The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-03-29
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
items Of More of Less Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.


all grades OF sugar have been ad-
vanced five cents a hundred pounds.
Chesley Peoples. white. was hanged
at Wytherille, Va. on Friday, Tor
murder. He had been cleared OF
previous charge OF murder on the plea
OF insanity.
Bob Stone. a negro. was hanged
at Birmingham. Ala, on FRIDAY.
"While serving a life sentence for
murder Stone killed guard about
wear ago in an attempt to escape.
Water broke into mine at Brazil,
Ind. on Friday, and imprisoned about
fifteen men. The fire department
was called out and all the men were
taken out after very narrow escapes.
Two hundred houses were :nrooted
and other property loss entailcd by
a gale which swept over Louisville on
Saturday. Other parts OF the state
suffered losses.
The returns have been coming IN
very slowly from the primary held
in Arkansas last week. 1t appears
now that Governor Jeff Davis has
been nominated for third term.
Daniel J. Sully, the failed cotton
speculator. claims that his downfall
was caused by the desertion OF his
partners. and he has decided to en-
ter suit against his partners.
Hestcr's weekly cotton statement,
issued on Friday, showed for the slX
months and twenty-five days OF the
season that hay elapsed the aggreea-
ton was behind the same days OF
last year 100000 bales and behind
the same year before last 10000.
A trai,rload Of miners returning to
Dayton. Tenn, from days work
were fired into by parties in ambush,
the fire being returned by the train
officers, one OF the assailants being
wounded. The trouble grew out OF
friction between union and nom
union men,
Conditions in Grand Rapids, Mich,
and nearby towns along the Grand
river are very grave as result OF
an unprecedented food. 1t IS con-
servatively estimated that the loss
will not be under S2.ooo,ooo and an
epidemic OF typhoid fever is feared
in connection with the other evils.
In a match in San Francisco on
Friday night Young Corbett," OF
Denver, the worlds champion feather
weight. was knocked out in the
twentieth round by Jimmie Britt. the
California lightweight. The night
was witnessed by about eight thous-
and spectators.
One OF the most severe storms
Chicago has ever known passed over
that city on Thursday night. In the
suburbs considerable damage was
done. and in Indiana Harbor. a town
twenty miles southeast OF Chicago,
one man was killed. fifteen injured
and serious property loss was sus-
tanned.
The Seaboard Florida limited was
wrecked at Hendersonville, n. c., on
Thursday, by running into an open
switch which is believed to have been
Intentionally misplaced. The, engineer
had both legs broken by being caught
in the wreck, having stuck to his post.
Several other trainmen were hurt,
but no passengers were injured. 4
sleeper was burned.
William J. Bryan delivered an ad-
dress in New Haven, Conn. on Sum
day afternoon, in which he denounced
the military spirit of the day, saying
he hoped there would be general
demand to find out the cause OF the
present warfare between Japan and
Russia. The only warfare that man
ought to wage, said he. is the warfare
against evil in all its forms.
The double nine," the dreaded
signal of the New York fire depart
ment, was sounded on Saturday for
a fire that started on Broadway. The