The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-21
FOREIGN.

The editor of I'll DiluYio, q daily pa
per published at Barcelona, Spain, has
been sentenced to eight years i'm
prisonment for printing an insulting
dispatch concerning King Alfonso.
Russia IS now pressins on in North
ern ManchurlG in an attempt to make
E~ladivostok replace Port Arthur and
Dalny as q port in the Far East.
The London (Eng.), Express under
stands that, in consequence Of repeated
raids ~ Waziris and other warlike
tribes on the northwest frontier OF
India, the authorities contemplate
sending a powerful expedition to the
disturbed districts.
Russian delegates at Algeciras pro-
posed that tt Moroccan police be in
trusted to france and Spain; the Ger
mans asked time to consider.
An attempt on the life of Vice-Ad-
miral Doubassof, Governor-Genera of
Moscow, by a woman terrorist was
frustrated.
0 NJ. Erienne, the French Minister Of
War;, said in the Chamber of Teputies,
at Paris, that the equipment Of the
French army was complete.
Az imperial ukase fixed dates for
elections to the National Assembly in
forty-seven provinces of Russia.
One hundred and fifty fisherman Of
the eight Hundred who were adrift on
ice foes in II e Baltic have beer driven
ashore .ear Crcnstadt.
King Edward entertained eX-Presi-
dent Loubet and NJ. Delcasse, the for
mer Foreign Minister. at a dinner at
the British Embassy in Paris, France.
John R. Walsh was arrested In Chi
cago, ILL.,, charged with making q false
report on the condition Of the Chicago
National Bank and disappointing
$3,OO0,000.
The New York Life decided to aban-
don its expensive offices in the Han.
over Bank Building, in New York City,
established by George W. Perkins. .
The report of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for the year ending De-
cember. 81, 1905, shows the greatest
business in the history of the system.
The New Haven Rail: FAD will aban.
don the Grand Central Station in New
York City and use the new terminal or
the Pennsylvania.
Through an adjournment until April
8 of the hearing of a motion for a new
trial for Albert r. Patrick for the MUIR
der of William NJ. Rice in New York
City in 1900, a new lease OF life is as
sured to Patrick.
The British naval estimates for 1906
'O7 provide for a net total expenditure
Of S159,34 Z 500.
New trade treaties between Austria
and various countries, it is asserted,
will hold Hungary in the empire eco.
nomically for the period they Will en-
dure.
The first labor bill of the present
session of the British Parliament, i'll
session at London, empowering school
authorities to provide meals for under
fed school children. will receive Lib
eral support.
Adyices received at Paris, France,
said that a revolutionary movement
against President Castro was being Or
ganized on the Island Of Trinidad.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
on the life of Governor-General kau!-
bars at Odessa, Russia.
According 70 a decree of the Car of
Russia no laws shall hereafter be eff
fective without the approval of the Ma
tional Assembly and Council of the
Empire.
1t was announced from Vienna, Aus
tria. that the Crowns abSolutism in
Hungary was increasing daily.
According to a special cable dispatch,
from Berlin, Germany, King Edward:
has written a letter to the Kaiser con-
graduating him on his silver wedding,
and has sent him q punch bowl.