The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-10-28

incluulng Inventions, designs, patents,
trade marks, labels, prints, etc., reach
ed 73,026.
An epoch in steel manufacture wa,
marked last year when for the first
time in the history of steel making
In the United States, the production
of open hearth steel passed that of
Bessemer steel. The tonnage of both,
however, was much lower than in the
previous year. The United States
geological survey makes this comment
In its report on the production of ore,
pig iron and steel of 1908. The year
also marked great depression in the
iron industry. Since the middle of
| 1908 it has been steadily but slowly
recovering. The demand for iron and
steel products, the report points out,
was reduced over 80 per cent as COM
pared with the previous year.
E. Dana Durand, director of the
census, has forwarded commission
as supervisor of the census to Eu-
gene I. Long, of Hallettsville, Tex,
for the ninth district of that State.
| For the purpose of affording
prompt relief to the needy storm suf-
ferers at Key West, the army post at
that place is to issue rations for a
few days, the cost of which will he
borne by the American National Red
Cross society. In the meantime the
organization has undertaken an in
vestigation on its own account and
one of its experts, j. c. Logan of
Atlanta, Ga, has been directed to
proceed Immediately to the scene of
the disaster and report to Washing
ton the extent of relief and rehabili-
tation necessary.
Anticipating that proposed action
Wednesday in Chicago of attorneys
of Capt. Oberlin M. Carter, convict
ed of defalcation in connection with
government improvement of the har-
bor at Savannah, Ga, to procure
further allowance of counsel fees, to
be paid out of the Carter fund now
In the hands of the receiver, the Su-
preme Court of the United States
Tuesday issued an order staying pro-
ceedlngs in the United States circuit
court for the northern district of
Illinois so far as such an application
concerned. The fund consists of
money the government is attempting
to obtain from Carter on the claim
that it was procured through defal-
cation.
! The public health and mai inc hos
pital service has detailed Assistant
Surgeon General j. W. Kern and
Passed Assistant Surgeon C. H. La
vinder as its representatives at n coll
ference on pellagra to be held at Col
umbia, S. c., November 8 and 4.
Believeing that the time has come
for definite action looking to the con.
| servation of the nation s great natur.
al resources, leaders in this movement
from all parts of the country will
! gather in New Orleans on November
| l, next, when the first important step
towards putting the principles of con-
servation into practical effect will be
| taken.
With the return of the President
next month interest will be revived
in the new Tariff law. particularly
with rgard to the application of the
new maximum or general tariff
rates. to those countries which he
may regard as possessing tariffs of
discriminatory character against pro.
ducers of the United States.
Nicaragua, not withstanding the
insurrection within her borders, is
fully carrying out with the United
States Government her agreement for
the settlement of the claim of the
George d. Emery Company in annuI-
ment of the latter's timber concession
In Nicaragua, and Monday night
made the first payment of $4,000 on
the 100000.
| Postmaster General Hitchcock has
been requested by a Missourian to
make good the loss of S. bill, which
was chewed up by the Missourian s
"young pup dog" In the communica-
tion received at the Postoflice De-
partment Thursday, was an affidavit
setting out the facts of the destruc-
tion Of tho bill together with four
small pieces of the bill which the
puppy had neglected to consume. The
communication with the remnants Of
the note, has been turned over to the
Treasury Department for such dis