The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-23

Cuban generals have formed a cabal
against him and that his work is hin.
dered and he is thoroughly Disguised.
Gen. Brooke sympathizes with him but
will proceed to pay over to the men
the SIS apiece and disarm them and
will brook no fooling. The troops will
be disarmed. At Cienfugos on Mon
day there came near being a riot on
account of some boisterous laborers
who were insulting in their demands
for some back pay. The local police
had a sharp fight to arrest them in
which one culprit was killed and sew
eral persons were wounded, including
a few members of the local police.
The much talked of Mauser rife used
by the Spanish soldiers in the recent
war, must be a powerful weapon if the
following press dispatch from Fort
Scott, Kan, can be relied upon. 1t
sounds like a fish story but we give it
for what it is worth: ga public ex
hibition of the force of a common
Mauser rife used by a Spanish soldier
at San Juan hill was given here yes
terday with wonderful results. The
= fl, was brought home by Captain
ID. Wilson, Of the Twenty third Kan
sas. A ball shot from it against the
fat s de of a common f9tiron pene-
trated the iron, leaving a hole as
smooth as if it were a pine board.
The ball, in going out on the opposite
side, scared the iron as an ordinary
bullet would a board. Then three shots
were fred against a steel axe blade.
Two Of them gouged deep holes into
the steel and the third bulged it on the
opposite side" AS the Statesville
Landmark says: THE MaUser rife is
either a wonderful weapon or the fell
low who wrote this dispatch is a won.
derful liar, we don't know which"
The anti trust movement has spread
from Arkansas and Texas to New
Orleans. The movement there has
been taken hold of by merchants
themselves. The Wholesale Grocers'
Association, composed of all the lead
ing Wholesale grocers of New Orleans,
is determined to fight, and has called
upon commercial exchanges and mer-
chants to unite with them it driving
trusts out Of Louisiana. The associa
ton adopted the following resolutions :
1T is the sense Of this association, de
rived from careful investigation, OBJ
servation, and especially from painful
experience, that trusts and cOmbina-
tions of capital to control the output
and prices Of commodities are a men
ace to our national safety and exist.
ence. Resolved, by the Wholesale
Grocers' Association of New Orleans,
That, viewed from q political stand
point, we believe it is to the best in
terests of all true American citizens to
use every endeavor to cause the most
extreme legislation against the opera
ton of trusts consistent with the State
apd National constitutions" The pres
ident of the association was authorized
to appoint a committee to carry on the
war against trusts, to invite other
commercial exchanges to act with it
and to join in a call for a convention
of merchants at an early day.
The Southern B lptist Convention ad
journed last week, to meet next year
at Hot Springs, Ark. A resolution
affirming the hostility of the conven
ton to the liquor traffic and stating
it as the sense of the delegates that
no Baptist church should allow a dealer
in liquor in its congregation was in
troduced. This resolution upholds the
action of a Louisville Baptist church
in turning out of it's folds all members
engaged in the trs mc of liquor. The
resolution was amended to include
only those dealing in liquor as a b9ver-
age and in this shape it was adopted.
The Sta tistical secretary stated that
there are 1, 1856 700 white and 1 SCI. 03O
colored BaptisGs in the South. In the
other States there are 1,0O6 682, max
ing 8 total in the United States of
4, 1874, 421 In the past year z ,243 new
members were received into the South
ern Baptist church. They raised
81. 857. O7O 81 for all purposes. Editor
Bally, of the Recorder, speaking of the
convention and the result of it's labors
says: "With the solution OF the Whit
sett incident, the Baptists settled the
greatest difficulty since the split Of
1915, when the Baptists of the North
and the South divided. And they set
tied this question without any com
promise to the Landmark element.
The Landmark element consists of q
Ioroo mart 0F RaDtist ne0nIe in the