The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-06-07
CENTRAL NEWS NOTES.
items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

Davis was observed throughout the
south on Friday
Several more mills in New Eng
land have decided to run on short
time. affecting many operatives.
4 tornado did considerable damage
in several Texas towns on Friday.
There were very probably several ia
1alities
Thomas Moore. of Hartford, Conn,
committed suicide in Asheville on
Friday afternoon by shooting HIM
sell through the head. He was an in
valid and ill health is supposed to
have actuated the deed.
The long deadlock in the Illinois
state republican convention was
e. broken on Friday. when. on the
seventy-ninth ballot. Charles S. Deneen
, was nominated gubernatorial candl-
GATE to head the republican ticket.
The convention met about the middle
OF May, and the deadlock was one
OF the longest in the history OF state
nominating conventions.
One man was killed and nineteen
s. were injured in head-on collision
, between two passenger trains on the
Missouri Pacific railway, near Mar.
= tin,, Kansas, Friday night
&. Two visitors to the St. Louis expo
. sition were killed on Friday while
crossing the tracks of the Wabash
railway, ...
Two boys, aged IS and 9 years re-
spectively. were killed by fast mail
train on the Southern railroad, near
Memphis, Tenn, on Friday. The
boys were driving a wagon across
the track when the accident occurred.
AS result OF fight which occur
red on plantation at Trial Lake,
Miss, John Sims and his manager,
named Cato. were killed by negroes.
and three of the negroes were killed
by white men in return.
In a collision between two trolley
cars in Norwalk. Ohio. on last Thurs
day afternoon. six persons were kill
ed and dozen or more were injured.
Both cars were running at a high
speed when the collision occurred.
The contempt proceedings OF Fed
,eral Judge Purnell OF Raleigh. \. C..
against Editor Josephus Daniels. OF
the Raleigh News and Observer. who
has been in custody since Monday OF
last week for refusal to pay $4,000
= hne. were dismissed on Friday and
:. Mr.. Daniels was released. Mr.. Dan
=ziels had been fined by Judge Purnel!
. for editorially criticising the judge
s for his action in appointing receivers
for the. Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad. The appointment OF the
.7eece:. ers was overruled by Chief JUS
-tice Fuller and now Judge Pritchard
N1as released Mr. Daniels. kilograms
.of congratulation have been pouring
sn on Mr.. Daniels.
Nathan Sibbett. ,I4-year-old boy,
is in Jail at Trenton. N. J.. charged
with being responsible for the death
of his !rnother. According to testi-
1nony brought out. the lad had quar-
vel with his mother on the Tuesday
before her body was found. and he
pushed her from the top OF the stairs.
her death resulting. The boy then
covered her body with bed clothing
and left the house. He wandered
around the neighborhood. telling
those he saw that his mother had
gone to Philadelphia. After he had
been locked up and closely question:
ed BY the authorities he made con-
iession which led to his being held
<on the charge. -
&c. /. Saylor, Office manager for the
ArrnouE Packing: company at South
Moaha. Neb.., committed suicide on
Thursday by shooting himself
through the head He had been a
sufferer from nervous prostration.
said to have been the result of over
work. and the act was committed only
an hour before the time. set for him
TO leave for a sanitarium.
The National TradeSman'S bank