The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-24
General News.
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TILL.



Since retiring from the head of
Tammany, Mr.. Nixon has bought for
his ship company the Bethlehem Steel
Company and will operate the most
complete ship building plant in the
world.
Richmond, Va, dispatch: Chairman
Park Agnew, of the Republican State
Executive Committee, has been given
power to test the constitutionality of
the new constitution, and it is said he
will confer with ex-senator John M.
Thurston, Senator Hoar of Massachu-
sets, and Judge L. L. Lewis, of Rich
mond.
Crop Statistician George L. Walton,
of the State Agricultural Department,
estimates that the total corn produc-
ton in Texas this year will not exceed
100000 bushels, as compared with
a production of $4,000, 900 bushels in
1901 and 100000 in 1900. Union
services of all the churches to pray
for rain were held last week.
At a meeting of the Irish membefs
of the House of Commons last week
resolutions to the effect that the Irish
Nationalist, as a protest against the
"misgovernment of their country" re-
solved to take no part In the present
coronation celebration, and that the
Irish party be summoned to meet in
Dublin on the day of King Edwards
coronation to take into consideration
the condition of Ireland, were unani-
mously adopted.
@. F. W. Nicely, who was sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment and to pay
a fine of $5,6O1 for the Cuban postal
frauds, was released Wednesday under
the bill signed by President Palma,
June 9, granting amnesty to all Amer
leans convicted of crimes in Cuba dur
ing the term of the American occupa-
ton and those awaiting trial. Three
Americans we're implicated in the Gu
ban postal frauds. One of the others,
Reaves, had been previously pardoned
and the third, Rathbone, is out on bail
pending a new trial.
Statesville Landmark: Represen-
tative Richardson, of Tennessee, the
Democratic leader in the House of
| Congress, has introduced a bill to
place all articles and commodities
manufactured and controlled or pro-
duced in the United States by a trust
| OF trusts on the free list and reduce
the rates of duty on any article or
| commodities manufactured in the
United States and sold in q foreign
country more cheaply than in the
| United States. The measur is a right
eous one and ought to pass promptly,
but it won't pass at all.
Chatham Record: The obliteration
of sectional feeling was pleasantly IL
Illustrated on last Saturday, when, at
| Columbus, Ohio, a memorial arch was
unveiled in honor of $3.50 Confeder-
ate dead, who were buried there while
prisoners at Camp Chase. This memo
rial arch was erected by the efforts of
a Federal veteran, Col. W. q. Knauss,
and the ceremonies at it's unwilling
were e impressive. Flowers we're
strewn on the graves Of the Confeder-
ates by both Northern and Southern
ladies, and an eloquent Grafton was de-
livered by a Confederate captain from
New Orleans.
The bill to prevent lynching in
Louisiana by giving the Governor the
right to transfer prisoners and grant
change of venue where lynchings r
threatened, has been defeated IN the
Legislature. The Senators. who OPP
posed the bill declared that it is too
much in the interest of scoundrels who
commit the. particular crime which in
the South is usually punished by lynch
ing, and that an attempt to enforce it
might cause the loss of valuable lives.
Admiral Dewey is to go to sea again
temporarily and will be placed in su-
preme command of the greatest feet
in point of numbers assembled by the
United States in many years. 1t will
comprise the North Atlantic, the Eu-
ropean and the South Atlantic squad
rOns, which is to be assembled nea
Culebra Island, in the West Indies,
next December for the winter manoeu-
vers. The scheme was arranged by the
| Secretary of the Navy and Admiral