The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-12
General News.
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@@@@S SES W An
served a term in Sing Sing prison for
attempted election frauds, died at his
home at Coney Island Tuesday night.
The Iowa regiment, the last of the
volunteer regiments in the Philippines,
will sail for home in a few day, 800
strong. Seventy five members of the
regiment re enlisted. Not one of the
Iowans was killed, although they par,
ticipated in most of the fighting.
Thirty nine were wounded and nine
died.
William Jennings B'yan will make
his first speech in Kentucky for Vii
liam Goebel, nominee Of the Louisville
Democratic convention for Governor,
on October Lac, if plans do not fail He
has SO written J. @. S Blackburn,
chairman of the Goebel State campaign
committee. The Nebraskan will speak
in forty counties in twenty days.
Admiral Dewey, who is at Gibraltar
exoreEs3 s a favorable opinion as to the
outcome OF the war in the Philippine
Islands, saying that he hoped the next
dry season would see the instruction
quelled. The admiral said that he did
not expect to go on sea voyages again
except in the event of war, and that he
will probably retire under the regula-
items.
Maryland Republicans met last week
and nominated candidates. The plat
form endorses the present national ad.
m~inistraSion, declares in favor Of the
gold standard, in favor Of ~suppressing
the Filipino insurT ection, the DISPOSE
ton of the Philippines to be made by
Congress, and in favor of laws for the
suppression of trusts which create
monopoly.
Betore the close of the year 1900 the
Southern Methodists hope to raise one
million ard a half dollars for the TWEEN
tie;h Century Educational Fund. The
Nashville Chris ian Advocate says that
already $500. 900 has been subscribed.
President Kngo, writing of North Car.
olina's part, says: whatever will be
done here must take its start from our
next Annual Conference. Already
800, 600 has been given to Trinity by
Methodists since the year began"
Col. w. J, Bryan, in an interview in
the New York Journal, says: LAS q
member of the party l have said and
still say that an abandonment Of the
ratio of 16 to 1 would be equivalent to
an abandonment of the money ques
ton, because no free coinage law can
be adopted until a ratio is agreed up
on, and, since the 16 TO 1 ratio has been
agreed upon, and abandonment Of it
would mean that either the ratio is
wrong or that, although it is right, we
are afraid TO advocate it. IL the ratio
is wrong we ought to select another
ratio and stand upon it. l do not be
Iie7e the ratio to be wrong, neither is
the ratio believed to be wrong by those
who made the fight to insert it in the
Democratic platform.
Attention is drawn to the condition
of Liberia by the appeal said to have
been made to President Mckinley for
it's annexation by this government, or
at least the assumption Of a p~rOtecto
rate over it. The ground OF the pro-
posal is that owing to the greed Of the
great powers now partitioning Africa,
it has already suffered a considerable
lose Of territory, and that in it's weak
ness it ia in danger Of extinction unless
the integrity Of the national domain is
guaranteed by some powerful friend.
That it's position is peculiarly liable to
the encroachments OF the powers, and
especially Of France, there is no doubt,
with the exception of the northwest
border, abutting on the British colony
Of Sierra Leone, the little republic be.
ing wholly surrounded by territory
recognized ss within the French
sphere.
Georges Commit sioner of Agricul-
ture, o. B Stevens, has returned to
atlanta after an inspection of the crops
throughout middle and southwest Geor
gia and states that cotton will be t least
half a million bales short, and that in
order to realize eve rs per cent. CT the
crop of 1899, conditions viii have to
remain favorable for some time to
come. The crop is also short in Texas.
The Galveston News last week printed
a report of the cotton crop of Texas
aud the Territories made up of 1856 re
ports of an average date Of September
3rd, covering 1874 Texas counties and
% points in Indian and Oklahoma Ter
risoriaa. These reports indicate a de