The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-04-08
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
items of More Of Less Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

Tuesday it was decided by an over
whelminc vote that the city should
at once assume control OF all street
railways.
The supreme court OF Alabama has
decided unconstitutional the state
oil tag law.
Five persons, members of pleas
ure party from the Florida Metho-
dist college. at Switzerland. about
thirty miles from Tampa. Fla. were
drowned near Anclote light house on
one night this week, President Wal
ker, of the college, had taken the
party out for a cruise to the hight
house, but met with rough weather
and the boat was overturned IN the
gulf. President Walker and others
escaped.
The frst-class battleship Virginia
was launched at Newport News. Va,
on Tuesday afternoon, in the presence
of gathering OF more than 10000
people. The sponsor was Miss Gay
Montague, daughter OF the governor
of Virginia. Just after the launching
an aged man. who was among the
spectators, fell into the dry dock and
was instantly killed.
Damage suits for sums aggregatlng
$4,000 have been filed at Clinton,
Tenn, for the widows of men shot in
the riot at Coal Creek. Tenn, on Sum
day, February !. The suits are
brought against the Coal Creek COM
pany and several OF the officers per-
sonally.
A desperate but unsuccessful. at
tempt to escape from the Missouri
penitentiarv was rrade this week by
four convicts, heavily armed and car
rying sticks of dynamite. No one was
seriously injured.
As the result OF the democratic
county conventions held in Arkansas
for the election of delegates to the
state convention, forty delegates are
instructed for Hearst and nine for
Parker. Nine are instructed for D
B. Francis.
Nine thousand FIVE hundred seats
have been provided for in the hall in
which the national democratic CON
vention at St. Louis will be held.
The Reynolds Tobacco company, OF
Bristol, Va, one of the Oldest inde-
pendent companies in the south, has
been bought by the American Tobac-
co company, and probably will be
consolidated with the Durham. n. G.,
branch.
Twenty OF the corporations in Fall
River, Mass, engaged in a manufac-
ture of print cloths, controlling o5
mills, have entered into an agreement
to curtail production by shutting
down two weeks Thousands OF mill
hands are affected.
Six persons committed suicide in
New York on Tuesday. Half of them
were due to dependency because OF
inability to secure employment. Three
of the six victims ended their lives
with carbolic acid, one by shooting.
another by hanging and the sixth by
turning on the gas. The most youth
full suicide was Eva Pocker, 17-year-
old Brooklyn school girl, who drank
carbolic acid after reading letter and
the oldest was man aged IS who had
been i'll with rheumatism.
Secretary Hester's New Orleans
cotton statement, issued on Monday,
shows the total for March to be
476,oSo bales, against 71o,3o6 last year.
The total OF the cotton crop brought
into sight during the seven months
ending with the close of March is
put down at o,eo5,o55 bales, against
o,5so,666 last year year.
A series of riots have followed a
strike at the American Can company's
plant, in Chicago, and one man lost
his life on Tuesday night by bullet
fred from a train on which were a
number of non-union men being taken
back to the city after the conclusion
oc A.