Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the World. Mr. J. H. Spencer, the president of one of Charlotte's most prominent banks, died on Friday. A runaway occurred in Cincinnatti, on Friday. which resulted in the ser ious injury of Bishop J. M. Walden, and wife. Anti-Jewish disturbances have broken out afresh in Russia and it is reported that the trouble has reached serious stage in south-western Rus sia. Because her husband went to a ball game inst-tad of staying at home to mind the baby, Mrs. Charles Evans, of Monterey, Iowa. committed suicide. It has been decided by the com manders of the German navy to try the substitution of pertoleum for coal on board many of the government vessels. Another fatal automobile acci dent occurred in Pittsburg, on Fri day. A racing machine in the park ran into a light driving trap, killing four persons. The report that Judge Parker will reside in New York until after the election, has been denied. It is said that he will not take personal charge of the canvass. It is reported at Tokio that a small band of Russian soldiers visited Sen she Island, and in the absence of the men, killed all the women and chil dren on the isle. The remains of the famous heads man of Paris, known throughout the European world as Deibler, were in terred with special ceremonies, at Paris last week. The voting trust which has long been controlled the Reading railroad, has been disolved, and-the affairs of the road are now in ne hands of the sharehol(lders. The British expedition under Colo nel Younghusband has been started on the road home, a treaty havirg been signpd by the home government with the Thibetans. An associated press correspondent reports that losses around Liao Yang were more than were first given. He' said that the number on both sides would reach 50,000 The British schooner Fraulein was wrecked last week, off the Maine coast. The ship was battered to pieces on the rocks, but the crew reached land in safety. The vast estate of Thomas Wagga man is still to be adjusted and peti titions have been filed in the court at Washington ~that it be declared in -a state of bankruptcy. The great strike at the blooming and bar mills, at.Sharon, Penn. has been brought to an end, and the fires have been lighted preparatory to go ing to work this week. The snowsheds in the neighbor hood of Blue Canyon, Colorado. were destroyed by fire on .Friday. At least five hundred feet of shedding was utterly destroyed. The eighth international geograph ical congress is at present in session at Washington. Important papers are to be read before the organization this week by world-famed scientists. San Francisco has been the- scene of the annual meetiung and conclave of the Knights Templar. On Satur day the armed cruiser Milwaukee, was launched in honor of the occa sion. The investigation of the lynching of the negro, Maples, in Alabama, has been begun and it is said that the authorities are doing all. in their power to bring the guilty parties to justice. Jesse Allen, a negro in North Car olina, was legally executed last week for the crime that is usually avenged by lynching. The crime was com mitted some time ago, at Oxford, in that state. The manouevres at Manassas are over, having ended on Saturday with a grand review of all the troops. The Brown forces, under General Bell, - were victorious. A conferene was held last week between the Colombian minister, Mr. W. XV. Russell. and Acting Secretary .f State Loomis. The subject under discussion related to conditions in Colombia. The state of Idaho is the scene of vast and devastating forest fires. which are raging around Spirit Lake. Thousands of feet of timber have been destroyed and the flames are till raging. Sixty thousands Albanians have en tered a formal protest against the ac tion of the Austrian government in favoring the Macedonians in the re cent trouble between that country and the former. The Lloyd steamship company is building a new ocean liner which is to be the largest in her class ever built. The keel is being laid at Stettin. Germany. The building will :onsume several months. The Royal Evchange Assurance :ompany, of London, was brought up n a Boston court on various charges nd fined $i5,ooo. The claims were ust and tLhe company will probably tand good for the amount. The