The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-05-17
CENTRAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

view last week IdNolIiS SS4ldlHS "i
instructed delegations to the St.
Louis convention.
The democratic state convention OF
Indiana instructed its thirty delegates
to the ST. Louis convention to Eoir
for Judge Parker for the presidential
nomination.
\ Coast line freight jumped the
track near Fayetteville. \. c.. on
Thursday evening and was wrecked.
the engineer being killed and the col
ored fireman being hurt
The Japanese lost their tlrS! ship
oi war while rc:ruv:ng mines iroli
Kerr bay, when i torpedo boat was
DESTROYED. The casualties Wcrc
seven killed and seven wounded.
Steve Pace. negro. was hanged
al Birmingham. Ala. on Friday for
the murder Of Jesse Simmons. also
colored. in 1896. Pace is the fifteenth
murderer hanged by the same sheriff
during the last four years.
In a prize fight in Fresno, Cal.,
on Friday night, Johnny Bryant was
pounded into insensibility by Walter
Robinson, a negro. and received in
juries from which he died in few
hours,
Joseph Newman. OF Wilmington, n.
G., a travelling salesman for a Cln-
cinraati distilery, committed suicide
at Detroit. Mich. on Thursday. 1t
is said that grief over the death or
brother led to the act.
Miss Clara Barton has resigned the
presidency OF the American Red
Cross. and has been succeeded BY
Mrs. General John \. Logan. who
has heretofore occupied the Office OF
vice president.
4 passenger train was wrecked at
Rockhsh trestle. in Virginia. last
week. The engine and six coaches
left the track and two Pullmans were
left hanging over the trestle. Pas
segers and crew escaped unhurt, but
two negro tramps riding on the top
OF Pullman were killed
The republican convention or llli-
nois. after two days of fruitless bal
loting on a gubernatorial candidate,
on Saturday took recess until yes
terday afternoon, when balloting was
to be resumed. This is the most re-
markable convention in the history
of the party i'll Illinois.
Frederick Beach. we'll known So
ciety man of Chicago was led by an
eloquent sermon to a confession OF
embezzlement, and was placed under
arrest and is now awaiting trial. He
NAV also be tried on the charge OF
bigamy. He had left Chicago and haa
settled in Dallas, Texas He was taken
back to Chicago,
The French line steamship La Lor-
aine sailed from New York ior Havre
on Thursday with So,5oo.ooo in gold
bars and specie in her strong room.
the most valuable shipment OF gold
which has ever gone out from New
York. The ship is worth S4,ooo.ooo.
the general cargo 100000. and these
items, added to the sum represented
by the gold, made the La Lorraine the
most valuable steamship which has
ever put out from New York.
A famous law suit in the New York
courts has been decided by the con-
clusion reached that Charles Fair died
before his wife. 1t will be recalled
that Mr.. and Mrs. Fair were killed
in an automobile accident in France
in 1902. Mr.. Fair lett an estate valued
at S7,ooo,ooo which was willed to his
wife and hence the difficulty arose.
At. the session of the forty-ninth
convention OF Southern Baptistis. at
Nashville on Saturday. contributions
aggregating S52,oo1 were made to the
endowment fund of the Theological
Seminary at Louisville. There were