The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-23
General News.
SPARKS FROM rHR WlRHs.

and Condensed tor Pro-
gressive Farmer
Readers
The President has nominated Her
bert J. HarsniD ger, of North Carolina,
70 be a second lieutenant in the Marine
Corps.
The corporation controlling the ice
outpu5 in Maine, Pennsylvania and
New York wIlltry to ct control Of ar
tlf1cial ice plants in the South,
The Lawton fund has been closed
with a total OF $50 9O9 1t will b.
turned Over to Mrs. LawGOn, the widow
of the late General Lawton, on her ar
rival from Manila.
Judge Walter Clark, of the North
Oorolina Supreme Court, has been cleo
ted vlce president Of the National
Anti Trust League, which meets in
Chicago in FoOr uary.
The franklin county Ky grand
jury has returned indictments charging
john Whatlen and John Ran win
Ery ing to bribe Senator Harrel with
81 500 to refrain from attending Demo
Cratic legislative caucuses.
Secretary Daniel of the Cotton States
Association of the COMMISSIONS of
Agriculture which held its annual
convention last week in New Orleans,
has named August 21st as the time for
the next convention to be held 10 Raj
eigh, N. @.
Spirits tu~rpentine is quoted at the
board of trade at 81 cents. This is a
new price, not only for this season,
out for many years past. The highes
price heretofore has been 5C4, which
Was reached a few weeks ago. The
tone Of the market is firm.
Elihu Root, Secretary of War, says
ne Is not and will not be a candidate
for the tf3e of VLce-President He
states he has arrive / at this conclusion
by reason of the very delicate condi
ton of affairs which exists, and which
will continue for a considerable period
IN Cuba and the Philippines. The con
dltion is such that he deems it more
important to the country to the coun
cry, the administration and the party
that he continue to attend to the affairs
Of the war eff 20 rather than be a can
didate for vice president.
A special to the Atlanta Journal
from Madison, Co., says that W. A. Wi
iisms the immigration agent, known
throughout the South as Peg Leg
Williams, was arrested in Covirgton
Saturday night because he declined to
pay the special tax which was re
quired of him. As soon as the arres,
was kno wn, it ia sad that a mob
quickly formed and the farmers IF the
equities from which Williams had been
seuCiDg negroes to the West, organ
IL ID for the purpose of taking him from
IL, The officers then took him &c
Madison for safe keeping. It is said
that Williams will agree tt sign a pa
per providing that in future he will not
solicit farm hands from the counties
in that part of the State, and it ia be
lieved that if he signs this paper there
will be no further trouble.
Attorney General Griggs will resist
the effort of Admiral Dewey TO recover
prize money for himself and men on
: parish ships sunk at Manila. In his
answer, Mr. Griggs asks that the case
be referred to a commissioner and that
Admiral Dewey, his Cmcers and Gre y
and also the United States may have
leave to take testimony. The Attor
ney General COL cedes that a state OF
war existed, but denies that the
squadron under DeWey's command
Ca OCured the Spanish cruisers Isla de
Cuba, Tsla de Luzon and DON Juan de
Austria. These vessels, he says, were
sunk during the engagement. He
asks for further information in regard
to the other points and says although
some captures of property " ere made
such capture does not authorize its
condemnation as prize TO Dewey and
hls men. The Attorney G 3neral has
ais filed a similar answer in the case
of Admiral Sampson and the destruc.
ton Of Cervera's feet.
Investigation into the a s. of Mon
tana's Senator, Clark, charged with
bribery, shows more and mor cor
ruption. Before the Congressional
committee last week NJ. L. Hewitt, a
miner, who was in Helena during the
session Of the legislature in 1899, testi
fed that Charlie Clark had asked him
to see Senator Myers and offer him