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

has upheld the New YORK franchlse
tax law.
The state agricultural department.
reports the North Carolina cotton
acreage as reduced 81 per cent.
The navy department has inaugur-
ated a new policy. which will tend to
put younger men in command OF YES
sells.
The secession of Norway from
Sweden has been announced. An en-
tirely separate government will be es-
tablished. |
The German Navy League adopted
q resolution favoriDg the replacing OF
second-rate warships, with first class
battleshils. i
An understanding has been reached
which will ensble the Wabash to
share in the great steel tonnage of the
Pittsburg district. II
Emperor William will show special
attention to the Prince and Princess
Arisugwa, of Japan, who are to attend
the wedding of the Crown Prince.
A man named Neighbors at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, killed his W sisters
and wounded his mother and another
woman and his brother-in-law. He
was arrested.
A Wisconsin chemist has produced
q LIQUID, OF which one drop will make
a glass of beer simply by mixing it
with water.
The funeral of Baron Alphonse de
Rothschild was held al Paris.
King Alphonso of Spain was given
a generous reception in Paris.
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Tartars in Nsklcheian, government
of Erivan, Transcaucasia.
Rev. Sam P. Jones is holding a re-
ligious meeting in Knoxville, Tenn.
Great fervor is being manifested
Mrs. Della Ahern, a bride was
drowned as she babe her guests good
bye after, the wedding celebration.
| Don Francisco Silvelia, q of
Spain's foremost statemen and ora
tors and several times premlon, Is
dead.
Count Stefan Keglevich, of Hung.
nv, was killed in a duel with Kar
Hepez a member of the chamber OF
deputies.
A junket to the arid lands Of the
West is being arranged for the United
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on irrigation and arid lands.
1t was announced after a confer
ence in New York that the express
companies whose teamsters' in Chi
cago are on strike will not Iecede.
The organization republican Headers
in Philadelphia, who were determin-
ed to lam the lease OF the city gas
works through surrendered uncondl-
tionally to Mayor Weaver.
The supreme court ordered that
Frederick A. Hyde and Henry P. Dr.
mond indicted for conspiracy to de-
fraud the government out of valuable
land in Oregon and California, be
brought to Washington for trial in a
court of the District of Columbia.
Emperor William of Germany clos
ed the Reichstag.
A cloud burst near Americas, Ga,
did great damage to crops.
Senator Bacon of Georgia called on
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy.
Rt. Hon. William Court Grelly,
speaker of the house of commons, has
resigned owing to bad health.
Nicholas Biddle was a witness re-
garding Mr.. Loomis's connection with
the Mercador claim in Venezuela.
O. d. Carpenter and his son, Earle
Carpenter, were acquitted Of the MUIR
ter Of A. NJ. Kale at Dali, N. O..
The Southern Cotton Association
reports that the cotton acreage has
been cut Is per cent.
The Bowen charge against Loomis
are still being investigated by Secre-
tary Taft.
Secretary Shaw says he is not at all
worried by the 1856, 600 1000 deficit In
the national treasury.
Twenty persons were injured in q
collision on the Third avenue elevat-
ed railroad in New York. =.
The governor of Mississippi sod
2,575 bales of cotton belonging to the
state for 1856.
Judge Morris, in a letter to the
president, intimates that he will re-
sien at an early date.
Fresh efforts are being made to
have Russia modify her maxium
duties on American imports.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
Church has been unanimously voted
into:the Northern General Assembly.
Wall street brokers are preparing
TO transfer their Offices to Jersey City
to escape payment Of the stamp tax.
Militia has been called out in the
island of Maui, Hawaii, where many
Japanese plantation laborers are on
strike.
Albion w. Tourgee, American con-
sui at Bordeaux, France, and well
known as an author, is dead, aged 81
The Venezuela Tribunal of First In
stance anpulIed the contract of the
New York and Bermudez Asphalt
Company.
An insane negro killed one white
man and injured seven others at OW-
ensboro, Ky. He then b%arricaded
himself in a house and defied arrest.
Eleven insurgents and so Turks are
reported to have been killed in a fight
between Graeco-Macadonia bands and
Turkish troops in Macedonia.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion has entered upon a vigorous de-
Tense before the senate committee
(which is considering railway rate
regulation. -.
A decision is expected this week in
the case of the state of South Carolina
against the United States for the re-
turn of the money paid for ~dispensary
licenses. $50
It is said that John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., is suffering from ervou dyspep-
sia. the ailment that for a long time
affected his father, and that he will
continue the rest cure.
Emperor Nicholas has directed
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch
to organize a special commission to
nronSra for q ~nnnnnil of national de.