theory that Dreyfus was uDjustly CO
demned now admit that there is
longer the least hope that justice ".
be done. A prominent member Of
University of Paris, who from the H1
has been a militant companion Of
revision Of the trial, ga ys: For SO