The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-07-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Thinxs Tint We AL Shsa'd Know
Gathered From Oar Exchanges.

Thinxs Tint We AL Shouid Know
Gathered FROM Our Exchanges.
, Hon. W. n. Perry. n: Green wood. died a
home last Monday evening.
There IL movement on foot io organize q
| new county from the upper portions of spar
tanburR and Gfeenrille counthS
pavement earth Ia u new substance dis
covered In Camden. II will PACK. AFTER oeins
rained on. alnost RS hard ~ rock; Lhe eartn
is said 10 be the finest In the world Tor street
purposes.
Camden who has raised u family oI nine boys
| the cupgcst one now being krown "nd az
| large his iatoer, and doctor has never
| been called into zee them.
Cholera Is reported to be on the increase in
| Manila. Ninety American soldiers have died
oi the disease.
The ~ James hotel Of Dailss Texas. col.
lap,sd and carried down and buried u men
| in the wreckage. Three men were seriously
Injured.
, A trained nurse has been arrested In Bos.
ton on the charge Of numbering three persons.
but she eonfesses to numbering thirty lone.
She had been committed 10 an Insane asylum
The Sunday School Convention which
meets In Denver will have Representatives
from every State In the Union, aud from Can.
ada. Mexico and England.
a
great packing establishments In Chicago, 10
settle several thousand acres Of land In Flor
Ida and Alabama and make IL the centre OF
the cattle raising Industry in America.
MOTOR Micah jenkins hiss been appointed
Coilecio. OF Internal Revenue In place oi
koeater. Whose nomination was not con.
irmed by the senate.
After all. Harris has been appointed post
master In Charleston.
Kershaw VIII soon have mn electric light
ana water plant.
Stephen jackson. an inofrensive colored
man OF Darlington. w.s shoa and MIans nI!sd oy
under the influence OF liquor.
disaslrous hre. several large establishment u
were destroyed but were fully covered by
Insurance.
Tho frat or long session Of the 57,h congress-
ended last Wednesday. The second session
10 necessarily short. from December 10 the
ilh OF March.
After August LIST, the Atlantic Coast Line
Will not employ lady stonosraphera. Tney
claim that the work is tOo hard ior them and
they often give way under the strain.
Hub Evans Of Nssberry. q member OF the
iIor OF the Greeuviile News. had n personal
encounter lsAt Monday In Greenvilie.
s.O0Q freight handlers struck 10 Chicago last
Auuday. II In feared that the strike viii be
The most serious which has affected their In.
teresi In years.
Five hundred and my employees OF the
southern Pacific shops nj Houston, Texas,
walk ed out On Monday, When The company
refused TO grant them an increase In their
wages.
The statement is Published that American
citizens boldtng passports are barred BY
Russia from eptoring their territory oecAuEe
of their religion. Tue president has been TO
guessed BY The senate 10 furnish Information
Un The subject.
The consolidation OF the Ashevllle and
spartanburE, the Carolina Midland and the
south Carolina and Georgia railroad has
been c0psumnted. The new company II
Divisiop, and the capital stock u E.79S. 100.
he company assumes the Indebtedness OF
the various lines which amounts ~ over
eleven millions. Col. A. b. Andrews 10 pres
idenI
The other day, near Green wood, Prince
McCiintock, = negro boy, and May Edwards,
y negro woman, were returning from church,
wished 10 catch up with come one 10 front OF
them. The boy Commanded her 10 halt and
upon her refusal, pulled out his pistol xnd
shot her, fatally IL is said. The boy fed.
Solomon BrilIes, Q prominent merchant OF
Georgetown, who mysteriously dirappeared
tho inIter part OF April. has been heard from.
II seem, that under the stress OF business
troubles he wandered OIL. boarded train aud
lnuded In o western city, where he fell from
street car and Tor number OF weeks was In
hospital Upon bis recovery and discharge
from the hospital. he put himself In com
muuication with bis wife and he 10 now being
cared Tor by her and 10 recovering.