The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-08
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
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outside the State.

! Set>aNS &hS StttSs
While engaged IN cleaning out
we'll At Sharon, Pa, Saturday, two
Men and y boy lost their lives, being
oSercome hy foul gas,
A terrific electric storm swept over
the State of Connecticut on Satur-
day doing much damage and killing
two men At Stafford hollow.
| Prof. langley has made u mum.
Der OF attempts lately TO hy his
machine bnt has tailed each timo on
account Of something goiug wrong
| just before the start.
On last Tuesday, the anniversary
of his succession, the Sultan of Tur-
key made y speech in which he de
clared that the troubles in his domin
ions are caused by agitators from
other countries.
Emmett Boyett, Of Kinston, n. c.,
while under the influence of whiskey
on Friday shot and killed his wife
on the front porch of her fathers
house at kinston, in the presence of
her mother and younger sister.
Secretary Hester's New Orleans
Cotton Exchange statement, issued
Friday, shows the amount Of cotton
brought into sight for the first four
days Of September to be lO,203 this
year against 49, last year.
Sir Thomas Upton was the guest
of the Pilgrims of America at ban.
quet at the Waldorf Astoria Friday
night. There were speeches by Sir
Thomas, Gen Wheeler, Col. Wat
terson, Gea Corbin, and others.
During a quarrel between father
and son at Columbus, Ohio, on Sat.
urdsy, the father, r.. II Burton,
stabbed his 10 year old son, Jesse
Burton to death in the presence of
the boy S mother, tn" only witness.
Five convicts in prison at Pra,;
| Mines, Ala, attempted to break jail
on Friday morning by throwing
dynamite sticks at the guards. The
guards opened fire with rifles, wound
ing four Of the five, the other escsp
lug. Two of the wounded will die.
The Kentucky Democratic State
campaign opened at Winchester on
Saturday, the meeting being at.
tended by about 10000 persons.
Speeches were made by Gov. Beck
ham, Senators McCresry and Black.
burn, and others.
Thursday morning 6. W. Daniels,
Of kinston, \ G., went to tn" woods
near Kinston where Will Maxwell
was working and killed him with q
shot gun because Of Maxwolls rela
tons with Daniels wife. Daniels
escaped.
Mrs. Rosa Leizsy, 35 years old,
and two children, IS and II, com
mltted suicide by poisoning in Phil.
adelphia because, it is believed, IT, ey
feared the woman's husband, from
whom she had been divorced, and
who had written her that he would
soon come over from his native coun
try, Switzerland.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw
has denied the report that Govern
ment deposits in national banks are
to be materially increased, saying
that he has about $40,OO0,00O avail
able for deposits, but for the present
he ls accepting only applications for
small amounts that have been on file
for several months, and he is con
fining these to agricultural districts.
An unknown negro, caught in the
act Of strangling Mrs. Margaret
Gerahn, a white woman, in her home,
at Armonrdale, suburb of Kansas
City, Kan, on Friday afternoon,
escaped to the Kansas river, where
ne drowned himself rather than run
the chances OF being lynched, Il crowd
having chased him to the banks. Mrs
Gerahn is widow 45 years old.
President Roosevelt after consul.
tation with members Of his cabinet