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PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.
Tuesday, November 1, 1904.
GENERAL NEWS
The Lesser Events of Last Week. -
President Roosevelt was 46 years
old Friday.
Russia, it is reported, has pur
chased the Chilean navy.
Senator Fairbanks continued his
stumping tour into Michigan.
Cornelius Van Cott, Postmaster
of New York city, died suddenly.
The Episcopal general convention
adjourned to meet in Richmond, Va.,
in 1907.
The total casualties of - Japanese
at the battle of Shakhe River were
15,879.
Dr. V. T. Hoffman at Sumter, S.
C, beat his wife and then committed
suicide.
Senator N. B. Scott claimed West
Virginia for the Republican ticket
by 35,000 majority.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has written
a letter advising Civil War veterans
to vote for Parker.
General Kuropatkin was appointed
commander-in-chief of the Russian
land forces in Manchuria.
The people of Arizona object to
being united with New Mexico and
admitted as a single State.
An airship at St. Louis, owned by
Thomas S. Baldwin, of San Francis
co,, made a flight of ten miles.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion's quarterly report showed a
large falling off in net earnings.
A sub-marine torpedo boat, be-
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sia', was launched at Newport News.
The formal opening of the Sub
way in New York city to the trav
eling public took place Friday night.
Governor Odell says he will take
into the New York courts 10,000
cases of alleged fraudulent registra
tion. In the nine months ended with
September the exports of American
wheat and flour both fell off mate
rially. Mrs. James Longstreet, widow of
the famous Confederate general, has
been appointed postmaster at
Gainesville, Ga.
Hon. W. J. Brvan is quoted as
saying his Indiana tour has given
him confidence in a Democratic vic
tory in that State. "
Serious forest fires are reported in
Georgia as the result of the protract
ed drought; many turpentine tracts
have been destroyed.
The State Department has sent
notes to American diplomats abroad
looking to a reconvention of The
Hague peace conference.
The new double track of the
Southern Railway between Washing
ton and Orange. Va.. a distance of
85 miles, is now open for traffic.
Dan Patch paced a mile in 1.56,
the fastest time ever made by a har
ness horse, and Major' Delmar trot
ted a mile to a high wheeled sulky
in 2.07, which breaks the record made
by Maud S., just twenty years ago.
Andrew Carnegie, who arrived in
New York from Europe, says he is
for Mr. Roosevelt's election, but
agrees with Judge Parker on many
things.
The trial of ex-Mayor McCue for
the murder of his- wife at Charlottes
ville, Va., began. Dr. McCue, broth
er of the accused, was the first wit
ness. Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candi
date for President, spoke in New
York, declaring there would soon be
only two classes capitalists and
laborers. ,
A negro man was lynched by a mob
of masked men at Berkley, near Nor
folk, Va. Troops were called out to
prevent race troubles and stayed on
duty till Friday.
The suit of a negro to force the
school officials of Kennett Square.
Pa., to seat his children among the
whites is causing indignation at the
Pennsylvania school law.
, The Supreme Court holds the use
of palm oil in the manufacture of
oleomargarine constitutes a coloring
matter and the product, therefore, is
taxable at 10 cents a pound.
A dispatch says that because some
negro families at Mountain Home,
Idaho, sent their children to the pub
lic schools there, 25 masked men one
night drove all colored people from
the town. The colored people appeal
ed to the Governor for protection.
The Russian Baltic fleet fired upon
a British fishing fleet in the North
Sea, sinking several boats; two fish
ermen were killed and several
wounded; the affair caused great ex
citement in England; at London the
Russian ambassador was mobbed by
a crowd of people.
The largest hotel in the world is to
be built in Chicago. It will cost $10,
000,000, be 22 stories high, and in size
and magnificence, it is stated, will
dwarf any structure of the kind ever
erected. A syndicate of Chicago and
Eastern capitalists' will be the
builders and owners.
The matter of removing the South
western Presbyterian University
from Clarksville, Tenn., to Atlanta
Ga., has been under consideration.
Those who oppose the removal of the
University have secured an injunc
tion to prevent such action and the
matter goes into the courts.
general election is to be held in
Canada on November 3d. The prin
cipal issue is the proposed construc
tion of a national trans-continental
railway, the eastern section of which
is to be built by the government and
leased to the Grand Trunk Pacific
Company the western section to be
built by the Grand- Trunk- Pacific
Company, the bonds of which are to
be guaranteed by the government.
The Liberal Party, which is in pow
er, supports this policy; the Con
servatives assail it on the ground
that it involves too heavy a liability.
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