The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-13
General News.
SPARKS FROM THR WIRES.

The Latest Reliable News From the
ERrth'S -Four Corners Selected
and Condensed for Pro.
Rressive Farmer
Readers.
From February 14;h to the q b Bull.
ler'e losses we're 800.
Several bales of long stare cotton
we're sold in Norfolk recently at 124
per pound.
Two men were killed and seventy
fve wounded by a collision of trains in
Indiana last week.
The Lswton fund amounting to $98
432 OF has been turned over to the
widow OF General Lawson.
President Kruger, of the Beers, is
ready to make peace on the basis of
independence Of the two republics, or
fight to the bitter end.
The London Daily News says the
government has decided to send the
Beer General Oronje and lis followers
to the island of st. Helena forthwith
A delegation of women protested to
Congress last week against granting
the ballot to their sex, causing great
indignation among the equal euffrag-
isUs.
The National Convention of Social
Democrats at Indianapolis Friday
nominated Eugene V. Debs for Plesi.
dent and job Hartman of California
for Vice President.
The Mississippi Senate passed an anti
mob bill last week. It provides an i'm
mediate trial for cases Of rape end
makes a sheriff who gives up a prisoner
i liable to indictment.
In France hostility to England has
reached an intensity which is gravely
~perilous. Pfophesies of a war with
England by Sep 1ember are common in
Paris. We think it by no means prob
able, however.
Labor trcu 3les eliminated in a riot
on Thirty sixth and Wallace street,
Chicago, Thursday evening. One man
was shot and probably fatally wounded
and six others were injured, mi of
them severely.
1t was rumored last week that the
Western Union Telegraph Company
was about to absorb the Postal Tele =
graph Company, and the report re-
ceived ready credence from persons
who claimed to have cognizance of the
matter.
Prof William P. Trent, of SuwaDee
University, has been chosen Professor
OF English Literature in Barnard Col
lpge, a department of Columbia. Prof.
Trent's speech at Wake Forest Com.
mencement last year attracted much
attention.
II has been ascer' aimed that Lieu
tenant Pierce of the Lexington com
Oany tore down the drapery from the
Kantucky State capitol placed there
og resolution of the assembly out Of
r spect to the memory of William
Goebsl. Pierce will be tried by court.
mar 5ial.
On Friday of last week Pope Leo
XIII. OF the Catholic Church celebra-
ted his ~ntnetieth birthday in good
hea tn Regarding the Boer conflict
ne says: II daily pray that President
Mckinley will Cfer the friendly medi-
alton Of America He would tnen de-
serve the thanks Of the Christian
world"
Elk Senator German last week eeid
he was now convinced ''that nothing
can prevent Bryan's ee'ecIion as the
head Of the Democratic ticket. He
certainly" added Mr.. German, has
the people behind MIN to a remark
able degree" Mr. Grman also stated
that he would support Nj. Bryen's
candidacy.
A special from Lincoln, Neb, says es
soon az Mr.. Bryan's friends in that
city received the news that the
National Democratic Convention wou d
oe held at Kansas City, they
bagau a movement to organizs a Bry-
ant Club of 10, 900 men, who will go to
to the Convention, dressed in long dus
ters and white hats, to roo for the
Nebraska orator.
A graduated income tax law went
into effect in South Carolina January
1, 1898. The first year the tax yielded
Oeb 81, 600 and s. coo More than
half this sum was paid in Charleston ;
10 Of the counties didn't respond a pen
ny OF incoms tax, and in several of the