The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-28
THE LATEST NEWS.
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
ino of ali the Tm0ortanf Rvanfs

Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
ing of all the Important Events
Of the Past Week.
The First N. @. Regiment left
Havana Saturday and will be mus
tered out within the next two weeks.
The organization Of the American
School Furniture Company ~(trus'), cap
ital stock 81. 500. 900, has been com.
pIeted.
Twenty three dead and forty miss
ing is the record so far of the Windsor
Hotel fire, referred to in last weeks
Progressive Farmer.
Augusta, Ga, March 19.-Hon. Pat
rick Walsh, ex.United States Senator
and mayor of Augusta, died at his
residence this morning after three
months illness of nervous prostra,
ton.
Macon, Ga, March 22-At a meet
ing of the Georgia Fruit Growers Asso
citation to day, it was decided that there
would be no peaches for shipment
from this State this year. The eason
given is that the trees were injured by
the recent freeze.
CCmn manufacturers, makers of
green and glass flint bottles and the
owners and operators of the coal
mines in Indiana met in Cincinnati
Tuesday for the purpose of incress
ing prices on their products. Each of
the meetings was held behind closed
doors, and inquiries for information
were met by the officers and members
of all those associations by a refusal
to disclose anything.
Recently a member OF the Wiscon
Gin legislature, for the benefit of the
ladies introduced a resolution to make
tight lacing illegal. Soon after an i'm
mense floral corset tightly laced, was
presented to Assemblyman Daggett,
author of the bill. 1t was the gift of
the young women of Watertown, and
it's appearance when brought in by the
sergeant, at arms was the signal for a
hilarious demonstration. Mr.. Daggett
brushed the token off his desk to the
floor.
The Rome correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph says: "The
Pope is beginning to suffer from de-
preston. During the service Sunday,
he asked one of his personal attend,
ants how many in the congregation he
(the attendant) thought really rejoiced
at his recovery. Then he added de-
s~pondently: What mockery it is
this Thanksgiving for my recovery.
shall not live a week. The exclama'
ton was followed by a prolonged and
alarming fainting it,"
Many murders, some Of them of the
most brutal character, says an ex
change, are committed by women in
the United States every year and vel
it is a rare thing for n of these Jeze
bells to be put death. For this reason
the execution of Mrs. Place, in Sing
Sing prison, N. Y, Monday, the 20tt
ult., is Of more than passing interest
The woman unquestionRbly deserved
death, and yet there was much sym
patty for her, purely because she wa
a woman. Gov. Roosevelt, however
held that the mere fact that she was
woman did not entitle her to a pardon
A tabulated statement Of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau shows that the
total receipts under the war tax Law
ND to February 1, 1899, amounted t.
S62 O12, 19I. The distribution of the
tax was as follows: For stamps or
checks, documents and patent medi
cines, $26, 3S3, 44O; beer. $50, OS4. 400
special taxes, 81 258, 8O7; cigars and
cigarettes, 81. 500. O58; tobacco and
snuff, IS, 1862, 621; inheritances, 1888,
951; excise tax, $3.50. 274. This indi
Gates an annual revenue of upward Of
$1O6, 900, 900 from the war tax. At the
same time, as the Philadelphia Record
points out, the government expendi
lures are increasing at a corresponding
rate, and it will be a long time before
there csn be any hope of a repeal o.
the law.