The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-20
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Snow fell in Al ,Dama, Mississippi
and Louisiana THURSDAY, doing, it Ie
feared, great damage TO fruit and truck
crOis.
Miss Wheeler, daughter of General
Wheeler, who vent to Manila as q REQ
Gross nurs end worked IN the hospital
wards caring for the sick and dying,
says there is more distress and eufer-
'ng among the American soldiers in
Ehe Philippines than the people of this
country imagine.
Thirteen more bodies have been
5aken from the Red Ashe mine Nine
we're diRgers and four were boys. The
total number recovered IS forty five,
and IhIr cen bodies are known to De in
the mine. The BODY OF Berry Tucker,
which was IT covered. had by it an
open lamp, and it ls thought that this
caused the explosion.
Congressman Thomas has introduced
d Dill providing for a survey of the
',ape Fear river from Wilmington to
Fayetteville, so as TO ascertain the cost
Of MAINTAINING water at a depth Of
tour, ak and eight feet, The bill cal
rIes an apprCprlauon of s. 600. He
GAS also introduced a bill for survey
OF the N9uee river so az TO provide a
oeep water barb0r at New BerDe. The
oil carries an appropriation ct 50, 900
A Princeton dispatch last week saio /:
Professor Charles Y Jung, the UAiver
sity Astronomical Department., an
nounced to day that preparations are
now being made by him to observe the
total eclipse of Ute euo, which will
take place on May % b Wakde b 10
N O., has been self cted es the place
where the best observations can Oe
made and a party of PRINCETON profes.
sore, under the direction OF Professor
Young will leave here for that point
two weeks prior to the date Cf the
eclipse. Photographs Of the eclipse will
be taken.
An English naval commander says
that towards the close of the Peters
Hui engagement the naval guns threw
LyddICe shells on a kopje 2 500 yards
distant When the place wes eVacu-
ated by the Beers he visited the trench
es and counted therein ninety eight
dead B ers who bad b5en killed
by the coDcussion of lha l. ddIte, not
one of them having a wound of any
kind. Lii utensnt Anderson declare d
tnat the fumes Of the lyddlte turned
tee hair and boards of he dad men
TO a peculiar Rreenlsh hue, while the
color of their ekIn was a strange vel
low.
TIE only railroad measure which b. q
passed the South CIolIna Legislature
Chis session is one which does way with
sec md class coaches and second CAS-
ares First class fares are rec uced from
three and one.qu9rter cents per mule
20 three cents, and the second.clase
miles, is abolished, 20 that hereafter
here will be only one rate This bill
r q ltres the roads 60 provides sepa
raGe coacnes for the accommodation
# white and colOred passengers but
b tn races are TO b3 furnl he'd With
co lal acc lmmodaUIons Without any
distinction.
The Washington correspondent OF
the r 4lelgn Post has THIS o cay of 9
MEASURE now before Congress. From
our kno wleo ge OF TIE cate We believe
MS statement c rrect: The Hanna
Payne ship subsidy bill for the benz Fl
of the SCard4rd o. trust and the
5 )usnern Paclfi; and North western
r Alwsy ocean tramp lines, Ia in dan
ger of passing. l, Is asserted that the
Intending benefc'arles are willing to
give up one years bounty, or n
lslatIon. TIE bill has been &c amended
as 60 ler 10 every old tank and tramp
ct amer owned by the Standard OH
Company. IL is as barefaced a scheme
TO loot Une rrea- ury for the 0enef 0
trusts and moDop )iIes as was ever aG
tempted In thls c. un ry.
G. neral JJsep1 Wheeler favors Civ
ing the Philippines a territorial form
of government H9 says: Il believe
the people are ready tor a certain kind
of self government. Eney could be
given the power TO m Ike laws uLder