The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-06-21
CENTRAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

A teTflOle HulIlSdliS siSlled SaAt-
tiago, Cuba. last week. Forty-flve
persons are known to have been kill
ed and others were reported missing.
The entire business section of the
town OF Norton, Wise county, Va,
was destroyed by fire on last Wednes-
day night, causing loss OF about
$4,000, partially insured.
The Norfolk and Western railway
has authorized the issuance OF $685.
100000 gold bonds for the purpose
of laying double tracks and making
numerous other improvements.
Justice Gaynor. of the supreme
court of New York. sitting as mag
istrate in Brooklyn. has handed down
an opinion in. which he holds that
games OF professional baseball are
illegal on Sunday.
Rev. Decatur Edwards. pastor Of
the Falmouth Baptist church, OF
Fredericksburg. Va. while shooting
at cats in his back yard. accidentally
shot and mortally wounded Mrs.
Lucy Mann. who was standing on her
back porch, on adjoining premises.
Mai. H. NJ. Folsom, OF Elizabeth
town, Tenn. one of the oldest and
best known men in that section Of the
state, fell over a cliff a distance OF
100 feet. sustaining injuries which
will probably prove fatal. No one
was with him and he lay at the bot
tom of the cliff for several hours.
One of the big automobiles used to
take sight-seers about the city OF
New York ran over and killed an ell
derly unknown man on Thursday
night. Before the body of the victim
could be taken from under the car
several OF the women passengers be-
came hysterical and had to be lifted
to the ground, while others jumped
down and ran away from the scene.
A theatre panic that might have
been terrible in its results was mar
rowly averted in theatre in Ameri-
Gus, Ga, on Friday night. While
the theatre was packed with twelve
hundred people. principally children,
the fire alarm was sounded. Efforts
of police and teachers upon the stage
were nnavailing until the orchestra,
it is reported, with wonderful inspir-
alton, struck up Dixie. This served
to restore quiet"
Masked men. held up Northern
Pacific passenger train near Bear
Mouth, Montana, on Friday night.
They dynamited the express car, blew
open the safe and secured its con-
rents. The amount secured is re-
ported to be $4,000, though this is
denied by the railroad officials. Af-
ter blowing out the rear lights of
the train the men disappeared. The
hold ups boarded the tender of the
engine at the water tank at Bear
Mouth and remained quiet until the
train had gone mile and a half,
when they held it up.
Charles S. Mccoy, prominent at
torney of Chicago, committed suicide
in Jacksonville, Fla, on Friday morn
ing, by cutting his throat with a
razor while in bath tub at hotel
there. 1t is said that he had lost
$4,000 in the last several days specu-
lating He was in Jacksonville look
ing after suit. He left note to
the lawyer associated with him in
the suit, in which he stated that the
demon of speculation had him in its
grip, and while he knew that suicide
was cowardly, yet he believed the
course which he was taking was d
wise one un::er the circumstances.
Second Lieutenant Reginald R.
Hogan, stationed at Annapolis, is to
be courtmartialed for a recent es-
capade at Annapolis. According to
a report made to the navy depart
ment, while returning to his quarters