The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

mittee has been appointed and an ad-
dress has been issued to the people of
the United States soliciting subscrip
tions.
Attorney General Monett, Of. Oaio,
is proceeding in his official capacity
against the Standard Oil Trust. While
the investigation was in progress, Mr..
Monett stated that the gross receipts
of the trust are probably 1920, coo, 600 a
year on the Ohio product alone, and
that on refined oil all is profit over four
cents a gallon.
General Wade Hampton has written
q card to the people Of South Carolina,
in which he feeliDgly and gratefully
declines to accept the home it was
proposed to build for him, replacing
the home recently destroyed by fire.
He says the reward of a citizen who
has done work for the State is "Well
done, good and faithful servant"
Congress at its last session author
lied the building Of II new warships,
but the Navy Department is embar
raised by the discovery that nc appro
priation was made for beginning the
work. Tnis omission will impede the
letting Of contracts, unless with the
understanding that the contractors
shall be paid when the appropriations
are made.
The long advocated system to secure
more nearly equal rights for plaintiff
and defendent IN civil cases is likely to
be tried in Missouri. The Legislature
of that State has approved a constitu
tional amendment permitting three
quarters of the jury to render a yer
dict in all civil casss, aud two thirds
to render il where the court is not a
court of record.
There has been much disputing in
regard to the number and the size Of
the islands in the Philippine group.
Prof. George Davidson, who is high
authority on Geographical matters,
a that, excluding reefs and rocks,
there are $50 islands which have an
area Of 137, O57 square miles. This
mems the area is about q times that
of North Carolina.
The Russian government has decided
upon harsh measures against the Jews,
doubtless owing to the intense feeling
against them prevailing in many parts
of Russia at the present time. The
first anti jewish measure was promul-
gated last Friday, under which the
stay Of all, v foreign Jews, is pro
hibited in st. Petersburg. No excep
tions will be made even IN the case of
French Jews.
Las week was another week of in
activity in the Philippines. General
Lawton's army has left San Mlnguel,
Luzln, and captured San Isidro, the
Filipino capitol, at which, as The Pro
gressive Farmer announced last week,
the Filipino Congress was citing.
General Rios cables to Madrid that the
Spanish g%arrisons will evacuate Jolo
Tor Sulu) and z .mboanga. American
troops will occupy the former place,
but, General Rios says, not the latter.
Aguineldo sent to Gen. Oils two mill
tary and two civil Filipino commits
sioners to co operate with three citi
zsns Of Manila in negotiating terms Of
peace, but they submitted no new
proposition They wanted an armis-
tice pending the session of the Filipino
Congress. Gen. Otis refused to enter
tain the proposal, and so it ended.
Accordingly testimony, given before
the Meet committee, Friday, 18th, the
dead, as well as the living, must pay
tribute when Tammany is in power.
Witnesses were put on the stand to
prove that one undertaken gets the
job to bury the great majority of those
who die at two hospitals by paying 50
q body to employees Of the hospital for
sending him information Of death be
fore official notification is sent to rela
tives. Besides this, 1t was shown that
tribute from the dead is still being col.
lected, and only two employees of the
hospitals have been discharged so far, |
although others are furnishing advance
information Of death to the under
taker, and the commi ssioner Of Chair
ties, the matron and three doctors of
one hospital know that the traffic is
going IN. Testimony was also adduced
to show that one undertaken buys
cheap collins made for the department
of charities, covers them with 65
cents worth Of black cloth, and sells
them to relatives of the dead for s36.