Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-12-15
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Seeking a knowledge Of What is
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Seeking a knowledge of What is
Going on.
II. Clay Pierce was on Tuesday, ac-
quilted Of the charge Of perjury ] n
swearing that the Walters-Pierce Oh
Co., of Texas was not connected with
the Standard Oil Company when the
Standard Oil company owned a ma
jority of the stock.
John R Early, who was some time
ago diagnosed as not having leprosy,
is again confined in Washington and
a charge is brought against him OF
crime in exposing himself with a con-
tagious disease.
According to the last report from
Washington the value of the South's
agricultural crop this year sums up
nearly $2,4O0,OOO,000.
The twelfth juror has at last been
secured for the night riders to be
tried at Union City, Tenn, for the
assassination OF Col. Quinton Rankin.
A boiler at the Union Phosphate
plant, Tioga, Fla, exploded, demolisa.
ing the plant without injuring one OF
100 men at work in the plant.
The apprehension which gave rise
to he Monroe Doctrine may be said
to have nearly disappeared says
President Taft.
The 61st Cngress opened in regular
session Monday. Both bodies were in
session less than one hour. The Pres
ident's message was read Tuesday.
It is said that $4,000 Armenians
are on the ye.ge of starvation.
The work on the Cape Cod canal
has been suspended until next spring.
The House of Lords by rejecting
the budget has caused an alienation
CT the House of Commons and has
caused the King to proorgue parlia-
ment besides stirring English politics
to fever heat.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh estimates the national expenses
for 1911 at $103, 370,303 less than the
appropriation for 1910.
The Phoenix Insurance Co., of
Brooklyn, N. Y, it seems has had
a million dollars flched from it by
its president who has been suspend
ed since his unfaithfulness was dis
covered.
President Taft in addressing the
American Red Cross in Washington
Tuesday expressed the hope that
some one would yet endow the as
ISOLATION with a $5,000,000 gift.
President Taft was on Tuesday re-
elected president of the American
Red Cross.
Senator Root presiding over the
Senate in the absence of vice Presi-
dent Sherman made a blunder by
which the report of Secretary Nc
Veagh was releasd before it was in
tended. He attempted to call in the
release an hour later but some Of the
papers had sent it out already.
The Charlotte, N. c., aldermen
have determined that the pop-stick
noise and confusion shall not form a
part of the Christmas celebrations
this year. This action was taken OH
account of the abuses Of the priv
leges heretofore.
Four Austrians, near Cumberland.
Nd, last Saturday, were thawing so
pounds of dynamite for blasting,
when it exploded and all were fear
fully injured.
Navigation closed on the great
lakes at IL O'Clock Sunday night.
Twenty-Five vessels and 81 lives were
lost during the last season.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
says letters received confirm the re-
port that Zelaya had the bodies of
Groce and Cannon burned and the
ashes swept in dust and filth and
| then into the San Juan river.
Three prisons in the State of New
York contain "a men condemned to
die in the electric chair.
Antonio Mangino at Cleveland,
Ohio, on last Saturday, murdered his
wife and three children, two of whom
were his step children, in the most
horrible way, crushing their heads
and stabbing them beside.
George Marty, of Norfolk, Ohio,
who is 81 years old, got his neck
broken some time ago and he has
been successfully treated, the physi-
clans believing he will soon be en-
tirely recovered.
1t has been satisfactorily ascer-
tanned that an inexperienced boy, not
properly instructed, left a car with
hay upon it near an open torch that
caused the great Cherry mine dis
aster. The boy escaped to tell the
tale on the witness stand.
The four-masted schooner, Marie
Palmer, stranded near Pan Shoals, N.
c., Wednesday, is a total wreck.
Very little II the cargo was saved.
j. Pierpont Morgan has secured
q majority of the stock and there
fore a controlling interest in the Equ-
liable Life Insurance Company.
Half Of Charles WARMERS steal.