The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-07-25
No. 52
BY VAIL AND WIRE
NEWS oFT4E- WEEK CONDENSED
FOR THE ADVERTISER.

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NEWS oFTfiE WEEK CONDENSED
FOR THE ADVERTISER.
The Russian fleet is assembling
at Cronstadt tosmees the Emperor
Of Germany.
Mr. Oscar S. SstIfuss,lthe United
States minister tosTnnley, arrived
in London Tuesday.
Richard I<earney was hanged at
Freehold n j., for the murder of
Mrs MargarettsPurcell.
All ofthc stock of the Aiken
Bank has beer, taixen. There are
500 shares at 81 90oach.
L ] Jones wa elected intendant
Of Batcsburg, $ by majority
MI ONE OH Monda. vast
4 Horse thieves are plying ,n...
tIade in Greenvillo County. They
are being pursued by a posse,
-Four hundred persons were killed
aud 200 injured by recent vol
canic eruption ut Makmatos, Japan.
a state OF revolution exists in
Nenezula, and DR. Juan 2 II Paul
has assumed the office ofpresident.
The inquest in the case of Man
dcdcville is clearly showing that he
was murdered by the prison autho-
rites
There is n rumor that Judge
Thurman will attend the North
Georgia and Alabama Exposition
at Columbus, Ga, in October.
The order for the dispatch of re-
Inducements to the Cape has been
countcrmanded, owing to an inn
| prOvcmcDt.
The Directors of the Spartanburg
Manufacturing Company have ptlr-
chased site tor the cotton mill.
1T lies on the lanyard branch inclu-
ding the Bomar and Cleveland lots.
The number of migrants who
arrived ut Castle Garden in May
OF this year, was 1910. The num-
Der for the first five months this
year is lS7,l39, aginst 10000 in tho
H''ilic tilllc IaSl year.
Catcrpillcrs have so overrun the
the county of Kent that the fruit
farmers, whose products are all ca
ten up, are collecting them and sell
ling them at $40 Il sack as food for
! phcaSants.
An amendment will be voted
for at the coming election in No
vember. abolishing the School
Commissioners Office as an elective
one, and giving the Governor the
right to appoint.
There is a man i'm New York who
eats glass, carpet tackS, and live
frogs, and he says that his abnor-
NAL desire to turu his stomach into
lasjunk shop was brouget about
wholly by the excessive use of Gig
arcttes.
An English writer has discover
ed that the devil Is eleven thou
sand years old. But the old boy
seems to be in IL pretty fair state
Of preservation, and still continues
to put in his work with neatness
and dispatch.
There is man living in A Atlanta
Ga, 81 years old who has never ta-
ken chew Of tobacco nor smoked
II cigar, never was drunk, never
sWOre, and never married. and
yet he probably thinks that "he
knows it alp Notwithstanding.
President S. 4 McCravey has re-
ccivcd telegram from Hon ID w
Voorhees,, accepting an invitation
to be present at Spurtanburg for
the Farmers Encampment. He
will accompany Senator Butler on
Tuesday August 18th.
The Columbia Record thinks
Capt. Tillman should be nominated
and elected to the Legislature. 1t
thinks the floor of the House is
where he should make his charges,
and he cannot it says, refuse to go
there without Sinking responsible.
ity.
In one week Mayor Hewitt kiss
ed two pretty women and refused
nomination for the Presidency.
The Louisville Commercial! thinks
that New York does not fully ap-
preciate the versatile sesoui ces Of
Of its marvellous Mayor.
Near Acre Ga, Nellie Brown, a
negro cook, was standing i'm her
kitchen smoking her pipe, when
she was struck by lightning. The
bolt striking her directly upon the
top of the head, and passing down
her body, and taking off her LETT
breast as if cut with q knife, and
burning off her clothing. She was
instantly killed.
The Times-Democrat of New
Orleans, has an interview with u
prominent Free Mason Of Mississip-
pi, to the effect that lodge number
5G elected Il liquor dealer as mem