The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-22
General News.
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h The coronation of King Edward
and Queen Alexandria will take place
Angust 9th.
President Roosevelt is being close
Iy guarded by s~ecret-service men at
EOyster Bay.
Foreigners are fleeing to Trinidad
from the renewed terrors of the We
nezulan revolution.
Sir Linag Chen Tung has been ap-
pointed Chinese Minister to the
United States, succeeding WI Ting
fang.
The report that Miss Alice Roose-
welt is engaged to Lieutenant Clark,
son of Mrs. Alfred Clark, is authori-
tatively denied.
The battleship Illinois struck bot
tom and had a hole punched in her
hull in the harbor of Christiana, Nor
way, a few days ago.
Two hundred and nineteen bolo men
have surrendered in the island of
Leyte and taken the oath of allegiance
to the American government.
The Marquis of Salisbury has re-
signed the Premiership of Great Bri-
tain, and A. J. Balfour, Government
leader in the House of Commons, has
been appointed to succeed him.
Former Senator Butler, who is still
National Chairman of the Populist
Party, is quoted by the Washington
Times as saying: "The Peoples Party
will run a straight Populist ticket for
President and ice-President in 1904"
Heavy rains in central Iowa last
week sent a food down upon pros
porous Missouri farmers, which will
ruin many of them and cause losses
aggregating, at a conservative esti-
mate, two and a half million dollars.
The Postmaster General has issued
an order providing that after October
1, 1902, each person desiring the ru-
raj free delivery service must erect
at his own cost and by the roadside,
so that the carriers may have access
to it, without dismounting from his
vehicle, a mail box conforming to the
specifications approved and published
by the department. Such boxes as
conform to the requirements may be
stamped by the manufacturer Gap
proved by the Postmaster General"
and will then come within the pro-
lection of the law passed at the last
session of Congress, making it a
criminal ofense to tamper with mail
receptacles on rural free delivery
routes.
One of the most c~ommendable char
liable gifts hat has been made pub
lie in a long time will go down in the
recording angels book to Mr.. John
M. Burke, a retired South American
merchant of New York. He has given
his entire fortune, amounting to
$4,000 to establish an institution
for the care of the worthy poor, par
ticularly of poor convalescents. The
terms of the gift are admirable. The
founder, recognizing the delays that
are the curse of organized charity
everywhere, specifies that "the meth
DDS to be used, so far as they are con
sistent with propriety, shall be as ex-
peditious as possible" and he guards
against another evil by empowering
the trustees to make a moderate
charge to patients, which may be con
sidered as a loan to be repaid without
interest and without security.-Col-
lier's Weekly.
Country Gentleman: Among the
events of last week, Admiral Dewey's
testimony before the Senate Com
mittee- on, the Philippines holds an
important place. It establishes be-
,yopd, dispute the spurious character
of the so-called battle of Manila, Ac-
cording to the AdmiraPs testimony,
the commander in Manila wished to
surrender the city at the. time the
spanish feet was destroyed, but as
Dewey had no men to send ashore
and hold it he declined the surrender.
When the, time came to take the city,
however, the Spanish governor.
tReggedr the Admiral to arrange a
sham fight with him SO, that his Span.
ish honor might not be blotted by a
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