The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
State News.
FROM CURE1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
rtsms Of Interest Cleaned From Our COrre-
spOndents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.

Concord limos: 1here have been
about fifty people struck dead by
lightning in North Carolina in the
past month.
North Carolina Republicans are
for President Roosevelt and the State
Convention next week will enthusiast
ticaIly endorse his administration"
Such was the declaration of Senator
Pritchard last week.
1t is stated that the Republican
State Committee is taking a poll of
Republicans in the State to ascertain
the sentiment in regard to endorsing
the Democratic nominees for Asso-
ciate Justices of the Supreme Court
Connor and Walker.
New Bern Journal: An attempt to
import Italian laborers into the i'm
mense lumber tracts of Beaufort and
Carteret counties has met with a
storm of opposition from the laborers
there and they say they will not toler-
ate foreigners working with them.
Landmark: Rev. DIR. A. A. Mar
shall, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Raleigh, died Sunday af-
ternoon, aged 46. He had been criti-
cally Ill for a long time. DIR. Mar
shall came to Raleigh three years ago
from Georgia. His wife and six chill
dren survive. He was one of the ablest
and most eloquent ministers of his
church in the State.
Winston special to News and OBJ
server, 21st: a 100000 fire in the
business portion of town is just now
under control, at 12.45 a. m. 1t began
at 1870 last night and is still burning.
The stock of two large firms, Huntley,
Hill & Stockton, and Hine & Shipley,
was practically destroyed, as well as
the large three-story brick building
belonging to T. L. Vaughan.
Winston Sentinel: The Republi-
can Judicial Convention of the Fiji
teenth District has broken the unique
record of the Democratic Convention
for this district, which, it will be re-
m~embered, nominated for judge a can
didate for solicitor. The Republican
Convention referred to nominated for
Judge a candidate for solicitor and,
also nominated for solicitor a candi-
date for judge.
The education of all the people has
become a matter of Importance to our
people and the earnest thinking lead
ers who have been working along that
line quietly for years are seeing their
efforts becoming epopular. And the
politicians, bless their discerning
souls, are falling right into the pro-
cession and many of them are scramb-
ling right up on the band wagon
Monroe Journal.
Raleigh Post, 23rd: Flaming pos
tiers were distributed about the city
last night calling for a mass CONVEX
ton of the conservative white voters
Of Wake County to meet September
9Th to nominate d full county ticket
and transact any other business that
may come before them. The poster
created no little excitement among
the party and campaign managers
here in Raleigh, signed as it is by
a number of Democrats of recognized
ability and influence.
Charlotte dispatch: The Charlotte
Refinery Company, with a capital of
Sl5O,OOO, was chartered to-day. The
company will meet Tuesday night,
when a permanent organization will
take place. The incorporators are @.
W. Johnson, w. E. Holt, J. S. Spen-
Ger of Charlotte, and a party from
South Carolina. Mr.. J. S. Spencer,
one of the incorporators, to-day adj
mtted that the company would oper-
ate in opposition to the Virginia-Car-
DINA Chemical Company. The enter
prise is said to be backed by millions.
Raleigh Post Dist: Four negroes,
Passengers on the south-bound Sea-
board Air Line train, due here at $50
o'clock yesterday evening, raised a
row with the conductor, Capt. W. 2.
Elements, which resulted in the death
Of Mr.. Fred Stevens, roadmaster on
The Seaboard, and the dangerous if
not mortal wounding of Jim Mitchell,
NE efficient porter under Captain
Clements, on the train, at the hands of
oAe Of the four fendish negroes, who
were engaged in the row. Three of