annual session of the Baptist :hurch will be held in Michigan this week. A very large attendance from l sections of the country is expect !e, as that body is to discuss some very important questions this year. Th-e trouble between 'the officials nd the employees of the Interbor >ugh rapid transit company, has been ettled by a written contact. The trouble with the New York Eleva vated was also settled at the same -ime. The war in the east has reached a point where there will be little more lone until the spring. The fall rains have set in, and the latest re orts state that both armies are mak ing preparations to go into winter :amp. A passenger train on the Seaboard railroad was derailed by unknown parties, on Friday morning, and plunged through a trestle into the Catawba river, near Charlotte, N. C. Four persons were killed and many more injured. Larkins Johnson and Andrew Bur ton, both colored, were hanged in Alabama last week under due process :>f the law. Lynching was imminent in both cases and was prevented only b'y quick and careful wvork on the part of the authorities. The workmen on the great Simplon tunnel, in Italy, were compelled to stop work on account of the striking of a hot spring which flows at the rate of i,5o00 gallons per minute. Some of the workmen broke through a strata of rock and suddenly the water spouted up, boiling and bub bling. The engineers hope to find another outlet for the water. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. The cotton crop on Edisto Island is in much danger of being ruined by the too-frequent rains. New stores and new business firms have opened up in Bishopville, and the town is on the boom. Florence is to have a new school building. It will be erected in the near future and will be a splendid ed ifice. Wofford college will open its fifty first session on Wednesday. Other colleges of the state will also open this week. There is not a single white person in the Charleston jail. This is the first time this has been the case for over seven years. The theatre season has been open ed in Charleston and Columbia and many first class companies have been booked to appear.I Two highway robberies have oc curred in Newberry county within the last two weeks. Both men rob bed were white men. Col. George Johnstone, of Newber ry. has sent in his commission as not ary public in order that he may be eligible for presidential elector. The Anderson Telephone company has been having trouble for some time with the ordinance preventing them to charge for out of town mes The body of Rev. Thomas F. Hop kinl has been brought from Genr many for burial in a specially pre pared vault in St. Mary's church. Charleston. Mr. Javan Smith. a citizen of Spar tanburg county committed suicide on Friday. The man was over sixty years old. He used a rifle as the death dealing weapon. K -notice has beer served on the reople of Helena that the Southern ticket office at that station is to be abolished. A protest has been filed with Commissioner Garris. Mr. Vance McGee, a well-known planter of Anderson county. was kicked in the face by a horse. on Thursday afternoon, and rlistained serious and painful injuries. Mayor Rhett and Engineer Ledoux are still discussing ways and means to improve Charleston's water supply. It is expected that something definite will be done in the near future. Special and elaborate services were held at Charleston and Columbia and Sumter to celebrate the Jewish New Year. Special prayers and services were held in the various synagogues. The body of the late Lieutenant J. W. L. Clement. U. S. N, has been brought to Charleston for interment. The young man died of typhoid fever while his ship was at a European port. The Pacolet mills, at Spartanburg. which were washed away by the floods of last year, are to be rebuilt. The Montgomery company, of that county, is to undertake the work. work. Marion will fall in line with many other southern towns and will cele brate the opening of the fall trade by a street carnival. The business league of the town has the matter in charge. Mr. W. H. McCaw, a reporter for the State newspaper, in Columbia, was attacked by two toughs on Sat urday night and was beaten around the face and upper part of the body and badly hurt. T W Will Dinsmore, a white man, was p arrested