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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. Robert B. Glenn has been nomi nated by the democratic convention for governor of North Carolina. King Edward' of England arrived at Kiel on Saturday morning on a visit to his nephew, Emperor William of Germany. A negro was lynched by negroes at Randolph. Bibb county, Ala., last week. The negro had attacked and killed another negro on account of jealousy. Commander A. G. Kellogg, of the United States navy, fell from a fourth story window in a hotel in Ports mouth, Va., on Thursday night, sus taining injuries from which he died an hour later. It has been brought out during the bankruptcy proceedings against Daniel J. Sully, the cotton king who failed, that he has given a mortgage of $82,ooo on his home in New York. It seems that Sully will have nothing left. A stage was held up near Silver City, Idaho. by a lone bandit with a shotgun. Nine passengers .were forced to alight and give up their valuables. The robber then ransack ed the mail sack and ordered the driver to proceed. V. R. Valentine, a prominent far mer of Northampton county, N. C.. while laboring under temporary in sanity, on Wednesday night blew off the back of his wife's head and then put an end to his own life by shoot ing himself with a shotgun. At a meeting held immediately after the adjournment of the republi can national convention, George B. Cortelyou. secretary of the depart ment of Commerce and Labor, was chosen chairman of the republican national committee, and will manage the republican campaign this year. John S. Riley, division superinten dent of the schools of Bedford coun ty, Va., has been suspended by the state board of- education on the charge that he has been guilty of per jury in connection with fire insurance policies on his Iouse which was burn ed some, time ago. At a picnic at Adrian, Ga., on Fri day Ed Spivey and Charles Hilton became involved in a fracas in which Spivey shot and instantly killed Hil ton. The trouble was brought about by Hilton occupying a seat which Spivey had vacated for a short'time to get some water. Forty feet of the Southern railway tunnel at Pine Mountain, near Warm Springs, Ga.. caved in on Saturday. No train was passing to jar the earth, and an explosion heard about the time of the cave-in has given rise to the theory that the tunnel was wvreck ed by sorne evilly-disposed person. On his return to his home at In dianapolis, Ind.. Charles WV. Fair /banks, who was recently chosen the republican candidate for vice-presi dent, was given a generous welcome by his fellow-citizens irrespective of politics. When his train reached the station the senator was greeted by cheers from 1o,oo0 people. Two Indian children of Eagle Val-' ley, Nev., murdered their three-year old brother. Indian Jack, the father of the three children, and his wife left their tepee to haul wood, and on returning to their tent they found their youngest child with its ribs caved in and its backbone almost severed from its natural fastenings. The older of the fratricides is 7 years, a girl, and the other is but 4. a boy. Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Var ley, who were held in captivity by Morocco bandits. have been released after the payment of the ransom which was demanded by the bandits. Perdicaris is an American citizen and Varley is a British subject. The two governments demanded of the sultan of Morocco the release of the captives and the sultan paid the ran som which the bandits demanded. George Ligon, of Millington, a suburb of Memphis. Tenn., who re cently complained to the police ot being held up and robbed of $5,250 by two men late Wednesday night, has notified the chief of the Memphis police that he found his money belt with the money intact tied to the knob of his do,or on Saturday morn The New York Daily News, which recently changed hands and has come out as a straight democratic newspa per, and which is recognized as the organ of the Tammany Hall, has started a presidential boom for George B. McClellan, the present mayor of New York. The News claims McClellan to be the "one man whose selection would mean certain party success. The eyes of the north, south, east and west 4re upon him." Charles A. Swayse. an insurance agent, shot and killed Miss Effie Al vord, of Detroit. Mich.. on Friday, and then jumped out of the eleventh story window of the Chamber of Commerce building. where the shoot ing occurred, to - the pavement be low, being almost instantly killed, Swayse had tried to throw Miss Al vord out of the window, but failing in this, shot her twice. She is not dangerously wounded. Swayse is a married man, and behind the trag edy lies his and Miss Alvord's inti macy. William P. Moody, of Massachu setts, has been appointed attorney general, to succeed Attorney General Knox, who becomes senator from Pennsylvania by appointment of Gov. Pennypacker. Paui Morton. of Il linois, will succeed Mr. Moody and Victor H. Metcalf, of California. will become secretary of the department of Commerce and Labor, to succeed George B. Cortelyou. who has been chosen chairman of the republican national committee. These changes become effective on the ist of July, when the resignations of Secretary Cortelyou and :Attorney General Knox take effect. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. tems of More or Less Interest Con. densed in the State. The business men of Union have decided to organize a chamber of commerce. Three blind tigers were fined $25 each in the Charleson city court on last Friday morning. There has been some recent talk that the Augusta-Aiken trolley 'line will be extended to Columbia. Mr. A. Lay, a prominent citizen of Oconee county, died unexpectedly last week one morning while he was sitting at the breakfast table. While shooting at a mad dog Chief of Police Beckrell. of Green ville, on Friday shot himself in the arm, inflicting a serious flesh wound. Dispensary constables raided the Union club and the Union Social club. in Columbia, last week, and seized all the liquor found in the cub rooms. Bishop Ellison Capers. D. D.. of South Carolina. has been elected Chancellor of the University of the South. at Sewanee. Tenn., to succeed the late Bishop Dudley. During, a heavy thunderstorm at Elloree last week a negro