The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-05-08

INDUSTRIAL
AND GENERAL

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President Francis announces tha
f the ST. Louis worlds fair will bo post
) poncd until 1904.
Nlillam Rankin, negro, living OF
ms ONO farm, has turned completely
"hltc within tho past five years.
President Roosevelt has ordered q
courtmartial in the case of Major
Glenn, accused of using The "wate
cure " on Filipinos.
May Day was ushercd i'm by strikes
IN various cities of the United States.
Twelve thousand men were ordered
out at Pittsburg alone.
OF the 22,073 Germans who left
Their country last year (the lowest in
several dccades) about 5000 were
bound for the United States.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the Bos-
ton tilvinc, has composed Il modern
psalm III commemoratlon of the recent
celebration of his elgthicth birthday.
| IT. IS said that the Kaiser, whose
mothor was an Englshwoman, speaks
better English than his uncle. KIM
Edward, whose father was a German
by using whey instead of milk as
lood IN typhoid fever, an English ply
slclan reduced the death rate in Is cases
10 2.' per cent. IL is usually about 20.
Senator Hanna has a dinner set of
Twelve plates, originally made for the
Austrian Emperor. The decoration of
each plate is q facsimile of some fnmous
painting.
English Roman Catholics are raising
fund for the purchase of a gold tiara
TO be presented to the Pope at his silver
jubilee. The Duke Of Norfolk is among
the latest subscribers.
Lord Curzon recently unveiled a
memorial tablet in the cathedral nj
Calcutta in honor of Indian volunteers
VINO dled IN South Africa, upon which
was verse OF poetry written by the
Niccroy.
1radlllons are common in Western
Kansas OF trees suddenly dying with
out apparent cause after having been
used az galows for lynchings. Many
are sad never TO have lcavcd again
after this experiences.
Our consul general mt London, vii.
liam Mckinley Osborne, has Just died,
and it is said that Henry Clay Evans,
the dcposcd pension commissioners, has
been informally offered the position by
President Roosevelt.
Mrs. Helen M. Rockwell, who has
just celebrated her 90th birthday in
Chicago, has seen every President of
the United States except Wushinuton.
and had tho distinction OF meeting La
fayettc upon his return to the United
States.
Major Gen. Henry Drarbnrn's sword
used by him in the battle of Bunker
liill, Is Tor sale IN New York; also the
Sold-laced dress coat which he wore
when in 1922 he was presented at the
Court of Lisbon as tho first American
minister to Portugal.
The number Of Congressional spcccb-
cs now being prepared for distribution
before the election next November
breaks all records. There arc at prcs
cnt in ei"ck, ready for the use Of .he
campaign COMMITTEES, 300 900 900 cop.
lcn OF speeches at this session.
Ernest &. Stahl, of Trenton, N. J..
Is known to sccrc. society people ali
over the land. lie belongs to TWENTY
eight different organizations and has
Travelled from one end OF the country
TO the other on business connected
with one or the other OF them,
A scvcn-masted steel schooner of
II 900 tons displacement is at present
being built at Quincy, Mass. She will
be the largest sailing vessel afioat when
launched. Schooncrs of s 900 and 10,
900 tons displacement arc now becom-
ing common on the Eastern coast, and
some OF them are earning from 25 to
4O per cent year.
In India there arc said to be % .O00
| 600 widows, many of whom are chill.
drch under ten years of ago. Thoy
, are forbidden TO remarry and are count
ca "ccursed. Only one native rule
possessed sufficient courage to oppos
inc priests by legalizing the rcmarriae
! of widows in his realm.
Governor Crane, of Massachusetts
has signed the bill awarding media
!, TO cvory man from his State who wen
3 out IN response to President I.incon'
~ first call for troops. The pen wit
q which he signed the bill has been pre
{" " sented to President Pierce, of tb
y " minute men Of 'G1."
Senator Gallinger, of New IIamy
- shire, was ?ractlcing physlcan fo
many years before his election To tn
Senate, and in many emergencies h
has frequently been called on to trea
patients at the Capitol, and he alway
responds TO such emergency calls wit
q keen professional interest.
! Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, now i
his 92d year, and known all over tt
! British possessions rs the evergree
{ admiral" has great desire to die
| sea. With that end in view he Is co,
Z stantly going on long voyages, hopir
| that the grim messenger may find hi
| on the water he has sailed for 40 ma,
! years.
} Examinations will be held throne
out the United States next month