Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Late Nese's
II. BRIEF *
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The American feet Of warships
under Admiral Evans started FROM
Port Of Spain,S Trinidad, for Rio de
Janeiro, distance of nearly 5000
miles.
Lord Kurzon has decided to accept
the nomination as representative
Irish peer to succeed Lord kilmalne
in the House of Lords.
The Countess of Warwick will
make lecturing tour in America,
the proceeds to be used i'll starting
a paper.
Trainmen and conductors on the
roads; east Of Chicago decided to
postpone the presentation Of de
mands.
Eminent Republicans are expected
to organize a movement for Hughes
as candidate for President.
Richard Landing, town in Mlchl-
gan, was destroyed by fire, the dam
age being estimated at 100000.
William Rockefeller's neighbors
are said to have won the fight for
the right to shoot and fish on his big
Adirondack preserve.
According to ex-senator Chandler,
new suit will be brought to pre-
vent the gift Of $1,OOO,OO0 by Mrs.
Eddy to found an institute.
Col. Uriel L. Boyce, former presi-
dent of the Old Shenandoah Valley
Railroad, died near Staunton, Del.
New England mill managers agreed
10 curtail production 25 per cent un-
til March l..
Indiana Republicans launched a
Fairbanks boom at their lovefeast.
The nude body Of a woman who
had been strangled was found IN a
pond not far from Newark, N, j.
Rev W. q. .Shafer was put on trial
before Methodist Episcopal court
in Philadelphia on charges of con-
duet unbecoming minister.
A motion to take the John R. Walsh
trial from the jury was denied
New York gate banks and trust
companies made "a special report
showing how they withstood the
financial storm.
Archbishop Glennon, of St. Louis,
said, in sermon, sending out the
Pacific fleet was o mistake.
Oscar W. Reid, a soldier concern
ed in the Brownsville riot, sued Gov
srnmenty for wages due since his dis.
charge.
Raleigh. N. c., voted to abolish the
-dispensary, which gave $4,000 a
year revenue.
aear-Admiral Willard H. Brown
sc1 caused surprise by resigning as
chief Of the Bureau Of Navigation.
The Interstate Comerce C'ommis-
sion issued an order to prevent rail
ROADS from evading its rulings by dis
continuing rate at short notice.
surgeon-General Rixey defended
the policy of placing surgeons in
conand Of hospital ships and assert
ed that Rear-Admiral Brownson had
ninterfercd" with the medical bu-
reau.
Line officers to a man uphold Ad
nliral Brownson in his protest against
the Presidents new naval policy.
President Roosevelt ard his family
spent quiet Christmas in the White
House.
The second trial of Harry Thaw
Cor the murder Of Stanford White
will begin next week in New York.
The higher officers Of the big Am
erican squadron were the guests Of
the Governor Of Trinidad and attend
ed the races.
Mr.. James Scott Moore, veteran
editor of Virginia, died in Lexington.
President Roosevelt refuses to al
low the federal troops to remain at
Goldfeld unless the governor will
call special session of the Nevada
Legislature.
It is proposed to convert the beau
tifuI Government piers at-Jamestown
into a coal wharf for naval vessels.
Admiral Dewey received congrat-
ulations and many gifts on his sew
entieth birthday.
Mrs. Kira Heyl, who inherited
S5,0O0,000 from. her mother, Mrs.
Schandlein, Of Milwaukee, will mar
~ q Berlin artist.
The Japanese Consul to Canada is
going home, evidently as the result
Of differences oyer the immigration
question.
DR.. 1. 3. Stewart, Of sardis ".
va, walked Of ferry iioat into The
snhis river al ssapytaYH and Yas
drosssaf
Christmas MAJ ksasrally observed
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