The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-24
General News Notes.

COluu1puSY oosf jS"SASAS "SAS $500
TANNED by two stylishly dressed wo
men.
The delegates are gathering at Kan
sas City for the Southern Baptist con
vention.
The knights of the Golden Eagl'
began their annual convention IL
York; Pa.
Ambassador Choate was formally
called to the Middle Temple in tn
Inns of Court London.
800 school children refused to at
tend school in Chicago because non
union negro teamsters delivered coal
In the latest estimate of the popu'
lation of the states given out by The
census bureau Georgia ranks ninth.
Process servers were SEM out tt
hand supoenas to all the directors o.
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
Dudley Gordon, Is years old, was
accidentally killed at the Montgom'
cry, Ala, business college by a pisto
in the hands of friend.
Secretary Taft told the railroad mer
in Washington the railway rate legis
lation must come. The railroad mer
were surprised.
Bishop Hargrove will resign The
presidency of the board of trustees
of Vanderbilt University on account
of ill health. He will be succeeded by
Bishop Galloway.
Booker T. Washington delivered ar
address at Cheney, near Philadelphia
on the benefits of industrial education
for the colQred youth.
In the house of commons Sir Henry
Campbell annerman moved q vote
of censure of the government for it!
Irish policy, but the motion failed.
Admiral Rodjestvensky has sailed
from French Indo-Chins waters, the
French admiral there accusing him
of violating his pledge not to re-
turn.
The department stores and expires:
companies in Chicago encountered al
most no interference in sending out
wagons, but the strikers received &C
~cessions aud more are expected.
Receivers were appointed for the
Haight & Freese Company, brokers
in Boston and New York complain,
that the company had closed out Gus
omers on fictitious sales.
F. Nj. Holbrook and wife were taker
from their beds and killed at Watkins
Vile, Ga, by robbers, who, it is sup
posed, wanted to rob their store near.
by. The skulls of the victims were
crushed in.
Attorney for Morris Menges, who
got a verdict against Gen. Louis Fitz'
gerald for ST., 000, 900 for his services In
connection with the purchase Of Bal
timure's interest in the Western Mary.
land railroad by the Gould interests
argued against a reversal of the yer.
dict or an appeal. -.
Hiram Howard, q mute, was struck
by a train at Moultrie, Ga, and given
injuries from which he will prbably
die. Howard was walking the track
and the train came up behind him.
The engineer, supposing he would
hear the signals and get of the track
did not try to stop his train until too
late.
Three men were fatally wounded in
strike riots in Chicago.
The general beliefs that the senate
committee ia firmly opposed to all
railway-rate legislation.
A crank has written q letter threat
ening to murder Nan Patterson to
avenge the death Of Caesar Young.
Entomologlsts from all parts of the
country met in Atlanta to discuss I'M
formity on anti-boll-weevil legisla'
lation.
In all cities in Austria where the
German language is spoken the CEN
tenary of the death of Schiller is be-
ing observed.
At Toxic it is calculated that AID.
mirals Rodjestvensky and Nebagatofi
will form a junction Of their fleets to-
morrow.
Sir Charles j. Owen, the English
railway msgnate, is strongly. opposed
to the American system Of handling
Rev. William II. Van Allen, in q
sermon in the Church of the Advent,
Boston, denounced the wage system
as a species of slavery.
A we'll known Russian Liberal, In
reviewing the Russian political situa-
ton, predicts success for the present
movement for freedom.
An association has been formed In
New York, with a capital of Sl25,OO 0
to organize a stock company for Civ
ing French plays in English transla-
.tions.
Claiming that Counani is an indie
pendent South American state, Sar.
rion de Herrera, who was accused OF
conspiracy against Brazil, says be has
q rioht IN raisa an army.
Washington Duke ID dead at Dur.
ham, N. G. He was the founder OF
the tobacco trust and many times q
millionaire. He was a generous and
liberal man. He had given over q
million dollars to Trinity College.
He was IS years old.
There is lack of harmony at Mercer
University, some Of the professors
being dissatisfied with the action of
the trustees, who demand that all
members of the faculty shall be Bap-
lists of strictly orthodox faith.
Cotton stands are generally report
ed good throughout the South.
Paris advices are that the Russian
ships have left Indo-China waters.
The British government has refus-
ed to grant a full pardon to Mrs May
brick.
The sultan of Morocco has provided
military escorts for both the German
and British mission to Fec.
Tension over frances alleged vio-
lation of neutrality is steadily grow
ing. 81, mo-
The Goodyear syndicate with $685.
00O will build q new railroad from
New Orleans to Memphis.
A southern industrial parliment
will be held at Washington, begin
ming May Is, John Sharpe Williams
will make q sneech.