The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-05-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of More or Less Interest Condensed
Outside the State.

Over a billion dollars and ten mil
lion spindles were represented at the
meeting of the Southern Cotton Spin
ners Association held in Charlotte
last week.
Jacksonville's loss on account of
the recent cloud. burst ia estimated at
about $150,000. The railroads last
week we're hauling out by solid train
loads the water hyaoinths that washed
into their yards. 1t took $50 oars
to remove them.
In wreck near Hot Springs, Ark, q,
on Thursday, caused By passenger
train Oh the Oklahoma and Gulf
Railroad jumping tho track on tif-
teen foot embankmeut, the engineer
was fatally injured, the fireman killed,
ak persons seriously injured, and Il
dozen or more hurt.
The question Of proposing to the
powers the reduction cf navies was
brought up in the British House of
Commons last week. The prevailing
sentiment was that all the great
powers are steadily increasing their
naval forces, and Great Britain must
do likewise.
By vote of 3 to l, the Diocesan
Convention Of Georgia last week de
clared against changing the name of
the Episcopal Church to the Catholic
Church Of America.
Nine and one-half inches of rain
fell at Greensboro, Ala on Thursday
night, the heaviest rain ever seen in
that section. Gardens and crops
were totally destroyed.
There were several sensations on
the New York Cotton exchange last
Thursday. May option went up to
ll.42, the highest price in twelve or
thirteen years.
General Davis, commanding in the
Philippines, has disapprovd the ao.
quittal of Lieut.. Lee by court martial.
Lee in charge of prisoners placed
his pistol in the hands of corporal
and ordered the corporal to shoot
any trying to escape. Two we're
shot. Lee was justified by the court
martial, bnt Gen. Davis says he ex-
ceeded his authority.
VIM. II. Jackson, Republican
member of Congress from Maryland,
has announced that he will ask the
discontinuance of the postoffice at
Qulndocquia, to which Andrew D..
Day, a negro, has been appointed.
This ls said to be the first negro post :
master ever appointed in Maryland.
A negro Christian science practi-
toner has been arrested at Newport
News, charged with the murder Of a
negro woman found with two bullets
lodged in her brain.
AS the result Of a fire which des-
stroyed an apartment building in Chi
oago on Friday night two are dead,
one is missing, and twenty seven
families narrowly escaped with their
lives.
The streets Of Jacksonville were
still in darkness on Friday night as
result of the cloud burst there. The
trains, however, had begun to run on
time. The A. G.. T.. was the heavi.
est loaer, It's loss being estimated at
about $4,000.
In the assignment OF names to
aeacoast batteries by the U. S. Gov.
ernment, Fort Fremont, S. c., be.
comes Battery Jesup in honor of Gen.
L. 5. Jeoup, distinguished in the wa,
of 1872, and Fort Moultrie, S. c.,
becomes Battery Logan, in honor of
Capt. Wra. Logan, who was killed
in action with Mex Perces Indians az
Pig Hole Basin, Mont, in 1877.
A cotton mill mau who WAS atten-
dug tho Cotton Spinners Association
at Charlotte last week said he had
sold 1000 bales of cotton.
Nearly every lawyer in Wilson, N.
q, has been retained to defend the
eleven men charged with numbering
II. Percy Jones.