The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-26
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Our Adopted Islands.
F. w. Vaille, Director Of Posts in the
Philippines. reports surplus of re-
ceipts over expenditures up to June
80. of s19,449.
The schools of Cuba opened Mon
day. From 100000 to 100000 chill
dren attended.
The reports of military operations
in the Philippines show that Of late
these have been trivial.
The Philippine Civil Commission
proposes to eXpend S6,000,000 for the
construction and repair of roads and
bridges throughout the archipelago.
Anna H. NIeincoke has been appoint
ed postmistress at Wasainu. Hawaii.
Miss Bertha Allen, daughter of the
Governor, will be married to Lieuten'
ant Logan, u. S. N, next month, the
ceremony taking place in the palace at
San Juan, Porto Rico.
Governor Allen returned to San
Juan, after a tour of Porto Rico. He
found considerable crops on the rice
and corn plantations. but little coffee.
No anti-American sentiment was en-
countered.
A cyclone destroyed the crops of the
district of Trinidad, Province Of Santa
Clara, Cuba. The people are desti.
tute. Efforts will be made to relieve
the situation.
" domestic.
Because his wife would not let him
mortgage their home to get money to
bet on Bryan Robert Oockerty, of
Trenton, N. j., tried suicide.
George K. Jones. the twenty-one-
year-old son Of Andrew Jones, fell
from, the ninth story of the Stafford
Hotel, st Baltimore, Nd, and was In
stantly killed. '.n
Undef the will Of George D. Sweet
ser, of New York City, 1921, $780, the
bulk Of his fortune, is left to charita-
BILE and benevolent institutions.
DR.. Frank w. Gunsaulus has re-
signed from the Presidency Of Ar
mour Institute. at Chicago. He Will
devote himself to the Peoples Church
entirely.
"Charlie" Miller. the champion six
day bicycle racer, was taken to the
hospital at New Haven. Conn. suffer
ing from q broken collar bone and
.ooncussion of the brain. He was In
jured in spill during the six-day race.
A campmeeting near Cross Keys, in
Greenville, 8. c., was broken up by a
riot in which about a hundred negroes
were engaged Seven were shot, two
are dead and many others were cut
with fazors and battered with clubs.
While insane, Frank W. Browning,
of Centreville,, Cal. killed a. Japanese
laborer and then blew up his employ
er's house, but killed only himself.
Angered. by the failure Of Chief IL
lowahe, of the Kakima tribe, in Wy
oming, to cure his. child, an Indian
named John stoned the chief to death.
NJ. NJ. Worthington, of Washington,
D. c., an official Of the United States
Fish Commission, became violently in
sane at Duluth.
On account of the extreme drought,
the Fish and Game Commission OF
Maine ordered the sale Of licenses for
September hunting to DE stopped un-
til there is a fall of rain.
The United States monitor Wyoming
was successfully launched from the
shipyard Of the Union Iron Works In
the presence Of thousands Of people at
San Francisco.
Judge Cantrll. at Georgetown. Ky,
denied q reopening Of the murder case
against Powers, but suspended execu-
ton of the life sentence for sixty days,
in order that the defendant might ap-
peal.
Swift & Company. of Chicago, have
secured control Of the enormous busi-
ness and plants Of the Eastmans COM
pany, Of New York City. The East
mans Company has capital of IS 5,0O0,-
600.