Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-09-05
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The United States Consult General
at Canton reports that the loss to Am
ericans by the Chinese boycott on
goods imported from the United
States will not exceed $1,25O,OOO.
Senator Foraker, Of Ohio, in an
interview, discusses the possibility
that he may not be endorsed by the
Ohio Republican Convention because
he did not support the President III
all matters of legislation.
There is suspicion that the reyo-
luton in Cuba has the support OF a
syndicate we'll supplied with capital.
R. L. Yates, who disappeared from
his home in Danville March l3 and
had been given up for dead, has writ
ten to his father from Kentucky.
Two wildcats are at large in the
vicinity of Chester, w. Va, and are
terrorizing the surrounding country.
The scarcity Of coast guard re-
cruits for the Virginia and Carolina
coasts is said to be serious menace
to commerce.
William Jett Lauck, of Keyser, is
being. doomed for the Democratic
nomination for Congress from the
Second West Virginia district.
Miss Winnie Embrick was killed
by an electric carein Richmond while
studying bsr Sunday school lesson
on her way to church.
Lynchburg authorities report the
tobacco crep outlook in that section
of Virginia the best in years.
The. New York immigration author
tiles ordered the deportation OF the
Hebrew orphans who arrived on the
Amerika, but an appeal has been
taken.
The sailing of the flag ship Maine
from New York was delayed on ac-
count Of the death of the coxswain.
It is stated that the cause Of the
hard times in the silk business is
the adulturation Of the fabric, caus-
ing revolt Of the purchasers.
The Identification of the line Of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad means the employment, it is
is said, of motermen at $3.50 per day,
instead Of from $6 to $40.
Capt. Nathan Appleton, author,
traveller and Panama canal promoter,
who was recently divorced and was to
be married again, died in Boston.
President Palma and his cabinet
are considering a proclamation Of
amnesty to Cuban insurgents who lay
down their arms within 80 days.
General Min; cummander:a;oft the
Seminovskv Regiment and who was
active in putting down the Moscow
revolt, was killed at the Peterhof rail
way station bv a girl.
The death as the result of the
bomb explosion in Premier Stolypin s
home now number 80.
The Chilean Government has drawn
up plan for the reconstruction of
Valparaiso.
President Roosevelt is the target
of the heavy guns of the English
press for his spelling reform order.
The legislative committee which in
vestigated the Williamsburg Insane
Asylum failed to agree and will sub
NIT majority and minority reports.
Bids were opened in Washington
for sites for Federal buildings in Fair
mont and Grafton, w. Va.
Mr.. Gustavus C. Jacobs, owner of
the Riverside plantation in Chester
field county, Virginia, was killed by
kick from horse.
The Gould Western Pacific system
ID extending its lines into Oregon.
DR.. Lee B. Boyers, physician, and
DR.. A. R. Badgely, dentist, were ar
rested in Fairmont, W. Va, charged
by DR.. G.. W. Keener, an optician,
with performing a criminal operation.
A report Of the chief clerks of the
two houses Of Congress shows the
appropriations of the last session to
have toteled $S79,5S9,1S516, an in
crease OF $50, ,5O5.2O over the pre-
vious years budget.
Mr.. Lewis P. Nelson, 81 years old,
Of Culpepper, Va, is dead.
The negro troops at Brownville,
Texas, have been ordered to a front
ier post as a result Of the recent shoot
ing affray in which they killed one
white man and wounded another.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
invited bids to furnish $500 Chinese
coolies to dig the Panama canal, pre-
scribing almost prohibitive conditions.
The PasiAc Mail Steamship Com
pany's steamer Manchuria went
aground on reef at Rabbit Island,
one Of the Hawaiian group, and all
the passengers were taken ashore.
Dispatches from Chile show that
the panic resulting from the earth
quake has subsided, and Government
| is active in taking relief measures.
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