Tho Progressive Parmer, April 29, 1002.
State News.
wBOli CURRITUCK TO CHEBOEEE.
rtiof Interest Gleaned Trom our Corns
pendents and Exchange in all
Parti of th Stat.
Littleton Reporter: A canning
factory will be in operation here in
to can the surplus tomatoes,
eto , of this section this summer.
Greensboro Record : The fruit so
far has not been in the least injured
and the trees are so full that some
thing will have to be done to relieve
theai.
gtateaville Masoot: From con
versing -with farmers from different
actions of the county we think more
corn will be planted than for some
years and that the aoreage of cotton
vrill be reduced.
President Truman J. Baokus, of
Packer Institute, Brooklyn, New
York, will deliver the commence
jneat address of the Agricultural
and Mechanioal College Tuesday
night, May 27th.
The Charlotte Observer announces
the candidacy of Judge W. A. Hoke,
of Lincolnton, for the United States
Senate. He is a judge of the Su
perior Court of this State and is well
known to the residents of every eeo
tion of North Carolina.
Warrants for twelve rural school
libraries were issued in the office of
the Superintendent of Public In
struction last week. One eaoh went
to Caldwell, Currituck, Johnston,
Linooln and Vance ; two to Person
and five to Montgomery.
The Republican State Convention
will not be held August 21st, by
reason of the fact that the date con
tacts with that of the State Confed
erste Veterans' Association. It is
ilsly that the convention will be
field one week later, August 28th.
Stanly Enterprise : The little town
of Palmerville has virtually sold
itself out. The Whitney Reduotion
Company has purchased almost every
foot of land in the place, besides the
surrounding property to the north
and scuth for some three miles eaoh
way.
Winston Journal : The R. J. Rey
nolds Co., shipped something over
155,000 pounds of tobacco Friday to
F. A. Davis & Son, in Baltimore.
This is reported to be the biggest
single shipment ever made from here
to one firm. The tobacco occupied
seven freight cars.
Charlotte Observer : At a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Nor
wood Manufacturing Company, of
Norwood, last week, it was deoided
to build a new cotton mill, whioh
will operate weaving maohinery ex
clusively. This will make two tex
tile plants for that hustling town
and the seventh one for Stanly
Coanty.
Mr. H. C. Brown, the competent
clerk of the State Corporation Com
mission, is a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Commissioner
to succeed D. H. Abbott, whose term
expires this year. Mr. E. C. Bedding
-eld, of Wake, former member of
ttie commission, is also a candidate
for the place, and there may be
ethers Exchange.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer :
ilaj. James W. Wilson's open letter
to the Democrats of North Carolina
regarding the candidaoy of Judge
Clark for the chief justiceship was
rea.1 here to-day with marked inter
est. It was said quite frankly that
m all probability ex Judge James E.
Shepherd or Judge Michael Justice
ould be the nominee.
The Fayetteville Observer says
that the truckers expect to ship not
!fs than twenty thousand dollars
worth of lettuce from that place
u; one this season. It is now bring
lajj frern 5 to 7 per barrel in N6W
York. There is an opening here for
- -"d money by many farmers in
N rth Carolina who are advantage
:-j -2y situated. Exchange.
Mooresville Cer. Charlotte Ob
rver : Inspector Boss, of the Post-
vice Department, has been in the
: uity several days surveying and
' . king preparations to inaugurate
' rural free delivery system in
vie. Sj far 16 proposes to estab
four routes leading from Mocks-
' 'u1, Hrid expects to place as many
to elsewhere in the county.
rrenville special to News and
" iver, 21th: After an illness of
'no time ex Judge Augustas M
: re died suddenly at his home in
r r-nville shortly after ten o'clock
1 morning. Judge Moore wan
;iVjnfc 65 years old He was ap
pointed criminal court judge of the
Eastern district to fill the term of
the late Judge Dossey Battle, a posi
tion whioh he resigned about a year
ago. Me was an able judge, and a
well equipped lawyer, enjoying the
confidence and esteem of men of both
political parties and having a very
large cirole of friends.
Lenoir Cor. Landmark : We like
the rural free delivery. As yet we
have but one route. There ought to
be others, and no doubt will be
goon A large number of our peo
ple have gone to Oregon, Washing
ton and other Western States.
Among those going this week Is Dr.
J. K. Moose, of Lenoir. Those who
went in March write baok that they
are delighted with their new situa
tion. Elizabeth City Tar Heel : Hon. T.
G. Skinner, ex-Congressman, at
torney, railroad official and U. S.
