The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-05-06
General News.
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TILL.
The Facts Boiled Down and Presented in
Convenient PORN for Busy
Readers.

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Readers.
Congressman Amos Cummings is
dead.
The st. Louis Worlds Fair has
been postponed to 1904.
General Passenger Agent Bunch,
of the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
has resigned.
The revolution in San Domingo is
spreading and the position of the
government is critical.
j. P. Morgan gets SO, 500, 900 in the
stock of the new steamship combine
for his work in bringing it about.
Hereafter all government business
messages between Roanoke Island
and Hatteras will be sent by wire
less telegraphy.
The Georgia Supreme Courts hold
that while the antitrust statute
law of the State is unoOnstitutional,
trusts may be proceeded against
unQer me common law.
Queen Wilhelmina may now be
considered out of danger. The pro
nounced Improvement in her health
has occasioned intense relief through
out Holland. The news is the one
topic in the cafes, where people +
congratulate ting each other az If on
the recovery of a personal friend.
It is now believed that no further
consideration will be given by the
President to the subject of retiring
Lieut.. Gen. Miles so long as the com,
mander of the army continues his
present attitude of reserve, and that
the case will be allowed to remain as
it is unless Gen. Miles himself should
do something or take some action to
revive the determination of the
President.
The President has informally an
nounoed to Mr.. Henry Clay Evans
that he will, in the near future, ten
der to him the position of Consul
General of London, the place having
become vacant through the death of
William Mckinley Osborne, cousin
of the late President. The place
carries a very lucrative employment
and the appointment will be entirely
in accord with the Presidents prom
Use of a pI emotion to Mr.. Evans.
Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Ne.
braska, who was Secretary of Agri-
culture in the last Cleveland cabinet,
died Sunday afternoon at the home
of his son at Lake Forest, Ill. MI.
Morton was 70 years old and had
been in failing health for several
weeks, but his death was a great sur
prise TO his friends. Mr.. Morton was
born in New York but located in Ne.
braaka in the sos. He had been en-.
gagged in newspaper work the most
of his life .-Landmark.
Washington dispatch: Sol. Smith
Russell, the actor, who had been in
poor health for several years, died
here yesterday. He was one of the
quaintest and most delightful of
comedians with a manner almost
entirely his own. In gentle, hu-
morous, wistful characters, shrewd
and a little awkward, he was unsur-
passed, and in some respects his art
was not unlike that of Joseph JET.
ferson. Mr.. Russell was born in
Maine in 1848. He was a drummer
boy in the Union army during the
Civil War.
All of the general appropriation
bills have now been reported with
the exception of the general de-
fciency bill and the total TO date is
1868, 851, 1913. This amount is, of
course, subject to some change as
some of the billie have not been acted
on by either the Senate or the House,
either of which bodies may modify
them. The naval appropriation bill,
which has just been reported to the
House, carries an aggregate appro-
priation of $77, 659, 1856 and provides
for the construction of two first.
GLASS battle ships, two armored cruis-
ers and two gun boats and for the
increase of the naval enlisted force
by 3,OOOmen.
The entire past week in the Senate
has been occupied by Senators Raw
Inns, Carmack, Simmons and Teller
with speeches in opposition to the
Philippines Civil bill. The Senate
Committee on Relations with Cuba
has snmmnned the officials of the