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

hoOseVelG ana tOrmer PRESIDENT
Grover Cleveland delivering the ad
dresses Of the occasion.
The Ottoman Bank, at Salonioa, IN
European Turkey, was demolished by
a bomb on Thursday. The Turkish
postoffice and other buildings were
also attacked, resulting in panic in
which two we're killed and two in.
jured. A detachment of z, 900 troops
\ was called for. Fifty other dyna
3mite explosions recently occurred in
3the city.
$5,OOO,OOO is to be spent by the
government in permanent improve
ments Oh army posts in this country
srhe allotment for the different States
has not been made public. South
Carolina gets very little
Rev. Theodore Bratton, d. D., q
native of South Carolina, has been
elected Bishop of the Diocese of Mis-.
sissippi.
The full supreme court decision in
the case Of the negro Giles vs.. the
Alabama Constitution has been made
public. Giles, who was disfrenchlsed,
sought relief, not only for himself,
but for 5000 other blacks in his
county. The court did not finally
pass upon the question of constitu-
tionality, but declined to give relief
on the ground that "the case was
political"
The slide from Turtle Mountain
upon the little town Of Frank, n. w.
T., continued last week. All the in
habitants fled after number of lives
were lost.
An agent of the U. S. Express Co.,
ut Britt, 40 miles from Mason City,
Ia, was compelled on Thursday by
two masked men to open the safe in
his office and permit the robbers to
take package containing $4,000.
The extensive plant Of the Cres-
cent Powder Co., near Hollidaysburg,
Pa, was wrecked by explosions last
week. Of 30 employees, nine were
killed outright, and all the others
injured.
Burglars entered the post at
Ravenswood, w. Va, last week and
blew open the safe: escaping with
$4,000, without leaving cline. No
one knew the place had been robbed
until the postmaster opened up next
morning.
The general land office at Wash
ington has issued q patent to the
State of Florida for 5000, 10000 acres
of land in the Everglades, recently
adjudged to that State. The lands
will be drained, and it is thought
put in cultivation.
Rear Admiral Barker on Thursday
of last week succeeded Rear Admiral
Higginson as commander of the North
Atlantic squadron.
The worst forest fires in the history
of Pennsylvania we're raging Thurs.
day night. a million dollars worth
Of property around Bradford were
destroyed Thuraday night.
Thc cornerstone of the $4,000, 900
steel plant Of the Mohawk Valley
Steel aud Wire Go. was laid on
Thursday. John l.. McLanrin, vice
president and counsel, delivered the
address.
Roosevelt toured Kansas the latter
part of last week, making number
of addresses. He made point of
shaking hands with negro police.
man, leaving one station.
AS the result Of a fire at West
Point, Va, thirty families are home
less. There was no fire protection.
LOSS about $125,OOO.
In the third trial of james Howard,
who killed Governor William Goebel,
Of Kentucky three years ago, the
prisoner WAS found guilty and senten
ced to life imprisonment in the State
Penitentiary. The jury first reported
it could nos agree, but was sent back
with instructions from the Judge to
remain until it did agree.
Officials say that the postoilice in
vestigations at Washington will not