Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-04-01
Lafe Nese's
In Brief &
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST
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COnSlQeTaClOU VI Ine a5Aioui'otSA
appropriation bill was begun in the
House Tuesday. The amount carried
BY the measure is $l1 ,43l, ,346.
The House defeated a resolution
calling on the President for the In
formation gathered by the Govern
ment in regard to violations of the
law by corporations.
The Senate passed the bill to in
crease the pay of men in the life
saving service.
President Roosevelt has determin-
I'd to send another message to Con-
gress dealing with labor and corpor-
alton legislation.
At the invitation of the Mikado,
the American feet will visit Ja-
pan.
Otho G. Mears is said to be slated
for Judge in the Eleventh Virginia
1istrict if Judge Blackstone is re-
moved.
John Wade, rs years old, is
charged with assaulting Sadie Jones,
an S-year-old Richmond girl.
"Night Riders" have appeared in
The tobacco district of Virginia.
A heavy snow fell in Virginia,
from the mountains to the coast.
Government officials have arrested
number of foreioners at Clarks-
burg, w. Va, for violation of the
alien labor laws.
Norfolk and Western employees re-
fused to accept the proposed cut in
their wages.
Bishop C. H. Fowler of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, died in New
York
The Connecticut Democratic Com
mittce failed to indorse William ].
Bryan.
A Milwaukee business man chloro-
formed and killed his wife as she
slept and then fatally shot himself
because his married life was unhappy
and he had become infatuated with
another woman.
Warrants have been issued for Of.
fcers of the dcfunct Standard Title
and Trust Company on the charge OF
defrauding the stockholders.
Two customs inspectors at Ell Paso.
Texas, killed each other, apparently
in mistake for smugglars.
The gross receipts Of the United
States Steel Corporation were larger
by $6O,257S41 in 1907 than the year
before.
John Mitchell, retiring president Of
the United Mine Workers, adjourned
the convention at indianapolis with
benediction.
Judge Holt, in the United States
Circuit Court Of New York, ruled
that the Sugar Trust could monopo-
lize the refining industry without be.
ing liable under the Sherman Anti
Trust law.
The Grand Pacific Hotel in Chica.'
go, which belongs to tie Levi L
Letter estate, was damaged $lOO,OOs
by fire.
The Central Pennsylvania Confer
encc of the Methodist Episcopal
church continued its sessions al
York, Pa.
The people of Canton, China, have
denounced the surrender Of the
Tatsu Maru and have started an in
tense anti-Japanese agitation.
According to a Paris dispatch, 8
Dutch scientist will go to the Congo
to cross man with an ape with a view
TO creating a new race.
Tn its decision in the Cosmopolitan
Shipping Commpany case the Inter
state Commerce Commission holds
that it has no jurisdiction over ocean
rates.
A force of Peruvian soldiers in
pursuit of smugglers, has invaded a
Chilean town.
Senator William James Bryan Of
Florida, the youngest mmember OF
The Senate, is dead.
The German press has decided moi
to print the proceedings of the
Reichstag until an apology is made
for an insult to th, reporters in the
gallery.
The Prince of Monaco will not go
To Romme because he would have to
visit the Quirinal, which would be
Objectionable to the Vatican.