The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-29
General News.
Facts Boiled Down and Presented in
Convenient Form for Busy
Raa6ePa

Readers.
Americans repulsed Moros in two
in Mindanao last week.
Queen Wilhelmina, who has ty.
phoid fever, Is reported better.
The whole western part of Guate-
mala was desolated by the recent
earthquake.
Dispatches say that the noted
preacher, DR.. T. De Witt Talmage,
left an estate worth $500, 900.
General Tribe Tribe, the Colon.
bian revolutionary leader, has been
Overwhelmingly defeated.
During the three months ended
September 80, 1901, 725 persons were
killed and 1922 injured in train ao-
cidents in the United States.
Sir Michael Hicks-B Beach said in
the House of Commons last week
that nothing could be more prema-
ture than the rumors in London
about probable peace in South Africa.
The Supreme Court has granted
leave to the State of Washington to
file an original bill for an injuno-
ton against the Great Northern
Pacific merger.
The court martial to try General
JACOB Fl. Smith at Manila has been
dissolved and reoonvened, so as to
put it under the direct supervision
Of President Roosevelt.
Frank R. Stockton, the we'll known
novelist and writer, died in Washing
ton City Sunday morning of hemor-
rhage of the brain. Mr., Stockton
was a native of Philadelphia but his
home was in Charlestown, W. Va.
He was SO years old.
J, P. Morgan, who is now abroad,
has practically contaminated a plan
TO combine all the leading trans-At-
lantic steamship lines. London dis.
patches announcing the combination
were confirmed Saturday at the Nor
gan banking house in New York.
A New York dispatch says: Bryan
sent a letter TO the Tammany men Of
thirty fifth assembly district this
evening telling them that free silver
must not be forgotten and that he
hopes nothing will tire them in their
devotion to the principles of the
Kansas City platform.
Washington Cor. Post Ex-senator
Butler, who is in Washington, is
taking but little interest in politics
just now. He is chairman of the
Populist national executive commit
tee, but, TO use the slang of the day,
he says "there is nothing doing"
with the party that he represents.
Without a word of discussion of
the merits of the measure, the Senate
last week passed the River and Har
Dor Bill, carrying in appropriations
about $40, 600, 900. So thoroughly
had the bill been considered by the
Commerce Committee that every
Senator was content that it should
pass as reported from the committee.
Capt. Charles z. Clark, the gallant
commander of the battleship Oregon
during the Spanish War, has declined
the appointment on the special en-
bassy to represent the United States
governments at the coronation of
King Edward VII, and the President
has appointed Rear Admiral Watson,
president of the naval examining
board, to serve in his stead.
Brigadier General Frederick Fun.
ston of Kansas, who is known
throughout the world as the man
who captured A~guinaldo, the Filipino
leader, has been officially reprimand
ed by the President for saying in a
speech that Senator Hoar was ''af-
ficted with an overheated con
science" The General ia also ordered
TO cease further public discussion Of
the Philippine question.
It is difficult to conceive of greater
barbarity than that described last
week by a witness before the Phil
lippine committee of the Senate as
having been visited upon a Filipino
through the administration of the
so called water cure by the order OF
a captain of United States soldiers.
It was cruel in the extreme and is
doubtless Il type of other cases which
have from time TO time been referred
TO but not described with the close
detail which marked this description.
The proceeding was d disgrace to