The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-06-09
GENERAL NEWS TENS.
Facts OF Interest Gathered from variou
Quarters.

ootih ANNiI1S tiS SAttSh NV
on the list inst.
navy of Spain.
T~hirty-two new cases of cholera have
been reported at Venice.
Captain Bonham, of Abbeville, has been
very i'll at Providence, II. l.
An epidemic has broken out at Chemnitz,
Germany, arising from eating raw beef.
United States Minister Cox and lady
dined with the Sultan of Turkey Sunday.
Major III. G. Russell, q Mississippi gam.
bier, suicided Mt Indianapolis Sunday.
In China the fee for medical attendance
Is from 5 to 10 cents a visit.
Henry Havemeyer. sugar %refincr, died
suddenly, on Wednesday, ut Babylon, l.. L.
Over $50, 900 has been raised In Chicago
for the families of the killed and wounded
police.
The police of Belfast, Ireland, seized q
quantity of arms consigned to parties in
Armagh.
The Normal Institute for Richland will
begin on the 10th or Goth of July and last
ten days.
Silence never shows itself to so great an
advantage as when it is made the reply to
calumny and defamation.
Opportunities are opportunities. They
are like flowers that fade at night; seize
them, therefore, while they last.
O~rangeburg is now without a telephone,
the Bell Telephone Company having taken
their instruments away.
On Saturday night last the Quirk resi-
dcncc, about u mile from Florence, was
burned to the ground.
The Rev. j. Q. Wcrtz has accepted a
pnll fn hNnnt,,n tl,n q &c h-
congregation Mt Orangcburg.
Mr.. M. b. Anderson shot and wounded
a large eagle near Three and-Twcnty Creek,
Anderson, on last Wednesday.
The deceased wife's sister bill has been
II was expected.
The Washington fund collected for the
purpose of buying Mrs. Hancock n house
now reaches nearly $10,0
The Grand Division of the Sons of TEN
pcrance in South Carolina will meet in Co
lumbia in July.
The United States Consul at Samoa has
established n protectorate over King Ma
lietoa.
EX-Presidcnt Fish, of the New York
&Iurinc Bank, is now an assistant 10 the
Auburn Prison chaplain.
vi IJiJoi llSoi, VI [ADbtNlllC, uSCl
81 years, fell from a wagon last Saturday
and injured his spine.
DR.. w. O. Baldwin died at his home in
Montgomery Sunday. He was among the
most eminent physicians of the country.
w. II. Gigcr shot and killed Deputy
United States Marshal j. w. Higgins at
Carthage, Tenn, Monday. Old fcud.
The Chicago Grand Jury returned 81
additional indictments against the Anar
chists Wcdncsd =.
In the first game of faro on record, the
inventor INCORRECTLY callek Pharoah went
in a.littlc too far and was done up.
1t is now thought that the present trouble
III the fisheries question is q blessing I'm dis.
guisc, and will hasten a lasting settlement.
Fourteen thousand miles of railroad track
were changed in the State ef Georgia from
the broad to the narrow gauge within few
hours.
On Saturday w. G. Riley, town mar.
shat of Abbcville, was accidentally shot
while attempting to qucll a row. He will
rCcOver
The residence OF DR.. Henry Faust, neal
Graham's, Orangcnurg County, was acct
dcntally burned Thursday. Loss 81, 600;
no insurance.
Capt. Pierce, OF r!m San Carlos Rescrva,
ton, Arizona, is pay lag $3.50 apiece for the
heads Of hostile Indians found in San Pc,
dro Valley.
The Pail Mall Gd:eHe, OF Monday, calls
upon the Government To take immediate
steps to meet the threatened Ulster rebel.
lion.
DR.. George w. Pyle, his wife and two
children and a hired man were brutally
murdered on Monday in the Cherokee Ma
ton, Indian Territory, by unknown parties.
y freight house in East st. Lous was
destroyed by an incendiary fire yesterday,
and an officer shot at twice while entering
the building. Loss estimated ut $75, 600.
A closed door meeting of Chicago So
cialists was held Sunday night to raise
means for the defence of Spies, Schwab
and Fieldcn.
The subscription raised for the families
OF the Chicago policemen killed and injured
in the Hay Market riot, now exceeds So
600 and is still increasing,
Friday afternoon the wife of Sins Eos.
ter, of Columbus, Ga, shot herself through
the heart. Her husband charged her with
infidelity.
The Provincial Mayors throughout Bel.
GUM have issued orders prohibiting the
Socialist demonstrations announced for
June 10.
The President has nominated David
l.. Hawkins, of Missouri, to he Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, rice jerks, re-
signed.
The measles and spring fever have been
conducting IA joint canvass in Georgia for
some time. Both sides have found full
material.
There is no longer any conccnling the
fact that prohibition has full possession of
Georgia. In North Georgia the peaches
are rotting n falling from the trees.
Anarchist Most was sentenced Wedncs
day to the New York Pcnitcntiary for one
year and fined $500; Ba%unschineg, nine
months and $3.50; Schenck, nine months.
The Blue and the Gray mingled in
Charleston, West Va, on decoration day,
to pay their floral tribute to the dead sol
dicrs of the late war.
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