The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-15
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

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After thirteen years litigation an Albany
estate has realized S5 cents apiece for the
heirs. The lawyers got about 81, 900
each.
The Crown Princes breathing having be-
com difficult, the doctors have success
fully performed tracheotomy. Heis doing
well.
American potatoes are scarce in Chicago
and thousands of sacks are being imported
from Rotterdam. A recent assignment was
$500 sacks.
At Adrian, Mich, an epidemic of typhoid
fever has broken out in the State Industrial
Home fol Girls, and thirteen or fourteen
are already sick.
The charities of London last year amount
ed to $22, 600, 900. They were DEVOTED
chiefly to religious purposes, So, 900 900
being on foreign missions.
The gilded dome of the Massachusetts
state House is said to be settling, and it is
feared that 1t will be so much weakened
that 1t will have to be taken down.
The Commercial Printing Company, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, w. II. Burkam,
president and general manager, publishers
Of the Daily Commercial, have failed. As.
sets are given at $43, 92S and liabilities at
$25, 933.
Australia has sent TO this country for
bees with which to ~fcrtilizc clover blossoms
and to make possible the growth of that
grass In the country. A large shipment of
humble bees Is to be made from Kentucky
next summer.
-Four frame dwellings at Kutztown,
Pa, were totally destroyed by fire early
yesterday morning, and John Hopp and
his daughter, aged 10, and a son aged 8
years, were burned to death.
The Marquis of L~ansdowne, Governor
General of Canada, will succeed the Earl of
Dufferin rs Governor General of India at
the end of the present year. Lord Stanley,
of Preston, will DC Lord L~andsdowne's
successor.
Secretary Fairchild has ordered the New
York collector TO seize tie yacht Marion
for tilibustering on the coast of Cuba. The
yacht has just returned from a pleasure
cruise and it is said that the Secretary is the
victim of a joke.
Miss Lcwie M. Boyce, of Plainvicw,
Ncb., a school teacher, who lay on the
prairie all night during the recent blizzard,
with three of her pupils, all of whom died
in her arms, has had both feet amputatcd.
Her left arm is badly deformed by large
pieces of flesh dropping off, but her ply
stefan says it will probably not be ncccs-
sary TO amputate 1t.
Sixty shares of Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road stock sold In Baltimore yesterday at
95. This is the lowest figure reached for
a number of years and it said to result
from the probability that the road may not
declare n dividend for several years to
come. 1t is thought that the shares will
go still lower.
The city council of Spartanburg has ap-
propriated 81 600 for the entertainment of
| thn military 1ppn n, mn ~ ,NrNttlAl nst,
burg be selected. This will be heavily In.
creased by private subscription if necessaryB
A choice camping place will be provided,
tents pluched and all arrangements made at
the expense of the Morgan Rifles.
a big collision occurred on the Georgia
railroad, at Bonesvill, thirty-thrce miles
from Augusta, yesterday morning, between
and east bound through and west.bound
way freight. Both engines were thrown
off the track and struck a third locomotive
on a siding and badly damaged it. All
three locomotives are damaged, but nobody
was hurt.
The Draper Collicry at Gilberton, Pa,
has resumed operations on the same terms
as the William Penn Colliery. Prepare
tons are also being made for the resump.
ton Of work at Kelly Run Colliery. Su.
pcrintendcnt Williams has notified the en-
ploycs of Shenandoah City Cellicry that If
a sufficient number Of them desire TO begin
work again the company will guarantee
them protection.
a bill is now pending in Congress to ap.
propriate $500, 900 TO furnish the post
offices Of the country with a machine to
detect the weight of gold and silver coin.
The machine is n balance with a long arm
containing graduted slots, which determine
accurately the weight, diameter and thick
ness of standard gold and silver United
States coins. Any coin below the least le.
gal weight is readily detected.