Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-05-08
Observation-Disclosures

cd regarding mop IN Guatemala CITY.
End of contest for control Of Tam.
many Hall is announced at New York
Unusual kind of government at Te-
gucigalpa results in fresh fighting.
Receiving bribes is charged against
certain municipal officers in London.
Vanderbit's Chancellor addresses
Council on Medical Education at Chi
cago.
Mrs. James C. Frazier, prominent
West Virginia woman, died in Indi-
ana.
A Cyclone in Texas caused loss
Of at least eight lives and great dam
age.
Rev. ]. D. Simmons was stricken
with apoplexy in hotel at Buckhaa-
non, W. Va.
Secretary Taft speaks in Cincin-
natl, with the Panama Canal for a
subject.
Mrs. H. L. Williams shot and per-
haps fatally wounded her husband in
.Danville.
Various municipal officials in Lon.
don are being tried on charge of pet
ty grating.
Two men were killed and 100 per-
sons had thrilling escape in a Wa
bash wreck.
The new Inland Waterways Com
mission held its first business meeting
and organized.
President of Panama to be absent
for long while, radical changes IN
Cabinet resulting.
Taft followers are to issue state
ment to the effect that he is only aft
er the Presidency. 8
Several persons have been killed,
and many wounded during the politi-
cal campaign in Ecuador.
A system Of 15-day Presidents gov:
erning by turns reopened the revolu-
ton in Honduras for time.
Secretary Taft in an address at.
Dayton, Ohio, praised the Young
Mems Christian Association.
Each person in the United States
according to Government report,
eats 76 pounds of sugar year.
A rich Pittsburg widow married
man 10 years younger than she, who
had been her instructor at skating:
rink.
The volcano on the Island Of
Stromboll is again in eruption and
several persons may have been en-
gulfed in lava.
The decision that the meat packers
had accepted rebates was upheld Ey
the United States Circuit Court Of
Appeals in st. Paul.
A coroner's jury in Macon, Ca,
brought in a verdict Of Unstable hon.
icide in the case of man who killed
his sisters alleged betrayer.
The Supreme Court ruled that
State railroad commission may en-
force changes in railroad schedules, in
deciding North Carolina case.
There is a possibility that Com
mander Peary may not be able to
make his proposed new dash to the
North Pole for lack Of funds.
A letter alleged to have been writ
ten by Miss Elizabeth Loving is said
to clear Theodore Estes of the charge
upon which her father, Judge Loving
shot him.
General Manager Post, of the New
port News Ship building and Drydock
Company, declares Congressman Wal
dos statements condemning private
shipyards unfounded. q
The President has appointed Col.
Charles L. Hodges, of the Twenty
fourth Infantry, a, negro regiment, a
brigadier general. General Hodges is
now in the Philippines.
Coney Island amusement suspend
during transfer to the last resting
place of body of Elmer Dundy.
The District Attorney conducting
the case against the alleged "Black-
hand" at Wilkes-Barre says the ,r-
ganization is no myth.
A savage attack by Socialist del
egate on the Russian Government and
Army came near precipitating the
dissolution Of the Dounta.
Franz Endrukaty shot Martha E.o-
rails dead and then tried to kill him
self in Philadelphia because the girl
had refused to marry him.
Statement by Republican Chairman
in Ohio regarding Foraker-Taft con-
test.
William E. Corey was reelected
president of the United States Steel
Corporation at the annual meeting
Of the board Of directors. All the
other officers whose terms expired |
of l 3-4 per cent on the preferred
stock and one-half of one per cent. on
the common stock were declared. |
The net earnings for the quarter end
ed March 81 were $39, ,122, ,492, an in-
crease Of $2,4SS,002 over the same
quarter last year.