The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-30
General News.
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eral of Subsistence, died last week.
Governor Benton Mcmillan, of
tennessee, positively asserts that he
will not be a candidate for a third
term as Governor. It is understood
that he will be a candidate to succeed
United States Senator W. B. Bate in
1905.
Mrs. Kruger, wife of former Presi-
dent Kruger, of the South African
Republic, died a few days ago of
pneumonia, after an illness of three
days. She was 81 years old. Mrs.
Kruger's long separation from her
husband, combined with the death
of her favorite daughter, Mrs. Smith,
had completely broken her spirits.
A resolution was offered in the
Virginia Constitutional Convention
a few days ago by E. w. Hubbard to
allow the widows, wives and daugh-
tiers of Confederate soldiers to vote.
Mr.. Hubbard's measure provides that
there shall be separate booths stu
ated some distance from those used
by the men and that the judges and
clerks of the election shall all be
women. e.
Colonel B. F. Sawyer, of Georgia,
Journalist, inventor and distin-
guished veteran, is dead, at the age
of 68. Colonel Sawyer was of French
Huguenot stock, served under Lopez
as a ilibuster in the Cuban insur-
rection of so years ago, and was col
onel of the Twenty-fourth Alabama
Regiment in the war between the
States.
The New York Court Of Appeals
has recently handed down a very i'm
portant decision, deciding that a for.
eign corporation is taxable On it's
capital stock under the corporation
tax law of the State if it transacts
business in the State, although the
business is in the nature of inter
State traffic. This case will probably
be ordered to the United States Su-
preme Court for final determination.
reports say that Aguinaldo is con-
siderably irritated at his continued
surveillance by the American author
tiles. Whenever he signs his name
he must add the word prisoner"
He has refused the request of his
friends to write the insurgent gen.
eral Malavar, still at large in South
ern Luzon, advising him to surren.
der. He consented to sign a copy of
his oath of allegiance, with the IN
derstanding that it be forwarded to
Malavar with the purpose of infuenc-
ing his surrender, but under his sig
nature to the oath he wrote, "Pris-
Oner in Malacanan Prison"
Norman J. Colman, formerly Sec
rotary OF Agriculture, who had been
receiving for the last week full re-
ports on the hay crop from all the
agricultural sections of Missouri
and Kansas, asserts that this is the
most disastrous time that has Wis
tied the country for a generation.
has advised the various farmers
associations of this State to begin
sowing at once a second grass crop,
which, it is recognized, will be de.
pendent on the drenchings of a long
ratn. The advice carries with it the
significance of his statement that
the first grass crop has been totally
eliminated by the drouth.
A new law charging somewhat
the freedom of the press is announced
by the Russian Gar. Hitherto one
warning from the censor has spread
a panic through the editorial rooms.
Two have put them under the sword
of Damocles and three e re.
garded as preliminary to extinction,
which was rarely long delayed. After
three warnings the authorities could
shut up the newspapers at any mo-
ment. Now, the first notice or
warning will remain in force only a
J ear, if u second does not follow
within the year the second will ex-
pire within two years, if there is
not d third within that period, and
the third will remain in force only
three years. The action with regard
10 the liberty of the press is taken
by many to be a ~forerunner of an
era If reform in Russia.
$4,000 GOT FARMS YESTERDAY.