Naval Chaplain, was in town this
week and paid us a call. We asked
Mr. Skinner, if the showing
for the new road was good ; he said
it was. Mr. Skinner is enthusiastic
over the new railroad for Elizabeth
City and speaks confidently of its
success. He goes to Suffolk to mor
row to attend a meeting of the S. &
C. R. R. officials.
Hiokory Meroury : Prof. Whisen
hunthas just about oompleted the
work of new districting the county
into school distriots, whioh will give
67 distriots instead of 82 as hereto
fore. It will require moving and en
larging several school buildings and
in some distriots the building of new
ones. . There is a fund provided for
out of the school money for this pur
pose. This fund can be increased by
selling some school houf.es and by
private subscription.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer:
The Roman Catholics will have the
new buildings at their orphanage
here oompleted by January 1. They
are wonderful workers. They have
selected by far the most beautiful
and commanding of all the sites
near here. The ohuroh, of whioh
the corner-stone was laid yesterday,
is 40 by 75 feet ; the school building
30 by 40 feet and two stories in
height, and the priest's house 36 by
44 feet. The entire lower floor of
this will be a dining hall.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer :
At a citizens meeting to-night in
the interest of Raleigh & Eastern
Railway, from here to Washington,
it was stated that it was expeoted
Raleigh would subscribe $50,000. It
was also stated that the cost of the
road would approximate $7,000,000.
Twenty-one thousand dollars was
subscribed. Another meeting will
be held Tuesday evening. It was
stated that various plaoes along the
proposed line are ready to subscribe.
Goldsboro Cor Post, 26th: On
the northbound train on the Atlan
tic Coast Line to day there were only
a very few crates of strawberries.
There were several orates of aspara
gus, whioh is still holding its own in
the northern market, the price being
$2.25 to $4 in New York yesterday
and about the same thing to day
North Carolina strawberries sold
yesterday at 25 and 35 oents a quart.
The indications are now that the
price will remain good through the
season.
Col. Olds : It is not yet- known
whether the Imperial Tobacco Com
pany will do a retail business in this
State. Last night this question was
asked your correspondent. In reply
to it Col. John W. Hinsdale, the
company's attorney for this State,
said he did not know ; that his deal
ings were as an attorney with its at
torney at New York, and that all he
knew was that it would, have buyers
on all the leaf tobacco markets and
would make things very lively in
deed for the American .Tobacco Com
pany.
Wilmington Cor. Post : On aooounfe
of a controversy between two fac
tions on the board of aldermen four
members, composing one element,
have resigned, leaving six on the
board. Four citizens were eleoted
last night to fill vacancies, but each
refuses to serve. The board has had
so muoh contention and wrangling
ciuring the past year that noDodv
seems to want to get on it. The
situation is becoming grave. Tnere
is muoh talk of citizens coming to
gether for the purpose of naming a
new board an i adjusting all muni
cipal affairs which have gone wrong
in the twelve months just past.
Washington special to News and
Observer, 26th : The House Com
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds reported the appropriation
b 11 for public buildings to day. The
following are the North Carolina
items in the bill : For a oourt house
and postofflce at Durham, seventy
thousand dollars. For a postoffloe
at Goldsboro, thirty-five thousand
dollars. For increase for custom
house and postoffloe at Elizabeth
City, twenty thousand dollars. The
former appropriation is one hundred
thousand dollars. Provision was
made for a full investigation as to
the necessity for appropriation for
inoreased accommodations at Greens
boro. Washington Star : It is a matter
of history, never before published,
that President McKinley three times
offered Mr. Pritohard a plaoe in his
offloial family. The offer one time
was made through Representative
Brownlow. Senator Pritohard de
clined then, and would decline now.
He wants to return to the Senate
from North Carolina, and is making
a great fight in that direotion. Presi
dent Roosevelt realizes the situation
in North Carolina as to Senator
Pritchard's case, and feels so friendly
to the latter that he will do what he
can to help the cause of his friend.
This assistance may not go to the
point of a cabinet offioe, but it will
take some other form.
The Davidson College Bulletin says
that the scholarship fund of the col
lege, whioh amounted last year to
$12,000 has been inoreased by $8,428
within the past eight months. Mr.
