Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-03-20
Late Nese,s
In BRIEF * 5
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST 5
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The American Roadmakcrs' Asso-
citation is in convention at Pittsburg.
President Roosevelt issued an or
der restoring to entry about 36,OOO,"
600 acres Of coal lands that had been
Withdrawn.
The mother of r. D. Ramsay, trav-
eled from Nova Scotia to Petersburg
to see her soii; who was sick IN q
hospital, only to find him dead.
The stockholders Of the Pennsyl
vania railroad approved the proposed
increase of $2OO,OOO,0OO in stocks and
bonds.
The Virginia Conference of the
United Brethren Church is in session
at Edinburg, Virginia.
Decisions IN number ofcases were
handed down iii the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals at Rich
mond.
Governor Swanson has commuted
the sentence Of Owes" Wilkie, a
negro sentenced to die for murder,
to Imprisonment for life.
Mr. c. Fl. Hurkamp, Of Fredericks-
burg, has been appointed one, Of the
Judges of the Baltimore horse show,
which will be held on the grounds OF
the Elkridge Hunt Club on May 23,
"a and 25.
Bv the will of Edmund P. Dwight,
of Philadelphia, various church or
ganizations get 100000.
The Guyan, Big Ugly and Coal
River Railway Company has be,
formed to build railroad i'll Lin
coin county, West Virginia, from
the mouth Of Big Ugly creek to q
point on Laurel fork. The capital
is 100000, and those interested are
]. W. johnson, Mary A. Sims, Il. 1.
Lovett, Paul W. Scott and Mary b..
May.
The former Anne Gould's Paris
lawyer charged her $4,000 to get
divorce.
Tie shops of the Dry Fork Rail
road Company, which were destroy,
ed by fire at Hedricks, W. Va, will
be rebuilt at once.
Mine No. 25, of the Davis Coal and
Coke Company at Thomas, Nv. va,
where 25 men were recently killed
by au explosion of gas, was the scene
Of another accident, one Italian hav-
ing been killed and two injured by
fall Of slate.
Cabell county, West Virginia, will
vote on April 20 on the. issuance OF
$24O,OOO worth of bonds for the
maintenance and building Of county
roads and bridges.
Israel J. Kinney, retired Baltl-
more and Ohio passenger engineer,
died at Grafton, w. Va, aged 81
years. He was native of Doddrdge
county, w. Va, and served in the
Union army.
The deaths due to the blowing up
sof the French battleship lena may
number 120. 1,----.s 49,.
Six persons were killed by an ex-
ploding bomb while searching a stu
dents apartment in Kharkov,
Russia,
DR.. Adam Jameson and IL others
were killed in a wreck in the Trans
vaal.
President Bonilla, of Honduras is
directing operations at the front from
fast automobile.
The New York stock market was
demoralixed, and wave OF dqulda-
ton was attended by a shrinkage In
values of upward of $3O0,OOO,OO0.
European markets were similarly at
fected.
Clashes took place between the
Louisville police and the street car
strikers.
The trial of Abraham Ruef was
called in San Francisco, but was post
poned until Monday.
H. G. Mcdowell, president of the
Farmers Bank of Canton, Ohio, com
mitted suicide.
Floods due to heavy rains are caus-
ing havoc in Maryland, Pennsylvania
and the Middle Western States.
Governor Gillette, of California,
sent to the legislature correspondence
with President Roosevelt on the Jap
anese question.
The Socialists in the Russian
Douma are preparing for a fight.
President Roosevelt has not been
informed as to what the four railroad
presidents will propose at their com
inc conference with him, but he IS
said to be in receptive mood.
Commander Richard C. Hollyday, a
native of Maryland, is to be appoint
ed chief of the Bureau of Docks and
Yards of the nevy department.
A. B. Strickland, president of the
Chicago and Northwestern railway,
saws Western companies will fight in
the courts all state regulations OF
railroads.
M. Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Per.
ier, former president of France, died
suddenly.