The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-01-01
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

There are several hundred cases
of small pox in Greenup county, KY,
and the death rate has been about
twenty per cent.
It is again asserted that Secretary
Hay will retire from the cabinet with
the beginning of President McKin-
ley's second term.
Within a few days, more than
1000 sick soldiers will be on their
way home from the Philippines. The
Grant and Sherman are now en- route
with $50 men.
John D. Rockefeller has made
another gift of 81, 500, 900 to the Uni
versity of Chicago; ST. 900, 900 as an
endowment fund and the balance for
immediate needs.
The Atlanta Journal has received
in reply to a telegram an autograph
letter from Grover Cleveland in
which he says he did not vote for
Mckinley in November.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb.,
says that subscriptions are pouring
into the Office of The Commoner,
Colonel VIM. J. Bryan's new paper,
and the indications are that the
publication will start with a tire
mendous circulation.
The twenty-ffth city in the United
States in the order of population has
by the present census more than
double the number of people con
tanned in the twenty-ifth city of
twenty years ago, and nearly a third
more people than in the city of that
rank ten years ago.
An Associated Press dispatch,
dated Gulfport, Miss, December
Dist, says: Henry Lewis, the alleged
negro murderer of Marshal Rich.
ardson, has not been caught. The
negro lynched yesterday was, it APP
pears, a cousin of the alleged muir
derer, and was wholly innocent.
There are now about 50, 900 troops,
regulars and volunteers, in the Phil
ippines, and arrangements have been
made already for bringing home
5000 of that number. No further
reduction will be made until the
War Department is advised fully of
the purpose of Congress with regard
to army legislation.
In a recent interview, w. J.
Bryan said ''The principles of De
mOcracy still live and the policies
for which the fusion forces fought
will yet be indicated. We can enter
the twentieth century with the con
ident belief that the people will
soon return to the teachings of the
fathers and to the traditions of the
Republic"
According to recent advices from
the Philippines the Taft Commits
sion expended more than s., 900, 600
in Mexican money during the
months of September and October
in public improvements and in the
organization of the new govern
ment. One appropriation made by
the commission for the construction
and repair of highways and bridges
in the Philippines amounted to
50, 900, 900 in Mexican money.
The various sections into which
the Cuban constitutional convention
was divided some weeks ago for the
purpose of preparing and submitting
drafts of the constitutions for the
consideration of the convention as "a
whole are gradually getting together
on the basis of a unitary government
with restricted suffrage. The con-
ventiOn leaders now hope to have
this work completed by January Is,
so that the results may be submitted
to the United States Congress Feb
ruary 1.
The great majority of the southern
yarn mills have decided to control
the sale of their products by specially
appointed agents. Mills represent
ing an aggregate of 1876, O97 producing
spindles have signifed their agree
ment to the famous concentration
plan proposed by the special com
mittee and indorsed by the board of
governors of the Southern Cotton
Spinners Association. The object is
to place the selling of cotton yarns
in the hands of a limited number of
Northern commission merchants and
nreuant snecn1ation in the product