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Tuesday, December 20, 1904.
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PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.
GENERAL NEWS
The Lesser Events of Last Week.
New movements for reform are re
ported in different quarters of Rus
sia. Willett M. Hays was nominated
for Assistant Secretary of Agricul
ture. Eugene F. Ware relinquished his
duties as Commissioner of Pen
sions. The" Japanese continue to bom
bard the warships in Port Arthur
harbor.
The cold and stormy weather
caused a number of deaths from
freezing.
Fifty persons were injured by the
St. Petersburg police in suppressing
an anti-Government riot.
The Japanese cruiser Saiyen
struck a mine and sunk November
29 while bombarding Port Arthur.
Virginia members of Congress
will make a contest for an appro
priation for the Jamestown Exposition.
A meeting of cotton ginners is to
be hold in Dallas, Tex., December 19,
to organize a national ginners' asso
ciation. Dr. R. S. Woodward, of New
York, will succeed Dr. D. C. Gilman
as president of the Carnegie Insti
tution. Chairman O. W. Stewart, of the
Prohibition National Committee,
made a bitter attack on John G.
Woolley.
The entire junior class at the Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute resigned
because of the dismissal of one of its
members.
Roosevelt's popular plurality for
President over Judge Parker is esti
mated by the New York Times as
2,r4G,lG0.
The faculty has practically ex
pelled the 125 members of the junior
class at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute.
It is believed that Marshal Oya
ma will get hoary reinforcements
and advance soon against General
Kuropatkin.
It is believed that the second peace
conference at The Hague will N not
be held until after the close of the
Russo-Japanese war.
Georgia saw mill men report great
improvement in demand for lumber
and have raised the price for coast
wise stock for 1905 one dollar per
thousand feet.
Dr. Hunter, the boll weevil expert
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, was among those who
addressed the cotton convention at
Shreveport, La., and said the pest
has caused a damage of $80,000,000.
Frank H. Cunningham, president
of the National Association of Ru
ral Carriers, and James C. Keller,
head of the National Association
of Letter Carriers, have been re
moved from the Government service
for lobbying in behalf of the carriers.
What Congress Did Last Week.
The Senate agrees to the House
resolution providing for holiday
from December 21 to January 4.
The committee on elections are
again considering charges against
Senator Smoot, the Mormon Elder.
Representative Sherman, of New
York, has introduced in the House
a bill identical with that introduced
by Senator Pltat in the Senate, re
ducing the representation of South
ern States in Congress.
President Roosevelt is determined
to have legislation giving the Inter
state Commerce Commission the
right to fix railroad rates.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
has asked the House for $225,000
with which to fight cotton plant in
sects and diseases.
Senator Latimer, of South Caro
lina, has abandoned hope of the pas
sage of his good roads bill this ses
sion. The President has decided defi
nitely not to call an extra session of
Congress to meet immediately after
the close of the present session.
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Japanese torpedo boats attacked
the Russian battleship Sevastopal
and other vessels at Port Arthur;
the battleship is reported badly dam
aged; one torpedo boat missing.
Sasoneff, the murderer of Interior
Minister Von Plehwe, was sentenced
in St. Petersburg to penal servitude
for life and Sikorifsky, his accom
plice, to 20 years penal servitude.
Russian officials say they are en
tirely satisfied with the military sit
uation in Manchuria; by February
Gen. Kuropatkin will have about
half a million troops near Mukden.
Bids were opened for the construc
tion of the battleship New Hamp
shire and armored cruisers North
Carolina and Montana, at Newport
News, the figures being unusually
low.
A picked squadron of 40 or 50
men from the Rough Rider regi
ment, of which President Roosevelt
was colonel during the war with
Spain, will constitute a guard of
honor at the President's inaugura
tion. Twenty-three men were arrested
in Baltimore last week on a charge
of burglary. They are believed to
be the gang that has been robbing
postoffices and banks in Maryland,
North and South Carolina, Virginia
and other States.
Mrs. Chadwick was greeted upon
her arrival at Cleveland, Ohio, by a
howling mob, who hooted and jeered
at her as she was taken into the
county jail; there are now seven in
dictments against her in the Federal
Court and it is impossible for her to
give the bail required.
Aaron P. Prioleu, colored, Repub
lican candidate at the last election
for Congress in the First district
of South Carolina, was convicted in
the United States Court Monday of
interfering with and opening a de
coy letter while a railway postal
clerk in 1902.
The Court of Appeals of the Dis
trict of Columbia has affirmed the
decision in the postoffice fraud
cases against August W. Machen.
George E. Lorenz and Diller B. and
Samuel A. Groff. These men were
sentenced to two years in the peni
tentiary and to pay a fine of $10,000
each.
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