The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-18
SNAPPY and BRIEF"
Items Gathered and Told While
You Hold Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered From the Fields Of Action
at Home and Abroad.

Annie Pelley, 4 young vigorous and
powerful shop girl was fouly muir
dered in Carlo, ILL.,, Monday night.
From her torn clothing scattered
along an alley it is believed she put
up game fight for her purity and
her life but odds seemed against her
and her voice was stifed with
heavy cloth gag. The confessed Grim
mal was lynched Thursday.
j. H. Bryant and Randall Barber
were instantly killed while crossing
the 5. y. L. Ry., in a wagon near
Tampa, Fla.
There is said TO be another woman
III the Warriner defalcation though
1t Is said she will only be witness
and one knowing where the stealing
went but not getting any of it her.
self.
John r. Hare, of Baltimore. has
evolved what he believes to be an
improved type of dirigible balloon.
lie VIII lnclose all the machinery in
a cylinder that will he open at the
ends thereby protecting it from dam
age by tree tops. etc. He will also
provide for saving the gas of an
oVcrcharCed balloon to be utilized
when needed. Scientific men pro.
nounce the plan feasible.
James Thielman. head waiter at
Delmonico's, \. V, died recently
worth half million dollars, which
he saved out of his wages and tips
and invested judiciously.
Thomas jefferson Hall killed the
cashier, j. Ii. Fawcett and probably
mortally wounded the president. Jno.
*. Woodward, Thursday in a rec klcss
cilort to rob the Merchants National
Bank of Louisville. Ky. He was cap.
tured and narrowly escaped violence.
Mrs. jeanette Stewart, accused b;
Charles l.. Warriner of sharing tic
| proceeds of his defalcation of S643..
600 from the Big Four Ry., saws she
dld not share in it at all but that
she knows all about the defalcatiop
and will tell it in court.
+. NJ. Davis, head of the Mathison
Alka!l Works. Bristol. Tenn. was
"rlvlng his auto at high speed in
the country Wednesday and on
turn ran into wagon. the tognue OF
winch struck him in the face. He
has a narrow chance of life.
Hamburg Belle, a famous troiter.
That sold recently for $4,000. died
ON the farm of her owner near
IAomasville, Ga. on Wednesday, of
pneumonia.
farS now has a sensation in the
trial of Nine. Steinheil for the mur.
der of her husband and step-mother,
Inc Judges of the court do the
vehement accusing and she parrie,
ther assaults with consummate clev.
ernesS. She seems now to be getting
The better of public sentiment al
least.
Alexander Miller. for twenty wears
The private secretary 10 the late +
IL. Hartman, says that great finan
cler was never known to swear and
was intense and fervent in i. relig.
iOus beliefs.
Ihe American Federation of Labo,
In meeting at Toreato. Canada. com.
mltted the organization to sustain
president dompers. vice president
Mitchelll and secretary Morrison in
thelr hight to evade the sentence of
Imprisonment.
Col. G. X. Cotton was inaugurated
governor of Porto Rica last Saturday
Joe Wells and John Clark. farmor,
OF near Mint Springs. Ala, quarreled
over some liquor Sunday mornin.
and drew their guns. They fired at
the same instant with perfect aim
/ Both are dead.
| William w. Robinson, editor of
the Roswell RegiSter-Tribune. was
| rendered the governorship of his own
New Mexico Territory but declines
70 serve. He would rather he editor
than governor.
Four employees are dead and the
iiVes OF many more were endangered
IN Jersey City, when the engine of the
| Philadelphia and New York express
sunday morning jumped the track
and Dutted INTO an engine and tender
on the other track.
1t Is said that Mrs. John Jacob
Astor will get her divorce secretly
not suing for alimony, but her hus-
band will settle $1O,OOO,OOO upon her
and she will live abroad.
President Taft asked for a chat
with Ty Cobb at Augusta Monday
and of course was accorded the honor.
| 1t Is announced that the North Da-
kota is the fastest battleship afloat Of
the Dreadnaught type.
Alderman Bernard w. Snow has
offered an ordinance requiring all