The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-11-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest, Gathere from Various
Quarters.

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There is a snow fall of ten inches
and extreme cold weather in Dakota.
The Norwegian bark Auuila has
foundercd off Gotenburg. TWENTY-FIVE
persons were drowned.
The monetary conference In Paris
has closed, all the Powers represented
except Belgium having arrived at al,
agrccm mt.
The coal operators of the Hooking
and Sunday Creek Valleys have. rcfus-
ed the demand of the miners for an
advance of ten cents per ton.
johnson and Smith, striking coal
miners at Pittsburg, who were arrest
Ell Tor trying TO persuade non.Union
miners to quit work, have been held
on the charge of conspiracy.
In Paris the drcssmaking trade
represents the movement of 500, 600, 900
a year, and gives employment to 10000
ONE Some of the society women
spend as much as $4,000 Il year on
their costumes.
General George b. Mcclellan was
buried OH Monday The End inst, and
the funeral was l%argelN -sTiS.s2:;
| IN s,"rSEc no SrIS" n'.c.iucu'
Among the pall-bcarcrs was General
Joseph E. Johnston.
Kaiser William, is not only the
oldest officer i'm the German army in
age, but in service also. His commits
sion as Encouragement bears the date Of
March 30, 1918, and he joined the army
as ensign on March %, 1907.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company has sold to one
syndicate q tract of land of $4,000
acres; that since its reorganization it
has sold g $500, 600 acres and that
other heavy sales are probable.
An agreement has been entered
into by Secretary Of the Navy Whit
ncy on the part of the United States
and John Roach, under which tho pos
session of the steamship Dolphin is
transferred to Tho Secretary of the
Navy for the United States, with the
right to take and deal with the same
as If title thereto was fully vested in
the United States, the actual status of
the property to be hereafter decided
by the courts.
The grounding of the Powhatan i'm
chNt " ~" NtNS uSO, is
said to I've the third mislap of the sort
which has bcfallcn government vessels
within the last two weeks. First, the
Gantic, after delivering its cargo of
silver dollars to tho Treasury officials.
got out of the Potomac channel on its
way to Norfold, and ran into the mud.
Then the sailing sloop Saratoga, bound
also to Norfolk, got ashore near the
Kim Kane nn1 maui iln l,n,l,n,;,. ia
Powhattan adds the third to the list.
SO wholesale was the dead beating
at Boston this year that the American
Board of Foreign Missions will no
longer send delegates and their tami-
lies into private families to be guests
during Convention week. This year
there were 1000 visitors that enjoyed
free board. Some pastors brought
large numbers of relatives and friends
six thrifty bridal couples spent n week
of their honeymoon "D. H." where
three or four 'dclcgatcs' were invited
six or eight came and so on.
Six green Shelton people loaded
themselves into a wagon recently and
drove to New Haven to visit. The
family visited, alarmed by the number,
| got rid of them at night BY saving that
a smallpox patient was in the house.
they went TO n hotel, and all packed
into II single room. The officiating
old woman hung her old shoe over the
gas Jet to put ii out, and turned the
water faucet, having heard somewhere
that to put out gas a something had
to be turned. In the night the porter
was alarmed by smelling gas. lie
found the country people unconscious
in the room, and the floor was flooded