The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-31
General News Notes.


to have left lndo- Chinese waters, sail
ing northward.
1T is stated special envoy will rep
resent France at the wedding Of th'
German crown prince.
The. national association for the
study of prevention of tuberculosi:
will meet in Washington on Thurs
day.
Yale University will get the larger
part of the HilIhouse in New Haven
the value of the gift being about $780,,
600.
Upon the counsel ofclose advisers il
is said Emperor William did not de-
liver a speech severely arranging
France.
The Aetna Trading Company
papers secured by the beef investiga'
tors are said to reveal the secret
methods of the beef trust.
The chamber of deputies sustained
the French Government by postpon.
ing indefinitely Interpretation upoc
the neutrality question.
Secretary of War Taft is conducting
the inquiry into the charge made by
Minister Bowen and Assistant Sec
retary Loomis against each other.
The southern Baptists voted against
a change in name, but will be official
Iy represented at the convention of
northern Baptists for the first time.
President Compers has issued an
appeal to the American Federation OF
Labor for funds to aid the striking
teamsters in Chicago, and a meeting
of the executive board has been call
ed.
A Pittsburg paper states that Joseph
Ramsey, Jr., retiring president of the
Wabash Railroad, and his associates
control the rich coalfields of West
Virginia, which were supposed to be
owned by George j. Gould.
With a few scattered disturbances
May Day passed in Russia without
any loss of life.
Government experts have demon
strated that ihr Lest Camembert
cheese can be uuue in America.
A Japanese official declares Russian
ships ere in Indo-Chinese waters as
late as Friday las.
Nan Patterson has made an engage
ment with Hurting & Seamons to 60
on the stage at 81, 800 week.
l.. p. Ohliger, an ex-congressman
from Ohio. plead guilty to issuing a
bogus draft and was sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary. p.
Charles Price of Reidsville, N. c.,
has been captured in East Radford,
Va, He killed Robert Odell at Reids-
vile May and has confessed.
Mrs. Jessie Bartlett Davis, the we'll
known opera singer and long time
member of the Bostonians, died sud-
denly in Chicago of nephritis.
Wreckers ditched train on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
road, east. of Emporia, Kan, and six
passengers were injured two of them
fatally.
John D. Rockefeller, j., Sunday
addressed his bible class at the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church in New York,
after five mon ths' absence in Europe
which has caused little improvement
in his physical condition.
A woman who said she was Carlot.
ia, the wife of MaXimillian, former
emperor of Mexico, is said to have Sc
cured $4,000 from the members Of
the Italian colony in Boston on the
pretense that she is the rightful claim
ant to the Austrian throne.
The time limit of residence of Jew:
ish merchants in the larger cities Of
Russia is to be rem owed.
The bronze equestrian statue of
General Nathan B. Forrest was un-
yelled at Memphis Tenn.
Governor-General Sokolovsky OF
Ufa province was probably fatally
shot in a public square at Ufa.
J. p. Morgan is interested in $50
O,O0O, 900 company, which is promot-
ing electric light and pneumatic tube
system for London.
Minister Bowen denies that he ever
filed any "charges" against Assistant
Secretary Loomis.
A new York magistrate decided
that marriage under the Mosaic law
without the civil ceremony required
in Austria were not binding.
Kirke La Shelle, well known
play wright and theatrical manager,
died at Belleport, L. I aged Al years.
The Congregational ministers who
favored acceptance of the Rockefeller
gilt for missions issued a statements
and the ccmmiLtee of protestants,
made reply.
One of the most important crimi-
nal cases that has been tried in any
of the criminal courts for years past
will come up next week when August
w. Machen, former superintendent of
free delivery of the postoffice depart
ment will be brought from Mounds
vile prison to stand trial on the
additional indictments recently found
against him.