The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-07-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Outside of The State.

90 stock wards on last Thursday night
and one man was shot in the lett
shoulder BY the police but was not
fatally injured.
The Mormons have purchased sub
stantial buildings in Chattanooga,
Tenn, for the permanent establish
ment of headquarters for the Mormon
church in the south These head
quarters are moved from Atlanta.
Mr.. George S. Abbott. of Asheville.
n. c., widow of the aged junk dealer
whose dead body was recently found
in Brooklyn. has gone to that place
TO lay claim to a fortune of 100000
alleged to have been lett by the. aged
junk dealer.
The Buffalo Flyer. on the Pennsyl-
van;a railroad. en- route from Atlantic
CITY. with three car loads OF Shriners.
was wrecked on Saturday. col!lding
with a fast freight in Jog. Two
trainmen were killed and four IN
iured.
Ion Perdicaris. who was held in cap
tivity by Morocco bandits, is in Paris
on a trip. It is said he shows no III
effects from his captivity, but states
that Mrs. Perdicaris, who accompan-
led him to Paris, was severely injured
by being thrown down flight OF
srone steps by Raisull'S men.
Henry Watterson, editor OF the
Louisville Courier ournal, has sent
Judge Parker a letter in which Mr,
Watte1son states that he will go INT"
the campaign with a greater CONN
dence OF victory that he ever had pc
fore. not even excepting the campaign
OF 1876.
Three young girls, 20, 10 and IS
wears of age, respectively, daughters
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kemmon, OF
Washington, together with Mrs
lanes Hubbard and child, OF Meter
Va. were drowned at EdgewateT'
Westmoreland county, Va, last week
while bathing. Their bodies were re-
covered.
Dom Paul Kruger, the former pres
ident of the Transvaal republic, died
at Clarens, Switzerland, on Thurs
dsy morning from pneumonia ano
heart weakness. Apph-
cation was made to the British gov
eminent for permission to carry the
remains to the Transvaai for burial
and the. request was granted.
The body of F. Kent Loomis' a
brother of Assistant Secretary OF
State LOOMS, who disappeared from
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm IL, june
40. as the vessel was nearing Fly
mouth. was found Saturday morning
at a point some IS miles from Ply
mouth. When first seen the body was
tossing among the breakers on the
incoming tide, and it was recovered
and identified.
A mob of a thousand men at Lam
caster, Pa, attempted to lynch TWO
men who had been arrested ana
brought to Lancaster charged with
+he brutal raid upon the village OF
Gordonville, Pa, recently. The offl-
GERS with the greatest difficulty sue
ceedine in getting the men to jail.
The men admit that they were IN the
raid upon the town, but deny any con-
nection with the murder OF the toll
gate keeper, Ressler.
The three negroes who confessed
to the criminal assault upon Mrs. FL
sic Biddle, of Burlington. n. j., have
been sentenced to forty-nine years
each in the New Jersey state PRISON.
O. F. Cook the discoverer OF the
cuatemalan boil weevil eating ants,
has wired the department OF agf-
culture from Texas that the new ants
are destroying cotton boil worms and
are attacking the similar injurious
insects with even greater avidity than