The Holly chieftain., 1908-10-02

Gen. Braxton Bragg of the Confederate
army, died at New Orleans, September
25th.
The Naturalization of British rail-
ways is being much agitated in Lon
don. 1t is believed that present COM
bines, If continued, will end in gigan-
tic monopoly
At the Chicago Association OF Com
merce banquet, October 7th, at which
William ]. Bryan and William H. Taft
will meet, there will also be present
the leaders of other political parties il
they accept the invitations sent them.
The British admiralty has given its
general approval to the scheme of the
Australian commonwealth for the for
nation of flotilla of six torpedo de-
stroyers, nine submarines and two
depot boats as the nucleus of an Aus
tralan navy.
A London cablegram says that en-
couraged by the success that has at
tended the establishment of his hero
fund in America, Andrew Carnegie
has decided to found similar fund in
his native land. To this end he Is
about to hand over to trustees $780,
600
A tragedy occurred at Camp JOSS
man, Manila, on Saturday night, which
resulted in the deaths of Lieut. Ed.
ward J. Bloom of the Fourth infantry
and Private Suttles, Company X, of the
same regiment. Suttles. for some un-
known reason shot Bloom and then
cut his own throat
The claim that the l. o. o. F. is the
greatest fraternal order in the world
in the matter of membership, in gains
for last year and in the prosperous
condition of it's finances was made by
Grand Secretary j. W. Wilkerson of
Missouri at the Sovereign Grand Lodge
meeting in Denver
A cablegram from Launceton, Tas.
mania, says that the British ship Loeb
Finlas, from Port Pirie, South Austria.
liza, for Callao, was wrecked off Foster
island at daylight Sunday morning and
twenty of the crew of twenty-four were
drowned. Four men were picked up
by passing steamer.
King Victor Emmanuel. as the head
OF the house of Savoy, has finally given
his royal consent and sanction to the
marriage of his cousin, Louis, the duke
Of the Abruzzi, and Miss Katherine
Eikins, daughter of United States Sen
ator Elkins of West Virginia The Ger.
emony will take place in November
| Wilbur Wright, the American aero.
pianist, made a flight at the Field of
Auyours Friday morning that lasted
thirty-six minutes and fourteen sec
tion. He covered twenty-five miles
at an average height of forty-five feet.
He came to the ground because one of
the gasoline tanks, which had not been
firmly closed, leaked.
The publishing board of the Colored
National Baptist association, under the
management of Ii. H. Boyd, will es-
tablish factory at Nashville, Ten.
nessee, for the manufacture of negro
dolls. The association objects to the
negro dolls as at present manufactured
and heartily endorses the new factory.
A crowd estimated at 10000, gath.
cred in Hyde Park, London, Sunday to
protest against the licensing bill Two
hundred special trains brought people
In from outlying districts Ninety
speakers declaimed against the bill at
different central point for an hour or
more, and at bugle call resolution
condemning the bill was proposed and
carried with great outburst of cheer.
ing.
President Roosevelt has given to the
press letter written by William H.
Taft in 1907 to friend in Ohio, in
which Mr.. Taft declared that he would
emphatically object to a compromise
resolution in the Ohio convention en-
dorsing him for the presidency and
Senator Foraker for reelection to the
Senate. Mr. Taft wrote: 81 don't care
for the presidency if it has to come by
compromise with Senator Foraker or
anyone else, in a matter of principle.
He has opposed the vital policies Of
the administration and in his opposi-
ton has seized upon and magnified an
important but incidental matter to
embarrass the administration, using in
this without scruple, blind race preju-
dice to accomplish his main purpose"
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.