The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09
THR LATEST NEWS.
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 anniversary of the battle OF
Manila was observed Monday with
various exercises in many places
throughout the country.
Public opinion in France leans more
and more toward Dreyfus and away
from the general staff. 1t is felt that
the latter should be punished and
Dreyfus rehabilitated.
There is a growing belief among
prominent members of Congress that
the President will call Congress to
Notwithstanding session this fall,
probably early in O3tober.
General Henry reports that there is
little OF no suffering for food in Porto
Rico, nature being too bountitul there
for much trouble of that kind. Those
who cannot work are fed by the United
States.
At Wardner, Idaho, recently rioting
miners destroyed property of the value
of $3.50, 900 blowing it up with giant
powder and burning it. One man was
killed and another mortally wounded.
The cantaloupe growers of Alachua
county, Fla, have associated them
selves into a trust to maintain and
perpetuate the price of their product
by controlling the output of. the
same.
Spain is collecting evidence in Hong
Kong with a view of claiming a cession
of land in China as indemnity from the
Chinese Government for permitting
the steamer Abbey to leave Canton
last autumn with arms for the Fill
pinos.
A jury of white men, in the Federal
Court at Louisville, KY, awarded to
George Dining, a negro, a verdict Of
$50, 600 against a band Of ~whitecaps,
all we'll known citizens. The defend
ants say they will not pay the dam
ages, but will take the the insolvent
debtors oath and spend ten days in
jail.
At a banquet given by the Separatist
party in Havana, Cuba, May 5sh, Juan
Gualberto Gomez, member of the late
assembly, in a fiery speech declared
that Americans were worse than Span
iards. Americans, in the name of civ,
ilization, he said, came to free Cuba,
but instead they are crowding Oubans
to the wall. He appealed to Spaniards
to join the Cubans for the preservation
of the Latin race.
A memorandum has been prepared
at the War Department, comparing
the losses of the Spanish war with
those of the first year Of the civil war.
The aggregate strength of the troops
employed during the war with Spain
was approximately 275, 900, covering
the period from May, 1898, to April,
1899, inclusive. DIring this time the
deaths from all causes were 6 100, or
24 per cent. The mean strength of the
drst year of the civil war was 276 81
with an aggregate loss by deaths Of
10 159, being a percentage Of 6 s.
The Alabama legislature is wrestling
with a franchise amendment and q bill
which seeks to apply the school rev
nues derived from taxes IN property
belonging to white men to the educa
ton of white children, exclusively. At
present the school fund is distributed
without regard to race, although the
whites pay practically all the taxes.
Indications appear to be that both
these bills will pass. The franchise
amendment is fashioned after the
North Carolina plan.
The Postmaster General has directed
the postmaster at San Francisco to
take out of the mails for Manila three
pamphlets issued by Edward Atkinson,
of Boston, vice president of the anti
imperialistic league, This order does
not apply to circulars or pamphlets by
mail in this country, but bars their dis,
patch from this country to the Philip.
pines, discomfort and even mu.iny
among soldiers being stated by the de.
partment to be the design of these
publications.
Among the latest batch of trusts is
the -four trust, known as the United
States Flour Milling Company. The
articles of incorporation which have
been filed in New Jersey, mark the
consolidation of nineteen of the large
mills, including those in Duluth, West
Superior, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Syracuse
and New York. The organizers of the
trust have bought only such proper
tics ga thew could nrocTre at a reeaon-