named Sank Gilmore, who was ploughing in his field, was struck by lightning. Both negro and mule were instant ly killed. Lillie Gray, colored, was shot to death by another negro woman in Greenville one night last week. It seems that the women had been quarrelling, and the Gray woman had cursed the other. It is reported fronm Lancaster that the number of candidates' there is probably shorter than in any other county in the state. Eight men are to be elected a'nd as vet there are only thirteen candidates in the nield. Mrs. Agnes Schiever, an aged At lata lady, was seriously injured while out wvalking in Greenville on Saturday by being run into by a wagon. It is thought her recovery wvill be difficult. The Spartanburg grand jury last week presented a number of women for conducting bawdy houses. Bench warrants were 'issued for their ar rest and the bond of each was placed at $750. Several of the women went to jail in default of bond. Mr. Zach McGhee has resigned the editorship of the Spartanburg Herald. to take effect July 1, and has sold his stock in the paper to Mr. G. H. WVad dell. the president of the company, who will continue the management of paper. Mr. McGhee's plans for Lee Green was acquitted in the Aiken court last week of the murder of the peddler, Abram Surasky. The jury stayed in the room twelve hours. It was one of the most sensational cases ever tried in Aiken. Green claimed that when he came home on the day he did the shooting he found the peddler seeking to assault his wife. J. J. Rowe. a white man with a wife and several children, 'vas convicted in the Georgetown court last week of stealing a pig and sentenced to 16 monthsl imprisonment and to pay a fine of $ioo. It seems that he changed the ear-mark of a heifer and pig to his own mark and even after the detection was proved by the most convincing evidence, he continued to lay claim to the animal. The democratic executive commit tee of Berkeley county has adoptea a resolution assessing candidates for congress $5oo each. It is reported that the pur- ,.e of the resolution seems to be iiore to test the power of county assessments on congres sional candidates than to get money. as it carries with it the appointment of a committee to confer with sim ilar committees from the other coun ties in the district and take some gen eral action in the matter. By the collapse of the framework of the race track grand stand at the new fair grounds in Columbia on Thursday afternoon three colored workmen and four white carpenters who were at work at the time on the top of the frame work were in jured. The accident was the result of Foreman Samuel Horn's failure to carry out the order of General Superintendent Seastrunk to more securely brace the frame work. The pledge for candidates adopted by the Richland county executive committee requires an oath from the candidates that they will not give nor spend money nor use intoxica ting liquors for the purpose of in fluencing votes, and also that the candidates shall at the conclusion of the campaign and before the primary election render to the chairman ofo the democratic party of Richland county. under oath, an itemized state ment of all moneys spent or provided by them during the campaign for campaign -purposes up to that time. WIRELESS TELEPHONE. [n the "Noisy Noiseless Court" a World's Fair MarveL Philadelphia Record. For some inexplicable reason an :poch-making novelty at the St. Louis :xposition that promises to rival the nuch-heralded air-ghip competition las been almost entirely overlooked. Prof. Goldsborough. chief.of the de, artment of electricity, has quietly >repared a wireless telephone exhibi ion that will give the blase wvondera gnoring American sight-seer a very tgreable shock of surprise. The elephone, in its first stage of devel >pment, made mem'orable the Cen ennial exhibition in 1876. If the air ~hip competition materializes it will tave to share with the "Noisy Noise ess Cotirt" the historic honors at St. Louis. In the quadrangle of the court, ormed by the four walls of the Palace f Electricity, the visitor may exper ence the sensation of hearing sounds tt a disance. without any -visible med urn of communication. Going into :he court oneW hears, no other soun(!s than the near-by buzz of the throng md humn of moving machinery. To :ll intents and purposes the court is literally noiseless, vet the air is fairly ringing with the music of the bands in the faraway bandstands, the music of phonographs in distant booths. The visitor is simply mystified onp% ting to his ear a pair of car-pieces re sembling the watch-case receivers that are worn by the telephone girl during her switchboard dutties. The weird sounds that become audible are as disconcerting to the twentieth cen tury man accustomed to talking ma chines and long disance telephones a:i were Stanley's electric shocks to the aborigines of Africa.. Mr. H. R. Hutchison, who has been experimenting-for sever'al years along the line of wireless telephony, has nowv perfected his apparatus to such an extent as to make it servicable over considerable distances, though yet at considerably less than a mile. When it is remembered that the first tele phon circuit wa nly a few yards long, and the radius of the first wire less telegraphy transmission was cir cumscribed by the walls of laboratory, the present limitations of wireless telephony are really not significant. The World's Fair transmission or sending station is located at Block 23, Palace of Electricity. It consists of a large graphophone and one of Mr. Hutchison's heavy current trans mitters. This transmitter is in itself a marvel. as it ope'rates with a currer of fifteen ampheres. which would of course destroy an ordinary carbon transmitter. Such a heavy current necessarily generates considerable: heat. so that provisions for water cooling the apparatus are necessary. Connected to the transmitted is a large coil buried in the ground of the court. The receivers consist of two ordinary watch case telephone receiv- 1 ers. attached to conducting springi supports. which pass through handles, terminating in an attuned receiving coil, about a foot in diameter, but about two inches in width and very light, so that it can be held with ease by means of the handle provided. 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