The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-06-11
twenty-five per cent. in addition t
that already paid on the bonds.

| twenty-five per cent. in addition te
that already paid on the bonds.
Carrie Nation is to deliver two ad-
dress in Augusta on Sunday, June p
one at Lake View park and one at the
Monte Sano theatre, suburban resorts,
| under the auspices of the electric rail
way company.
The Republican convention at
Welch, W. Va, for the nomination OF
statute senator, almost ended in a
riot. Guns and clubs were used. The
chairman was carried from the hall
bruised and bleeding. The fight was
between the followers of Senator n.
|B. Scott and j. L Caldwell, a candi-
date to succeed Scott in the United
States senate.
The Shah of Persia, who is visiting
Emperor William, will not travel On a
railroad faster than or 10 miles an
hour, and his suite consits largely Of
detectives.
Mgr. Martinelli, formerly papal
delegate to the United States. has
been made cardinal at a papal consist
DRY held in Rome. Mgr. Messmer, of
Green Bay, Wis, was created arch
bishop Of Manila, and Mgr. Falconio,
papal delegate in Canada, was transfer
red to Washington.
Representatives Of Denver celored
churches have adopted resolutions de-
claring they viii remain away from
the International Sunday School con-
yention to be held IN that city and
viii notify colored delegates through
out the country not to attend, unless
an order restricting them to a certain
section of the church is withdrawn.
The executive committees action in
making the restriction is character
lied as unjust discrimination. -
Mr.. Lease says: 4 have nothing
to say about the charges brought
against me by my wife. She could not
secure divorce without having made
some charges against me, and I am
not kicking. .
Frank M. Normart. of Philadel-
:phia, has not tasted meat for thirty
years, but is an enthusiastic believer
in lentils, which he declares are un-'
equalled fortasetfulness, nutrition and
cheapness.
The business men Of Scottdale,
Penn, have formed an association
against all fake advertising. Hereaf-
Ter they will place their advertising
money into the daily and weekly news
papers Unanimously they have in
.dorsed the newspaper as being the
best medium of advertising and the
only one that proves satisfactory at
all times.
Charlotte Crahtree esLosta'' re-
sides in New York and it is whisper
ed that she is contemplating marriage.
Many viii no doubt be astonished at
this rumor, but the Worlds Almanac
gives the celebrated actress age as
only 50, which is still young enough,
surely, for this particular variety of
folly.
g The greatest missionary since the
days ofst. Paul" is the proud title
bestowed upon Bishop William Taylor,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
who died in Palo Alto, Cal, on May
18th. He was the greatest and most
successful of all the Methodist evan
gelists, y declares the Chicago Tribune,
and ranks with Francis Xavier and
Adoniram Judson in the pioneer
character and wide area of his work. -
Washington and Lee University has
received from the committee which
raised the William L. Wilson endow-
ment fund for the chair of economies
at the University a check for s94, 553,
which, with $1,000 already received,
makes the fund 500, 553. The paper
received with the check bore the sigma
ture of Grover Cleveland, chairman of
the committee, and was drawn up by
John G. Carlisle.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
has decided that girls beauty is not
to be counted against her and that if
jury is Influenced by the comeliness
of fair plaintiff it is not the courts
duty to deprive her of her natural ad-
yantages. This ruling was made indi-
,rectly in the case of Emma Koplitz