The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-04-03
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Earth's -Four Corners Selected
and Condensed for Pro-
gressive Farmer
Readers.
lt is said that Lawyer Dill got a fee
OF one million dollars for efecting the
Oarnegie-Frick settlement.
Grover Cleveland DIS former Secretary
OF the Interior, Hoke Smith, of Geor
gla' weary of politics, has decided to
quit public life and devote himself to
Law. He has Did his newspaper prop
erty, the Journal.
AIyncher was convicted in Patrick
county, Virginia, last week and given
i've years in the ~penitentiary He
was W. N. Branch, who took part in
the II egal execution OF Lee Pickett, q
half Witted white man, who was &C
custd OF committing an ASSAULT upon
a white woman in September, 1898.
We fad this paragraph in an ex-
change and give it for what it is worth:
De Richard G atling, inventor of the
Gatiing rspid fire gun, has perfected a
plow, propelled by power, which will
do the work Of eight horses and twelve
men; also another which will work on
both sides of . row of cotton plants at
the same time.
The Mississippi legislature has just
appropriated 81. 146 $50 Sc to puollc
odnoatjon a folIooO, col e01 70 tho
Industrial Institu @ and College at CO.
lumbus; $50, 738 Sc to the Agriculture
and Mechanical College at S%tsrkville;
81 800 20 the State Normal Col at
Holly Springs, and $1,000. 900 to the
common schools
1t will be remembered that it wae
charged that the Cmcers of the
Charleston we're drunk when that YES
sci was wrecked. The court of inquiry
gives this verdict: 1.-THE court is of
the opinion that in accordance with
che evidence adduced. the captain and
officers of the late United s sates steam
ship Charleston are ~exonorated from
all blame or responsibility and that 20
further action should be taken in the
matter Of the wreck Of that vessel"
Ooneul G neral Guenther writes
from f. ankfort, March s 1900: FAC
cording to the Cologne Gazette, a
draft of by laws for an international
plaEe-glass tIus has been unanimously
agreed to by the German pIate-glaes
manufacturers. As it has already been
approved by plate glass manufac-
turers of France and Belgium, the
international trust can be cousid-
cred a fact.
Benjamin Harrison has expressed
some pretty blunt views on the Bier
question ard has written a friendly,
personal letter to Secretary Hay on the
sut ,c6. ElsheE in this letter, or in
some communication he is credited
with having said he hoped the Beers
would find some placs on the green
earth, where they would have a right
TO live unmolt sted by the British
They have more than once sacrificed
their lard and their homes and moved
on, t. avoid the British aggre ssion."
The New York Heral says that the
Knights Of the Royal Arch, a semi
secret protective and beneficial order,
membership in which ia confined ex
clusively to per sons engaged in the
liquor traffic, has been in existence for
some time past, having been organized
in Hot Springs. Ark, but it's field up
TO the present time has been confined
TO States 10 the 5)u5h and SOUTHWEST
Il has 80 600 members, VT o work to-
gether to st cure Legislation favorable to
liquor traffic. An IF Jrt will be made to
extend the order to the North.
The United States Supreme Courts
decision with reference t o the Stand.
ard OIL Company in Texas did not pass
upon the constitutionality of the States
anti trust la VS. as a whole; it ret mrmed
the familiar principle that Estate pre-
scribes the purposes OF a corporation
and the means of executing thot pur
purposes" 1t said in effect that q
state may dictate the terms under
which q foreign corporation may do
business within lis borders, said cor
poration to forfeit its privilege ii it vic
Iates the State laws. The Standards
Texas branch evidently did so violate.
Every step taken by the Federal or
State courts in relation to the Sand
ard Oil Company is watched with
keen interest all over the country.
The annual reports of Indian agents
to the National ommissioner of In