Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-05-13
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| S MINOR MAllERS gfilHlERESl
The House added to the Sundry
1iYil Appropriation BILL.
Publishers will testify before the
Paper Trust inquirers.
The national conference Of Jewish
Charities began in Richmond.
A new grand jury to investigate
he Ice Trust has been granted.
The town of Fredericksburg, Vir-
yinia voted out saloons in an election
leld Tuesday.
Governor Johnson announced he
would run as head of the ticket only,
.efusing to accept the Vice-Presi-
lency.
The present Congress has broken
Ill records by passing bills for over
billion dollars.
The convention of the St. Vincent
lie Paul Society began in Richmond
With mass at st. Peters Cathedral.
Rev. DIR. j. S. Foster, of Petersburg
vas called to the pastorate of the
First Presbyterian Church of New
Orleans.
Ed. Callahan, Hargis feud partner.
was probably fatally wounded by his
brother-in-law, who was in turn kill,
ed by CalIahan's son.
Harry z. Thaw is temporarily out
of Matteawan Asylum, pending the
hearing Of his case.
Union Pacific stockholders will bs
asked to ratify an issue Of $100,O0O,.
900 bonds to cover improvements and
other financial needs.
The Ameican fleet reached Sar
Francisco Wednesday and was greet.
ed with a magnificent welcome BY
the citizens and thousands of visitors
who aurncd out to honor the arrival
Six railroads entering Chicago wer'
fined $l3,150 for violating the %.
hour cattle law.
Growers in the Ohio hurley tobacco
district are said to be in terror Of
Night Riders.
II. II. Rogers and James Stillmar
fled answers in the Government rail.
road merger suit denying the allie
cations.
Irwin A. Lewis was sentenced il
West Chester, Pa, to hang for tht
murder of his stepdaughter.
Senator Raynof asked for an in
quiry for Col. William F. Stewart
the exiled artilleryman, like th'
Schley case.
Taft has 365. delegates and seem:
to be in sight of the nomination
Bryan is far in the lead in the Demo
cratic race.
Corporations Commissioner Smith
arraingns the New York Cotton Ex.
change for its method of "fixed diff.
fcrences' in cotton speculation.
Col. William F. Stewart is said ts
have repeatedly asked for fai,
court. Of inquiry, but has been re.
fused. Senator Raynor has taken ur
his case.
| The new Southern Methodist
i Church at Covington was dedicated.
Wright Bros, will try their new
flying machine at Nag's Head this
week.
Charged with burning the trestle
over the Big Bay yqn, the property Of
the Pensacola Electric Company
President G. C.. Nc Cain Henry Fill
lingim and John Malone, sof tht
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees, were arrested or
warrants issued by the county cir.
cult court.
At meeting of the stockholder!
of the Union Pacific Railway a
which rs per cent. of the stock wa!
represented, the directors were au
thorized to issue .$100,00O,0OO il
bonds for Improvement of the system
and for the purchase of the Kansas
and Western and Topeka and Moth
western roads.
The steamer Trenton sank at th'
warf at Alexandria and the 40 pas
sengers had to. swim for their lives
The baby son of Murray Posey, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was drowned.
With their bodies badly manglet
by train Walter Montgomery anc
Charles Brown, colored, were fount
dead beside a main line of the Sou
thern Railway tracks at the Yadkil
river, two miles north Of Spencer
early Tuesday morning.
Miss Genevicve Eaton jumped
from the late. Senator Camden's. au
tomobile at Parkersburg and ma.
die.
Atlanta is wrestling with the prob
lem of allowing, regulating or pro
hibiting the sale of new drink call
ed "near beer," which has attained
to wonderful popularity since tn
State went dry last January.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey was sue
cessful in the Texas primary by
majority Of about 25,OOO.
The New Aveline Hotel, For
Wayne, Ind, was destroyed by fr
and dozen or more persons los
their lives.
The threatened trolley strike il
Cleveland was postponed by an offe
Of arbitration.
Six persons lost their lives an.
four others were seriously injured
in o tenement house fire of myster
ious origin at Williamsburg, N. Y.
Mrs. William Thaw, mother o
Harry L. Thaw, is said to believe hin
sane and wants to t;ke him to Eu