The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-19
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the Earth's
Four Corners Selected and Condensed for
Progressive Farmer Readers.

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Progressive Farmer Readers.
In South Africa practically nothing
was done last week.
More than two-thirds of the dele
gates to the National Democratic
Convection are instructed for Bryan.
Resolutions favoring the annexa-
ton of the Boer republics to the
United States were adopted by Co.
lumbus, Ohio, citizens last week.
The Navy Department is preparing
to carry out one of the largest ship
building programmes in American
history, the armor plate contract
reaching nearly S17,O 0O.
A jury at Urbana, o., has awarded
a verdict for So, 900 damages against
Champaign county in favor of the
administrator of Click Mitchell, the
negro lynched in 1897. Fhe county
will appeal the ase to the Federal
courts.
A very serious condition Of affairs
now prevails in China. The Boxer
revolution is assuming alarming pro-
portions. The Empress is evidently
in sympathy with the Boxers. The
powers OF. Europe will take a hand
and a great war may result.
Rain has fallen in Southern India
and there have been scattering show
ers in other portions of the country.
The hot weather, however, still pre-
walls, and the famine relief situation
has not altered. There are nov about
$500, 900 persons receiving relief.
Admiral Schley, having been
doomed for the Democratic Vice
Presidential nomination, says: q
know nothing of politics nor of polit-
cal life, and under no circumstances
would I allow the use of my name
for any Office whatever. I am re-
solved irrevocably not to accept any
nomination if it were rendered, and
if in my absence I should be elected
I would not serve"
It is claimed that Roberts found a
city empty. of Boer soldiery when he
entered Pretoria that the bUrghers
had been preparing for that event
for some time, and that there is
method in their present system of
conducting the war. It is declared
that the Beers have preserved their
guns and are amply prepared for
another year of as vigorous fighting
as they have practiced for the past
eight months, and that it is their de-
termination to wear Great Britain
out and compel a settlement which
shall leave the republics as indie
pendent as they were at the begin
ming of hostilities.
The New York Outlook, usually
accurate in it's news reports, says
I'm Virginia, the election held last
week to determine whether a COnsti-
tutional Convention should be called
to disfranchise negroes seems to have
resulted in a majority for such a
convention. The white counties OPP
posed it, but in the black counties
enormous majorities in it's favor we're
returned, probably because in the
white counties there was a dread of
the Acknowledgement of illiterate
whites, and in the black counties the
votes of black men were cast for
them by whites, or counted without
being cast"
The Republican National Conven-
ton in Philadelphia is to last from
the 18th till the 22d. 1t is certain
that President Mckinley will be re-
nominated AS for ce-President
there are many candidates. Roose-
welt and Allison r very popular
but both declare they could not &C
cept. A late dispatch says: LAS
the matter stands tonight it would
seem that Long, Dolliver and Fair
banks are the leading possibilities
for Vice-President." The Progress
i've Farmer, however, is inclined to
believe that Secretary of the Navy
Long stands the best chance of being
struck by the Vice-Presidential light
ming.
Belle Boyd, the spy Of Confederate
fame, died suddenly of heart disease
at Kilbourne, Wis, last week where
she had gone to lecture. She was 81
years of age and was known all over
the country, Belle Boyd was born in
Martinsburg, Va, in May 1914, and
is descended from Revolutionary an