Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-09-26
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III Brief
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST

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The American warships arrived at
Gibraltar in time to take part IN the
funeral of Admiral Chichester.
Gen. Thomas Fl. Barry and Gen.
William P. Duvall have been recalled
from Germany and ere understood to
Be designated. for commands IN Gu
ba:if an army is sent to the island:
Railroad tariffs are to be uniform,
stated in plain language and thor
oughly idexed;s according to the new
Commission.
No bids were made for the con-
struction and operation of pneu-
matte tube postal service for Balti-
more,
stCap" Hatfield, the noted feudist,
was shot and killed by his brother,
DR.. Elias Hatfield, near Wharncliff,
w Va.
8 The cornerstones of the Maryland,
i Virginia and Missouri Buildings and
that of the Travellers Protective As
sociation were laid at the jamestown
Exposition site.
Five Richmond druggists, charged
with EMPLOYING unregistered drug
Z clerks to fill prescriptions, were ac-
quilted because private parties and
s net the State board were the pro-
! secntors.
+ At Woodstock, I, M. Dinges was
sentenced to two years on the public
!roads for raising $40 check to
$50.
"a. tumor on the brain has driven
George Painter Of Stephens City, in
sane.
Republicans of the Second Virgi-
MIA district have nominated Floyd
Hughes young Norfolk lawyer, for
{. Congress.
President Roosevelt has issued an
order extending the Eight-Hour law
Ito all public work, especially to river
and harbor improvements.
b. Twenty persons are reported to be
missing as the result Of the Chicago
and Rock Island Railroad wreck near
Dover, Okla.
Bryan made an address at Colum-
,bia, S. c., and then started for Geor-
gia.
A semi-annual dividend on Read
ing second preferred stock was de-
clared.. The annual rport shows in
creased earnings for its coal bust
ness.
HScalping tickets of the Pennsyl-
Vania, Baltimore and Ohio and other
railroads was perpetually prohibited
by a Federal injunction issued in Chi
cago.
E. 81. Hartman, speaking at a
launching at Quincy, Mass, urged
ship subsidies and painted a gloomy
picture Of the future if they are not
garnted.
TENTATIVE rules regulating labels
on food products and medicines un-
der the Pure-Food and Drug laws
were published and developed oppo-
sition from interested quarters.
Texas Democrats will consider the
question of opposing the reelection
of Senator Bailey as a result of his
alleged relations with the Standard
oil interests.
Charles Conley, the negro who at
!. tackled two white women in Delaware
recently, was sentenced to servve 50
years in prison and to receive 30
lashes atsthe whipping post.
2 Officers and men of the Richmond
Blues await the action of Major
Cheatwood in the trouble which has
split that organization.
A correspondent describes the pro-
gress Of the work at the jamestown
Exposition grounds.
Tucker county, West Virginia,
Democrats nominated c6unty ticket
and endorsed William. j. Brayn.
Lizzie Deaner, IA years old, was
criminally assaulted in Parkersburg.
A Wheeling man is under arrest, ac-
cused of the crime.
Winston Churchill, the author, is
making gains in his fight for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor of
New Hampshire at the primary.
Charles E. Carbonneau, who was
dismissed in Philadelphia on the
charge of having kidnapped his 81
ter-in-law, is said TO have secured
his fortune by marrying u woman who
kept a road house in the Yukon gold
fields.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
of the University of California, in an
address at the commencement of Le-
land Stanford University, argued
3 against the spelling reform advocat-
sed by President Roosevelt.
Thomas VI. Alexander who disap-
Z peared from Augusta, Ga, after hav-
ing defaulted for $4,000 was arrest
led in Pittsburg, Pa.
The Palma Government has hasten
ed to stop the Cuban revolution, and
efforts are being made to compromise
with the insurgents.
At present the United States Ma
zine Corps has ever 600 men in ac-
tive serice, the legal limit Of the
corps being 1000.
!h monument to George shington
vas unveiled :at Buda Jest, Hungary.
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