The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-10
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the Earth's
Four Corners Selected and Condensed for
Progressive Farmer Readers.

Inc Republicans carried Oregon by
10000 majority; but a proposed
amendment Of the State Constitu-
ton repeating that section of the in
strument which forbids 'any free
negro or mulatto to come, reside or
be within the State, or hold any real
estate or make any contracts, or
maintain any suit therein" was re-
jected.
Five other States hold elections
before that of November. These
are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Maine and Vermont, and none of
them afford any Indication of the
drift of national politics. The three
first named will go Democratic, as
usual, and the two last named will
go Republican, as usual, and a vari-
alton in m~ajorities either way will
signify nothing. Those who have
been thinking that State elections
prior to the national election might
afford some pointer as to the latter
will be disappointed.
Wharton Bankers paper, The
American, says I'm this quarrel be-
tween China and the foreign Powers
we T only given to see the foreign
side. The other side is hidden from
US. But can the Chinese be blamed
for ~resenting the occupation of Port
Arthur by the Russians, the Occu-
patton Of Wei Hal Wei and the forci-
BILE extension of the boundaries of
Hong Kong by the British, the seiz-
ure of Kiau Chou by the Germans?
And such ~aggressions undoubtedly
had much to do in provoking the
Boxer movement and so may be put
down as the bottom cause of the
present war"
Mr.. Michael G. Mulhal1, the stat
istician estimates in an article III
The North American Review that
the census just taken will show the
United States to have a pOpula-
ton of about e, 200, 900. The CEN
sus of ten years ago gave the popu-
lation at 60, 622, 900, and this would
be an increase of -, SIS, 900 since.
1890. The 1880 census made the
population so, 1876, 900, and if Mr..
Mulhall's figures are correct we have
increased 50 per cent. in population
in twenty years. He calculates the
number of foreigners in the United
States at 10, $780, 900, as against $780,
in 1890, these bearing a percentage
of only 1874 to the total population,
whereas the percentage was 14.8 ten
years ago.
One of the heroes of the Spanish
American war passed away Satur-
day afternoon, when Rear Admiral
John Woodward Phillip, command
ant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, died
of heart disease. The New York
Sun pays him this fitting tribute {:
st was a brave, loyal and kind heart
that ceased to beat yesterday in the
breast of the American sailor who
commanded the Texas two years ago
this week. None of the captains of
the Santiago squadron won the affec-
ton of his fellow countrymen more
instantly or worthily than the hero
who after finishing the Almirante
OuuendO checked the cheering Of his
crew because the poor devils were
dying; > and who barred his head at
the moment of victory to make pub
lie acknowledgment, in the presence
of officers and men, of his belief in
God Almighty. There was not a
suspicion of histriOnic self-cOnSCiOuS-
ness in any of John w. Phillips &C
tions and the whole country knew
that was so, and honOred and loved
him accordingly"
: According to the crop report. of
the United States Department of
Agriculture our Southern States oats
in shock have sustained much dam
age as "a result of heavy, rains which
have also injured the unharvested
crop in the Central Mississippi and
Ohio Valleys. Over nearly the
whole of the Central and Eastern
portions of the cotton belt the
weather has been very unfavOrable
to cotton, which is largely -overrun
with grass and weeds, some fields in
Mississippi and South Carolina hav-
ing been abandoned. In North Caro-
lima, Florida and on uplands in Ten
ness the condition of the crop is