Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-02-03
Miscellaneous rlatters.

Between $50 and 100 men are believ-
ed to have been killed by an explo-
sion in the Allegheny Coal Company S
mine at Cj.eswick, Pa.
To pre- EFT the passing OF foreign
tickets of admission to the consecra-
ton today of Rev. DR.. Davis H. Greer
as Bishop Coadjutor of Western New
York, j. P. Morgan. it is announced,
will keep the door.
]. Ogden Armour caused a break i'll
the Chicago wheat market by unload
ing part of his holdings.
Another big advance was made in
prices in the cotton exchange OF New
York and New Orleans, following 14lv-
erpool.
Ice gorges in the streams of Mary
land and neighboring States were still
menacng.
Intense cold continues over wide
are, of the West and Northwest.
7F.Slice OF bedford, Ind, believe it
was stated, that the murder OF alss
Sarah Schaefer was rejected suitor,
John B. Coggn, accused OF embez-
7ling money from trust company at
Nashua, N. H., was arrested.
Serious charges were made in the
trial of Frank and John Jager, promo
tiers, in Chicago.
A large number OF army promotions
are soon to be made.
The first day of the third week OF the
trial of A. W. Machen and others ID
connection with the Postoffice inYesn-
cation failed to develop anything SEN
sational.
The Comptroller of the Treasury has
,iisallowed Joseph ". Parish's claim
for s1S1, 1858 for ice furnished the Medl-
cal Department Of the army.
The .rep5rt Of the health officer for
thu county of London for 1902 has just
.,1en issued 1t shows that London IS
one of the healthiest Of the great cit
les Of the world. The death rate
from all causes in 1902 was liz per
!. 1.00C persons. compared with rate OF
in st. Petersburg 90, Rome 21.9. Wen
ma 1914, New York 1871, and Paris lS.i.
Berlin is superior with 1G.l.
Wars OF the last 5000 years are sup
posed to have cost S600.00O.O0O.OO0.
Each man who falls on the battlefield
costs S2,740 to kill, and the countries OF
Europe today are paying to maintain
an "armed neutrality the small sum
of $50 a second.
John Connaughton. principal keeper
in Sing Sing rrison. has not visited
New York city for twenty-nine years.
and there is little likelihood that he
will ever do so. The reason Of this is
that there are in that city a great num-
her of men who would welcome an op-
portunity to kill him. In his capacity
as prison-keeper for forty years Mr..
Connaughton has earned the enmity OF
many desperate criminals. most or
whom hate him with an intensity
which would induce them to murder
should the chance offer
President Schruman. of Cornell Uni
yersity. in his address before the Eco
nomlc League. of Lockport New YORK.
wednesday NISll1 S'u A'~s'
ness" predicted that all the South
American countries will have to come
under the protection of the United
States or else will have to be admitted
into the Union as result of the pres
ant trouble at Panama. Mr.. SchurmaA
stated that after a careful review CT
The Panama situation he believed tE9t
war would be the only outcome OF the
present crisis on the lsthmus.
The Technology Club, composed of
the New York alumni Of the Massa'
chusetts Institute of Technology. will
hold it's annual dinner on Feb. ., at
the University Club. says the Sun.
LIQUID sunshine will be served to each
of its members. Dr W. J. Morton.
who announced at the Clubs last
meeting the discovery of liquid sun
shine, has given the formula for max.
ing It, 1t will be placed in capsule
at each plate with glass Of water.
The room will he darkened, and each
man will drop the capsule into his
glass. and will make his own liGui3
sunshine by introducing tube Of ra'
dunn into this water.