The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-01

last war with Spain it was 1884,
607-a decrease of only $500, which,
the New York Tribune remarks,
''dOes not at all agree with the tales
OF desOlation and death with which
we were burdened during during the
war"
An electric storm, accompanied by
rain in torrents fell in Waco, Texas,
Friday, flooding half the city and
doing great damage to property.
The bodies of two known and one I'M
known dead have been recovered and
three other persons are known to
have persisted. The business streets
wer converted into rivers. The rain
Fesembled a succession of cloud
bursts. Property loss is $50, 900.
Neither Editor Morris nor any one
else can succeed in getting me to
abandon free silver. I favor it as
much as I did in 1895. While free
silver will not be the leading issue in
this campaign, it will be one of the
issues" VIM. J. Bryan made this
fat-footed statement during an inter
view last week. Asked what would
be the leading issue Mr.. Bryan said /:
'Trusts and imperialism will be par
amount"
Formal announcement of the pro-
posed change in the title of the Sill
yer Republican party has been made,
in a document setting forth the party
platform, issued by Executive Agent
COrser. The announcement states
that Lincoln Republicans will sue
coed Free Silver Republicans" and
the national silver Republican party
is to give way to the Lincoln RepUb-
lican party. Silver will be put in
the background.
A letterfrOm a nurse in a hospital
at Cape Town corrObOrates an I'M
pleasant feature Of the Transvaal
var The writer says a number Of
BOer prisoners were found to be wO-
men in mems clothes. The writer
adds: ''Quite a number of the dead
on the battle-fields have been found
to be women similarly disguised and,
worse than all, it has often been these
women who have been guilty of afro
cities, such as killing the wounded. "
The latest reports from the India
famine districts say that the misery
existing there is indescribable and Un-
paralleled and that the present relief
is quite inadequate. In one district
a million out Of /, 300, 600 cattle have
been lost. Numbers of people are
dying of starvation, and children
are wandering about, homeless, I'M
clad and emaciated. 1t is also an
nOunced that the natives are devel-
Oping ugly feeling and are attacking
Europeans.
A Birmingham dispatch says: The
Alabama Compress Association has
been in session in Birmingham for
two days. A company with large
capital has been formed for the cree
ton and operation of the gin plants.
The policy of the company will be to
perpetuate through all the cotton
States the system of handling cotton
in the bales a by 81 standard square
bales. They expect to do this by
assisting and cooperating in the cree
ton and maintenance of square bale
g~inneries.
The Tennessee Republican State
Convention split last week, and the
Brownlow faction, led by Congress-
man BrOwnlow, and the Evans fac
ton, led by Pension Commissioner
H. Clay Evans, each held a conven-
ton. Two full State tickets we're
nominated, two State committees
and two sets of delegates to the
National convention elected. Both
factions declared for Mckinley. John
E. Mccall is the BrOwnlOw candidate
for Governor and w. F. Poston the
Evans candidate.
The registration showed only 1000
negroes entitled to vote in the LOuisi-
ana State election Monday and III, 900
whites. The registration in the last
election was $500 OO, about equally
divied between whites and blacks.
The difference is due to the suffrage
qualification imposed by the new
constitutional provision. At the
gubernatoria1 election in 1896 the re-
suit as returned was 116, 900 votes