The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-11

Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
ing of all the Important Events
of the Past Week,

n 5SOhS Io6AuS III L6NOE VI hAhCA
ton to the United States il developing
in Nicaragua.
M. Tourret, aged IS years, a man OF
Independent means, was shot dead in
the Bots de Boulogne, Paris, recently,
by a man named Osouf, who mis5ook
him for the President of France, NJ.
Loubet, to whom he bore a remarkable
resemblance. It is believed that Osout
is insane.
Chicago, Ill, April 4,-Oarter II.
Harrison was reelected mayor of Chi
csgo to day by a total vote OF 146 GA,
against 1O7 3O4 for z ma B Carter, the
Republican candidate, and As 4O1 for
John P Altgeld, the independent
Democratic candidate. Harrison's
plurality is 80 61O.
Rev. Tom Dixon has sent in his res.
ignation as pastor of the Peoples
Church in New York. With his resig.
nation the organization ceased TO ex
ist. Mr.. Dixon says he will preach
no more for five years, may v
preach in New York again, but will
retain his residence there.
On last Thursday John Ralfe, a II
year old Indiana boy, while in JEALOUS
rage, fired at his little sweetheart,
Eva Jacobs, with his fathers shotgun,
and tore her right hand almost from
the arm. Eva is two years his senior.
On Wednesday one of the older boys
walked home with her from school,
and this enraged John.
More lynchinge! Two negroes, For
est Jameson and Nose Anderson, were
lynched Thursday in Mississippi by a
mob for the murder of 7. II. Leland,
a stock farmer Jameson confessed
that he choked Leland to death while
Anderson held the victims feet A
posse of zoo citizens secured possessi IN
of the negroes and hanged them to a
tree.
A di:pa'ch from Atlanta, Ca, says:
The old convict lease system, which
caused such terrible and widespread
scandals, expired at midnight, and for
the next five years at least the State
will try the experiment of taking care
of its own convict labor. The major
/ ity of new c~ontrac6ors for the labor of
prisoners are old lessees who have de
pended on the work Of convicts in
min, s. factories and farms, but who
in future will be deprived Of the care
of their prisoners
Providence, R l., April 6 --latest
| election returns Of yesterdays cleo
ton give Elisha Dyer, Republican. a
plurality of 10 600 out of a total vote
of A 900 There was an increase Of
500 votes cast this year. Democrats
| gained several members of the legis
lature, giving them a total OF fifteen
Republicans control both branches and
the grand committee. The Socialist
Labor vote for governor ran up to
nearly 4 900 and was double that cast
for the Prohibitionists.
Elections in Michigan last week did
not show any marked change in the
geaeral political complexion Of the
State, which is normally Republican,
but the result shows quite heavy
Democratic gains in some of the larger
cities notably SO in Dytroit, Grand
Rapids, Saginaw, Jackson and Kala.
maz0o. On q general light vote, the
Republicans hold their own in the
smaller cities and throughout the rural
districts. The elections in Ohio are
favorable to both parties. In general
no party can CLAIM the victory.
Baroness Hirsch, widow of the late
Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew philanthropy
let. died at her residence in Paris
recently. Baron Hirsch left an estate
of $23 900 600, much of which was be
questhed TO charity and atterward dis
pensed by the baroness. Millions have
been spent in colonizing large bodies
of Russian refugees in the United
States and the Argentine Republic
Baroness de Hirsch was quite as re
markable a parsonage as her husband,
Worth many millions in her own right,
she gave freely Of her wealth as of
that left by her husband.
At the Georgia State Baptist Con-
vention in Savannah last week, Judge
George Hillyer, ex Mayor, of Atlanta,
presented a report on lynchings which
was somewhat sensational. Judge
HIIlyer said that in the United States
there were more homicides than in
Scotland, England and Prussia. In 1894
there were 5000 homicides in the
United States and in 1896 there we're