Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-07-25
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Alfred Belt, the well-known South
African fnancier and diamond and
gold king, died in London, aged %
years.
The spirit of mutiny spread 10 the
regiment in the fortress of st. Peter
and st. Paul, st. Petersburg.
French Foreign Minister Bourgeois
gave a dinner in honor Of MIR. and
Mrs. Iongworth in Paris.
The Wabash Railroad is offering
s6,1SO,OOo equipment bonds in Par
is.
The United States is we'll repre-
sented at the International Congress
&c Architects in London.
DR.. W. Starr Jordan i'll lecture
predicted more earthquakes for Cali
fornia.
A Wisconsin milliner named Nellie
Ellison was found murdered in Min
neapolis hotel.
Miss Rose NJ. SattcrGcld and j. W.
Gordon were drowned i'll the James
river at Richmond.
Ambassador Wright presented
| letter from President Roosevelt TO the
Emperor Of Japan.
Tie State Department is using all
lis influence 70 avert a war between
Guatemala and San Salvador.
John FL. Chapman was elected pre-
ident Of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union for the sixteenth time.
| According to report the walls OF
the Yactieian are unsafe and the
Pope has changed his apartments.
A young woman who registered at
Goshen, Va, as Minnie Jones aud ask
ed for the best room in the house
committed suicide.
A sweeping inquiry into The grain
trade and the alleged combination has
been begun by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The trial of the Hariie divorce suit
which may begin in Pittsburs is ex-
pected to be d battle between hand
writing experts:
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Judge Alton B. Parker replied to
the speech of Secretary Taft at
Greensboro, N. c., criticising some
statements as incorrect.
Curt Jctt, when put on the witness
stand in the Hargis-Callaban case, cx-
onerated White and said he alone had
killed Marcum.
Several important witnesses have
been located in the Thaw case, and
the slayer Of Stanford White made
a statement to reporters.
Divinity students in Persia have re.
viyed in violent form the agitation
for constitutional system of govern
ment.
Vice-Admiral Chuuilknin was slot
by an assassin at Sevastopol and. it is
thought, will die, the assailant escap-
ing.
Three cases of armed men attack
ing officials with money and robbing
them Of large SUMS are reported from
Russia.
The bow Of the Hamburg-American
Line steamship Deutschland was bad
ly damaged by collision with a pier
at Dover, England.
"Tom'' Jones and Charles A.
Woodruff were hanged from the same
scaffold at Independence. Va. and
Andrew T.. Davenport was hanged at
Newport News. All three were ne
groes.
The need of trade. schools and spc-
cial care for backward and deficient
+, children were discussed before the
American Institute Of Instruction.
meeting in New Haven.
Secretary Bonaparte gives half the
armor-plate contract 10 the Midvale
/ Company, the lawest bidders, and the
other half to the Carnegie and Beth
lehem Companies, the so-called "ar-
mor-plate trust
The Virginia Farmers Institute at
Roanoke was attended by nearly l.
600 farmers, who declared their oppo-
sition to the International Harvester
Company.
A sweeping inquiry into Inc grain
trade and the alleged combinations
has been begun by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Amid tumultuous scenes the French
Chamber of Deputies made Alfred
Dreyfus a major Of artillery and Col
onel Picquart brigadicr-general.
At the suggestion Of Russia the
proposed visit Of the British fleet to
Cronstadt has been indefitely post
poned.
The will of Stanford White filed
in New York, leaves his estate, The
value Of which is not revealed, to his
widow, mother and brother.
Alice Whileman testified at Park.
ersburg, w. Va, against her mother,
who is on trial for the killing of