P. B. Fetzer, of Concord, gave the
money to found a scholarship ; and
Mrs. J. M. Odell, of Concord, fonds a
memorial scholarship in memory of
her father, the late Washington Alli
son ; and the late Miss Franoes Tay
lor, of Newborn, gave a oertain part
of her estate, amounting to $5,428 29,
the interest of whioh will be used as
a scholarship fund, yielding $330 a
year. The Twentieth Century edu
cational fund, whioh Dr. Stagg is
raising, will add $300,000 to David
son's endowment. News and Ob
server. Rialto Cor. Post: It has been
rumored for several days that Ex
Congressman Jno. W. Atwater would
run as an Independent Democrat for
Congress.' I saw him to-day and
asked for a statement, and he very
frankly said yes. He said that a
very large number of prominent and
active working Democrats from all
over the distriot had been urging
him to pursue this course ever since
he was sidetracked and run over at
the last Congressional oonvetion by
the lawyer ring. That the farmers
were insisting on a representative,
and that the old soldiers were de
manding one of their old comrades
for Congress, and that the whole dis
triot was dissatisfied at the treat
ment that he reoeived in the con
vention. The election law, section 13, re
quires "every sheriff and tax col
lector, between the 1st and 10th days
of May, 1902, and biennially there
after, to certify under oath a true
and correct list of all persons who
have paid their poll tax for the pre
vious year on or before the 1st day
of May, to the clerk of the Superior
Court, who shall, within ten days,
record the same in a book to be pro
vided for the purpose, keeping each
township separate, and certify a
oopy thereof to the chairman of the
board of elections for such county."
If one is liable to poll tax and his
name does not appear in the list cer
titled by the clerk, then he cannot
vote. Neither can such persons par
tioipate in primaries, for one who
oannot vote has no right to partici
pate in the seleotion of men to be
voted for. Statesville Lanmark.
Dr. Campbell, of Asheville, has
presented the public high school an
herbarium of 160 specimens.
Plans have been adopted for the
Fullen Memorial Hall at the Agri
cultural and Mechanioal College ; it
will coat $16,000. Shaw Univer
sity has received a donation of $15,
000 for a steam-heating plant.
Sanford will build a new publio
schoolhouse. The Students' Build
ing will be erected at the State Nor
mal and Industrial Colleg next sum
mer ; $10,000 has been subscribed by
the students and their friends
Conoord will build a $20,000 house
this summer. The Presbyterians
have already raised nearly one third
of the $300,000 twentieth century
education fund Mr. B N. Duke
has endowed the chairs of political
economy, German, the Romnoe
languages, and applied mathematics
at Trinity College. The endowment
ia equivalent to $100,000. The
Thomasville Orphanage receives
$1,000 from the estate of Philip
Johnson, of Wake Forest. The
Normal and Indastrial College has
received two handsome pictures from
Mi9s Helen Gould. Atlantic Educa
tional Journal.
General News.
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TELL.
The
Facts Soiled Down and Presented in
Convenient Form for Busy
Headers.
Amerioans repulsed Moros in two
fights in Mindanao last week.
Queen Wilhielmina, who has ty
phoid fever, is reported better.
The whole western part of Guate
mala was desolated by the recent
earthquake.
Dispatches say that the noted
preacher, Dr. T. De Witt Talmage,
left an estate worth $300,000.
General Uribe-Uribe, the Colom
bian revolutionary leader, has been
overwhelmingly defeated.
During the three months ended
September 30, 1901, 725 persons were
killed and 2,622 injured in train ac
cidents in the United States.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beaoh said in
the House of Commons last week
that nothing could be more prema
ture than the rumors iu London
about probable peace in South Africa.
The Supreme Court has granted
leave to the State of Washington to
file an original bill for an injunc
tion against the Great Northern
Paoifio merger.
The court martial to try General
Jacob H. Smith at Manila has been
dissolved and reconvened, so as to
put it under the direot supervision
of President Roosevelt.
Frank R. Stookton, the well known
novelist and writer, died in Washing
ton City Sunday morning of hemor
rhage of the brain. Mr, Stockton
was a native of Philadelphia but his
.home was in Charlestown, W. Va.
He was $8 years old.
J. P. Morgan, who is now abroad,
has practically consummated a plan
to oombine all the leading trans-At-lantio
steamship lines. London dis
patches announcing the combination
were confirmed Saturday at the Mor
gan banking house in New York.
A New York dispatch says : Bryan
sent a letter to the Tammany men of
thirty fifth assembly distriot this
evening telling them that free silver
must not be forgotten and that he
hopes nothing will tire them in their
devotion to the principles of the
Kansas City platform.
Washington Cor. Post : Ex-Senator
Butler, who is in Washington, is
taking but little interest in politics
just now. He is chairman of the
Populist national executive oommit
tee, but, to use the slang of the day,
he says "there is nothing doing"
with the party that he represents.
