Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-06-03
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3 MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A new high record for the year was
made in July options on cotton.
The Clyde Line steamer Seminole
ran on sandbar off Mount Pleasant
N. J. =
The bill for a new capitol approch-
and a Lincoln memorial passed the
House.
Mr.. Bryan has received enough
delegates to secure him control of the
Denver convention.
The Methodist Protestant Confer
enee concluded its sessions in Pitts
burg.
Two women have been named an
alternates to the Republican Nationl
Convention.
The Seattle Exposition will be give
en- $75O,OOO under the Sundry Appro-
priation law.
Admiral Sperry may test the speed
of his battleships on the way home
from the Orient. Ss',ss
| Five thousand men attended the
military mass at the navel traial;,55ss f e
station in Newport.
A scholarship for asI
and officers is to be Aa5a sd by
the White Star Line.
Two thousand miners in the Poca-
hontas fields will return to work after
four months idleness.
Conflict between local and State
transportation laws over liquor will
be carried into court.
The Reformed General Synod, IN
annu session at York, heard en-
couragng reports on missions.
The Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly, in session at Greensboro,
N. c., discussed infant salvation.
A number of lives were lost and
great property loss was occasioned
in Texas and Oklahoma by floods.
The first case to test the comno-
dity clause Of the Hepburn act will
come up in Philadelphia June 16.
The Government will soon begin a
$35,O0O,OO0 suit against the Southern
Pacific Railroad over public lands.
Miss Katherine Roosevelt, secard
counsin of the President, was baly
injured by a horse falling on her.
Monsignor Gasvey, of Philadelphia,
a graduate of Mount St. Mary's Sem
mary, at Emmitsburg, Nd, is dead.
High winds and heavy rains; in
Texas and Oklahoma have done great
damage and caused disastrious foods.
The issuance of s75O,OoO,oO0 in
emergency currency is the latest fin
ance plan and will probably be pass
ed before Congress adjourns.
The United States monitor florida
sailed from the Norfolk Navy Yard
to be used as 8 target for the..big
guns of other warships.
Mr.. John T. B. spaulding, Reprb-
lican, is on the face of unofficial%rs-
turns, elected Mayor of Martinsburs
w. Va, by one vote.
Harry K. Thaw will have to stay
in Matteawan Asylum, the court. at
Poughkeepsie having pronounced him
insane.
Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt obta n-
ed a divorce and the custody of her
son. tie father being also forbidden
to marry again.
The anthracite roads, which are be-
ing sued by the Federal Government
as an alleged combine, had hearing
before referee in Philadelphia.
A facetious burglar broke into the
house of an expert Chicago detective
and stole jewelry and money from
under the sluth's pillow as he slept.
Ten persons were killed by series
of tornadoes that visited Oklahoma
last week.
Rev. Joseph F. Lubeley of Sails
bury, Mo-, was stabbed and probably
fatally wounded just after caebrat-
ing mass by Joseph Schuette, veal
thy parishoner.
A New York expert cloth examiner
who had saved up money for an
operation to ward off an incurable
malady, having exhausted his f md
to save the life of his daughter, who
was i'll, took poison.
The tria of the alleged yeggman
James A. Baker, for the murder q
Operator E, 7. Hutchinson andsths
robbery Of the postofice at Wele@es
W. Va, Will begin this week at Fash
'spps, W VI b.