The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-06

time rather high, but OF course the
lawyers who are taking the suit on a
contingent fee have to have a good
share of the sWag-if they can get it
Landmark.
A Charlotte dispatch says: Will
Harris, white, a noted criminal,
escaped custody last night. Harris
was imprisoned here for larceny. H
is supposed to have been connected
with the murder Of a policeman in
R chmond, Va, also a postofice ROB
berry in Atlanta. Harris pal, a negro,
is now confined at Columbus, OHIO
for the Atlanta robbery.
The negroes have decided to hold a
big industrial and educational exposi-
ton in Piedmont Park, Winston, Au
gust ooh to Is h. Booker Washington,
the noted educational orator of Ala
bama, will be invited to make the
opening address. A fair association
has been organized and the officers
say they propose to make the exposi-
ton the biggest thing Of the kind in
North Carolina.
The Times says that the remains Of
Chas. Johnston, of Yadkin county, ar
rived at E!kin last week from New
York. Mr.. Johnson raj q private in
company Q. FIsi North Carolina
Volunteer Infantry, and died at Ha-
vaua, Cuba, March Ssh, 1899, Of ty-
phoid fever. He enlisted at Winston.
The remains we're taken to 2 en-, Yad-
kin county, neal his Old home, for
burial.
The other day one Of the doctors do
ing compulsory vaccination called at
the High Point DC fl and Casket Com
pany's factory, when Il Of the en-
ployes ran up stairs ard hid for two
hours in a clhn rather than be vac
cinated. At another place the head
OF the house hid under a barrel until
the doctor lefs, and then congratulated
his wife for her bravery in undergoing
the ordeal.
Tnere are eighty five savings, State
aud private banks in NJrJh Caro- ina
The returns at the flee of the Corpora
tion Commission show that twenty new
s ate banks have been organized dur
ing the past year, which is very near
one-fourth Of the entire number. OF
the Safe banks there are fifty -shree
twenty three private banks, and nine
savings banks, making a total Of
eighty five.
r leigh Post, Sd: Mr.. Samuel g
Coley was yesterday awarded $12 500
tor the loss Of an arm by a Try n
Wake Superior Court. The plant fl
brought suit against the North Caro-
lima Railroad for $50 600 damages The
case has been on trial in Wake Superior
Court for over three day 8 The jury
vent out late yesterd y afternoon and
returned in half an hour with a verdict
in favor of Mr.. Coley.
All the signs point to the fact that
the legislature will be powerfully
urged to transact quite a lot of business
at it's June session, business which
would prolong it's session to ten days.
The question is whether it willdo more
than take up and dispose Of the emer-
gency business tor which it was origi
nally proposed to be held that is re
garding the election law and the con-
stitutional amendment.-Ex.
The Charlotte Observer has this tc
say of a report which The Progressive
Farmer was also duped toto publ shing
The Observer has before it a letter
from an esteemed personal friend in
Asheville, who says that there is in
tense indignation there that The o.
server should have printed the com
munication signed H Nj Hare, M
D :" and dated F5Drusry 22i, alleging
that smallpox was prevalent in Cantor
and Clyde. This report was totally
untrue.
r 4Ieigh Pest, LIT iust.: The most
disastrous fire that has visited r 4leigt
since the burning of the Raleigh &
CASTOR shops, wiped out property tc
5ae value OF $50 600 in the central par
OF the city yesterday morning. Fire
broke out in the Pcgus tobacco ERre
mouse, on the corner of Wilmington
and Cabarrus streets, about $3.50
O'Clock and rapidly spread across the
street, destroy ing the residence occu
pied By Mrs. George II Williams, a
cottage belonging to Mrs. o J. Gar
roll and the stables of Dr.. J. A. Sex
ton. Toe warehouse contained about
25O, 600 pounds of tobacco, and only