The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-08
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the Earth's
Four Corners Selected and Condensed for
Progressive Farmer Readers.

cabinet has been captured.
A lone bandit held up a train on
the Iron Mountain Railroad, near
HigginsOn, Ark, Friday, and robbed
the passengers of about $500.
The Illinois Populists have in
structed their delegates to the Ma
tional Convention at-Sioux Falls to
vote for Bryan's nomination.
Ex-Postmaster General William l..
Wilson, of West Virginia, who fol
lowed Cleveland in his bolt in 1896,
says Bryan will be elected this year.
The argument in the Taylor-Beck-
ham contest for Governor of Ken
lucky before the United States Su-
preme Court has been completed and
court has adjourned till the 18th
inst.
Despite the naming of Thomas E.
Watson, of Georgia, to head the
ticket by several Populist conven-
tiOns, MI. Watson has issued a card
saying he can accept no nomina-
ton whatever and asking to be left
in peace among the politically dead.
immigration for the first three
months Of this year is greatly in ex-
cess of what it was last year, and the
prospect is hat it will go on ~increas-
ing. The total up to March 18th was
48, O01 at the port of New York. The
greater number of these T south
Italians.
When Hawaii was annexed to this
country it had a bonded debt of
about 81, OOO, 900, drawing a heavy
rate of interest. This debt still exists,
but under the act signed by Presi-
dent Mckinley it is to be assumed
by the United States. The terms of
the debt will be looked into and if
the" permit payment at any time the
debt will be wiped out as soon as the
law goes into effect in IS days.
A desperate fight. took place at
LeambanaO, in the center of the
island of Panay last week in which a
accommodating party of the Twenty
sixth infantry was surrounded, and
four Americans killed and sixteen
others severely wounded. The re
mainder of the soldiers had a narrow
escape. Reinforcements were sent
from IlOilO as soon as news of the
affair was received, ~whereupOn the
FilipinOS reiterated to their noun
tain stronghold.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Davis, who spent his vacation in
South Africa, has returned and re
signed his position in order to go
through the country and speak for
the Beers. He is a Republican and
hopes to III his party, which has
a majority in both houses Of Con-
gress, at leastup to the point of pass
ing such resolutions in regard to the
little Dutch Republics as Congress
did about the Hungarians in Kos
suth's day, the Greeks, &c.
The results of the Cuban census
surprise most of the press. Instead
Of being dangerously near the condi-
dition of Haiti, it appears that there
are about so, 900 native white Cubans
qualified to vote, as against 26, 900
cOlOred. The negroes constitute 80
per cent. of the population, being
most numerous in Santiago, where
they constitute 43 per cent. The ma
tive whites constitute more than one
half of the population, or 50 per cent.
Three-fOUrths of the Cuban pOpula-
ton are i~lliterate.
The situation in the Philippines
gains added interest from the fact
that General Otis considers his work
virtually done. To show the feeble
ness of the native resistance, Gen.
Otis recently reported that in the 1874
shirmishes since January 1 the
American loss was 81 killed and 1914
wounded, while the insurgent loss
1,426 killed and 1,45O captured, most
Of>whOm were wounded. The Ameri-
cans have also captured over 5000
small arms and 1855 cannon. But the
War Department does not take Gen.
Otis seriously. The number of troops
in the Philippines is greater than at
any time during the war, and detach-
ments of new men are being sent to
the archipelago on every transport
that leaves this country. Ammuni-