The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-11-21
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

George w. Stickney, a real estate
and insurance man, of Washington. D.
G., has disappeared, leaving liabilities
behind him estimated at $40, 600.
Petitions potesting against the
placing of wool on the free list are be-
ing circulated and signed by almost
every one in Western Texas, regard
less Of party.
The Danube Navigation Company
does the largest river business of any
company in the world. Its steamers
carry Loo, 900 passengers and 400, 600
tons of freight every year.
= Mrs. Violet Pace Jackson, wife of
Bishop H.. Melville Jackson, of Ala
bama, died in Richmond, Va, Thurs
day, at the residence of her father,
James B. Pace.
John w. Hogg, chief clerk of the
navy department., and for thirty-nine
years an employe of the government,
dropped dead at his home in Rockville,
Md, on the 14th inst.
The attorney general of New
Jersey has begun suit against the
American Tobacco Company, capital
stock S25, O00, 900, for violating the laws
OF the State against trusts.
The Georgia Association of Cotton
Seed Growers and Shippers has passed
a resolution refusing to ship seed to
anybody at $ll per ton, and hope to
keep the planters from selling even at
this price.
The flint glass manufacturers out
side of the United States Glass Com
pany have decided to form an in
dependent association and start
their factories Mt once. This will give
employment to 5000 men,.
The President has appointed J..
Scott Harrison to be surveyor of
customs for the port OF Kansas City.
Mo. He is the Democratic brother of
eX-President Harrison, and an active
Democratic politician.
"A final survey Of the ship canal
across the Florida peninsula will short
~ be made. The canal will be about 300
feet wide, and about $50 miles in length.
1t will shorten the distance from New
Orleans to Liverpool 1000 miles.
The historical collection of the
Baltimore and Ohio Rajl~Jad, illustra-
ting the DEVELOPMENT of the locomo-
tive, and whi-n was exhibited at the
Worlds Fair, has been offered to the
city of Baltimore by President Charles
f. Mayer.
Senators James u. George, of Mis-
sissippi, and A. H. Colquitt. of Geor-
gla, and Ex-senator s. B. Maxey. of
Texas, all of whom were officers in the
Confederate army, are on the Mexican
pension roll. Gen. j.. B. Kershaw, of
South Carolina, was a veteran of the
Mexican war.
1t is computed that the death rate
of the world is siXty-seven q minute,
nj the birth rate seventy a minute,
and this seemingly light per centagc
OF gain ls sufficient to give a net in
crease Of population each year of al
most l,2OO.OO souls.
Tho Louisiana Alcohol Company
has organized for the purpose of max
ing alcohol out of molasses. The capa-
city of the mill is 5000 gallons per
month. On this there has to be paid
30 cents revenue tax a gallon. Its eX-
pected that the business will increase
until all the surplus molasses is turned
into alcohol.
With all but two counties heard
from, the Official majority for Governor
Mckinley in Ohio stands at 81, 1877 and
the indications are that it will not fall
below $1,000 when the full vote is an
nounced by the Secretary of State. In
only one county pike did the Demo-
Gratis make a net gain and this amount
ed to only III votes.
f. w. Putnam, president of the
Lexington (Ky.) water works company,
has been arrested ut Exeter, Mass,
for embezzling $50, 900 from the Nation
al bank of which he was the president.
The American Trust Company of
New York, trustees for bondholders of
the water company, have sent an ex-
pert to investigate, and startling
developments are expected.