Without a word of disoussion of
the merits of the measure, the Senate
last week passed the River and Har
bor Bill, carrying in appropriations
about $70,000,000. So thoroughly
had the bill been considered by the
Commerce Committee that every
Senator was oontent that it should
pass as reported from the oommittee.
Capt. Charles E Clark, the gallant
commander of the battleship Oregon
during the Spanish War, has deolined
the appointment on the special em
bassy to represent the United States
government at the ooronation of
King Edward VII, and the President
has appointed Rear Admiral Watson,
president of the naval examining
board, to serve in his stead.
Brigadier General Frederick Fun
ston of Kansas, who is known
throughout the world as the man
who captured Aguinaldo, the Filipino
leader, has been officially reprimand
ed by the President for saying in a
speech that Senator Hoar was "af
flicted with an overheated con
science." The General ia also ordered
to cease further publio disoussion of
the Philippine question.
It is difficult to oonoeive of greater
barbarity than that described last
week by a witness before the Phil
lippine oommittee of the Senate as
having been visited upon a Filipino
through the administration of the
so called water cure by the order of
a captain of United States soldiers.
It was cruel in the extreme and is
doubtless a type of other case3 whioh
have from time to time been referred
to but not described with the close
detail which marked this description.
The proceeding was a disgrace to
the name of the United States, and
it is well that it has been decided to
summon to Washington all those
whose names have been associated
with participation in similar occur
rences. What must the semi civi
lized people of the Philippines tiink
of the people who propose to benevo
lently assimilate them and who go
about it in this way ? Charlotte Ob
server.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS' BX17NI0N.
Will Meet Next Year in Hew Orleans oid
Officers Ee-eleoted.
Dallas, Texas, April 23. The Con -federate
Veterans assembled in re
union here today and transacted im
portant business with a rush. Gens.
Gordon, Lee and Cabell were re
elected and Gen. C. I. Walker eleoted
to suooeed the late Gen. Wade Hamp
ton as commander of the Army of
Northern Virginia. New Orleans
was selected as the place for the next
reunion. Gen. Gordon was given no
chance to retire. A voice from the
baok of the hall cried :
"The only way you can get away
fromthe office, General, is by dying."
So for another year Gen. Gordon
will be commander-in ohief, Gen.
Stephen D. Lee, commander of the
Army of Tennessee Department, and
Gen. W. L. ("Old Tige") Cabell,
commander of the Army of the
Trans-Mississippi Department. The
election was unanimous by a stand
ing vote. Glowing tributes were paid
to the officers and half the audienoe
was in tears when the meeting ad
journed.
GEN. MILES NOT TO BE BETIBED UNTIL
BOOT BETUBNS.
Washington special to Philadelphia
Record: The order for the retire
ment of Lieutenant General Miles
will not be issued this month. The
announcement was made to day by
Seoretary Root before leaving for a
two weeks' trip to Cuba that General
Miles would not be retired during
his absence and that no time had
been designated when he would be
relieved pf his present duties.
At headquarters of the army Gen
eral Miles continues to perform his
duties, apparently undisturbed by
reports of his forthcoming retire
ment. If he is to be retired, he says,
he does not expeot to hear of it posi
tively until the order is sent to him
by the President.
THE RESIGNATION OF MB. EVANS.
The report has been so persist
ently oiroulated that Mr. Evans
wished to retire from the position of
Commissioner of Pensions, and that,
upon retirement, the President
would appoint him to some other
position, that some apprehension
was aroused lest the oountry should
lose his services at a critical point.
That apprehension has been justi
fied by the formal announcement
Mr. Evans has tendered his resigna
tion to the President. No man can
be an efficient Commissioner of Pen
sions without making stubborn
fight against tricksters, schemers,
and corrupt influences of many scrts.
It is greatly to the credit of Mr.
Evans that he has so discharged the
functions of his offioe that he has in
curred the deadly hatred of a cer
tain group of Grand Army men who
misrepresent that organization, and
of a large group of pension attor
neys of whose morals and profes
sional methods the less said the bet
ter for them. There is probably
no subject with whioh American
publio men have had to deal during
the last few years which requires so
muoh patience and courage as the
pension business. The attempt to
administer the Pension Offioe oh
business lines, with striot regard to
law, has always furnished' material
for insincere and demagogic denunci
ations of the Administration and
the Commissioner by a group of
men whose only conception of patri
otism is the opportunities it affords
for living off the Government The
countiy has been, and will be, in ac
cordance with the spirt of the
American people, thoroughly gener
ous in its treatment of its soldiers,
but the administration ought to be
inflexible in protecting the Treas
ury from schemers who take base
advantage of the publio generosity.
