The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-06-14

concerning tne TepuullC VI aiIauo'
Vice President Tarbell, of the Equi-
table Life Assurance Society, increas-
ed the pay of agents. which move is
regarded by the Hyde interests as be-
ing intended to further the mutualiZa-
tiun project.
A royal commission has settled the
DISPUTE between the Scottish Churches.
Great fears are felt for the truck
crops in the South on account OF the
cold snap.
The town of Springfield, Maine,
had a fire in which 80 buildings
were destroyed. ,
The administration has decided not
to bring to a crisis the dispute with
Venezuela.
The turbine steamer Virginia reach
ed Halifax from Neville in days,
ii hours and 80 minutes.
The new steel bridge across the
Mississippi river at Thebes, ILL.,, will
be opened Tuesday. 1t cost $3,5OO,OO
The condition Of Joseph Jefferson,
the veteran actor. who is i'll ut Palm
Beach, Fla, is regarded as critical.
Count Won Observation-Disclosures,
Germany's representative in: Morocco,
states the kaiser's policy is upheld by
Spain. 3,
Papers making charges against city
officials of Havana were forcibly
seized by six nationalist congressman.
President Roosevelt is said to be
making many southern appointments
in order to win converts to the
republicans. .
The charge of conspiracy to extort
money from Caesar" Young preferred
against "Nan" Patterson, was dis
missed.
A new theory regarding sun spots
was advanced at the meeting of the
American Philosophical Society in
Philadelphia.
Railroad magnates have been sum
moned to Washington to give evil
dence before the interstate commerce
commission.
Second Vice-Presldent George E.
Tarbell, of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, vas examined by State
superintendent of Insurance Hen
bricks.
Lightning struck tia chimney of
house in Huntsville, Ala, ran down
the chimney and exploded a bottle of
%turpentine sitting ION the mantel.. A
child was so seriously burned that it
died.
Mrs. Iva Harlan, after taking poi
son in lebanon, Ind, telephone the
fact to a doctor in order that her hus-
band might not be suspected of poison
ing her. She then shot herself and
will die.
Mrs. Emma Flynn shot and killed
j. n. Specht, a prominent citizen OF
Macarthur, o., who was spying on her
through her bedroom window. She
took him to be a tramp or burglar.
William Zieglar, promoter of Attic
expeditions, is dead at Moreton, Conn.
He leaves a wife and one SOD. He
made a large fortune in the baking
powder business.
Great damage has been done to
FUCKERS about Charleston by the cold
tsnap.
A. +. McKissick and j. b. Hug ey
have been elected electric light en-
m%issioners for Greenwood.
Henry Planter, a negro has been re-
arrested charged with the murder of
his wife, who was found dead in the
Congaree. 1t is reported that Planter
has confessed.
Paul Lessar, Russian minister to
China, is dead as the result of the am
p~utation of one of his feet.
French Foreign minister Declasse
has notified Premier Rouveir of his
desire and intention to resign and re-
tire.
At Washington it il thought that
unless France gives some satisfactory
assurance complications with England
may develop.
The Naval Stores Product Export
Company, to control the %turpentine
industry, has been formedinMississippi
with So, 500, 600 capital.
Bishop A. A. Watson O fthe Episco.
pal diocese of Eastern North Caro-
lima, is dead at Wilmington. He had
reached an advanced age.
Emperor Francis Joseph performed
the annual Easter ceremony Of
feeding II of the poorest people 10 be
found in Vienna and of washing their
feet.
A Russian Jew has been found who
says that he saw Caesar Young shoot
ulluScll Uu luS ulOluluR WuCu NdA
Patterson is alleged to have killed
him in a cab.
DR.. Motion, the japanese minister
to France, called on Foreign Minister
Declasse to make representations con-
corning the presence of the Russian
warships in Kamrahna Bay.
The St. Petersburg art students SEN
fenced to imprisonment for participant
ing in a demonstration have been
released, but the Jews among them
are ordered to leave the city.
In the Vanderbilt University fire
priceless treasures were lost. The Ii
brary of 10000 volumes was greatly
reduced and costly chemical, physical
and pharmaceutical apparatus was de-
stroyed.
Darlington will have an ice factory.
Bee Owens 81 years old, living at
Watts Mill, Laurens, died of appen-
dicitis.
Governor Hayward has refused to
pardon Isadore Thompson, a Green
Vile negro sentenced to life imprison-
ment for. the murder Of another negro,
named Arch Sullivan.
On duty all the time so go 10 Mllford's
Drug Store and get what YOU want.