The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-01-10
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

Inc Columbia Hospital at Columbia
has been formally opened.
State Senator Cole l.. Blease of New
berry has announced himself candi-
date for Governor of South Carolina.
The Dispensary Investigating Com
mission was in session for few days in
Columbia last week.
Two unsuccessful attempts were made
to fire buildings in Camden Saturday
night
%. w. Robertson has been appointed
receiver of the Union and Glenn Springs
railroad.
A warehouse in Sumter contains 2, 600
bales of cotton which are being held for
higher prices.
The Florence Crittenden home in
Charleston, home for fallen women,
has made an appeal for aid
Commissioner E. j. Watson of the
immigration bureau, has completed his
annual report, which is highly salts
factory.
A white man, while under the infu-
ence of whiskey, made an attempt to
commit a criminal assault on a young
white girl at Sumter.
j. A. Shaw was shot and painfully
wounded by Chas. Mclean at Bethune
Saturday. The shooting grew out of
difficulty over some bags.
Richmond p. Hobson delivered a lect-
ure in the opera house at Union Monday
night. His subject was "America's
Great Mission"
The Southern Field, published at
Georgetown, paper devoted to agri-
cultural and industrial pursuits, has
suspended publication.
Kimsey o. Huskey of Gaffney, who
was q candidate for the legislature from
Cherokee county, has announced his in
tention of engaging in school teaching.
The Ginners' report issued yesterday
by the government, gave the number
of bales ginned December 31st at 9,721,-
600.
According to the National Ginners'
report, issued last Friday, 1854, O41
bales of this years crop of cotton had
been ginned up to Dec. 81.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the
President, will be married to Congress-
man Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati,
on Saturday, February II, in the East
room Of the White House.
The theft of 81 300 from the Southern
Express Company was reported last
week. 1t is claimed the money was
taken from pouch between Augusta
and New York.
In an alteration at Lancaster last
Saturday, DR.. f. S. Mellow shot and
desperately wounded Hasel Witherspoon
and slightly injured Mr.. Brown with
second shot.
Secretary Bonaparte of the United
States Navy is in Charleston for the
ceremonies attendant upon the present
alton of a silver service by the citizens
of Charleston to the United States
cruiser Charleston.
Secretary of State j. T. CAN'T has
replied to ID. H. Means concerning the
disappearance of the fee book. Mr..
CAN'T says that the statement made by
Mr.. Means that he requsted Mr.. Means
to evade, hide or cancel any work of
his is false.
The trial of Greene and Gaynor in
connection with the famous Govern
ment fraud case i'll which it is alleged
that about So, 1000, 900 were stolen in car
rying out the Savannah harbor con-
tracts, commenced in the United States
court at Savannah yesterday.
At Albany, Ca, last Wednesday sew
eral persons were killed outright, a
large number more or less seriously in
jured and great damage done to prop
erty by tornado which struck the
town about l O'Clock in the afternoon.
Senator Latimer let it be known in a
speech delivered at Spartanburg last
Saturday on Good Roads" that he was
now with Congressman johnson in the
matter of locating the places for hold
ing courts in the proposed Federal Dis
trict for South Carolina, which means
that Chester will be dropped.
Our entire stock to be thrown upon
the market! Watch for date. Red
Iron Racket.
L.. d M. Paint cost only $1.20 a gal
Ion. Seven gallons paints moderate
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