The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-04-11
GENERAL NEWS T
Items of More of Less Interest Con-
densed Outside the State.

The battleship Minnesota was sue
cessfully launched at Newport News
On Saturday.
A S55,ooo fire was caused az Harri-
sonburg, Va, on Saturday by an ex-
plosion Of matches.
A loving cup was presented to
President Roosevelt after a banquet
by the citizens of Dallas, Tex. last
week.
King Edward, Of England, visited
Paris last week, and his arrival was
the occasion for a notable manifesto
ton of Anglo-French corliality.
Four persons were killed in a ten
ement house in New York on Thurs
day by Illuminating gas. The gas
had escaped from a defectice gas
stove.
A report from Lahore, India, says
that four hundred and seventy men OF
Gurkha regiment were buried alive as
a result of the earthquake at the hill
station Of Dharmsala.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her four child
rem, who have been cruising in south
ern waters on the presidents yacht
for several days, left Jacksonville on
Saturday afternoon for Washington.
The most expensive and luxurious
car ever constructed is now building
at the Chicago works Of the Pullman
company for w. K. Vanderbilt. The
car when finished will cost MI. Van
derbilt $4,000.
Two men lost their lives and three
were rescued by four islanders, fol-
lowing the wreck on Thursday of the
barge Texas on Rock island, off the
Rhode Island shore, and the ground
ing of the tug which had the barge in
tow.
Hill A. Ballard was shot and kill
ed at Huntsville, Ala, onThursday by
Miss Oma Harding, his sweetheart,
who followed her attack on him by
shooting herself through the heart,
dying instantly. The tragedy is be-
lieved to have been the result OF a
lovers quarrel.
w. T. Hill, a we'll known and pros
porous merchant Of Smythe, Ala,
was killed and robbed in a thick.t
near that place on Saturday alter
noon. Saturday was pay day IN
Srnythe and MI. Hill is known t.
have had considerable money with
him.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
not as yet resigned the craftsmanship
of the republican national committee.
A negro was legally hanged at
FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., on Thursday for
criminal assault on a white woman.
John w. Ensign, democrat, was on
Thursday elected mayor of Hunting
ton, W. Va. During the conflict pre-
ceding the election three men were
shot, several were beaten by police
men and deputy sherifs and nuner-
Gus county and city officers were ar
rested and cast into jail.
Asheville, N. c., on Thursday voted
overwhelmingly against the establish
ment of a municipal dispensary in
that city. The campaign was n Of
the most bitter in the history of the
city. The loss of the prohibition
vote, upon which the dispensary ad-
vocates had counted, proved a death
blow.
A dispatch from New York says
that by the capsizing and sinking OF a
tug in the North river On Saturday
three men were drowned. The cap
sizing and sinking Of the tug, it is
stated, was the result Of the boat
tripping" over her W line, which
had lust been made. fast to a seago-
ing tug boat.
Miss Pearl NJ. White, daughter Of
the millionaire manufacturer of
Cleveland, was secretly married at
Hot Springs, Ark, to James 7. Ban
croft, who, ttree weeks ago was a
clerk behind the desk of n of the