Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-10-17
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The League Of Virginia Muncipali-
ties, in session at Newport News,
elected officers.
Twenty-nine bodies have thus far
been found in Pocahontas mine. The
total dead is thought to be 20.
The Christian Church Convention
at Vienna, Va, adjourned.
Three torraroes caused much dam
age in New Orleans .aad Vicinity, four
persons being reported killed.
An internal maes;s;,;,;, ma..s,,, addressed to
,.yrvrnor Fennypacker-was held up at
Harrisburg.
A committee Of North Carolinans
went to New YUtk to Submit to the
Mutual and New Yol!i Life Insur-
anee Comaplles arrangements and
committees series Of questions.
Fifteen men are believed to have
been killed by an explosion in a coal
mine in New Mexico,
Eightsmen were killed aud some DO
persons were injured by an explosion
Of gas in the philadelphia subway,
under conSiii:ctipn.
The eEUnitsl States ard Great Brit
ain have adopted II modlis frivendi
that will emile, G;hted. States ttrsher.
men 10 fisll-witl profit in Newfound,
land waters. -:
A severe shock 6f earthquake, sup
posed to.laye occurred in the Indian
Ocean, was sreeo,eed by the Weather
Bureau seismographs.
American mills; the Ceiisus Bureau
states, consumer 4,S71,16S bales Of
cotton during the year ended August
81, 1906.
The first American soldiers were
landed at Havana and taken to Camp
Columbia.
The report that Princess Patricia
of. Connaught has .beeh betrothed to
Grand DhkH MicheAl OF Russia, only
brother Of the Car, is denied in Lon
don and st. Petersburg.
Sir Robert Hart has sent. circu-
lar to the foreign colony in Shanghi
expressing confidence that his status
with regard 10 the Chinese Customs
will not bc changed.
Cotton mill agents in Rhode Island
complain of scarcity of help in some
departments and assert that III this
respect the Increase of wages granted
early last summer did not have the
beneficial result hoped for. The i'll
crease has MOI thus far drawn back
a sufficient 1,Uber Of those who left
the mills wlio wages were lower and
when there was dissatisfaction among
the workmen 1,or other reasons. In
some Of the mills, at the present time.
more looms are stopped than has been
the case heretofore i'll the history Of
tile industry in that State. In one
large mill there are said to be 600
looms idle, where a few years ago the
number Of applicants for work ex-
ceeded the demand. A fifth of the
looms in another large mill are said
TO be stopped for want of operatives.
The Congress of Constitutional Dc
mocrats, in session at Helsingfors,
Finland, approved the Yiborg mani
festo. but declared its enforcement at
the present time inexpedient.
Peaceful conditions iii Cuba led to
lumor that the sending Of the army
thither might be stopped.
Further details were received at
Hongkong Of the laundering in a ty-
phoon Of the emigrant steamer Char
ter House, with loss Of over 90
lives, 25 persons being taken from 4
raft after they had been ahoat 40
hours.
Tie suit of Virginia against West
Virginia Oh the old debt settlement
will come up in the United States
Supreme Court.
Commissioner Yearkes issued a set
Of ,l52 regulations regarding the de-
naturizing Of alcohol.
During The last fiscal year 1896
trials by court-marshall were held; 2
officers were convicted.
Submarine boats are to be submit
ted to severe tests by naval experts.
The transport Panama, with troops,
left Newport News for Cuba, and two
more transports vii sail soon.
. Judge R. J. Lea Of the Pulaski
county. Ark. circuit court, specifi-
cally instructed the grand jury as to
its inquiry into the .lynching Of II. G.
Blaekman, negro, Sunday night in
Argenta. .:Argenta is Pulaski coun-
ty and is just across the Arkansas
river from Little Rock, Judge Lea
told the Jurors that every member OF
the mob was murderer and should
be hunted down.
The annual meeting Of the Central
of Georgia railway was held Monday.
No change was made in the directors
or officials. The financial statement
of the road for the fiscal year issued
several weeks ago was adopted.
Doctors Britton D. Evans and Chas.
E. Wagner Of the Morris Plains IN IN
sane asylum spent several hours with
Harry K. Thaw in his cell III the