in Spartanburg, on Saturday, on the charge of stealing goods from W freight cars. The man had been em- I ployed by the Southern and had his i possession keys to the cars. Clinton has inst had an election S4 to decide on the issuing of bonds for the purpose of in -tituting an electric [ lighting and water plant. The town voted in favor of the new project by more than two-thirds majority. Thomas Simmons, colored, has H been arrested at Charleston, charged with the mnurder of Sara Jan2e Ad-. ger, which occurred on the twenty- . first of August. The man was identified by the father of the girl. Henry Davis, a negro carpenter, cut Henry G. McKagen, on the. left side of the throat, Saturday night, at Sumter. The affair arose over trouble about a payment on a sewing B( machine. McKagen was a candidate for the legislature in the last pri mary. St Harry Wright. a ten-year-old son of Simeon P. Wright, of Bennetts- Lc ville, was shot and instantly killed by Edgar McCoy, colored, on Fri day afternoon, at five o'clock, in front of the residence of Mr. Thomas L. Rodgers. The coroner's inquest brought in a verdict that the shooting was accidental. The boys head was blown open and the brains scattered n for several feet. Go!. Boyd has investigated the charges against the South Carolina soldiers at Manassas for instigating . depredations, and it has been ascer tained that the S. C. boys had nothing to do with the starting of the affair. The First Regiment is clear of blame. Officials of the war department are tr2 not hesitating in showing their dis- rot satisfaction with the conditions now poi prevailing at Clemson college, and ret it is likely that some important dai changes will take place in that insti tution. WV: Sp; Andrew Carnegie gives a bonus ofGr ro per cent. upon their yearly wages As: to all employes upon the Skibo es- H tates who are total abstainers from A intoxicating drinks. He believesFe that such are well worth their bonus,Fl both from an economic and a social He ono f view. Fla SEAB( AIR - LINE - NORTH - SOUTH Two Daily Pullman Ve. Between SOUTH at FIRST-CLASS DINI The Best Rates and Roi Via Richmond and \ Norfolk and Steam Nashville, Memph Louis, Chicago, Ne Points South and Southi and Jacksonville and and Cuba. POSSITIVELy THE SHO; NORTH AN ar-For detailed information man reservations, etc., appi board Air Line Railway, or J Passenger Agent, Columbia C. F. STWART, A SAVANN Western and At ar lashville, Chatta & St c> St. Louis and all po est. Three Solid Trai alace Sleeping Cars, ithout change. Only through car sei >, withou cii 2 a Close connections rr aaboard Air Line Raily ailway and the Southe 'or map folders or oth< THOS. R. JOE No. I Nohth Pry .F. Smith, Traffic Manager, !6OL'S FAIR, - SOUT H ERN ~st Line, Choice of Routes, T1 Dining op-overs allowed at Western r and othei >w Excursion Rate Tickets on Season 'l ickets -Sixty Day Tick Fifteen Day Ti( For Full information, or Wor y Agent Southern Railway, or Week End Rates via Southern. ~or Saturday and Sunday morning ins the Southern railway will sell nd trip tickets to the following nts at very low rates. Tickets good urning until Tuesday following e of sale: Llhalla, S. C., $3.40 rtanburg, S. C., 2.ro :enville, S. C., 2.10 2eville, N. C., 3.85 t Spring, N. C., 4.60 len, N. C., 3.85 tchers, N. C., 3.85 ndersonville, N. C., 3.85 JARD RAILWAY. -- EAST -- WEST. ;tibuled Limited Trains id NEW YORK. NG CAR SERVICE. ite to all Eastern Cities Vashington, or via ers.-To Atl anta, is, Louisville, St. w Orleans, and All vest-To Savannah all points in Florida !TEST '- INE BETWEEN D SOUTH. rates, schedules, Pull to any agent of The Sea os. W. Stewart, Traveling S. C. sst. ienl. Pass. Agt., 1AH, GA lantic Railroad d nooga Louis Railroad. ints West and North ns Daily with Pullman Atlanta to Si. Louis, -vice, Atlanta to Chica lade at Atlauta with the vay. Central of Georgia arn Railway trains. ar information write to. les, T. P. A., ~or St., Atlanta, Ga, Chas. E. H armon, Gen. Pass. Ageut.. -- - ST. I.OUIS. RAIL WAY. 'hrough Pullman Sleepers, and Cars. 4orth Carolina Summer Resorts points. Sale from Newberry as follows: - -- $37.15 ets- - 31.00 :kets - 25.00 Id's'Fair Literature, apply to. R. W. HUNT, )ivision Passenger Agent,. Charleston,S. Job Printing "AS YOU LIKE IT" ~ERAL AND NEWS JOB OFFNE