The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-18
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Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
ing of all the Important Events
Of the Past Week

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From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
ing Of all the Important Events
of the Past Week
Vice. President Hobart is seriously
ill.
The Samoan Commission leaves San
francisco, April 18th for Samoa.
The trial of Senator Quay is in prog
ress. At this writing his successor has
not been elected.
Hon. 81. A. Tabor, postmaster at
Denver Colorado, and former United
States Senator from that State, died
Monday.
The Rome correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: while the Pope's
health has improved, few deny that
his life is slowly ebbing away"
Secretary of War-familiarly known
as ''Beet"-Alger has returned from
Cuba and announces that he has not
the remotesG idea of retiring from the
Cabinet.
The total revenue of the Philippine
ISLANDS, since the American occupa-
ton began August Is 1898 was g.
988, OOG. OF this total $50 900 is from
IloIIo and from Cebu.
The bodies OF 1886 cmcers and men
who died in Cuba or Porto Rico wore
buried at Arlington Cemetery, near
Washington, recently. President Nc
Kinley and Cabinet attended the cere-
monies.
An agreement has been reached be,
tween the Unlted States, Germany and
Great Britain, for the appointment of
a Joint High Commission for Samoa
Unanimity will be necessary upon all
decisions of the Commission.
Jas. Robinson, a young white man,
has been indicted at Waynesville, Ga
for the murder of Gilbert Ellison, a
negro preacher. Ellison was called to
the door of his church Sunday night
while services were in progress and
shot. He died in a few hourt from the
effects of the wound.
The Attorney General has decided
that Section II of the act increasing
the efficiency of the army" does moi
prohibit the sale Of intoxic ating Ii
quors through the canteen system az
heretofore organized except that nc
officer or enlisted man can be detained
for duty in the canteen to sell liquor,
Fifty one Democrats, prominent il
Virginia politics, have issued an ed
dress to their fellow Democrats of the
State, appealing to the party to unite
with them in an eff Jrt to secure the
adoption of a constitutional amend
ment for the elc ion of United States
Senator'S by the popular vote. They
have called a conference to be held a.
Richmond, May 18th.
10 his address to the Cardinals las.
week, the Pope, after expressing graft
tude to the Deity for his restora 'ior
to health and his thankIulness for the
proofs of 8ffecgion from all parts o.
the world, warmly eulogiz9d the lzar't
initiative in calling the peace confer
ence and expressed the hope that il
would lead to the settlement Of ali dis
putes between nations by moral anC
pacific means.
The outlook for the acquittal of Drey
fus is bright. Even the anti Dreyfu
sards admit that the only outcome nov
is to release Dreytus and Picquart. ID
Lorilleir, who was private secretary tt
the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry
who committed suicide at Mont Val
erien fortress, last August, after con
feseing to having forged a letter large
~ instrumentalin delaying the Dreyfu
revision, killed himself last Monday.
Havana, April ID The Cuban army
muster rolls, which were delivered
last evening to Governor Genera
Brooke, through Senior DomingC
Mendez Capote, show on their ia =
48, 600 MANS - 6 900 commissioned IF
GERS and AZ 600 non commissioned off
GERS and prlvates. If the lists voucheD
for tally more thar 80, 600 non commits
stoned officers and palvates, the shares
with the deductions, will probably b
less than 800 each. These detail
have not yet been settled.
rHR END OF AN EVENTFUL LIFI
Ex Justice Stephen ]. Field Dies