The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-09-06
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of More OF Less Interest Con-
densed Outside Of the State.

The cause OF the disappear dlSe VI
c. B. Spahr. the editor OF Current Lit
erature. and other American maga-
zines, from the Cunard line steamer,
at Dover. England is mystery to
his friends and family in New York.
The state department at Wash
ington was officially notified on We'd
nesday. OF the death OF DR.. Herran,
the American representative at CO.
lombia. DR.. Herran was a proH11-
nent figure at the time Of the gov
ernment troubles with Colombia over
the Panama canal project.
Rosa Stern. daughter of Rev. Lewis
Stern, Washington rabbi, made an
attempt to take her life by cutting
her throat with a razor.
DR.. E. G. Simons. wealthy doc
tor. OF New York, was instantly kill
ed by freight train on the Lake
Shore railroad, at Glenville, N. Y.
Marshall A. B. Hammond shot and
killed Bud Tucker and seriously
wounded Jim Tucker in street duel
in an Alabama town. on Friday.
Nathan A. Frye, treasurer OF the
Watertown, Mass, savings bank. has
been arrested on the charge of en-
bezzling funds from that institution.
Judge Edgar NJ. Cullen, of Brook
lyn, has been appointed to succeed
Alton B. Parker as chief judge of the
New York Court of appeals.
Bail for the release of Nan Patter-
son, charged with the murder OF Caes-
ar Young, has been fixed at $4,000,
and the woman has been released un-
der the above-named bond.
The United States army transport
Thomas sailed on Friday from San
Francisco to carry troops to the
Philippines.
The Honorable Kerr Craige, who
was assistant postmaster general u11-
der Cleveland's second administration.
died at Washington on Thursday. He
was carried to his native state, North
Carolina, and inferred in the ceme-
terry at Salisbury.
The republican national managers
have decided to make vigorous at
tempt to carry Maryland in the COM
ing November election.
The Standard Oil company has ad-
vanced the price of crude petroleum
in all grades three cents.
The executive committe Of the Inter.
national Sunday School association
met at Buffalo on last Thursday and
was in session for the greater part OF
the week.
Henry C. Finch, who has record
of having killed at least four people
in his career OF crime, was hanged
at Clearfeld, Pa. on Friday.
Seven hundred metal and tin work
ers are on protracted strike in Phil
adelphia.
All grades OF refined sugar are ad-
vancing at the rate of five cents per
hundred pounds.
Senator Foar is hanging between
lite and death. with no change Tor
either better or worse, and the Ven
cradle states:na:? may linger ior many
tiavs. or r,ay temporarily recover.
When the Russians were retiring
from their outer positions at Lao
Yang they dug pits in the cora fields
and set up sharp pointed stakes in
the bottoms. on which hundreds OF
Japanese. were impaled and died.
most horrible death.
= The efforts OF the British men OF
war to come up with the Russian vol
unteer cruisers to deliver to them the
message from the Russian government
in regard to the wholesale seizure OF
neutral vessels, have thus far been
unsuccessful.
The Japanese have occupied Lao
Yang, General Kuropatkin's entire
armv having retired beyond the
Laitse river. and many arms and mu-
nitions of war have fallen into the
Japanese hands.