The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-04-17
State News.
WHAT TAR HEELS ARE DOING.

me dllDl MY VI LOIA OOL1CSg ULC
NEGRO murderer, has appealed to the
supreme Court.
The net profits of the W~aynesville
5ispcnsary for the year ending April
I were S4.745.OS
DR.. John G. Patterson, a promi-
rent physician of Durham county,
died Saturday at the age of 68.
There are over a thousand North
CaroIinians serving in the American
army in the Philippines, an exchange
asserts.
The S~tatesville Landmark says a
monument will be erected there to
the memory of Rev. DR.. w. A. Wood,
who died Il few days ago.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
has reported favorably the bill to
establish terms of the United States
Circuit Court at Newbern and Eliza
beth City, N. c.
E. G. Allis retires from the control
of the Hendersonville Times, having
sold the paper to A. B. Wilson OF
Plymouth, Q. The new editor took
charge this week.
The senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds has author
lied Il favorable report on the bill for
new public bilding at Durham, N.
4, T., cost SS0 600
Rev. W. P. Williams, Grand Lee
turer of the Masonic Order in the
State, died at his home in Davidson
College on Monday. He was Il native
If Williamson, Martin county.
The North Carolina Department Of
Agriculture will on May 1st issue Il
bulletin entitled, Negotiations for
the Control of Contagious Diseases of
Live Stock-Oficial Notices-Advice
and State Stock Map
Lexington Dispatch: Attorney
General Zeb V. WaIser and Messrs.
RObt. n. Welfare and z. 1. Walser
will at an early date establish a steam
laundry in Lexington. Mr.. Welfare
Will manage the establishment.
LittletOn News Reporter: Prof. j.
VI. Rhodes has donated his entire in
terest in the real estate property Of
LittletOn Female college to the North
Carolina NJ. E. Conference, which
makes the college the exclusive prop
erty Of said conference.
President BIasingame has rendered
his resignation as the head of the
Baptist Female University at Raj
cigh. The resignation was read to
the meeting of the trustees last week
and was accepted. The resignation
takes effect in June.
DR.. W. A. Wood, for thirty years
Presbyterian pastor af S~tatesville, is
dead. He was educated at Davidson
college and the University of Eden
bury, Scotland. He was one of the
first preachers in the State and one
IF the most IovabIe of men.
Rocky Mount Motor: An oil mill
and fertilizer works is an assured in
dustry for Rocky Mount. AT a meet
ing here Tuesday afternoon a ON
punv was organized with a capital
stock of $50 600, $4,000 of this
amount being taken up Immediately.
The coroner's jury in the case of j.
ID. Furrior for the killing of j. a.
Hunt at Wilson, last Friday night,
brought in a verdict Tuesday of
mansIuughtcr, and Mr.. FarriOr was
BOUND over to the criminal court in a
5000 bond. says the TarbOrO South
"rncr.
Danburv Reporter: 1t is hoped
that our people Will devote more time
This year to making at home some
thing to live on. We are told that
wheat straw cannot be had at any
price and there is not a bushel of
corn for sale in this whole COM
munity.
The Corporation Commission has
made a report showing that there are
IN this State 218 towns, railways in
NJ out Of the 81 counties, - telegraph
and 80 telephone companies, 9 street
railways, IS steamboat companies, 81
banks and 81 building and loan asso-
cations.
Winston dispatch, 9th: Policeman
ETorhart, Of Salem, while trying to
arrest three negroes last night, vas
shot by VIII Sanders. One ball took
-Noct in his left shoulder and another