The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-22
State News.
WHAT TAR HEELS ARE DOING.

NfAN N NA"~A
of Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
South.
At Durham, Friday, Ed Mcclure
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree.
Capt. S. B. Alexander has been
nominated for the Senate by Meek
fenburG Democrats.
Five hundred mill men attended
the Cotton Spinners' convention in
Charlotte last week.
1t seems that the Populists do not
propose to begin their State cam
naign until about June 10.
High Point, the leader in manu-
featuring furniture of any town in
the State, is now to have a large
trunk factory.
The attendance at the Soldiers
Home, at Raleigh is now greater than
even before. The home is, in fact,
fuu to the limit.
The Seventh District Republican
Convention met at Salisbury Friday
and nominated J. @. Holton, of
Y~adkinvilIe, for Congress.
WiIkesborO has again declared for
smallpox quarantine. This time it
quuruntines parts of its own territory
as well as Alexander county.
The State has chartered the Louis
burg oil mills, capital SIS, 900, and
the Geo. B. Hiss Oil and Supply Co.,
of Charlotte, capital $4,000.
st. Nury's College, Catholic, at
Belmont, CASTOR county, was burned
saturday. Latest estimate of losses,
500, 600; insurance SIS, 900.
The ROxboro cotton mills began
operation Monday. This mill has
all the latest and modern machinery
required in a f~rst-cIass cotton mill.
Mr.. Geo. w. Pack, of Ashevine, "a
public spirited and benevolent gen
tleman, has given that town an acre
IF valuable ground for a public
park.
At the State Experiment Farm at
Raleigh there T now growing So
100 Bermuda lilies for a Philadelphia
florist also 10000 narcissuses and
1000 hyacinths.
The Republican State campaign
was opened at Winston Tuesday.
Mr.. a. H. Price, Senator Pritchard,
Congressman Linney and Judge
Adams, candidate for Governor,
spoke.
President Charles D. McIver, of
the State Normal and Industrial Col
Iege, says there are on file applica-
lions for admission of SO per cent
more than the present number of
students.
A new railroad map Of North
Carolina has just been issued by Mr..
Henry c. Brown, clerk t the Cor
noration Commission. The different
principal railway systems I indi-
.ated by cOIOrs and are therefore
raced at a glance.
The Christian Sun, organ of the
Christian church in North Carolina
and Virginia, has been sold to Prof.
J.. O. Atkinson and W. P. Lawrence,
IF Elon College, by Mr.. Emmett l..
Nofiit, who has been its editor and
publisher for six years.
Sc~ventv-three men and four ladies
urc aDDlicants for license to practice
medicine in this State. The ladies
are. Miss Eliza Della Dixon, of Raj
Ugh. Miss Sallie Borden, of Colds
loro, Miss Catherine P. Hayden, of
Raleigh. and Miss Lucy Jones, Of
New York.
John Glenn, cOlOred, who was
rled before a magistrate IN Winston
last Thursday on the charge Of steal
ing and bound over to court, was
taken from the deputy sheriff by
white caps the same night and Sc
vernly whipped. The officer was then
Flowed to convey him to Jail.
The employees of the Proximity
Manufacturing Company, of Greens
horo. who were discharged last week,
have employed counsel to bring suit
against the owners of the mill for a
years wages-$9O, 900. The en-
ploycs claim that they were dis
charged without cause.
The GreenviIle Weekly says that