The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-01
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The Senate passed the Appalachian
Park bill last week. 1t is feared that
the House will not act on the measure
at this session. +,
An operation for perityphlitis was
performed on King Edward VII. at
Buckingham Palace Tuesday and his
chances of recovery are said to be
good. The coronation is indefinitely
postponed.
The Louisiana Legislature has pass
ed the Wilson separate car bill, re-
curing the street railroads to provide
separate cars or separate accommoda-
tions on their cars for negroes. It is
the first application of the Jim crow
car law for street cars.
Since the proclamation of peace in
South Africa more than $4,000 Beers
have come in to surrender in the
British lines. These, with 10000 pris-
oners in the camps and with recent
captures and the number known to
have been killed, bring the total of the
Boer forces at the beginning of the
war to at least $4,000. The govern
ment's estimate was originally $4,000.
London dispatch: It has been ar
ranged that King Alfonso of Spain
shall make a tour of the European
capitals next spring, mainly for the
purpose of making the acquaintance
of princesses eligible matrimonially.
The young Kings frail physique,
which has long caused anxiety, makes
it imperative for the good of his dy-
nasty that he shall mate with a robust
princess of sound and healthy stock.
Western Recorder: During the
month of May, over $4,000 immigrants
landed in New York City. This
breaks the record. The greatest num-
Der before was $4,000 in May, 1893.
The sad thing is that these are not
desirable immigrants from Germany,
England, Ireland and Sweden, but are
chiefly Hungarians, Italians and Rus
slams. Seven hundred and fifty of
those who came were ordered to be de-
ported, being either paupers or di-
seased.
Volcanoes are just now objects of
great interest everywhere. G. F.
Becker of the Geological Survey has
been examining the volcanoes in the
Philippines and his report has been
published in Part III. of the govern
ment report for the year. There are
forty-nine active volcanoes in the is
lands. Mt. Apo is the highest, 1O,T61
feet above the sea. At Camiguin a
cone 1000 feet high has arisen since
1871 over what was formerly a lake.
The most famous is the Taal volcano
situated on a small island in the lake
of Bonbon.-Exchange
Constantinople is full of rumors of
new developments in the Sultan's sys-
tenn of terrorism. There are stories
of further plots within the army, and
it is asserted on Viennese authority
that the Sultan has prohibited the, is
sue of any more books in the Turkish
language, thus closing the doors of
many printing establishments. His
majesty, it appears, is of opinion that
there are enough books in existence
and that those who want to indulge
themselves in reading can read old
ones. The object of the order is, of
course, to suppress the circulation of
seditious literature.
President Palma asks the Cuban
Senate-for authority to negotiate an
interior loan of $4,OOO,OOO; to give a
bounty of S. per head on breeding
COWS imported into the island; to au-
thorize the use of 100000 acres of
insular lands for ranch purposes, and
to provide for a bounty of so cents
on each ton of cane ground in Cuban
mills last season. By this he solves the
economic problem temporarily and ex-
cludes the trusts from benefting by
the present state of affairs. The pas
sage of these authorizations is assured
in both Houses. Rothschild's Havana
agent has offered to take the entire
loan.
Col. L. W. T. Waller reached San
Francisco on Friday from the Phil
ippines, and told admiring reporters
all about the bowling wilderness into
(Which he had converted Samar. "You