The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-04-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of More OF Lees Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

Four men were asphyxiated and
two seriously overcome by gas on
Saturday at a blast furnace in Brad
dock, Pa.
Nan Patterson will hereafter oc-
cupy a cell in the Tombs prison. IN
New York, with her sister, Mrs. j.
Morgan Smith.
United States Senator O. H. Plat,
of Connecticut, died at his summer
home in Washington, on Friday
night.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to
give Guilford college, in North Caro-
lima. $4,000, provided that amount
is duplicated by friends of the lnstl-
tuition.
Mrs. Eliza Stewart and her 12-year-
old son were killed at Westport, Ala,
on Saturday in a quarrel with Mrs.
Lingo, who claims she shot IN self
defence.
First Vice President James H.
HYDE, of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, peremptorily declined
the request of the managing agents,
in session in New York, that he re-
sign his position in the company.
The main building of Vanderbilt
university was Quilted by fire on
Thursday. The fire originated in the
second story Of the building from a
defective flue. The loss is placed at
100000, with $4,000 insurance on
the building and furnishings.
One man was killed and two women
were badly hurt when a big sight
seeing automobile crashed into a high
bill board fence in New York on Sum
day. The man who was killed and
orc of the women who was injured
was injured were to be married o
Fifty leading ~turpentine operators
of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Florida and Texas, have formed a
combine with a capital stock OF S.
oo,ooo 1t is said the real purpose
of the combine is to combat the alleg-
ed trust among the naval stores fac
tors who, it is claimed, have controll-
ed the market for years.
Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor,
died at his home at Palm Beach, Fla,
On Saturday afternoon. The sickness
of Mr.. Jefferson, which ended in his
death, was contracted, it is believed.
while on a recent visit to his son,
Charles B. Jefferson, at Hobe Sound,
a few miles above Palm Beach, where
h wen! to meet his friend, former
President Cleveland.
At a meeting of the Northern Set
tiers convention in Galveston on
Saturday a sensation was created by
Gov. Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, who
made a plain talk taking exception to
a speech by Gov. Mickey, of Nebras-
ka, in which the latter had discussed
the issues of the war between the
states. Gov. Davis said that such a
speech in such a place was not in
good taste, fo- in every patriotic
southern heart there was a shrine died.
icated to the Lost Cause.
R. W. McCeamer was killed and it
was thought that five other men
would die as the result of a peculiar
accident in a mine in Birmingham.
The men were working in a closed
room and were asphyxiated by the
gradual accumulation of gas in the
enclosure from a dead end OF a gas
pipe in which there was evidently a
small leak.
One of the most celebrated deals
ever known on the Chicago board of
trade came to a climax on Saturday,
when a daring effort by John W.
Gates and associates to control all Of
the wheat available in America for
delivery during the month of May
was apparently ended with wholesale
sacrifice of prospective profits to es-
cape possible huge losses Of existing
investments. The closing price was
500 as against $1.23 six weeks be-