The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-27
General News.
SPARKS FROM rHR WIRRs.

EarChS -Four Orners selected
and Condensed tor Pro.
gressive Farmer
Damage done b tne freeze in Flor
ida is said to be slight.
The marriage license bill was killed
by the 8 u5h Carolina last week as a
suspected step toward a divorce law.
Great Britain has sent 213 900 en-
and 452 guns TO South Africa TO crush
the Beers, the greatest army a nation
ever sent to sea. it is claimed.
The national conve ntion of the Pro.
hibiti0n party to nominate c 81 didates
for President and Vice President is
called to meet at ChIcrgo Ill on Wed
nesday, June 81, 1900
1t is reported ha General Wheeler,
who ia exp cved home soon from the
Philippines, will ann nunce himself q
candidate for the demo crauc nomlna
tIon for governor OF Alabama
The Methodist cnurch ie raising /,
"TwentIe, h Century fund" o $50 600
600 60 b applied for educar ionaI. cnar
liable ana church purposes A con
ventiOn will be held at San Franclscr
! ex June to devise methods for dis.
OurslnR the money.
Leslie K K 9eley, who made a mil
lion DOL ars OUT OF the liquor habit cur ,
died Of heart disease lasG week Fl.
vas born IN the State of New YorB
8 xty- four years ago. He moved to
D wight, Illinois, N 1866 and estab
lIshed the institution there which bears
his name.
Mormon R lOers, of Utah, applied to
Congress for mIleege-Ghat is 20 az,
for the allowance of 80 mucn q mile
which is gwen TO the legislators at
tending the sessions in Washington
HIS request has, however, been de-.
MED, hs the point ia made that he il
not a legislator, having been found IN
worthy to take hIs seat in Congress
and rejected by that body.
Everywhere on his recent tout Mr.
Bryan ehrmed his undyIng faith in
Tree silver, advocated The adoption of
the income tax, denounced trusts and
imperialism, and declared for the free
dom Of the FIlIppinos He was espe
cially emphatic IN hIs statements as
to the silver Question, say ing that the
old issue Cf 16 TO 1 vas the 'only re.
lief in store FIR the common people,"
Representations made by Spain have
caused the UIlted States to dir ect the
wi b ira val of American authority
from two ISLANDS of the Philippine
archipelago. Tnese islands are Cibu-
Gu and CoVagan Sulu. Both of them
are ouca'de The territory transferred
to the y tied States by the treaty oil
Paris Cnls action is surprising IL the
face of the previous contention that all
territory IN n Philippines archipel
ago formerly owned by Soain had be
come the properly OF TIL UnIEed States,
even if not within toe limits described
in the treaty.
The nexs National Democratic Con
Vention will be held at Kansas City.
No, July 4Eh. Thu was the decision
of the D m cratic National Committee
which met az th- Ho ell Raleigh, In
Washington Cay, Thursday, to fix the
lime and p c of holding rhe cOnven
ton. The platform for 1900 was out
lined bn members OF the ummIttee ss
anti ez pansIon, antitrust, anti treaty,
anti E"glaDd, free silver While the
SILVER plsng OF the Chicago platform
was c ns,d, red certain of adoption, IL
was expected to play no leading part
In the campaIgu except in the sllvs r
States
An abs5rec1 of the Preliminary Re.
port of the TrcCme Account Of Rail
way in the Un"r States tor the year
ending June 80 1899, prepared Dy the
staLlstlcian ~ Tot Commission is con
tanned IN the r. port of the Inter State
Commerce Commission Il reDresen g
in a concise manner the results of the
operations of the railways during the
past 1scaI year. TIE report enbr ces
the returns from SOL lines which we're
made TO the Commission prior to No
vember "a n The mIllaga covered is
1856 245 81 miles, or about So per cent
OF the aggregate mileage IN operation
at the Close of the asst fiscal year The
total gross earnings of the railways
included in The preliminary r'p 'rE TOR
the year named were 81 3O7 253, 484
| O impaired with the hgures tuO 1t d
in the fina' report for h year enaine
June 80 1898 1t appears that the grots