The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-06-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Chicago's teamsters strike continu-
ally without hope of peace and rloting
increased.
Judge Francis G. Randolph was
killed at Montgomery, Ala, by his
cousin, John Randolph.
Mayor Weaver has won in the Phil
adelphia gas fight, the gas company
having withdrawn its offer to lease.
DIR. w. w. Lapdrum has declined
the presidency of Mercer University
the Baptist institution in Georgia.
Gessler Rosseau, who sent an infer
nal u achine to the steamship Umbria
two years ago, began a term in pris-
on.
Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia re-
called advertisements for bids for street
cleaning in 1906, involving about
81, 900 900.
The destruction of the disorderly
houses in Warsaw by an organization
known as the Bund continued until
martial law was declared.
Secretary Shaw told the business men
of Topeka, Kan, and the bankers of
Des Moines, Iowa, that the govern.
ment was not IN danger of becoming
bankrupt.
Burglars held up Mrs. Helen S.
Lease, the former populist agitator in
New York and robbed her of money
and Jewels to the value of $500.
Siegfried Roebling, the I4-year old
boy Whe has been. missing from his
fathers home in Asheville, n. G., fer
several'days has been found in Knox
Vile Tenn,
The Old Dominion Line Steamship
Hamilton put back into Norfolk after
fighting q fire in the hold for five
hours. The fire was then extinguish-
ed.
President Roosevelt received the
first Brazilian ambassador, Senior Jose
Joaquin A. Nabucco de Arapjo.
1t is proposed to increase the
French duties on silk, as a crisis con-
fronts the industry in France.
Senator Elkins says the senate COM
mittee will not attempt to frame a
rate bill for several months to come.
A number of small engagements are
reported from Toxic, showing that the
opposing armies ale in close touch.
Mayor Weaver has taken possession
of the two offices, whose occupants ne
ousted and the supreme court will
pass over the issue.
The Southern Assem- )ly of the
PRESBYTERIAN Church refused to .anc-
ton the project to establish a univer-
sity at Atlanta.
The report that Vladivostok had
been isolated by the cutting of the
railroad and the telegraph lines was
shown 10 be erroneous.
Count Andrassy had a conference
with Emporer Francis Joseph on the
Hungarian situation, but failed utter
ly to u~nravel the tangle.
Boutwell, Pulford, an Illinois mil
iionaire, who feared that be would be
accused of murder, shot himself to
death at his home in Sacanna, Ill.
Rev. G.. T. Walker, D. D., of Angus
ia, Ca, in a commencement sermon
told the students of Tuskegee that
they must think more about earthly
GDluSS duu leSS oDout hSafSh'
Ada Rowe, an Atlanta girl of 10,
said to be beautiful, tried to commit
suicide by drinking laudnum and will
probably recover. Unrequited love
drove her to the deed.
The military secretary has return-
ed 223 of the captured Confederate
flags.
The University Of Pennsylvania
awarded $4,000 in scholarships and
prizes.
Premier Balfour fixed May 80 for
the debate on the proposed vote OF CEN
sure.
Thousands of dollars damage
was done by a hailstorm in the vicin-
ity of Dublin, Ga.
Postmaster General Cortelyou made
an address to the national convention
of postmasters.
Walker Cults, q prominent and
popular young man, was drowned
while surf bathing at Tybee Island.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
at Winona Lake, Ind, decided to
meet next year at Des Moines, Iowa.
Very little rioting occurred in Chi
cago as q result Of the teamsters'
strike and troops were not called for.