Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-24
SNAPPY AND BRIEF
Items Gathered and Told Willie
You Hold Ycur Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered From the Fields of Action
at Zone and Abroad.

aon having been captured among the
resurrection forces were summary
shot by order Of President Selaya.
President Taft is greatly shocked and
las ordered an investigation.
Twenty bodies Of victims have been
located in the Illinois mine and i've
have been brought to the surface.
Two persons were killed and three
injured in a S. A. l.. wreck Thurs
lay near Denmark, S. C.
Collector Loeb at New York, sum-
narily dismissed six officers in the
custom house, who we're implicated
in the sugar frauds and is proceed
ng to clean house.
Ochopedology, or the science Of
rendering a mechanical abnormal
body mechanically normal, will cure
loo per cent. of all coses of tubercu-
:osis of the lungs in its first and Sec
,ndary stages, according to DR.. BAN
aing, professor Of surgery at Herring
College, Chicago, so per cent in the
third stage, and 20 per cent in the
last stage.
Lee McMichael, night Waterman at
The Americas, Ga, construction COM
oany's shops was attacked by an UNI
Known person Wednesday night, his
lantern being knocked rel A fire
ensued that did a $4,000 damage.
Charles R. Warmer, the default
ing treasurer Of the Big Four railroad
has been arrested and jailed. Mrs.
Jeanett Ford, his asserted black
mailer, is occupying a DON in the
same Jail.
The sugar fraud exposure in the
custom house at New York is said to
involve II per cent Of the employees.
The combination Of the Western
Union Telegraph company with the
Bell company it is believed will u
a narrow escape Of dissolution as q
violation of the ANTITRUST law.
Nine. S%teinleil's troubles are not
all over for an American newspaper
man is suing her for charging him
with the murder for which she was
tried.
Ruth Butler, 4 years old, of Char.
iotte, Mich, some time ago pushed
q baby sister off the bed and 1t
strangled to death. On last Tuesday
she saw her mother use chloroform
for toothache. She got hold of the
bottle and ~playfully administered the
~chloroform to her 15-day-old sister
with fatal effect.
Eastern Kansas had a series of de-
luging rains early last week that put
the streams higher than was ever
known for the season and drove citi-
zens to,the higher lands.
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
company has authorized a bond issue
of $2OO,OOO,0OO.
President Finley of the Southern
Railway was an honored guest Of
Salisbury, N. G., Wednesday and
made address more especially to the
farmers.
The new Ar1nony at Georgetown,
S. c., was formally dedicated on the
18th, with parade and appropriate
ceremony.
Earl Bullock, an all-round bad
young fellow and William Mckay,
Is years old, whom he lured, robbed
the bank at Eudora, Kan, Friday
and severely wounded Fred Starr.
the banker. Bullock fought desper-
ately against capture and fired his
last bullet into his own head and
will probably die. Mckay was cap
tured.
Prof. Antonio Mantagna, a Roman
scientist believes he has discovered q
method by which to take photographs
by telegram or telephone.
Sheriff Shipp, Of Hamilton coun-
ty, Tenn, along with five fellow
countymen were sentenced to terms
in Jail for contempt of the U. S. court.
Charges against them grew out Of
the lynching of a negro in Chatta-
nooga, and their failure to use their
best efforts to prevent it.
By the arrest of thirteen Italians
United States secret service men and
the Italian squad Of New York police
think they have rounded up the lead.
ers of a band which las traflicked
for at least a year in a large amour,
Of counterfeit money made in Pal
ermo, Italy, and circulated in Ameri-
ca.
The mail steamer La Seyne, of the
Messagcries Maritimes service, run
ming between Java and Singapore.
collided with the steamer Onda, of
the British-India Line. and sank
within two minutes.
Nearly 400 men and boys are be-
lieved to be dead as a result Of d
mine disaster at Cherry, III.
Inquiry is being pushed by the
government into the so-called sugar
fraud cases and the investigation
nav equal the insurance upheaval of
1905.
Ten or twelve men. Italians and
negroes, were entombed by an en-
bankment cave-in on the S%outhbound
railroad near Winston-Salem Tuesday.
Archer C. Christian, a football
player on the University or Virginia
team, died Sunday from injuries re-
ceivcd i'll a game last week.