The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-05-08
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
liens OF More or Less Interest Condensed
Outside the State.

James 3. Marcum, we'll known
lawyer, was shot to death while
standing in the court house door at
jackson, KY, on Monday. He had
just filed papers for one side in a
contested election, and it was on &C
count of the part he WAS taking in
this case that he lost his life. The
assassin, who shot from inside the
court house, escaped.
President Roosevelt was very On.
Enthusiastically received iu Denver this
week, and addressed there an au.
dlence of twenty, five thousand peo-
pie.
The U. S. Supreme Court has
handed down an important decision
in case from Kentucky, holding
that the bribery of negroes at cleo.
tons ls not crime punishable under
the Fifteenth Amendment, as Con-
gress has no such power under this
| Amendment.
Secretary Hay and the Chinese
| Minister in Washington had long
conference over the Manchurian
muddle this week, and it is under
stood that Russia has decided to
abandon her notion of seizing Man
churla. 1t ie understood, however.
that this involves no retreat on the
part of the Russian Government.
Emperor William, of Germany, re-
viewed twenty-five thousand troops
with the King of Italy in Rome on
Monday. There were great popular
demonstrations for the Emperor.
New Orleans ia enthusiastically
preparing for the Confederate Re-
union. Tho total subscription fund
is sure to reach 100000 before he
Reunion opens.
Major James w. Warren, eighty
years of age, and who since 1872
had been secretary to the executive
department of Georgia, was killed by
train Oh Monday. He had lust
allghted from trolley car at his
| home three miles from Atlanta and
was crossing the railroad track when
struck.
"A negro, Alex Harston, shot and
fatally wounded Francis Mex enna,
young white man of IIynchburg, on
train near Roanoke, Va, Monday
night
The police reserves we're called
ont in New York several times this
week to queli disorders in the city
growing out Of various strikes.
1t is reported that the Hartman
and Vanderbilt railroad interests will
be combined. This report if true
means a great deal in railroad cir
oles, these interests being very large.
The House of the Florida Assem-
oily passed a resolution asking the
Governor to VI resolution, al
ready passed, a. King Congress to call
convention for amending the Con-
stltutlon 80 az to provide for the
popular election of Senators. The
Governor had already vetoed the
measure.
A negro man WAS killed and a
negro woman fatally injured at St.
Augustine, Fla, on Monday. They
we're on an excursion train, on tho
! platform, when the cars parted, and
both fell under the wheels.
Father Waser, who was arrested
charged with the murder of Agatha
Reichlin, the sister Of another Cath.
olic priest, i'll Elyria. o., on Thurs
day last, WAS exonerated by the coro-
ner's jury, the verdict being that the
crime was committed by persons un.
known. 1t will be recalled that
Father Walser spent the night in the
house in which tho young lady lived
on the night the murder was com
mitted.
George Vann, desperate negro
OK convict, Of North Carolina, was
shot to death while resisting three
| officers on Il train noar Nav Bern, N.
g., Oh Monday night.
The local drug stores in Hnbana,
Cuha \yare pInsa1 his ,uo.k ,,r,