The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the
Earth's Four Corners Selected
and Condensed fog Pro.
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Readers.
An uprising is reported in the South
ern province Of Peru.
General Wheeler will sail for Manila
from San Francisco on July Goth.
Ex-senator German of Maryland, is
i'll; but his condition is not serious.
Gen. Otis wants 2, 500 horses sent
him to mount a brigade Of cavalry.
The United American Glue Go. has
been organized with 835, OOO, 900 capital.
A movement is on foot in Kentucky
to put up a second Democratic State
ticket.
The Republican convention of Ken.
lucky nominated W. 8. Taylor for
Governor.
Secretary Alger says he has no in
tention of resigning; not this year,
certainly.
An Alliance between the 8. A. L and
and the B. & o. Railroad is probable
in the near future.
Senator Jones will not resign his
Craftsmanship of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
The assassins Of Filipino General
Luna have been acquitted on the
ground OF self defense.
Elk Senator German is taking an &C.
tive part in the movement to prevent
the re nomination of MI. Bryan.
1t is estimated that 30. 900 Christian
Endeavorers are attending the Inter
nationel convention al Detroit.
Two ladies we're killed in a railroad
collision at Newman, CAL, Sunday.
and thirteen persons were injured.
Gold standard men propose to hold a
national currency convention in Rich
mond, Va, at some date in October
next.
The American Line steamer Parie,
which went ashore last May eff the
coast Of Cornwall, England, has been
foated.
1t ives admitted in the House of
Commons that the British troops in
South Africa r boing supplied with
dun dunn buIlet5.
Hickory Mercury: We see that Mr..
L G. Caldwell, of Iredell county, has
been suggested es a candidate for
Governor in 1900.
Twelve thousand teachers are gath
cred at La Angeles, CAL, to attand
the convention of the National Educa,
tional Association.
The schooner Ida 8. Hull went ashore
Sunday on Cramp leland, in Machies
Bay, Me, and it js feared that the Is
persons on board are Lost.
The board of agriculture of Puerto
Principe, Cuba, will send a request to
Washington for money to buy farming
implements for the people.
Governor Sayers declares that the
reports of the Texas floods are not ex-
aggerated, and that a worse calamity
has never befallen the State.
The Insular Commission has rendered
an opinion that the islands acquired
from Spain as a result of the war are
not United States territory"
At a mass meeting in Kansas City
National Democratic Convention. This
fund is to be increased to $50. 600.
Chief Justice Charles B. Lore, Of
Delaware, - an address at Whining
ton, deplored the present policy of the
United States in the Philippine Islands
a special despatch from Washing
ton says that while the army OF the
Philippines has been successful, the
commanding general has been a fail
ure."
A new whisky trust. under the name
of the Distilling Company of America.
has been incorporated of Trenton,
N. j., with a capital stock of $125,
600, 900.
OF the 9 246 men who departed from
Seattle for Gne Klondike during the
past SIX months, 5 399 of them have re-
turned, and nearly ell Of them have
come back empty handed.
Last week q sherif's posse shot two
white men who robbed the pCs5oMce
at Leesburg, Ca, and shot Judge Sin
gletary; one of the robbers was killed,
the other seriously wounded.
A warrant has been issued for Pres.
ident Angus M. Cannon, of the Nor
mon Church, charging him with po'
1unnmu in rinIntian Of the lava Of