The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES,
Items OF More or Less Interest Condensed
Outside the State.

I"o ALABAMA farmers convict &c
OF peonage and sentenced to terms OF
imprisonment have been pardoned
by President Roosevelt.
Mrs. Louise Tideman, at Gull
Point, near Pensacola, Fla, on Wed
nesday, while shooting at Il hog, shot
and killed the little daughter of her
neighbor.
9. H. Wegner, Prussian piano
tuner 70 years old, committed suicide
in his apartments at Richmond on
Tuesday by hanging himself. He
was in bad health on account of in
digestion.
Secretary Of the Treasury this
week designated about fifty national
banks in various parts of the country
as repositories of public funds and
ordered about $4,0O0,OOO deposited
with them.
Two men were killed and many
others injured by an explosion of
dynamite in a freight car at Bay
City, Mich, on Sunday. The OK
ploalon was caused by the engine
backing against the car to couple.
There WAS q pretty exhibition OF
mimic warfare off Newport, r. l., on
Tuesday, which demonstrated the
importance and the effectiveness of
the navy's submarine boats. The
submarine torpedo boat succeeded in
torpedoing the torpedo boat Craven.
William Williams, negro labor
leader, was lynched on Main street
in Centreville, Miss, on Tuesday,
for killing white man who had
demonstrated with him about his
conealct in employing negroes for
contractors in other parts Of the
State and enticing employees to leave.
The dead body of a young white
man was found this week in freight
car in Charleston, w. Va, loaded
with watermelons. The car had
been shipped from Richmond. The
young man had evidently been dead
several days. His skull was frac.
tured and the pockets of his clothing
we're turned inside out.
A number of scandals have been
unesrthed in the management of the
Eastern State penitentiary at Phila
delphia. The latest disclosure is
that the prisoners have been illegally
many minor silver pieces of
money. The molds, it is said, were
made of plaster of paris, scraped
from the walls of the cells.
The report of the engineer officers
of the army concerning the PROPOSE
ton for an inland water route be-
tween Norfolk, Va, and Beaufort
Inlet, N. O., recommends that the
route be constructed, the cost being
estimated at about $10,O0O,OOO. The
proposed construction of this route
ls matter of vital concern to all At
[antic Coast States.
1t is reported from St. Paul, Minn.,
that there have been heavy storms
in the Northwest this week. The
losses amounted to $25O,000 a day
Tor several days, and there were GOV
eral fatal railroad wrecks, numerous
derailments, wash. outs, telegraph
wires broken down, a soaking rain in
progress over several States, and
snow -plows working on the Western
railways. 1t has been years since
IIioio woo u 30 SSClOuS.
The steamer New Orleans, Balti-
more to Savannah, was disabled off
Hunting Island, S. G., Sunday night
during the great Florida storm with
20 passengers on board. The Dutch
steamship Voorberg, passing, was
hailed, but refused to stop. When
the New Orleans finally reached Sa-
Vannah the Voorberg was passed in
he harbor and was hissed by the
Of the New Orleans.
Three meL-thu sheriff and his
'ePnty and ma" Known "s McVaglo,
Who had just been arrested on n
'h"rs" Of swindIins s--wcre shot and