Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-08-12
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Georgia shippers fled a protest
against the increase in freight rates
and charged the railroad companies
with conspiracy.
Commander Charles A. Cove is ex.
pected to succeed Commander Will
liam S. Benson as commandant OF
cadets at the Naval Academy.
Samuel GQmpers is expected te
make speeches to union workingmer
advocating the election Of Bryan.
Terrified by dream Miss Beulat
G. Connell, in the Memorial Hospita!
Richmond, leaped from q window and
was killed.
Capt: .Micajah Woods, of Charlotts'
vile, was elected president Of The
Virginia Bar Association.
W. W. Pendleton, an. insane muir.
derer, escaped from the Marion In,
sane Asylum.
suffragettes invaded Oyster Bay
but were given little encouragement
William Jennings Bryan consented
to deliver speech in Johnson Z
State, and this may delay his East
ern trip.
Martial law has practically beer
declared in the Alabama mining dis
trict where the strike is on.
Senator Chester I. Long has ap'
parently been beaten in the Kansas
primary by Joseph L. Bristow.
Harry K. Thaw was given an out.
ing from jail when he was taken tc
defend q suit.
Maryland Pythians made fine
impression III Boston.
Count zeppelin's great airship was
destroyed through combination OF
disasters when he had nearly com
pleted his great journey.
Canadian Pacific machinists struck
all across the Continent.
The Sultan of Turkey was stabbed
according to report, but his shirt Of
mail prevented damage.
In the speech from the throne the
Finnish Diet was warned by the
Car.
Jack Lee, white, shot and instant.
ly killed Beverly Cardwell, colored
and mortally wounded his brother
Samuel, who died later, near Concord
10 miles from Lynehburg, Va.
John A. Davis, Western Maryland
railroad fireman, was killed at Dill
w. Va, By being impaled upon s
switch signal.
President Roosevelt declared he hai
not taken action in the case of the
West Point cadet hazers.
Byan expressed himself as suspi
cious of his eueaies Of the Metropolis
tan press.
The forest fire in British Columbis
is still causing havoc.
E. H. Hartman in discussing rate
regulation, said the railroads needed
protection.
Ethel Jackson, the original Merry
Widow in the New York musical pro
duction. obtained divorce from j
Fred Zimmerman, theatrical man
ager.
The Syrians in America have start
ed a movement to present a battleshll
to Turkey in recognition of the pro
mitigation Of constitutional govern
ment.
Henry Farman made three fight:
with his aeroplane and on the SECOND
attempt he covered 900 yards.
Miss Emile Gardner, an opera pri
ma donna, was badly bitten by hel
housekeeper's bull dog and is in Sc
lous condition.
At least 5000 people participated
in the welcomerhomo demonstration
at Weston, W. Va, in honor of Hon
Louis Bennett, who was nominated
for Governor last week by the Dem
ocrat;e aopTansion oh Charleston.
Cardinal Gibbons visited the Amer
lean College in Rome and was greeted
by the students.
Emperor William is on visit to
the King and Queen of Sweden at
Stockholm.
According to compilation of the
German Navy League the japanese
Navy will rank third IN 1911.
President Castro, Of Venezuela, has
cancelled the concessions given to Two
English companies.
Wheat and corn went soaring in
Chicago and New York ON reports OF
damage by hot weather and "black
rust"
A lockout of 5000 riveters in a Ger;