Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-11-07
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IN Brief *
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST

Mrs. Virginia D. Young, editor Of
the Fairfax, S. G., Enterprise, and
famous throughout the country as a
writer of great ability, died Satur-
day night after very brief illness.
The anniversary of the granting OF
the Russian constitution passed quiet
ly in spite Of fears to the contrary.
The st. Petersburg University,
which was closed by the faculty coun-
ell on account Of students holding
political meetings is to be reopened'
Many Cuban officeholders were
dropped in the move for economy and
reform.
A European government is believ-
ed to have stirred up the anti-Amcri-
can feeling in Japan.
Treasurer Treat shows that the sum
Of $S77, ,296,23S is held in gold in the
United States treasury.
Secretary Wilson has issued NUM-
ber of new meat inspection rcgula-
tions.
The Panama Canal Commission es-
Inmates that it will require all appro-
priation of So, ,4O6,25S for next years
work.
A portion Of the Southern Railway
shops at Manchester, Va, has been
barricaded in order to protect striks-
breakers from the striking machinists.
Governor Swanson commuted to life
Imprisonment the sentence OF Lillian
Young, of Rappahannock county, who
had been sentenced to be hanged.
E. A. Taylor and A. L. Peartree
were arrested in Richmond, charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Judge Dayton, at Clarksburg, en-
joined the sale of the T. NJ. Jackson
coal lands, which are said 10 be worth
$1,20O.0O0.
Timothy Woodruff wants President
Roosevelt to come out and repudiate
the Hearst circular which makes him
appear as entertaining views on cap
,ital similar to those held by the New
York candidate.
The American Stock Breeders as
sociation is in favor Of compelling
candidates for matrimony to pass 4
State examination.
Senator Dubois has informed Pres:
ident Roosevelt that if Secretary Taft
makes speeches in Idaho against Gov
amor Gooding he will appear in The
ittitude of defending Mormonism
hat being the only. issue.
In response to rumors-circulated
it is alleged, as a joke--that the whites
IF Brockhaven, Miss. were forming
Ku Klux klan to drive out the ne
.roes, the latter have organized q
Whitecap band, which has already
killed one man.
Clifford Hooe. the negro eoachman
,ormerly in the employ of Augustus
Iartje. the Pittsburg millionaire, who
las been suing his wife for divorce
vas convicted Of perjury committed
when he swore that Mrs. Hartie was
intimate with him.
An interview between Mrs. Mary
Bake Eddy and a number Of newspa.
,er representatives was arranged tc
how that she is in full possession OF
Ter faculties.
President Roosevelt took with lin
TO his country home at Pine Knot
Va, his annual message. to which h'
will put the finishing touches.
Chairman Griggs predicts that tn;
Democrats will gain 81 members o.
the House Of Representatives.
Hereafter each officer and soldie.
in the army is to wear a numbered
aluminium badge that will identif.
him in case of death or accident.
The pitifnl story OF the forme
Anne Gould's life since she married
the dissolute and extravagant Coun
Boni Castellanc was told in court a
Paris when the divorce case came up
Governor Magoon has given the Gu
bans a great surprise by announcing
that American occupation will be no
only administrative, but reformativc
Russia will it is said, build nava
station at Alexandrovsk, on Iii
Amur.
Eight Of the identified participant
in the robbery Of the custom hous
cashier in st. Petersburg are to b.
taken to Cronstadt for execution.
The program Of the French Cabi
net is said to include public owner
ship OF mines and abolition Of th
death penalty.
While the New York Republica
politicians seem to have recovere'
from their scare that Hearst will win
the financial and business men con
tinue apprehensive, though the indi
cations continue strongly to favo
Hughes.
Six persons were injured in an au