The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-08-07
General News.
sPARKs FROM THE WIRES.

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a good and great man, is dead.
Seventy warships are now build
ing or authorized at a cost of $780,
goo, 90 49,
Lord Roberts reports that the Boer
prisoners who SURRENDERED recently
will number 1000.
The annual report of Pension Com
missioner Evans shows a total of
993 1923 pensioners.
A Filipino el CELEBRATION of President
McKinley's amnesty proclamation in
Manila proved a fasco.
Collectors of customs on the Paci-
fc coast are ordered to allow no
shipment of arms to China.
More than $500, Ooo, 900 has been
voted for war expenses of the Brit
ish in South Africa and China.
Energetic steps are being taken by
both Democrats and Republicans to
win the vote of New York State.
Owing 1.-THE condition of currency
exchanges prices of food are said to
have increased 66%% in portions of
Porto Rico. v. L .Ea=. 81
Treasury officials are endeavoring
to locate $500, 100000 of gold in cir
culation in this country, but not ac-
counted for.
Last week American scouting
parties in the Philippines killed 100
natives. Ten Americans were killed
and IA wounded.
E. G. Rathbone, until recently Di-
rector General of Posts in Cuba, has
been arrested, charged with misap-
preparation of funds.
1t has been decided to blow up the
wreck of the Merrimac, sunk in San
tiago harbor by Hobson, and thus
remove an obstruction to navigation.
The date of the Cuban election for
the purpose of choosing delegates to
a constitutional convention has been
fixed as the third Monday in Septem-
Der.
Famine sufferers now receiving
relief in India number 6,266, 900.
Rainfall is still insufficient and an
other crop failure is feared in
some of the provinces.
Georgia's first bale Of cotton of
the ryoO crop was marketed at Al
btaGniys, Ca. 27th, 6lt. 1t was grown
by a negro farmer, weighed 1897
pounds, and sold at II cents,
A dispatch from Manila says that
during last weeks scouting 10 Amer
leans were killed and IA wounded.
One hundred and eighty insurgents
we're killed and go taken prisoners.
Forty insurgent rifles were captured.
A semi-oficial statement from
Washington says the Philippine war
is nearer the end than is generally
! supposed. That's what we have
been hearing ever since the islands
were 'pacified' about a year or so
ago.
Senator George L. Wellington, of
| Maryland, and a number of promi-
nent Washington lawyers, who in
1896 and until recently, have been
classed as strong Republicans, will
appear on the stump this year in ad-
vocacy of the, election of Bryan.
Last year there were $4,000 i'm
migrants to this country and if the
present rate goes& on there will be
upward of 500, 900 this year. A few
years ago we drew mostsof our i'm
migrants from Germany and Ireland,
but now they are ignorant Poles and
Italians Il $50 Ei2S%@@o1'-' pa
A Cape Town special says that IT
is reported that D6wet, the Boer
leader, has offered to surrender on
condition his followers be permitted
to return to their homes unmolested.
It added that Roberts refused to en-
tertqin anything except qncondi-
tional surrender.
The negro desperate R R3|ler
Charles killed two more policemen
and two by-standers-six men il all
land wounded several before he was
burned out of his hiding place in
New Orleans and killed. In the riot
by rQwdy whites that preceded the
capture, several inofensi7e negroes
we're injured
f. The four men placed before the
country by the two greatSpolitical
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