Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-07-10
Lafe Nesos
In Brief &
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST


was reproduced at brlstoi, ouly
Secretary Of the Treasury Cortel-
You suggested, at conference with
the jamestown Exposition governors
that a director-general be appointed.
The schooners Scotia and Harry
W. Haynes put into Norfolk badly
damaged by a severe storm which
almost sent them to the bottom.
The contract for the construction
of the Buckannon and Northern rail-
road from Morgantown, w. Va, to
tile Pennsylvania line was awarded
to the Brady Construction Company,
of Parkersburg.
John D. Rockefeller accepted ser
vice of the subpoena with which de-
putty marshals have been hunting
him, but may not have to go to Clca.
90 for trial after all.
The prosecution in the Haywood
case gave notice of the intention to
move to strike out parts of the testi-
mony for the defense.
A reward of $4,000 was offered for
Chester B. Runyan, paying teller Of
the Windsor Trust Company, charged
with stealing $96,OOO,3l7.
President Amandor, of Panama,
arrived in New York while Secre-
tary Taft was trying to settle the
Columbia debt trouble.
Alleging an attempted assault on
his daughter, Edward Sweitzer
brought Frank Sterner into York and
had him locked up.
San Francisco japanese say their
countrymen who appealed for fair
ness were wrong about schools.
Joseph Micenhcimer, who killed
Mrs. Martha Drewry in Lynchburs
and then shot himself, was roughly
handled when caught by a posse.
Reverend and Mrs. John Whit
worth who were parties in suit for
their children after a divorce, were
remarked in Roanoke.
John D. Rockefeller is said to be
at Pittsfeld, Mass, with search
light and big dog guarding hila
from subpoena servers.
A movement is on foot for the &C.
tablishment of a department of fine
arts as a part of the National Gov
ernment.
Gov. John A. Johnson, of Minne-
sofa, is said to be Henry Waiter
sons "dark horse" for the Demo-
cratic Presidential nomination.
Bishop Henry M. Turner, senior
Bishop of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, attacked the
country and the United States flag
in sermon.
The Long Island sound steamr1
Puritan was in collision with a
schooner and rescued four persons
from the sailing vessel.
All the plants of the United States
Steel Corporation, it is said, are to
be equipped with gas engines, the
gas to be drawn from the furnaces.
A long distance telephone message
says the town of Whitville, Tenn, is
threatened with destruction by fire
which is burning fiercely with little
hope of controlling.
The Colhoun building, home of the
Condor Training School, near Hunts
vile, Ala, was burned Tuesday.
Prof. ]. E. Condor, principal and
several students narrowly escaped.
The building cost originally $5O,OOO.
Upon the petition of creditors the
Lindsay Chair Company, of High
Point, N. c., was by Judge Boyd, adj
judged bankrupt. Mr.. Carl A. Cline,
of High Point, acting secretary and
treasurer of the company, was ap-
pointed temporary receiver.
Abbe Felix Klein, the noted French
cllurchman, is on his way to The
United States.
In the Haywood trial on Tuesday,
the witness for the defence COM
pletely riddled the testimony of Har-
ry Orchard.
Subpeoneas were issued in Chicago
for John D. Rockefeller and other
Standard Oil men.
Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., admitted
that he had gone into partnership
with Peckham, but says he understood
they were to deal in mining shares.
An attempt was made in the Hey
wood trial to prove contemplating
by the mine owners.
The county of Lee, making the
9Sth North Carolina county, was vot-
ed on and carried in all electing,
there being about so votes in op-
position. Sanford will be the county
seat.
Steel-rail manufacturers and rail-
road men discussed the problem Of
safer steel rail.
An insanity plea is expected TO
figure in the defense of Karl Han,
who is to be tried this month on the
charge Of numbering his mother-in-
law.
Government experts announce that
they have developed four fine new
varieties of cigar tobacco that can
be grown in the United States.
Charles H. Meyer was retained rs
president, and William D. Haywood
as secretary-treasurer Of the Westarn
Federation of Miners by the fedcr-
alton convention at Denver, Col, al
though they are imprisoned in Idaho
on the charge of completely in the
murder of former Governor Stuenen-
berg.
The new administration of Will