The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-11-06

Legislature from the accumulated
''land grant fund" The decrease in
the amount of the fund with the in
crease in the number of pensioners
causes a reduction of the amount for
each p~ensioner for 19OO.-Ex.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer:
There is some betting here on the
Senatorial fight. Bets were taken
today at odds of 2 to 1 on Simmons
election. There is also some betting
on the Presidential election. Here
the odds are 8 to 1 on Mckinley. It is
hard to get takers on the National
election.-News was received here
today that the cotton mill n in
Alamance have notified the union
men who are not at work to vacate
the company houses in ten days.
Last Wednesday, DR.. Bea1l, of the
Normal and Industrial College at
Greensboro, issued this statement
1--WE have three cases of typhoid
fever, all of them exceedingly mild
in character and contracted before
the patients left their homes, as no
one of them had been at the college
two weeks when she was taken sick.
There are, besides these, seven cases
of malarial fever. Three of these are
without temperature today, and are
sitting up, leaving seven students
confined in bed"
Durham Morning Herald: A gen
tleman who has been visiting Ala
nance county, returned home yes
terday and from him it was learned
that the cotton mill operatives are
sticking out and are preparing for a
long siege of it. An. agent of the
National Textile Labor Union is on
the scene and he has begun to issue
provisions to the men who r. out
of employment. He says that the
union will stand by the men if it
takes all the winter. Saturday night
q meeting of laborers, held in Bur
lingtOn, and it is said that there was
somewhere in the neighbOrhOOd of
1000 present. The agent of the
National Union made speech, telling
the men to remain firm and that they
would win in the end.
Charlotte dispatch: j. P. Sossa-
mon, State Chairman of the middle
of-the-road Populist Executive Com,
mittee, today received from the
printer 100, 900 mid road tickets bear.
ing the names of the II presidential
electors running in the interest OF
Barker and Donnelly. To The Jour
nal correspondent Chairman SOssa
mon said: II have just had printed
, 100, 900 of our electoral tickets, which
, will at once be distributed all Ovel
the State, I estimate that we have
l 25, 900 votes in North Carolina. SOm'
b of our men, however, will vote TO,
: Mckinley, but none for Bryan. Il
L fact, if we had no national ticket il
the field l believe Mckinley woulC
get practically all of the mid-roa'
l votes"
Wilmington Cor. Post, 1st: G. H
johnson, the Populist member OF tn
State Board of Elections, is one o
the Populists of Sampson count
> who are to be tried at Duplin count
Superior Court the first week i
: December for criminal libel by put
, fishing and publicly endorsing a
article charging fraud on the part G
Democrats in the August election
In talking about the trial he state
that it would be one of the bigges
" things of the kind ever known. h
said that a thousand people would g
from his county owe to Kenansvil-
to attend the hearing. 1t is unde:
S stood also that the Democrats WI
IL also turn out in large numbers. M
n Johnson said that it would like
Oh take a week to wind up the trial.
&c Charlotte Observer: "Talkir
II about cotton" said a commerce
. salesman, who had just returne
from a trip through Richmon
80 Scotland and Robson counties, ye
10 terday, II saw something out fro
9 the towns of Rockingham, Lauri
burg and Maxton that 1 have e
- seen before, and that is fields Of &C
10 ton in full bloom in October. Du
&c ing July the crop could not ha'
= been larger. On some acres L kno
there is at least a start for 5
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