The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-19
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~ norwegian woman near SanktOn
Neb., is the mother of eight living set.
of tripIets.
Over 100000 people in this country
live upon the wages paid by railroad
companies.
Geo. p. Wetmore, Republican, has
been elected United States Senator by
Rhode Islands Legislature.
Chancey M. Depew delivered the ad.
dress yesterday to the literary societies
OF the University ofVirginia.
Hoko Smith, Secretary of the Inte-
rior, is now an LII D., by the grace OF
the University at Chapel Hill, N. c.
Floods in the Columbia river, Ore
gon, are doing terrible damage. The
town OF Grant has been almost swept
away.
Rev. \ Musdock, a Methodist preach
er of Ro,ne, GM, has been suspended
by the North Georgia Conference for
editing secular paper.
John II. Crittenden, grandson of
the noted John j. Crittenden, has been
on trial at Frankfort, KY, accused of
stealing 1925 from convict.
At Tampa, Fla, n young man named
| $. &. Griffith was struck in the head
| by baseball and killed. Griffith was
at the bat and the patcher threw the
ball.
The Kansas Populist convention re-
nominated Gov. Lewelling and nom
mated ID. l. Furbeck for Lieutenant
Governor. The platform contains u
woman suffrage plank.
George a Ferrell, Il prominent young
man OF Entaula, Ala, accidcntly killed
himself while cleaning IL Winchester
| rifle. The hammer struck chair and
caused II discharge of the weapon.
1t is stated by the Wilmington, N.
c., Star, that the government will
soon establish u torpedo station at
Fort Caswell, at the mouth of the
Capo Fear river, the beginning of the
line of defenses on the South Atlantic
coast.
Mark Jacobs, an industrious colored
farmer, was taken from his field in the
parish OF Bienville, La, in broad day
light by q crowd of white men and car
ried into the woods, blindfoldcd and
beaten SO terribly that he diod from
the effects.
The London Daily News says that of
the guests present at the reception
given by Admiral Erbcn and his otii-
GERS yesterday on board the cruiser
Chicago none was more honored than
Miss Lee, daughter Of the late Confed-
crate Gen. Lee.
Tariff was originally the name Of q
Moorish chief, who, from Il port in
Spain, near Gibraltar, was accustom-
cd to levy toll on passing vessels. His
toll became regularly understood
thing, and the amount was added to
the price OF the goods.
The Southern Railway and Steam
ship Association last week adopted the
recommendation of the committee that
the present low rates on freight be not
extended to July 81 and the commits
sioner was requested to Withdraw au-
thOrity given members to make such
rates.
Information received at the State de-
partment from our minister at Athens
shows that in So towns pol people were
killed and l46 wounded and 1902
houses destroyed or injured by the re-
cont earthquake in Greece. The value
of the property destroyed is about
81. 900, 900.
The coalition of the American Rail
way Un..1-N.,xf1d Cng- H1ris :. % of Labor
was effected last week in Chicago at
the first annual convention of the Rail
way Union. The first steps were taken
towards an offensive and defensive al
lance these two great labor organi-
zatio.,,, with an elective strength Of
100000.
John Winter, of Montgomery, Ala,
who has been lighting the city autl.ori-
ties in the courts for twenty years,
in the endcavOr to avoid tho payment
of taxes, has been beaten at last and
the city treasurer has received his
check for ST ,26O, which covers the
amounts assessed against him for the
period named.
Inquiry has been made as to the au-
thOrship of the lines written on Il Con-
federatc note. Colonel james II. Ran
dali, who Is well up on all such litera-
turc, says the poem was written by s.
~. Jonas, editor of The Aberdeen
(Miss.) Examiner and now employed
m the Office of the scrgeant-at-arms of
the Senate.
The Chattanooga Tradcsman has re-
ceived official information that How
ard-HarriSOn Iron Co. of BesScmcr.
Ala, the largest iron pipe works in
the South, intend to erect one hundred
coke ovens in connection with their
works and will probably operate their
entire plant, covering several acres of
ground, by electricity instead of steam
Tho prohibitiOnists OF Hayershill,
Massachusetts, have II new scheme to
attempt to prohibit They propose to
oh ~ ppiooil oI OllcII OW IL l.,
| and charge the minimum cost, whiskcy
| five cents IL glass and beer two cents a
glass. They will operate until the
| saloons give up business then they
will close up and only resume when
| the saloons reopen. This open and
| shut business to continue until the
saloon men give up the fight.
The Eastern Telegraph Company OF
London has received cable message
from HoLg-Kong, China, saying that
the nativo population is leaving the
city by thousands daily on account of
the plague. 1t is estimated that lOO,-
900 have already fled and that 900
deaths have occurred. Several Euro
| peans have been attacked by the plague
and one OF them has died. The num-
| Der of deaths is estimated to be 100
per day. The labor market is para
lyzed. The government proposed to
demolish the unhealthy native quarters
OF the city.
The grand jury in Washington has
| decided to return u true bill against
John ). Shriver, correspondent of the
| New York Mail and Express, and T.. j =.
| Edwards, Now York correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press, for refusing to
| give the sources of their information
to the senatorial Investigating com
mittee in regard to statements about
the Sugar Trust and Democratic Soma
tors: and the United States District