Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-07-31
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! dead on the street at Sunolk.
The Haywood defense arguments
began at the trial at Boise, Idaho.
Dr.. Mark Twain arrived from Eng
land and was beseiged by reporters.
More than 400 miners were killed
by an explosion in Japanese COLI
cry.
The Georgia legislature is having
u warm time on the prohibition
question before that body.
The Government has decided to
take steps to wipe out peonage in the
Southern States.
The convention of officials of Bu.
rcaus of Labor Statistics has begun
at Norfolk.
Judge Pritchard overrules the act
ion of the State Court in the North
Carolina railroad rate cases.
The three Italians convicted Of kid
mapping and murder at Hahnville, La.
were sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Premier Clemenceau, of France,
was drenched with hot water while
sailing over Paris in dirigible bal
loon.
Several members of the Korea-
cabinet and one of the elder states
men were arrested on charges Of IL
triguing.
Twenty men were thrown in the
river at Lorane, Ohio, by the collapse
of a bridge, and at least three were
drowned.
A Persian merchant was assassi-
mated on Union Square, New York
by an Armenian who said he >'acted
for his country
A telegram has been received at The
American Embassy in Japan report
ing restoration Of the open-door pol
icy in Manchuria.
The steamer Columbia of the San
Francisco and Portland Company,
was rammcd by the steamer lumber
schooner San Pedro and sunk with D
loss Of over 100 lives.
Mrs. Cora B. Gore, % years old,
a bride of 6 months, was drowned al
Moundsville, w. Va. She is supposed
to have walked into the lake while
asleep.
The speech of Attorney Darrow
for the defense in the Haywood
murder case consumed most of the
day Wednesday and was a mos!
bitter denunciation of the autocra.-
ic practices Of the State and the
mine owners.
The trial of DR.. and Mrs. Rowland
at Raleigh, N. c., on the charge Of
poisoning engineer Strange, first hus-
band of Mrs. Rowland, grows more
dramatic. A strong case is being
made against them.
The sloop yatch Mira, with Har-
old Vanderbilt and the Duchess of
Marlborough formerly Miss Consuelo
Vanderbilt on board is overdue at
Norfolk. 1t is supposed the yatch is
in some one Of the Maryland or Vir-
ginia rivers.
Memphis has social war which
grew out of accusations that a promi-
nent Confederate woman had shown
Federal sympathies.
The naval board Of inquiry reports
that the explosion on the Georgia was
caused by "flare-back" the result
Of premature closing Of the gas
ejector.
Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife
of the Vice-president, and her twn
sons were in an automobile accident
but escaped tnhurt.
Col. j. Edwin Browne, of Baltimore
was reelected commander Of the
Army and Navy Union and was pre-
sented with a jeweled medal.
The four armorcd cruisers in the
Orient including the Maryland and
West Virginia will sail next week FOR
San Francisco.
The National Pure Food Congress
adopted number Of important rec
concentrations at jamestown and ad.
journed.
Walter-Stanley shot and killed his
friend Preston Finn by mistake al
William, West Virginia.
Claudius Wolfe of Evansville, ".
Va, and Samuel Greenbaum were
drowned in flooded streams in West
Virginia.
Judge William Hodges Mann will
retire from the service of the Norfolk
and Western Railway.
Negroes who had robbed a booth
killed two Oklahoma officers and q
race war is threatened.
Two-cent-a-mile railroad rates went
into effect in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri
and Minnesota.
A reform administration went into
Office in Louisville.
Senator Foraker criticised the In
terstate Commerce Commission in a
speech at Maimisburg, Ohio.
William January, called real
"Jean Valjean," was finally released
from the Federal Prison at Fort
Levenworth.
"Peddler" Palmer, an English
prizefghter, was sentenced to five
years penal servitude for killing Rob-
o,.t Choot