The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-04-09
GENERAL NEWS sUMMAnY.
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Latest Items and Curious Notes fsom
Our Exchanges.
Mrs. Hancock, who was perhaps
the oldest woman in Oconee County.
died last week near Townville, aged
l03.
The Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows
for the State of South Carolina meets
In Spartanbnrg on the second We'd
nesday in May.
-Ex- Congressman Hemphill, of
Chester, has been elected president of
q pig real estate syndicate in WASH
lngton, with a capital stock of ST.
600, 600.
Hon. William l.. Wilson, of West
Virginia, a been sworn In as Post
master General of the United States,
n Immediately assumed the duties
Of the Office.
DIR. A. s. Salley died at his home
In Orangeburg on the LIST inst. DIR.
Salley has spent u long and useful life
In his county, and leaves a large family
behind him.
Out of $4,000 votes for mayor of
Columbus, Ohio, the Populist caudi-
date got III. The Democrat was elect
ed OF a snug plurality of 1889 over the
8,S5S.
Chester has become one of the
railroad centres of the State. Twenty
two trains carrying arrive
ut and depart from the city daily, ex
cept Sunday, on which day there are
ten passenger trains.
Many of the insurance companies
OF indiana are c%ancelling the risk they
nave taken upon a part of the saloons
In that State. The agents say that
the companies cannot afford to insure
saloon property since the enactment OF
the Nicholson law.
"A little girl, the only child If Mr..
James Ratteree, of Yorkville, while
on her way from school stopped on q
trestle near Catawba junction to play,
when h was u over and killed by q
freight train on the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern Road.
The Christian Neighbor, published
by Rev. Sidi H.. Browne, has entered
upon its twenty-seventh year of pub
LEGATION. With its age the paper
continues to improve. 1t is the organ
OF the South Carolina Peace Society,
and manfully stands out against war.
Tho woman suffrage clause in the
proposed State Constitution of Utah
passed by an overwhelming vote. 1t
now goes to a third reading, but is not
liable to be changed. An amendment
favoring the submission of the clause
70 the vote OF the people was defeated
10 to 30.
--Spartanburg city is working for
n free delivery system. The Herald
says the city has moro than 10000
population, and the sales at tho post
Office for the past year footed &c.,
260 30 Tor stamps alone, not counting
anything for money orders or other
sdrccs OF revenue.
Harry ST. John, son of cx-Govor-
o John L. st. John, of Kansas, and a
member OF the last Oklahoma Legisla-
ture, shot and killed his wife at his
home two miles west of Oklahoma
City. She was his second wife, his first
having secured a divorce from him on
account of drunkenness.
The Venerable Brothers have
started work on n ten-story hotel on
the site of the old Capitol, at Atlanta,
Ga. The building will be of granite
1919 ooSSiS oho ~ W PO,OOO,OUO *
elusive of site and furnishing. 1t will
accommodate 1000 guests, and is to
be omoleted by next September.
Rev. VIM. Gle yeland, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Chadmuk, N.
Y, and q brother of President Glove
land, has been asked to tender his re-
signation of the pastorate. 1t is re-
ported that politics has been the dis
tnlshlnn nln,,ntf alfl NJ. a.
land took no part in political matters.
AT a meeting of the board of dircc-
tors OF the Jefferson Davis Monument
Association a resolution was adopted
asking the president Of the ~assOcia-
ton to communicate without delay
with camps of Confederate Veterans
and other organizations throughout
the South requesting them to arrange
in such a manner as may best suit
thcir views to make collection on June
3 next, the birthday of tho Confederate
President, for the purpose of erecting
q monument to his memory in Rich
mond, Va.
The government weather and crop
report for March gives the following
as the condition in South Carolina y:
Season late !; excessive rains in the
beginning and middle of the month de-
layed farming operations; but little
blowing done until the last few days of
when it'became general; the
planting of corr only fairly begun, be-
ing at least three weeks later than or
dinarily; pasturage growth just start
ing; peach, plum, and apricot trees in
bloom and uninjured; garden and
vegetable truck very backwards; oats in
poor condition; the small acreage Of
wheat planted looking very WE'LL"
Mrs. Maria Robinson Wright is
now q resident of New York. She has
been residing in the City of Mexico and
has done some historical work for
Mexico, San Salvador and Central
America. For an illustrated article
on Mexico, published in the New York
World, she received 500. 600 in gold
from the Mexican Government, the
highest price ever paid for a newspaper
article. Mrs. Wright is q handsome
Southern woman, claiming Atlanta as.
her home, and she cOnfesses to q weak
nesss for newspaper people, because
she has struggled to her present posi-
tion through all the trials of one who
makes a small beginning.
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