The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-12-23
news BREVITIES.
Condensed from Wide fields,
Domestic and Foreign.
AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY
Suited to the Wants Of Busy Readers
Seeking knowledge Of What Is
Going on.

The steamer Gov. Ames, found from
New York to Brunswick, Ga, went to
pieces off Wimble Shoals, 25 miles
north of Hatteras, N. c., Monday.
The captain and wife and eleven of
the crew were lost, one Of the crew
OILY escaping.
George P. Sheldon is indicted for
larceny in the shortage of $45, 900
or $4,000 dollars in the Atlanta Of
fee Of the Phenix Fire insurance
company of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Zelaya has resigned the presidency
of Nicaragua amid riotous demonstra-
tions in which the populace cry down
with the old and up with the new
regime.
! The sugar scandals at the New
! York custom house are being ferreted
out and the Arbuckle Brothers have
coughed up $685. out of which
they had wronged the government.
| The Brokaw divorce suit in New
York is now live topic. It is
brought out that the husband was
about to sue for the divorce but
he is fighting the suit now as there
is $60,0OO at stake in alimony.
| 1t now develops that Capt. Au.
gust w. Loose and his man Dunkle
who swore that they made Capt.
Cooks calculations to help him de-
celve the world about his getting to
the North Pole and squealed because
he did not pay up were after selling
their fabrications and Loose says
Dunkle got most of the money for
the fabrication.
News has just arrived that a mine
explosion in Southern Japan recent
ly claimed 762 victims. Forty-three
others escaped. The mine works a.
755 hands and has a monthly output
of $4,000 tons of coal.
| Secretary Of War Dickinson will
take a trip to inspect Santo Domingo
and Porto Rico, paying special at
tention to the revolutionary con-
ditions in the former islands.
1t is estimated that z to 8 million
people visited Coney Island during
the late summer making about 10000
trips besides. spending $4O,OOO,O0O
mostly in nickels and dimes, sums
/ three times as much as the United
States paid for Louisiana and six
times as much as Alaska cost.
Women in high social position
members Of the Colony Club-held
an enthusiastic meeting Wednesday
afternoon in their clubrooms at l22
Madison avenue. in the interest of
the striking shirtwaist workers, who
Will receive substantial financial aid
from the organization.
The brownsville court Of inquiry is
sitting behind closed doors in Wash
ington, hearing such applicants of
the Negro disbanded regiment as wish
to re-enter the army and can show
themselves eligible under the Fora
ker act.
| Congressman Kitchin, Of North
Carolina, introduced bill in the
house Wednesday the object of
which as to prevent corporations do
ing business in the state from ap-
pealing cases from the state to the
federal courts.
King Leopold, the sovereign of
Belgium, died Friday morning in
Brussels.
The National Geographic society in
Washington City Wednesday night
bestowed on Commander Peary the
honor of the discovery of the North
Pole and awarded suitable medal.
Capt. Bartlett also received a medal
for sailing a boat further into the
artie regions than any one else.
A fire at East st. Louis, ILL.,. on
Monday, burned LOO car loads of
grain: The loss is cstimated at
100000.
Zelaya who is so conspicuous be-
fore the world now has a nephew in
New York who is in trouble in love
affairs. Miss Juliette Hero, of Gre
clan descent, is suing him for $780,
OoO dollars on breach of promise.
Another severe storm ACCOMPANIED
with snow, ice and sect passed over
New York, Pennsylvania and the
great lakes Monday and Tuesday.
Considerable damage was done to
wires.
Three sisters are in New York iail
charged with the murder of Ocev
Snead, whose body was found sub
merged In a bath tub long after
death.
The Senate ......
voted unanin ,.... .
report favoraL a-....
Judge Horace ....,,. .......
see, to be an i.ri.r. .l.....