The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-21
State News.
1T Tar HEELS ARE DOING.

- " .zsa{ng OF HlCo lIOh4 1NO 0oSA =
Srspesa and Tobacco Stems from the
il ~s,-th-StaIks Of Corn and Grains Of
absst from the West-PeAnut8
sc and ottons Seed from the South
Dan A. D. Cowles, once Adjutant-
u neral. died in Ss~atesville, 18Th. The
S,rersl occurred Sunday.
~ The Lenoir Nsws OF Tuesday says
.,at an earthquake shock was felt
: ,sore at 1:3O a. M, on Monday, 13sb.
The State Treasurer has received the
lang delayed ~penitentiary bonds from
= az printers and they will be delivered
a purchasers at once.
We learn as we go to press that,
: .gnboid fever becoming epidemic, the
TarmsI and Industrial College 1t
Freersboro has been closed Temporal
r1y.
The collection of North Carolina to-
: bacco for the United States exhibit at
= tbe Paris Exposition is nearly COM
nIeted. 1t is by far the finest ever
gathered.
pension of $15 per month has been
srsuted by Commissioner Evans to
, IAdeIaide W. Bagley, mother of Lieut..
), Worth B4gIey, who was killed in the
vsr With Spain.
; Msior Hiram L. Grant, of G Jldsbnro,
has accepted the clerkship of the Uni-
led Ststes Court for the Eastern Dis
6trict of North Carolina, vice J B FJr
tune, removed.
The divorce mill is grinding with
}. large results in Wake county. Eleven
8 divorces were granted at the civil term
Il t Wake Superior Court, which ad-
. burned recently.
J, The safe IN Sheriff Hughes choe, al
Hllsboro. was cracked one night last
8 week. The robbers got $4,000 in cash.
o Theirs ia no clue and it is supposed to
be professional work.
George Moreland, of Spartanburg,
s @, attempted to XII himself in Char
6 lotte one day last week. He shot at
z himself in a hardware store but missed.
q he had been drinking for a week.
The Hickory Mercury (Pop.l says:
1t will not be many years before a new
5 State will be formed. The Western
people are tired being annoyed by Sim
mons and his negro bowling asso-
GATES.
An exchange states that reports
from the different sections of the State
+, are to the effect that very few farmers
> are holding their cotton. Tney are, as
s rule, putting it on the market as
Iapidly as it is ginned.
George Oaks, who killed Ambrose
Carawa7 on October % h, was arrested
by Val. Bowers near Cranberry re
Gently. 1t is reported that O4ks gave
hinsalf up on condition that he shared
half the re ward OF 800 offered by the
Governor.
The President has pardoned Charles
B]bo, of Marion, N. @, convict Jed of
killing a policeman in S IN Juan Porto
Rico, and sentenced to ten years. in
prisonment. His plea was self defense,
which Attorney General Griggs
thought was we'll founded.
RlIaigh Post: Chief Clerk D .nmark
Of tn S ate Treasurer's off e has pre-
pared a record statement of the States
finances for the frat eleven months Of
the f7aal year, which ends November
81, 1899 1t shows that the exoendi
lures Exceeded receipts by $146 205 81.
According to the Charlotte O0serv
s:s Shelby correspondent, Mr.. W. T.
Clifton, Of lttimore, has applied for a
patent upon his round bale cotton
press, which he has just completed and
ts.ad. 1t is said to possess several ad
7antages over the regular round lap
press.
Toe trial Of Professor q. L. Coon,
Superintendent of the 8 alisbury graded
schools, upon q charge Of using Ian
guage abusive and unbec oming a gen.
Item N and heviDg spoken Of parts of
the Bi0le in a mi calculated to IN
settle the beliefs Of children, resulted in
q complete vindication Of Professor
Coon.
The insurance rates on property in
North Carolina have been reduced
5: o 49, per cent. The Southeastern
Tariff Association, with headquarters
st Atlanta, which includes almost
every insurance company doing bust
aess IN North Carolina, announced lest
Week that the above reduction had
been made in this State.
b. F. Long, j., Of Statesville, q
s.udeat at the University Of North
Carolina. was RIM oveP bV a train at