The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-07-07
e NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Inc Visiplc supply OIL cottOn IL i,taJ,fJI
bales.
Judge Sloan, of Wisconsin, has decided
that boycotting is illegal.
The sales of tobacco ut Danville, Va,
last year amounted to Sal ,00O, 900.
Cuffee White, colorcd, was mysteriously
murdered in Sumter County ON Thursday
last.
The Chicago strikers are still defiant and
threatening. The police stand their ground
armed with Winchester rifles.
The manifesto of the Comte dc Paris
meets with adverse criticism from the Ger.
man Liberal press.
Murat's sword handle, set with precious
stones and gold, was sold in London the
other day for G250.
The rains have done great damage in
Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina.
A Tcxarkana cotton buyer has swindled
Eastern purchasers nj of $50, 900, selling
them by sample from st. Louis.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister Of
the President, will become editor of Liter.
arg Life, and make Chicago her home.
G.. A. Kinnear, a local mail agent at
%Lynchburg, Va, was arrested Saturday on
the charge of robbing the mail.
The rcdoubtablc General Chalmers offers
himself us an independent candidate for
Congress in tho Second Mississippi Dis
trict.
G. d. Graham, a young cooper of Phila-
dclphia, has determined to shoot the Niagara
whirlpool rapids in a cask on Monday,
July 5.
John d. Saunders, of Hobokcn, N. y,
and his wife and w children were pois-
oncd on Sunday from eating canned string
beans. They arc getting well.
Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, one of the
wcalthicst widows in the United States, Is
worth $40, 600, 600. She was n Miss Fow.
lcr, of Detroit.
Peter Harrison fatally shot Henry Frccr
in Charleston yesterday morning. Both
parties colorcd. They quarrclcd over ten
cents while gambling.
Alex. Kennedy, who lives near Knox
vile, Tenn, is said to be the only living
eye witness of the battle of New Orleans
which was fought in 1915.
Deputy Marshal Mcdonald shot and
killed j. A. Brown and wounded Joe Over
ton, both mooDshincrs, near Atlanta, Ga,
Sunday.
1t is said at the Treasury Department that
the public debt statement for June, will
show n reduction for the month of about
so, 600, 600.
Two brothers, Adam aud Alphonse Reed,
who live near New Orleans, had a duel with
shotguns Sunday, in which Adam was
fatally shot.
The greatest length of Lake Michigan is
800 miles; its greatest breadth, 10S miles;
mean depth, 600 feet; elevation, SOC feet;
area, %, 900 miles.
The outlook is squally in Chicago. The
strikers have thrown a freight train from
the track and the officers of the law and
the railroad authorizes arc deticd.
The first consignment of fire crackers
that Chinese workmon had manufactured
arrived in New York Sunday. They were
made in the ancient city of Canton.
The Southern Lutheran Convention
which has been in session at Roanoke, Va,
for n week past, adjourned Saturday to
meet in Savannah, Ga, next year.
Mrs. Rose Mcrkihoffcr of Brooklyn gave
birth to Il baby boy which had whiskers
half an inch long on each side of his face.
1t died three hours after being born.
There are $50 ocean steamers carrying
tourists from America to Europe, and not
one of that number flies the United States
flag. The more we look at our shipping
the smaller it gets. 9
Congressman Grosvcnor, of Ohio, char.
aCtcrizcs Bostoncsc culture as 'thc over
educated provincialism of the East" This
will strike the Uubitcs between beans and
water.
The Roanc Iron Mill, at Chattanooga.
the largest in the South, which has been
idle for the past five years, decided Thurs
DAY TO start up, and will manufacture steel
rails.
The contract for supplying 100. 600
pounds of tobacco for the use of tho navy
during the next fiscal year has been award.
cl to Meyer Bros. & Co., of Richmond,
Va, ut % cents q pound. =
Stone Bascmorc, of BERTHE County, N.
g., had n quarrel with his father Monday.
and shot him with a shotgun loaded with
buckshot. He then broke open the safc
and took thcrefrom 5000 and fed.
Rossette. whose nomination as postmas,
ter ut Dckalb, Ill.,, was rejected by the
Senate, is the man who said editoriaily in
his paper that he was glad that Grant was
dead, and hoped he was il hell.
The striking switchmcn of the Lake
Shore Railroad in Chicago still hold out.
They held n meeting Wednesday evening
and decided not TO extend the strike to
other roads.
Certain Southern Democratic Senators
do not take kindly TO Governor Thompson's
nomination and are inclined to complain of
the distinction South Carolina is receiving
at the hands of this Administration,
a grand gathering of church dignitaries
at the cathedral in Baltimore, Wednesday,
conferred the bcrctta on Archbishop Glib.
bons, the new American Cardinal. There
were many distinguished prelatcs present.
Rev. Father j.. T.. O'Sullivan, formerly
Catholic priest in Camilius, N. Y, found
guilty of outrage on Abbie O'Connor, for.
mcrly a domestic in his house, was sentenced
to eleven years in Auburn State prison.
st. John is delivering prohibition speeches
in prohibition Maine. This, following the
attack by the clergy of Portland on the
open Sunday saloons in that city, Is an in.
dication that prohibition does not prohibit.
1t is proposed to supply the city of Chi
cago with water by means of shafts sunk 10
the limestone strata which underlies the
city at no great depth and the outcrops In
the bed of Lake Michigan about two miles