The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-12-10
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
ThfaEs Thas We All shouid Know
Gasherea From Our Exchanges.

Gathered From Our Exchanges.
The famous oartoonist. Thomas Mast, died
Sunday nj Guayaquil Ecuador of SehoS
fever.
The storm nj Hampton Roads last week was
the most severe In years, some damage !"
vessels being reported.
A snow and wind storm swept over tne
eissern Part Of Pennsylvania last week
The wind mad q velocity Of 81 miles An hour.
Firesn regiments Of soldiers In the Philip
pine Islands arc To return home. the sams
number Of reglments relieving them.
Ez-Speaker Thomas B. Reed died in wash
iegtnn on Saturday nigns The o0ay waS
% Portland, Maine, bis old home for burial.
Aus.ria-Hunsary Is experimenting grea.
incop venience from severe cold. heavy
snov bes fallen rendering tire roads imPass
able and the river Danube II frozen.
Barry Johnson ,hs actor, who . few s,,asSs dsys
and then shot himself. died In Phiiadelphia
Sunday In Philaneiphis.
Three American soldiers mutined on q
BFiIish ship In midoceon, shot the captain
sad second omeer and tnsn the vessel oh
Mrs. Este,Ia Hook OF Middletown, New
YORK. has sccured Q verdict OF $500 againsi
iaYnei Harris OF New York for huggipg ana
klsslng her In the street laat June.
Sir Thomas Upton and Designer Fife have
inspected the Shamrock III and Sir Toomas
Lip.on II Thoroughly satisfied ~''n Inc ne"
Gen. z. w. Noise. tho last member OF
Hnmpson's Cabinet, died Monday night at
his homo In sumter after an illness o' sevefa
weeks.
II is now proposed 70 establish new coun.
ss 20 DO called Calhoun and 70 DO composed
OF parts Of old Edgsneld, Aboeville ana
Greenwood counties.
French Ambassador Camb"u who sailed
for France last week, expressed regret al
leaving. ae sAya what Impressed ntm most
during his stay was the Americsn treatment
A number Of business men 10 Columbia
have IN contem piatiou the organisation Of
biz hardware company, the capital stocs
wal be oiO0.Oo0 IL ID understood that large
Part Of the stock has been taken.
q. e. Robinsou agent for the Central rail-
road % Eiiaviiie, Ga. for the past eight years.
left On Tuesday night for Albany, % he stat
Cd. and has not been heard from siuce. he
vss 70 have returnea the next day and @ MS
family, wifo and children are In great sus'
psnss.
Two hundred sleeping sues,a In ths fash
iouable hotel, Nevarfe, New York, werc
awakened early Monday mornins byn fusi-
iado OF revolver sLois fred ~ robbers who re-.
in i the sossi recently pro@plsd . watch be.
mAoo.
The Masonie Temple at Lseonia. N. H.. eas
burned one day lnst week following terrible
explosion which nrst wrecked The entire
ssruciure. The accident scattered deatrue-
tion over o large area, causing other hrea
amountips 10 . ioss Of nearly quarter OF
million d.llarA.
The Bessemer Iron Ore com pany Of BIacks
burg, 3. c., has been orRanised under the
lsus of New jersey. With q capital stock oi
sal,0 coo for the purpose Of developing the
we'll known Bessefner ores OF Biackshurg
upder Q lease recently made by w. l.. Rush
tou OF New York. In the pr0spectus OF The
com pany it ia sisted that the deposit Of ore
n ainost identical with the famous Swedish
oFsa and that u has been estimated BY com.
poseut mining engineers that there arc q, ,00S !.
10 ln,a00 900 tons OF ore available.