The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
General News.
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TELL.
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The News Boiled Down aud Presented In Con-
venient Form for Busy Readers.
The civil war in Haiti has spread to
every part of the Republic.
Prof. Leopold Schenk, author of a
noted theory for determining sex, is
dead.
General Chaffec has been given free
rein to conduct d campaign against
the Moros of Mindanao.
Many British e~x-soldiers are apply
ing at the United States Embassy in
London for service in the Philippines.
Gen. Russell A. Alger announces
that he will accept the vacant Michi-
gan S~enatorship if it is offered to
him.
It is said the Democratic Campaign
Committee will introduce Schley as
an issue in the coming Congressional
contests.
Owing to the non-fulfllment of
promises by Turkey there are strained
relations between the United States
and that country
Congress, at its recent session, ap-
propriated $1,OG3, 335, 961.55, and it is
estimated an apuarent deficit of $423,-
815,331 will be found at the end of the
present fiscal year.-Exchange.
A coal famine seems near at hand in
New York City; practically all the
hard coal is in the hands of retail
dealers or consumers. No large car
goes have arrived in several weeks,
and every city within a hundred miles
has been drawn on for supplies. The
price has gone up to IS and SO a ton.
Col. VIM. Arnold Hemphill, found
der and for many years business man
ager of the Atlanta CONSTITUTE IN,
died Sunday night at his residence in
Atlanta of apoplexy. Col. Hemphill
was a native of Georgia and was 50
years old. He had served as alderman
and mayor of Atlanta and had been
identified with many prominent bust
ness interests.
The deficit in the National Treas
ury which is now mere than S $4,000, 900
is likely to grow still larger in the
near future, although the officials of
the Department believed a few weeks
ago that it would soon be wiped out.
The principal factor which will bring
this about is the immediate prospect
that the government will have to
make rebates on account of internal
revenue stamps amounting to several
millions of dollars.
The past week in Washington has
been singularly free from political de-
velopments writes the Washington
correspondent of The Progressive
Farmer. With practically every mem
Der of the Cabinet as well as the Pres
ident, out of the city, few politicians
of note have sought the national capt.
tai. The speech made by Secretary
Shaw at MorrisYille, VT, has attract
ed wide attention. Coming from a
member of the Cabinet and an Iowa
man it is of especially interest as serv-
ing to define the position of the adj
ministration in regard to the tariff.
The Democratic headquarters in this
city is the scene of much activity and
apparently the country is being food
ed with campaign literature. The
nomination by the President of Judge
Oliver Wendell Holmes to succeed
Mr.. Justice Gray on the Supreme
bench receives the commentator of
all who know Judge Holmes. It is
now believed that Mr.. Justice Shiras
will retire in the near future and the
gossips are busy specializing on his
probable successor. Attorney General
Knox and ex-Attorney General Griggs
are both mentioned as possibilities.