Mr. Evans has fought a brave fight,
and fought it with success. He has
done his duty so faithfully that,
from the very beginning, a persis
tent attempt has been made to re
move him from office. President
McKinley resolutely supported him ;
there cannot be a question but that
Mr. Roosevelt has supported him in
the same spirit; for Mr. Roosevelt
has been a soldier ; and in the exact
degree in which a man loves real
service to the country will he hate
and loathe all attempts to get the
rewards of service without render
it. The country can ill spare Mr.
Evans' ser7ices, and will count on
the appointment of a man to suc
csed him who will te hated in the
same fashion by all those who regard
the pension as a source of indiscrimi
nate bounty. New York Outlook.
COTTON YARN 8FINNEB8 TO FOB II A
TBTJST.
Over a Hundred Mill Ownere Meet in Cher
lot te to Consider the Proposition A $6TJr
000,000 Company Those Present Take
Contracts Home to Advise "With Stockhol
ders. Charlotte, N. C, April 24. Over
one hundred mill men from six
States, representing 700,000 yarn
spindles, met in Charlotte yester
day to hear the details of the pro
position of F. Li. Underwood, of No.
31 Nassau street, New York, who
wishes to combine 60 per cent, or
more of the Southern yarn mill in
a $60,000,000 trust. Just before the
adjournment the mill men unani
mously voted for a resolution de
claring the wisdom of an amalgama
tion of their interests, and a great
majority of the spinners voted to
recommend that the proposal of Mr.
Underwood be favorably considered
by the stockholders of the Southern
yarn mills. Mr. Underwood says he
ia delighted with the reoeption ao
oorded him by the mill men, and he
is confident that the big merger will
be effected. At a meeting in the
afternoon, Mr. Underwood repeated
his proposition, which is, in effect,
that he will agree to pay to all of
the yarn mill owners a price to
be agreed upon by a oommittee to te
selected by the mill owners with his
approval, but it is stipulated that
such price shall not be in excess of
220 per cent, of the fair cash cost of
replaoing the property ; payment to
be made in one-half preferred and
one-half oommon stock. He informed
the spinners that he and his associ
ates were prepared to effect the com
bination and were prepared to put
up $5,500,000 as working "capital
within ten days if need be.
Contraots whioh were submitted
to the spinners state that the deliv
ery of the mills must be made on or
before January, 1903. The mill men
will take these oontraots home and
announce their decision after a con
sultation with the directors and
stockholders of their various com
panies. Despite their vote, a number of
mill men questioned the success of
Mr. Underwood's plan. They main
tain that it is a new thing and too
big to be digested or sanctioned
within a twelve month. Yet all the
spinners agree in saying that the
yarn mills have been steadily losing
money sinoe December, 1901, and
that if a consolidation of some kind
if not effected, then many Southern
yarn mills will be foroed to close
down or be ruined.
"The yarn men may or may not
aooept Underwood's plan," said Dr.
J. H. McAden, President of the
Southern Cotton Spinners' Associa
tion, "but a trust or merger Is
neocessary for their economic salva
tion." WIRELESS TELEGBAPHY TESTS AT BOA
HOKE ISLAND.
Said to be a Better System Than Marconi's
A Station at Hetteras.
Norfolk, Va., April 25 General
A. W. Greely, ohief of the United
States Signal Service, passed through
Norfolk yesterday en route to Wash
ington. Greely has been on the
coast witnessing the experiments in
wireless telegraphy being conduoted
between Cape Henry and Roanoke
Island, sixty miles distant, by the
experts in telegraphy of the United
States Weather Bureau.
JThe results of these experiments
are said to have been eminently sat
isfactory to General Greely, who
thinks that the corps acting under
Prof. Willis L. Moore, ohief of the
Weather Bureau, have developed
for the Government, whioh obtains
the benefit of their discoveries free,
a system of transmitting messages
without wire superior to the Mar
coni system. General Gretly is en
thusiastic over the result achieved
by Professors Fessenden and Thies
sen and their associates, who bave
been for many months wori ing ar
duously for the success they have
obtained.
ROOSEVELT WILL NOT DISCRIMINATE
Washington, April 25 Represen
tative Meyer and Rainsdell, of Louisi
ana, saw the President yesterday in
behalf of some Confederate veter
ans employed in the Census Office.
These men have passed the age limit
beyond which employes will not be
retained in the permanent census
bureau, although an exception has
been made in the case of Union vet
erans. The President indicated to
them' that he had no discrimination
to make as between the two and that
he would take the matter up with
Director Merriam