The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-08-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of More or Less Interest Con-
densed Throughout the World

elected president OF the National
Negro Business league
Nine persons were killed, one ia
tally injured and thirteen more or
less seriously injured in collision be-
tween a street car filled with merry
party, and a freight train on the
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific railroad,
near Butte, Montana, Sunday night.
B. NJ Beebe, cement financler OF
Los Angeles, CAL, shot and instant
ly killed his half sister, shot four
times al another sister and then kill
himself Beebe objected 70 his Sis
ters receiving attention of young men
and he shot them because they refused
to comply with his wishes.
julius 7. Landsberg, OF Savannah,
Ga, and a conductor on the Seaboard
Air Line, was snot and killed Monday
by William S. Sims, because the
conductor had put him off the train
Saturday. Sims escaped and he has
not been heard from since.
While out rowing on Rock river,
near Geneseo, ILL.,, Herman Melting
and Ben Brooks, two young boys,
thinking the water was shallow tried
to scare two young ladies with them
by throwing them into the water.
The young ladies scrambling back,
threatened to throw the young men
overheard. The young men jumped
out of the boat into the water and
were drowned.
Reports from all the American con-
suls indicate that the boycott is wan
ing, except in Shanghai, where it is
unchanged.
Mrs. Henry Blackshire, Of Parkers-
burg, w. Va, has been found guilty
OF hiring two men to kill her hus-
band and has been sentenced for three
years.
The sugar famine brought on by the
quarantine against freight from New
Orleans is getting to be serious
matter in Nashville, Tenn. This is
the first time in years the sugar sup
ply has been short in Nashville.
A feud battle occurred Sunday near
Alice station. Tenn. in which Fred
erick Miller and son, John, and Fed
Johnson were killed and Henry Mil
Ter, another son, was dangerously
wounded. A feud war has ragged be-
tween the Miller and the Rawlings
for over twenty years.
Owing to the inability OF Engi-
neer D. L. Reig to control his brakes
an excursion train from Kingston,
n. c., bound for Norfolk, Va, plung-
ed through an open draw in bridge
over the Elizabeth river eight miles
from Norfolk, Thursday afternoon,
about 80 negroes and two white per-
sons were killed and drowned.
The man supposed to have mur-
dered William Pate, of Racine, Wis,
a young chaffeuer, who was found
dead in lonely road last November,
has been arrested.
Dr.. Lyman Hall, president of the
Georgia School OF Technology at At
Ianta, Ga, and one of the best known
OF southern educators. died at -Ashe-
vile, n. c., Wednesday nigh. after
lingering illness.
w. T. Boyd, travelling man, was
struck in the head with a hatchet
Friday morning by DR.. ". E. An
derson. prominent business man in
Lebanon, Va. The cause OF the trag-
edv is not known. but DR.. Anderson
has been declared TO be a person o.
unsound mind and has been sent to
an asylum. Mr.. Boyd is not eN-
pected to recover.
Two small internal machines were
sent to prominent men in New York
City Friday. Jacob H. Schiff, bank
er was the target for one, and the
other one was directed to the office Of
the American Smelling and Refining
company. The machines were near
ly alike. being packed in little wood
en- boxes about six inches long, but