The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-05
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE R
The Latest Reliable News From the Earth's
Four Corners Selected and Condensed for
Progressive Farmer Readers.

Progressive Farmer Readers.
All grades of refined sugar were
advanced 10 cents per 100 pounds
last week.
The S. A. L. ran it's first train over
the new short cut from Richmond,
Va, to Tampa, Fla, last week.
Fair weather prevailed all along
the path of totality Monday of last
week and the eclipse was in every
way a success.
Thirty-two members of Con-
gress, Senators and Representatives,
who taught for the Lost Cause, gath
cred at a banquet in metropolitan
Hall, Washington, recently.
Among the nominations sent to
the Senate by the President last
week was Thomas G. Fuller, ofNorth
Carolina, to be an Associate Justice
of the Court of Private Land Claims.
Gen. Wade Hampton was too feeble
to attend the Confederate reunion
at Louisville. General Hampton has
broken much recently. His 81st
birthday was passed some months
ago.
w. S. Taylor, recent claimant for
the governorship of Kentucky, has
announced that he will make the
race again this fall on an anti-G oebel
and anti-Goebel election law plat
form.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson,
in an address Tuesday before the
East Tennessee Farmers Conven-
ton, at Knoxville, insisted that the
future of the Central Southern States
lies in stock raising.
The Senate has agreed to the reso-
luton for an Investigation by the
committee on Cuban affairs of the
Cuban postal and other Irregularities.
authorizing the committee to visit
Cuba if necessary to pursue inquiry.
A Kentucky judge has issued a
bench warrant for the arrest of for
mer Cover Taylor. The warrant is
based on an Indictment secured sew
eral weeks ago charging Taylor with
being an accessory to the assassina-
ton of William Goebel.
The wheat crop of Kansas is the
finest ever known. The crop, an ex-
change says, is estimated at one hun
dred million bushels. At present
prices, seventy cents per bushel,
that means seventy million dollars
for the Kansas wheat crop.
The General M. E. Conference at
Chicago, after a hot debate refused
to c~riticise Mckinley, because of his
attitude toward the anti-canteen
law. The paragraph in the book of
church discipline on worldly amuse-
ments will not be changed.
The gavel which will be used at the
Republican National Convention at
Philadelphia, is composed of pieces
of wood of historic interest from
each State. The piece from North
Carolina was taken from the quaint
little house in Raleigh in which
President Andrew Johnson was born.
Under the census act any person
who shall wilfully fail or refuse to
give a true account in replying to
questions is subject, upon conviction,
to a fine not exceeding 800. Emu
meratOrs are not allowed to COM
municate the information they col
lect under penalty of $500.
The Southern Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly declined to have any
thing to do with woman suffrage.
A paper from the National Woman
Suffrage Association, signed by Su-
san B. Anthony, was presented to
the Assembly, during it's session last
week, but that body declined to re-
ceive it.
Consult General Guenther, of Frank
fort, under date of April ), 1900 re-
ports that IS per cent. of the Ger
man soap manufacturers have joined
the trust, and the rest, it is said, are
to be coerced into it by underselling
or by cutting off the supply of raw
materials. A union Of consumers is
recommended as a counter remedy.
''Even if the whole country is
taken and the leaders imprisoned, the
war will cease only for a time, andit
will be renewed again and again, if
need be, until we get our liberties, :"
the dramatic u~tterance of M. A.