The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-04
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

headquarters have been opened in
Harrisburg, but the active besiness
OF the campaign will not be COM
menced until the 9Th of September.
"Our plans for fusion with the anti
Quay Republicans through the State
are working very satisfactorily"
says Chairman Tilling. 1--WE expect
to carry them out and when election
day comes to show great results.
The condition of the native Chris
tians in China is most pitifull AS
they ire citizens of China, foreign
nations do not protect them as they
do their own citizens. They have
have been killed by the hundreds.
The great majority of those killed
were Roman Catholics, but the DOOR
converts not responsible for the
behavior of the Jesuit priests, which
was the chief cause in bringing on
the trouble an exchange asserts.
The State of Michigan levied ad-
ditional taxes on the railroads based
on their gross earnings, which tax
the roads have fought in the courts.
Tuesday of last week was the last
day on which payment of the taxes
could be made without a penalty of
z per cent. Hence payments last
week and during Monday and Tues
day were very heavy, and nearly a
million dollars were paid in from
the roads to the State treasury dur
ing these few days. The Michigan
State treasury now has a balance on
hand of over So, 600, 600.
OF the action of the Populist Ma
tional Convention, Mr.. Bryan says:
II am very glad that Mr.. Stevenson
has been endorsed by the Populists.
He is thoroughly committed to the
principles set forth in the Kansas
City platform and deserves the sup
port of all who believe in these prin-
ciples. To have nominated any one
else would have weakened the ticket.
The Populist organization will profit
rather than suffer by this evidence
of it's willingness to place the tri-
umph of principles above partisan
ship"
Six cities of which the official CEN
sus returns have been made public,
have made gains since 1890 as fol
lows (the new figures being given
first, old second, percentage of in
crease third Washington, 278, 718,
23O, 1872, 2O.98 per cent. gain Cincin-
natl, 1926, 9O2, 296, 9O8, 9.77 per cent. ;
Louisville, 2O4, 731, 161, 129, 27.O6 per
cent; Milwaukee, 285, 315, 2O6, 1876,
1854 per cent. Buffalo, 352, 219,
255, 1854, 37.77 per cent. Providence,
175, 597, 1872, 146, 32.88 per cent. The
population of the Greater New York
is 3,437, 2O2, or an increase of 37.9
per cent.
The cotton crop in South Georgia
has been damaged materially re-
Gently. The rust has spread over
the big cotton fields and is causing
many of the bolls to drop off. The
negroes have left the farms and gone
to work for the railroads, lumber
camps and turpentine farms. There
they get better wages than the farm
ers can afford to pay and nothing
will induce them to return. They
arepaying 40 and so cents per hun
dred pounds to cotton pickers and al
though the average negro car pick
from two to three hundred pounds of
cotton a day, they will not work.
The United States is one Of the
first of the great powers to show
good faith in carrying out the pro
visions of the treaty of the Hague
looking to the universal arbitration
of international differences. Each
of the parties to the treaty was au-
thorized to appoint four members of
an international board of arbitra-
ton. Under this authority Presi-
dent Mckinley has requested former
Presidents Harrison and Cleveland
to accept appointments on this board.
Responses are expected at the White
House, when the two other members
of the board will be selected.
Democratic primaries for the nom.
nation of State, congressional, leg
islative, judicial and county tickets
and a United States Senator were
held, throughout South Carolina
Tuesday. The main issue was dis
pensary against prohibition. Sena-