The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-04
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
items of More of Less Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

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wounded in a shooting Scrape near
Bunclanan. Ga. which grew out OF
a quarrel because Head refused to
drink with Bullock and another
party. The affair occurred IN
Heads dining room.
Mrs. Helen Wilman Post. the
mental science mind cure healer:
convicted at Jacksonville. Fla, OF
using the mail for fraudulent pur-
poses. has been sentenced to be
confined one year and one day IN
the penitentia.: at Nashville. An
appeal has been taken to the United
State circuit court OF appeals at
New Orleans.
The postohice department has re-
ceived news that the office at Hum
Dhrev, Ark. has been blown up.
ReDorts have it that the motive was
robbery and other reports that the
affair was caused by dissatisfaction
with the postmaster, who was a
neoro named Greer. The ottce
has recently been i'll charge OF a ne.
GRO girl and man, as deputies OF
Greer.
Noah Rabv died on Tuesday IN
oo- house in New Brunswick. y.
T. of which he had been an inmate
for the last 40 years. If he had
lived until April I next. according
to his own statement, ne WoV'ld
have been 132 years old. He re-
tanned his memory and would re-
call many incidents of his long ca,
reer until very recently. He is said
to have been born in North caro-
lima.
Postmaster E. S. Parnell. OF
Junction. Union county. Ark
has resigned his office. His reasons
as stated to the government are ths1
his family has become mixed up IN
a political ieud in his county ana
that four members OF his family
have been assassinated within the
past Is months. With these facts
in view. he feels it clearly his duty
to his family and friends to leave
Arkansas.
\ passenger train on the Aalan-
tic Coast Line was wrecked at
Alapai1a, Ca, by running into an
omen switch. The engineer saw
Two men at the switch foollng with
it. and applied the brakes, but "; was
too close to stop his train. The +,
rrain collited with. freight cars and
the engineer and fireman and por-
ter were injured. Detectives are
OF the opinion that the wreck grew
ont OF a recent strike.
It is reported from Roberval'
Quebec. in Canada, that twelve
lives were lost in a fire which de-
srroved the home of Thomas Quay,
at St. Felicie,l. on Monday. IN the
house at the time it was destroyed
were the eight small children o!
QUAY and Mrs. Philip Gagnon and
her three small children. all OF
whom were burned to death: Both
Gaenon and Quay. the fathers,
were absent working in the woods.
Fourteen persons, arc believed to
have been killed. of whom the bod
les OF only five have been recover
ed, about a score injured and Sev-
eral are missing through the COL
lapse on Wednesday IN New YORK
Of the steel skeleton of the Hotel
Darlington. a I3-story apartment
house in process Of construction.
The disaster is believed to have
been due to criminal carelesSness
Of the contractors in overlooking
the floors. The steel frame was
crowded with worklnen at the
time of the collapse.
The president has sent to the
senate his nominations for the
members of the Panama canal COM
mission. The chairman OF the COM
mission as nominated is Rear Ad-
miral John G. Walker: The COM
mission as constituted bv the presl-