The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-04-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES,


Items of Interest Condensed From
Our Exchanges For Quick
Reading.
Very few people in Washington or,
indeed, anywhere else, said a naval
officer, know that Secretary Long
makes it rule to give to the needy
the same amount each year that he
spends for the support Of himself and
family.
Senator Tllman is to speak in
Manning on Friday of this week. He
is going there because of the severe
criticisms which have been made of
him by Senator Applet in the Man
ming Times from time to time during
the past few months.
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Lillian Nordica has brought an ac-
tion in the supreme court through
Howe & Hummel to recover S5O, 900
damages from the Southern Railway
Company for personal injuries in a
railroad collision on Jan. ~ last. on
her way from Atlanta, Ga, to Nash
vile, Tenn, while they were near
Rome. Ga.
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President Roosevelt is in uuan-
dry about the South Carolina mar
shalship and heartily wishes it were
settled with favor to himself. He is
anxious to place it with the view to
getting the republican delegation of
h. otnfa -.
nominating convention of 1904. To
do this and thereby outwit Mark
Hanna is puzzling him.
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Many friends have been both sur
prised and pleased at the appearance
of tastefully bound volume, which
bears the title Poems of Francis
Guignard Gibbes." Miss Gibbes is
native Of South Carolina and her
childhood was spent in Columbia, the
city Of her birth. She was the first
woman to enter South Carolina Col
lege, where she put in several years
Of hard study,
At Madison Square Garden this
week Buffalo Bills Wild West Show
begins season which will be it's last
in America for several years at least,
At the conclusion of it's engagement
in this city the show will 60 across
the continent, taking in Arizona and
other western states which gave birth
to the life it pictures. and for the
first time during eighteen years of it's
existence will visit the Pacific coast
states.
A terrible disaster occurred to the
steamer City of Pittsburg on the Ohio
river at O'Clock Sunday morning.
The steamer was destroyed by fire,
together with the entire cargo. There
were $50 passengers aboard and it is
estimated that one-half lost their
lives.
Three big fires occurred in Dallas.
Texas, at the same hour, by which
property to the value of 1870, 600 was
destroyed and two persons fatally in
jured
Just at the present moment q Bit
ter controversy is wagging in England
with regard to the amounting Of King
Edward and Queen Alexandra on the
occasion OF ftheir coronation next June
There ane many, especially those be-
longing to the Methodist, Baptist
and similar dissenting denominations,
as well as the Low Church and evan
gelical element OF the established
Church Of England, who insist that
the anointment Of the King and
Queen should be omitted altogether
on the ground that the twenty-fifth
OF the "Thirty- niue Articles" that
constitute the charter and canon law
OF the Anglican Church expressly de-
MES the claim Of the Roman Catho-
lie and Orthodox churches to the
effect that the holy oils are to be
counted among the sacraments, de-
nouncing the doctrine as having
grown partly Of the corrupt follow,
ing Of the apostles"