The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29
News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

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The sugar trust has advanced the
price Of sugar. &c..
Queen Victoria celebrated her 81st
birthday Thursday.
The American Tobacco Company
reports net earnings for the past
year of IS, 1902, 1884.
The bubonic plague is officially an
nounced to exist in San Francisco !;
there have been six deaths during
the past three months.
Mayor Waddell, of Wilmington,
N. c., at the race problem conference
in Montgomery, Ala, urged the re-
peal of the fifteenth amendment to
the Constitution, and Col. John
Temple Graves, of Atlanta, Ga, IA
vored a separation of the races.
Here are the five National tickets
nominated up to date: Bryan and
Towne, Populist Barker and Don
nelly, middle of the-roaders Har-
riman and Hayes, socialist-labor !;
Debs and Hartman, socialist Demo
cratic Swallow and Wooley, Chris
tian.
The Southern Baptist Convention
turned down the Committee s recon-
mendatiOn to meetnextyeari in Ashe-
vile, selecting New Orleans instead.
In some way the item which we pre-
pared for last weeks Progressive
Farmer announcing this fact was
lost.
Jerry Simpson has sold his news
paper. He has retired, he says, be-
cause he has two much other bust
ness, but political friends say it is
his intention to come squarely out
a a Democrat within a short time.
Simpson expects to be elected to the
Senate.
The General Assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian Church, in
Atlanta, Friday night, decided to
raise a fund of 81, 900, OOO-a Twen-
tieth Century fund with which to
endOw the educational institutions
of the Church. The Assembly adj
jOurned sine die Saturday, Goth.
Mr.. Clark Howell, of Atlanta, Ga,
thinks Mr.. Bryan will receive the
vote of every Southern State at Kan
sas City and that he will carry the
entire South in the election, and that
the Democratic National Conven-
ton will nominate a straight Demo-
crat, and not Mr.. TOwne, as Vice
President.
Says an Atlantic City, N. J., dis
patch, 24th: The principal features
of tO-day's session of the quadren-
NAL session of the Methodist Protes-
tant General Conference was the
adoption by a two-thirds vote of an
amendment to the church discipline
requiring all candidates for the min
istry to fOreswear the use of tObac-
co in any form. There was weak Op-
position"
The net cost of running the United
government in 1892 was 3(2
millions the appropriations of the
present congress for 1901, substitute
ing the probable postal deficiency
for the appropriation, are about 443
The army appropriation
jumps in this time from 80 millions
to III navy, 80 to 81; pensions, al
to 145. These items account for
the most of the increase.
The Cuban postoffice steal now
amounts to about $500, 900. Direc-
tor Of Posts RathbOne will have
some hard questions to answer, such
as why he made the Federal govern
ment pay for his family's tockings;
why he charged up mileage for the
travelling of his entire family when
they were using free passes, and
why he put his stepson on the rolls
as a Havana postof1ice employe at
81, 800 a year while he was pursuing
his studies as a student at Harvard
University.
The prohibitionists of South Caro-
lima have decided to make a deter
fight against the State liquor
traffic and for prohibition. Colonel
James A. Hoyt, of Greenville, was
nominated at a conference at Colum-
bia, Wednesday, for Governor and
Colonel James L. Tribble, Of Ander-
son, for Lieutenant Governor. Nom
for other State Sfeers were