The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-12
G eneral News Notes.


Rear-Admiral Kruge's Black sea
fleet will ungear it's machinery.
Traffic in the London "tube" was
greatly interferred with by floods from
%torrential rains.
President Roosevelt is said to have
urged Elihu Root to re-enter the cab
met as secretary Of state.
The sale of the effects of Mrs James
Bro n Potter, ut Bay Lodge, near
London, brought about Sis, 900.
The mutineers on board the Rus
sian battleship Georgi Pobiedonoestz,
at Odessa, have asked the emperor to
forgive them.
Rear.Admiral Sigsbee cables that
his fleet, with the remains of John
Paul Jones, expects to arrive OFT the
| Virginia coast July %.
The Cook County grand jury in its
report on the labor troubles there is
especially severe on Driscoll, who ad-
mitted that he received money for
settling strikes, and on President Shea
of the teamsters' union.
80 bales of cotton sold in Savannah
for 10 1-2 cents at auction.
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Sweden is making preparations for
war.
|. A call is soon to be issued for the
mobilization of the Swedish army.
The president pardoned William L..
Kendig and William M. Jacobs, con.
| victed counterfeiters.
The bill dlvorceing church and
state in France has been passed by
the chamber of deputies.
George E. Lorenz, convicted Of COM
plicity, was taken to prison.
Additional mutiDous have been
made among the Russian ship at
Cronstadt.
II. II. Rogers testified in Boston in
the suit of George Wharton Pepper,
receiver of the Bay State Gas Com
pany, against him.
G. J. Delvin Of Topeka has been
found to owe 81. 500, 600. He caused
the failure of the First National Bank
of Topeka.
Governor Magoon's report for June
shows that four persons died on the
Isthmus of Panama from yellow fever,
TWO being Americans.
It is estimated that during the riot
ing at Odessa 5000 persons were kill
ed and nearly $40, 1000 worth of
property was destroyed.
1t is now thought that more than
1000 persons persisted in Guanajuato,
Mexico, as a result of the cloudburst
which completely wiped out the town
of Marfil.
The First National Bank of Topeka,
Kan, has gone into the hands a re-
ceiver, having become embarrassed in
consequence of large loans made to
J. G. Nevlin, whose affairs were placed
in charge of a corporation last week.
The crews of two Russian trans
ports mutinied, but later relented.
The Fourth Regiment of Immunes
held its reunion in Fredericksburg.
At KattowitZ, Silesia, last week 16
persons died of cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts.
Mrs. Donald Mclean presided at
the celebration in Continental Me.
mortal Hall.
Nine miners were burned, four of
whom will die, as the result of an ex-
plosion at Vivian, Va.
Secretary Taft seems to favor the
free admission of Chinese laborers
into the Philippines.
Crosby S. Noyes entertained the old
est inhabitants association lat his
Maryland country place.
Rev. DR.. D. ]. Stafford went to New
York, whence he will sail for Europe
to spend the m
The clericals allied with the n co
servatives won a sweeping victoinry
the elections in Rome.
Chairman Paul Morton has abolish
ed the financial committee of the
Equitable Lise Assurance Society,
1t is definitely stated the Swedish
army will be modified to give force
to the attitude of King Oscar toward
Norway.
Owing to the death of the child of
a juror a mistrial was declared in the
case against It. w. Dewey, alleged
wrecker of the Bank of Newburg.
Delegates representing 10000 Chi
pese met at Canton to urge the extern
sion of the boycott of American goods.
There is great rivalry between the
South and West for the presidency of
the National Educational Associa-
ton.
William Gander, a Cincinnati
stone mason, shot his wife, brother-in-
law, a visitor and a pursuing police
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