The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-23
H LATEST NRWs.
Brief Items Picked Up Here and There
From the Tropics to the Pole Tell
ing of all the Important Events
of the Past Week,

of the Past Week.
A Congressman who is in a position
to know the views of the President on
the subject, says that the probabilities
are against an extra session of Con
gress being called.
Colonel Enrique Col6zo, of the Gu,
ban army, publishes a card in La Lu
cha in which he tells the Cubans that
1.-The hour has now arrived, without
doubt, when we should unite against
the Americans with the same energy
with which we fought the Spanisrds. "
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of the South met in
the First Church in Richmond, Va,
Thursday. Toe opening sermon was
preached by the retiring Moderator,
Rev. E M. Green, of Danville, Ky.
Rev. John F. Cannon, of Missouri,
was elected moderator.
Gov. Sayres, of Texas, states that as
soon as the legislature a. journs he
will address a letter to the Governors
of all the States asking a meeting at
some suitable time and place with
their attorney-generals for the purpose
OF considering and agreeing upon an
effective anti trust law to be presented
to the different Legislatures.
The national convention of Populist
editors, held in Kansas City last week,
by a large majority declared against
further fusion with the Democratic
party and against Bryan al a Presi
Dental candidate. Ignatius Donnelly,
in a speech, said the Democratic party
deserved defeat in 90, and Bryan
would be beaten if renominated.
There will be no opposition to the
bicycle trust now forming. The We
tern Wheel Works, the high concern
which threatened to stay out and form
a rival combination, has decided to
come in, and the American Bicycle
Company, as the trust is to be named,
will thus control IS per cen of the
bicycle-making industry in the coun
try.
In 1890, according to the returns
made to the Census Bureau, there we're
in the State of Alabama, Georgia,
Kentucky, Mississippi, North Caro-,
lima, South Carolina, Tennessee aud
Virginia 1926 looms and ], 533 $50
spindles. In these same States, on
January 1, this year, there were
IS, 552 looms and 3 796 600 spindles.
This shows an increase of 1914 per cent.
in the former and 147 per cent. in the
latter.
The New York Independent says that
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie began his lie
work as a messenger boy in a telegraph
office, and made his way upward
without aid of family influence or for
tune. He is now to receive 500, 900, 900
in bonds for his interest in the great
Carnegie Steel Company. His success
sor, Henry @. Frick, who has been the
manager of the property for several
years past is the son Of a farmer and
in his youth was a clerk in a small
store. He invested his savings in coal
land and coke ovens, and when he
ioined Mr.. Carnegie he was employing
Is, 900 men in the manufacture Of coke.
Ex-United States Senator Pefer, one
of the founders If the Populist party,
has returned to the Republican fold.
In an interview, Mr.. Pef9r said: Il
have always been a Republican ex
cept on one main questionable money
question. That seems to have settled
itself apparently now. The Populist
party has been eliminated nationally
by the Democrats; so those of us who
don't want to f0ck by ourselves will
have to vote our convictions as best
we can. The old Simon pure Alliance
man, who left the Republican party,
never was headed for Democracy, and
he is not now"
Among the resolutions adopted by
the recent Confederate Reunion was
one characterizing as mere fiction the
statement made by a distinguished
Southern lecturer that the Confeder
ate authorities were remiss in not i'm
proving the opportunity at the fam
nous Hampton Roads conference,
when MI. Lincoln met the Southern
commission in an effort to arrange
terms Of peace. Tue allegation was
that Mr.. Lincoln had at that time
offered to write, Union" at the top of
the pepe and allow the Confederate
commissioners to under write whatever
terms they choose, and Offering to pay
four hundred millions indemnity for
Tho nlnunn The resnlntinn declares