Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-08-07


meniann priest concerned in the re-
cent New York agitation was arrested
The candidacy of Secretary Tart
was indorsed By the Ohio Republican
State Committee, despite Senator
Foraker's protest.
The Georgia Legislature passed the
Hafdman Prohibition bill.
Two strangling cases, with womtn
as the victims are puzzling the New
York police.
Senator Pettus Of Alabama was
buried at Selma with distinguished
honors.
A section Of the Erie canal gave
way, causing heavy loss; =
Mrs. Youtsey contradicted her hus-
bands confession in the Caleb Pow
ers case.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw declared she
had foresaken the stage.
Acrimonious arguments were made
in the matter Of taking dispositions i'll
the Eddy ease. .
There was new explosion in the
Hartje divorce. ease.
/ After a. stirring. speech by Nh,
Choate delegates ut The Hague sad
the Peace Conference had just begun,
SO far as results were concerned.
Russian troops killed 80 persons in
Russian Poland strike riots.
In riots in Seoul q large number of
Koreans were killed ~ Japs. Three
Korean delegates to The Hague came
to New York to appeal to America to
save their country from Japan.
{ A strike of sailing-ship masters is
on in Australia.
Army Investigators are said 70
have exonorated Lieut.-Col. WiHiaE
j. Tucker of the charges shEnHgilf
against him by his WIFE vas 3 q
Miss q Dolly Logan; : =. Z
government attorneys state that
the dissolution of the Dupont cora-
pany, of Delaware, will not affect tie
suit againsts4hei Powder Trust.
The Culgoae is to be fitted up as a
repair ship for the battleship feet Oh
its voyage to the Pacific:
Mr.. A. Capreton Braxton, presi=:
dent of the Virginia Bar Association,
is out for, Senator John w. Daniel
for the Democratic Presidential nomi-
naton.
The trial by special court martial
of Chaplain Harry w. Jones, United
States Navy, upon charges. of scanda-
lous conduct was begun at the Nor
folk Navy Yard.
> The, Richmond grand jury reported
that it. could not find any ice trust
in that city.
Primary election returns indicate
that Charles 7. Lassiter was nominat-
ed for the Virginia Senate for Dis
trict 29.
Stephens S. Walsh, a New York po-
liceman, was dismissed. fol alleged
cowardice and elected from the Office
in which his trial was held.
Four indictments have been found
against Rev. Le,ant Martorgessiaa.
the Armenian priest, under arrest IN
the New York conspiracy cases.
Acknowledgement Bonaparte is ex-
pected to appear personally in the
suits against the Dupont Powder
Trust.
E.. H. Hartman, in the face of Q
heavy decline, declared stocks would
soon go up again.
{ The plant OF the York Felt and
Paper Company at York, Pa, was
burned, with 100000 loss:
Capt. G. W. Kirkman was denied
his petition for release from the Fed
eral prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Six hundred striking miners il
Hebbing, Mich, were turned back
from march intended to intimidaie
nonunion men.
A rate war from Chicago to New
York is expected after passenger
agents refused to attend confer
ence.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion decides that in the equitable
redistribution ofscars to coal miners
private cars must be considered as
part Of the quota.
8. Admiral Evans conferred. with ma
val officials regarding the autumn
maneuver program and the trip of the
fleet to the Pacific.
Senator Beveridge will wed Miss
Katharine Eddy at Ambassador
Towers house in Berlin on August Z.
| Venezuela has begun steps to make
Americans yacate concessions. Bel.
gium, may ask the United States to
aid in collecting a 100000 debt
there.
Judge Robbins vacated the bench
| in the Powers trial and the case was
indefinitely postponed
The passage of the prohibition bill
will mean the withdrawal Of millions
VI dollars from Georgia.
The Rhodes Scholarships.
Oxford Rv cabla-Amer;can hold.