The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-04-19
General News Notes.
Free Lance.

Free Lance.
The funeral of Mrs. Jane Stanford
was attended by 5000 persons.
State officials are worried v what
course to pursue in San DOMINICAN af-
fairs.
By a large majority the italian
chamber of deputies sustained the
government.
Four white men and two white wo-
men are being tried for murder at
Wrightsville, Ga.
R. M. Hill, a railroad workman, fell
off q trestle near Athens, Ca, and
died from a broken neck.
DR.. j. II. Hollander held a confer
ence with Secretary Taft regarding
conditions in Sapto Domingo.
500 people in Macon, Ca, have pro-
fessed religion during the revival
meetings in progress in that city.
The fact that negotiations for a Rus
sian loan have been resumed In Paris
leads to a belief that the war is soon
to end.
M. P. Carwell, a Waterman in the
w. & A. Yards in Atlanta, was muir
dered there, Sunday night. The muir
der is a mystery.
The Southern Bell Telephone Co,
has bought the telephone lines Of the
Adams system in parts of Georgia and
Alabama.
Mrs. Margery Strong Crosby, the
widow of the disinherited son of an
English peer, who was a millionaire,
is reported to be living in abject pow
erty in Chicago.
The commission Of DR.. Frederick
McMaster, who was appointed consul
to Zanzibar, has been held up pending
investigation of charges of desertion
made by his wife, who is a sales
woman in New York.
A whirlwind blew the roof off the
depot at Covington, Ga.
An enthusiastic reception was given
Emperor William of Germany at
Lisbon.
Eight soldiers were killed and 10
injured by a landslide at Semlin, Hun
gary.
:. The government has decided to push
the rebate cases against the Santa re
railroad.
Four lives were lost in a train wreck
on the L. & N. near Gainesville
Tenn.
Friends of Secretrry Hay do not
credit the report that he will retire
from the cabinet.
Several successful trips were made
over San Jose, CAL, with Prof. John
Montgomery's areoplane.
Mrs. l.. Chadwick vas sentenced to
ten years in the p~enitentiary. An ap-
peal will be taken.
!. Maxim Gorky ID very i'll with lung
trouble. His removal to the South Of
Russia is urged by his friends.
Senator Latimer is in North Geor-
gia inspecting the Creighton gold
mine in which he is interested.
AS one of her conditions of peace
Japan may insist upon Russia sus-
pending naval rehabilitation fora term
Ofyears.
. BY issuing debased copper currency
officials of Chinese provincial mint
are said to have profted to the extern
of $l3, 600, 600 annually.
DR.. J. H.. Hollander in his mission
is expected to use his influence
> against the threatened revolt of the
anti Morales party in Santo Domingo.
John Sharpe Williams has been
named as a member of q commission
to visit the Philippine Islands and in
'y~estigate conditions there.
Not fewer than $4,000 immigrants
were landed in New York last week,
and %, 900 more are expected this
week, which will break all previous
records.
:, a banquet was giveu in New York
of the acquisition of q per-
.s,manent home for the American Acad-
envy In Rome, and the securing of
assurances that the $1,000 900 endow-
ment fund will be raised.
March 80 far In the South has been
the dryest March On record. .
Sir Thomas. Upton is determined
to have M more try for Ameri-
Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daugh
ter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, is dead at
New Orleans.
William J. Bryan will make an ad-
dress at the Georgia State Fair at At
lsnta in October.
: William Joiner at Macon, Ga, has
sued his wife for divorce claiming that
she habituslly beats him.
Nv. B. Harris, al Englshman, was
stabbed by a Moorish hotel guide, in
Morocco, for some mysterious reason.
Two travelling salesman by agree.
ment committed suicide in their re-
spective rooms in a hotel in Cleveland,
Adrian Iselin, father Of Oliver Iselin
the noted yatchman and founder o.
the banking firm Of A. Iselin & Co.,
New York, is dying.
Rev. Joseph A. Milburn, Of Ply.
mouth Congregational Church, Chic.
ago, declared the stage is a greater
moral power than the pulpit.
At a secret consitory the Pope nam
ed no new cardinals. but spoke deplor-
ing of the preparations in France tc
separate church and state,
Briefs in the matter of the differ.
entail freight to and from north At.
lantic seaports were filed with the in.
terstate commerce commission.
Two bullets fired at Rev. w. Bloz.
owiski, a Polish priest at Winnipeg.
Man., just missed him, but explod-
ed q lamp, setting fire to his room.
A belief is growing in France that
the coming visit of the German en-
peror to Morocco will interfere with
frances plans in that country.
Two Of the three Russian naval Of.
.fcers who broke their paroles and
went to Russia have been sent back tc
San Francisco by their government
Some diplomats in Washington de-
lieye Secretary Hay has gone abroad
to; sound Italy on the question of of
".tering to bring abont peace in the Far
I; East.