The progressive farmer., 1901-11-26
General News.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
The Facts Boiled Down and Presented in
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his condition is not regarded canger-
Gus.
Senator George q. Vest, for years
United States Senator from Mis-
souri,, announces that he will not
seek a re. election.
When the Fifty seventh Congress
meets next month the Senate will
contain neither a Populist nor
free silver Republican.
Alabama dispatches says that if
Gen. Wheeler will consent to make
the contest he will probably be
elected to the United States Senate
to succeed Senator Edmund Pettus.
Chairman VaDdiver, of the Mary
land Democratic Committee, says:
"Arthur Pue German will be the
next United States Senator from
Maryland. He will be the only can
didate before the Democratic eau
Gus"
When Wa Ting Fang retires from
his post as Chinese Minister to the
United States, which is not far dis
tant, it may be that he will accept
an offer which, it is said, COlumbl
University will make him to become
the incum bent of the recently foun
ded chair of Chinese language and
literature.
Naval Constructor Richmond Pear
son Hobson, of Merrimac fame, has
| been Orded detached from the Bureau
of Construction and Repair in Wash
1ngtOn and assigned to duty in con-
neCtion with the management of the
governments exhibit at the Charles
ton exhibit. The order will take
effect November 20.
The presidents of the board of
! health of San Francisco recommends
that the Chinese quarter of that
city, famous as chinatown" be
burned to the ground as a safeguard
against the invasion and propagation
of Oriental diseases. He says the
place cannot be rendered sanitary
except by total obliteration.
Separate schools for Indian chill
dren have become a political issue
In Oklahoma. In some counties
many OF the Indians attend the pub
lIo schools which have been estab-
lished for the whites and the latter
do not believe in allowing the red
skins these privileges. The Indians
also refuse to attend the negro
! schools.
The only gold medal authorized by
! Congress for heroic conduct during
the Spanish war was forwarded
| Friday to Lieut.. Frank II. Newcomb,
at PatchOgue, N. Y. Lieutenant
Newcomb commanded the revenue
cutter Hudson and rescued the off
ce and crew OF the torpedo boat
Winslow, off Cardenas, Cuba, dur
ing the action of May II, 1898, at
which time Worth Bagley, of North
Carolina, was killed. The medal
contains about $3.50 worth of gold.
According to advices from most re-
| liable sources, the British military
authorities in S Juth Africa have de-
termined upon radical course. The
failure of the burghers to res pond
10 the proclamation of General Lord
Kitchener by giving up the fight has
led to the decision that no voluntary
surrenders will be- accepted. It is
said that all burghers taken here
after by the British will be treated
as prisoners of war, and depOrted
from the country as soon as possible
after they are captured.
Secretary Root has decided to send
the Eleventh Cavalry and the Twen-
ty eigth Infantry to the Philippines
t. replace the troops there, who are
coming home The Eleventh Cav
airy is stationed at Fort Myer, Va.
J, fferson Barracks, Mo , and Fort
Ethan Allen, VT. The Twenty
eighth Infantry is at Vancouver
Barracks, Washington Fort Wright,
Washington, and Boise Barracks,
Idaho. The Fourth, Seventeenth,
Twentieth and Twenty second Infan-
try have been ordered home. i
a preliminary report on the tur-
pentine and rOsin industry of the
United States was recently issued by
the Census Bureau, showing the ex-
tent of the industry in the census
year 1900 as compared with 1890. |
Annnrdinr To this statement tha To- |