The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-08-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items or More or Less Interest Condensed
Outside the State.

Francisco, one of the great industries
OF the West has gone to the wall.
The cotton mills in New Orloans
have closed down on account of the
high price of cotton and the very
low price of cloth.
Thos. II. Morgan, the millionaire
sash and door manufacturer at Mil.
waukee, WAS shot to death on Tues.
day by Frederick Hampol, dis
charged employe who later committed
suicide in jail
1t ID reported from Red Lodge,
Montana that the grasshoppers are
80 thlck in that section that thew are
plastered each day on locomotives
and the whee.s become 50 slippery
tast when the locomotives stop it is
difficult to start thom again.
The Oliver Refining Company, of
Norfolk, Va, owning large plant
for the refining of cotton seed oil, has
failed and has gone into the hands
of receiver. The Slump in Vir-
ginla- Carolina Chemical stock is said
to be the cause of the failure.
Minister Conger at Pekin has OBJ.
tanned written promise from the
Chinese government that two Of the
Chinese ports, one Of them important
and the other of no consequences,
shall he open ports ky Il treaty which
is to be signed on October 8.
Carrie Nation WAS locked up at
Bayoune, N. D., this week charged
with disorderly conduct. She col
lected crowd by haranguing on a
| street corner and then ran among the
men striking cigars, cigarettes and
| pipes from their mouth.
The Canadian Pacific raiirond's
steamer Empress of India collided
near Hong Kong on Tuesday with
the Chinese cruiser Huang Tai. The
Huang Tai sank, carrying to the bot
tom the captain and thirteen of the
crew who refused to leave the vessel.
1t is reported from Berlin that the
German government, under the i'm
pulse of the emperor, will ask the
reichstag for an increase in the per
manent military establishment, by
about $4,000 mon, to be organized
into two army corps, raising the
standing army to about 0l7,00 men.
The increase in money necessary il
estimated at about $0,OO0,O00, OK
elusive Of equipment.
An imperial TRADE has been issued
from Constantinople calling out fifty,
two additional battalions of troopt
(about $4,000 men) from the Euro
pean provinces of Turkey, in conse
quence Of the spread Of the insur
reotion in Macedonia. A dispatch
from Berlin reports that the river
near Monastir, Macedonia, is full OF
the mutll8ted bodies Of women anC
children, who have been massacred.
The Panama Canal treaty has beer
rejected unanimously by the Colon
bian Congresa. The reason give1
for the rejection, it is aald, was tn,
alleged encroachment on Colombian
sovereignty, which, it's opponents con
tended, would result from the treat y
The members Of the Colombian Sen
ate looked upon tho lease Of the stri,
of land through which the canal wa
to be constructed as sale, and, there
fore, objectionable
-Four white men have been kille,
and nine wounded in Randolpl
county, Alabama, by a negro name
, Sledge. The mon we're working nea
Sledge's house when they asked pei
mission to eat few watermelon
The permission wasgranted aud the
went to slashing melons and vine
They refused to stop when the negl
ordered them to do 40 and he wei
to the house and got his shot gu
and fired into the crowd, with IL
t above result. He fled.
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