The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-12-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Throughout the World.

70 the cotton growers of Alabama
calling for a mass meeting III all tne
towns on Tuesday, January 10, TO
discuss the best way OF dlsposlng OF
the present crop now on hand ana lot
concert of action in making new crop.
Houston Bond, a clerk IN lead
inq hotel of Nashville, has received
certified checkfr Evansville, lno''
for $4,000. Four years ago an old
gentleman fell on the sidewalk III
front of the hotel and severely IN
iured himself. Mr.. Bond went TO
his assistance. lifted him from the
Ground and cared for him. Inc
check which he has received IS the
sequel.
Argument has begun in the SUI
Drene court of the United States III
the case of Samuel NJ. Clyatt vs.
the United States, in which the court
is called to deal with the question OF
peonage. Clyatt is a resident OF
ceoro;a who, in 1902. was convicted
in the federal courts OF. that state ana
sentenced to four years lmprlSon-
rnent at hard labor on the charge or
having held two negro men IN peon-
age on account of debt.
The National Cotton convention
has been in session in Shreveprt, La.'
this week. Most of the sessions were
largely taken up with discussions OF
the boil weevil problem.
The United States senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections IS
investigating the protests against
Senator Reed Smoot. of Utah. retain-
inc his seat in the senate.
An Atlantic Coast Line passenger
train from Rocky Mount, n. e., to
N;,n,ineton was wrecked on Tues
dav by running into an open switch
At Overman's siding, about two miles
north of Warsaw. The engineer ana
his colored fireman were instantly
killed None of the passengers was
seriously injured, although the entire
+-,;n with the exception Of Pull
man was piled up alongside tie
track 1t is believed the switch was
tampered with
\ meeting OF cotton ginners IS to
he held in Dallas, Texas, on Decen-
Der 10 for the purpose OF organizing
national ginne-'s association. One
purpose of the organization, as SET
forth in the call. will be collected
from, gins at stated intervals lntorma-
4ion as to the number Of bales glnneo
and in this way by the use OF cooe
members of the association Will De
able to ascertain three days aheao
of the government report the amount
Of cotton ginned.
The faculty of the Virginia Poly
technic Institute has been having
good deal of trouble with its junior
class. The faculty states that
member of the class was dismissed as
one of the party which hung in ettlgy
the commandant of cadets. The class
took it up and contended that the de-
cision was unjust. and left in body.
The faculty holds that such action
has finally severed their connection
with the institution. in other words:
dismissal.
Monroe Wells, the 22-year-old son
of carpenter at North Birmingham
Ala while in a fl OF temporary
insanity, shot at and narrowly missed
his mother fatally wounded an aunt
who rushed to his mothers assls-
tance and then turned the weapon
uDon himself and blew out his bralns.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick has re-
turned to her home III Cleveland:
still under arrest. Before leaving
New York she made a statement in
which she declared she would pay
all her obligations, and that her sole
purpose in going was to 1ace her
creditors. She said she could have
obtained bail ii she had wished to and
thai one Of the most prominent men
49,, ... b,d offered TO 90 on