The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-07-04

municipalities, Will meet III OcloUel.
The Supreme court Of Cuba has
ruled that. under the decree OF General
Brooke, only civil marriages are legal
An appeal will be taken to the Uniteh
States Supreme Court. .+....
domestic.
One life was lost and six persons
we're badly burned in q hotel hre ut
South Bend, Ind.
James W. Hess, postmaster at In.
iianapolis, is dead. He was appointed
postmaster by President Mckinney IN
1897.
California wine growers threaten to
withdraw their exhibit from the Paris
Exhibition unless the jury modlnes
it's decision toward American products.
Gas has been advanced to the legal
ate of $1.O5 per thousand cubic feet
in New York City as result of the
consolidation Of all interests.
United States Senator A. o. Bacon
came close to death from eating llper-
ally of toadstools, which he thought
were mushrooms at Macon, ga.
A negro boy killed a three-year-old
girl in independence, Va, because he
was angry at her mother.
Without an opposing vote. the Dem
ocratic State Convention of Delaware
,atifed the Chicago platform and rec
omended it's delegates to the Demo-
cratic National Convention to vote for
W. ]. Bryan for the Presidency.
Lawlessness has been resumed in st.
Louis becaus, Of the failure to settle
the street car strike.
While working on the cantilev1-
bridge at Niagara Falls, N. Y, Henry
Seipple fell 200 It to instant death.
Thousands of English sparrows have
been found dead in Chicago streets,
having been poisoned by unknown
persons.
Passengers from Cape Nome declared
at Vancouver, b. c., that the richness
If he gold fields have not been e1ag'
,erated.
A large number of students from
Fairmont College, at Wichita, and
from the Southwestern Kansas Col
.ege, at. Winfield, boys and girls, have
gone into the Kansas wheat H. 3 as
harvesters.
Bishop Potter, of New York City,
Upheld trusts in his baccalaureate SER
mon to seniors of Harvard University.
The Federal quarantine at San Fran
cisco, establi he'd because Of fears Of
the bubonic ..lague, has been raised.
Reports from the KIondike show
that the Cleanup" will be $25,OOO,OOO,
which is much larger than was ex-
pected. sN
DR.. Kennedy. convicted of the MUIR
der of Dolly Reynolds, at the Grand
Hotel, New York City, has been de-
MED a new trial by the New York
Supreme Court.
A San Fe freight train ran into
"a loaded street car at Hutchinson,
Kan, killing three persons and badly
Iinjuring four others. The dead are
Mrs. William Burch, Mrs. j. 8. Pat
ton and Mrs. George Coon.
Foreign. -
The steamer Roger'sailed from Hal
flax, n. S., for Harve, France. with
a cargo Of 25,OOO cases Of Holsters,
weighing 900 tons and valued at $780,
900. 1T
General Roberts reports that the
Beers have given up 1000 stands Of
arms since the occupation Of Preto-
ria. = T.
General Pelloux, the Italian Premier,
has handed in to King Humbert the
resignation Of his cabinet.
Mrs Gladstone was buried in West
minister Abbey in London. The cere-
monies were very. impressive.
Joseph Chamberlain, in speech in
London, declaring the war over, hopes
for American sympathy in Great Brit
aims position in South African
\ An American who served with Boer
ARTILLERY reported at Lorenzo Marques
thah more than 5000 men are still in
the field. l,4
The qumber of horses and rlules
landed in South Africa since the begin
ming Of the>,war for military purposes
is over 100000, at a cost Of $4,000, 900.
Prince de Jalnville, SON of the late
Louis Philippe, 'King Of the French, is
dead as result of pneumonia.
King Humbert opened the twenty
first Legislature Of ITALY, his speech
from the throne beiasg loudly ap-
plauded. ~
General Knox, in .ommk ind of a
British post at Zand River, hseat off a
Boer attacking party. NE loss was
small on both sides.
Able MaFeaux, the Paris astrono-
mer, has discovered q new spot OH the
sun, and predicts great heat during che
months OF July, August and Septemr
ber.
An uprising has occurred in the Brit
ish colony of Gambia, West Africa,
and two British officials and six police
officers were killed.
Russia and Japan are making enor
nous war preparations, and a CLASH
between the two powers is expected
over either CHINA or Korea.
Sir Alfred Miner, Governor Of Cape
Colony, sent for Sir John Gordon
Sprlgg, the former Premier. who is
trying to form q cabinet