The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-19
General News Notes.

General News Notes.
The international socialist congress
opened at Constance, Germany.
President Roosevelt spent an I'm
usually quiet Sunday at Sycamore
Hill.
The Savannah cotton exchange has
started a crusade for the abolition of
the governments cotton reports.
st. Petersburg papers still are
skeptical of the diplomatic skill of M.
Mura7ief toIaid in peace negotiations.
Russian Admiral Kruger, at Kus-
tepji, Roumania, took possession of
the surrended baltleship Knaiz
Potemkine.
The Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety has taken an appeal from the
dismissal of the demurrer in the Lords
case.
In addition to the cotton ''leak."
Secretary Wilson is said to have just
averted q similar manipulation of the
wheat report.
Commissioner Sherman, Of the New
York state department of labor, in
his report says strikes were disastrous
to the labor unions.
Secretary Wilson defes Theodore
n. Price and dares him to bring suit
IS threatened. He says such suit will
result in more disclosures.
Much enthusiasm attended the re.
turn of Prince Gustavus Adolphus,
with his bride (who was Princess
Margaret of Connaught) to Stock holm.
The Amerscan Cotton Manufactur.
ers' Association wants representation
at the time of the declaring of the
August cotton report by department
of agriculture.
A case containing $4,000 in jewelry,
which had been given to an express
company by a salesman for a New
York firm and with which the driver
had disappeared, was recovered.
Eight men were blown to pieces
and . number of others were hurt by
the premature explosion of blast on
the Pennsylvania Railroad improve.
ment just across the river from the
scene of the accident May IL at East
Harrisburg.
There were fifteen deaths directly
due to the heat in New York.
United States Senator P. G. Knox,
of Pennsylvania, is visiting President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. .....
Robert G. Hill, chief of the bureau
of building inspection, Philadelphia,
was requested to resign.
A receiver was appointed for the
Peoples United States Bank, of St.
Louis, against which a fraud order.
The formal hearing Of charges
against Judge Hooker began at a
Joint session of the New York legis
lature.
In the British house of lords Lord
Roberts stated the British armed
forces are absolutely untitled and un-
prepared for war.
The Franco-G German agreement as
to Morocco is regarded in Berlin as a
German diplomatic victory over both
Great Britain and France.
On account of heavy rains that have
fallen in the section of country around
Huntsville, Ala, it is said that many
farmers will have to abandon their
cotton crops.
The international convention of the
Epworth League adopted resolutions
protesting against the seating of Reed
Smoot, the Mormon elected to the
United States senate.
Cuban soldiers mutinid and morta-
lily wounded their own captain in a
riot.
The American institute of instruct
Portland, Maine.
The International Harvester Compa-
ny was sued by a former official for an
accounting.
General Funston's father was arrest
ed because he fought when accused
of inf1amatory utterances.
Chairman Corlelyou appointed Hon.
Stevenson A. Williams republican ma
tional committeeman from Maryland,
to succeed Judge McComas.
The board of visitors of the United
States naval academy recommends
the full four-year course for gradutes
of Annapolis, after which they shall
be commissioned as ensigns.
Through instructions from the presi-
dent District Attorney Beach will
thoroughly investigate the bureau OF
statistics of the department o. agricul-
ture.
Mayor Helmbold, who resisted the
placing of Caleb Powers in q special
cell of the Newport (Ky.) Jail, was
placed under bail to answer the charge
of contempt of the federal court.
George Owens, a farmer, has been
arrested charged with being a mem-
Der of the gnag which caused the
wreck of the Southern's train Al
Catawaba Junction, in which five
persons were killed and thirty-five in.
jured. It Is expected that otner ar
rests will follow.
Sweeping reductions have been
made in the salaries of the Equitable's
officers.
Tits reported that Stoessel, who de-
tended Port Arthur, has been ARRESTED
the result of an investigation in con-
neetiOl with the surrender of the
strong hold. The sword of honor
which was to have been presented by
French admirers will be withheld by
orders of the government.
The rabbinical convention conlin.
ued its sessions at Cleveland;
Cossack fired on workmen at the
Putilof works and wounded q num-
Der of them.
Speaker Cannon is believed to favor
stamp taxes as a meaus of raising rev
enue to wipe out the deficit in trearury.
Reports to the marine hospital sci.
vice show that bubonic plague has
caused nearly ! 900, 600 deaths alread!
fhis year.
Refugees fleeing from yellow scourge
IN the Isthmus' of Panama arrived al
New York, and paint conditions in
canal zone very darby.