The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-09-02
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
st Home and Abroad.

.essiui IN uoWnlnR rare ga" IN
Africa. With single shot h tuln-
bled charging hippopotamus recent
ly.
A program is arranged TO pUesi-
dent Taft and President Diaz % rncat
at Ell Paso, Texas, on Oct l.. where
banquet will be given then The,
will then proceed to Cuidat us.
across the river in Mexico, wneIe aI!
other banquet will be held. They will
then part for their own ways.
Not discouraged from the late
mlshap Walter Wellman is going to
nave another balloon built with
WHICH he hopes to reach the North
Pole. Much confidence is felt in the
ultimate outcome.
1t is said that President Taft was
too busy with national cares last
Sunday to go to church.
Mrs. M. A. McFaul, aged sixty
elght years, was killed and a grand
daughter, Miss Williams, was ser
iously injured late Sunday afternoon
by being struck by Southern Rail-
way passenger train just east Of
hnoxville, Tenn. They were walking
on the track.
That tunnel at Lynchburg, Va, is
said to be on fire again.
at Rheims, Fral.1e. airships are
Tying around like monster sea culls.
Six men are reported tc be dead
and number dying as a result of
strike r!oting at the Pressed Steel
Car Company's works in McKee's
Rock, Pa, Saturday night.
Scores of houses burned ard ST.
O0O,OOO financial loss was suffered bv
Decatur, ILL.,, last Sunday.
Washington s headquarters in Suf-
folk before the Revolution are be-
ing torn down.
Edward H. Hartman was given a
remarkable reception on his return to
America.
The benzoate of soda war broke
out anew at the Denver pure-food
convention Thursday.
w. j. Hicks, a Norfolk huckster,
who preferred pockets to banks, was
robbed of $67s last week.
The Federal Court at Chicago
handed down an opinion making per
manent the injunction against the en-
forcement by the Interstate Com
merce Commission of reduced
through rate to the Missouri river.
Evidences of highly civilized pre-
historic race on the Aleutian Islands
have recently been found.
Paulan, the French aviator. ON
wednesday broke all previous rec
ords at flying. He stayed in the air
: hours So minutes and 20 seconds.
then came down only because his
iuel was exhausted. Part of the time
he was IN storm of rain and wind.
William Taggart, of Philadelphia,
intended to get married but has aban-
doned the idea to conform to the con-
dltlons of his brothers will and he
now comes into the possession of a
$4,000 ranch in Texas.
The first reunion of the Red Shirts
OF South Carolina was held at An
derson, S. c., on the 25th.
AT the Lapaz mine at Mataehula.
Mexico, on Thursday the cable to
the elevator parted and II men fel
with the elevator 1000 feet. Their
Dodles were such a crushd mass that
they could not be recognized.
Mexico is in fear of infection from
a vessel proceeding from San Fran
cisco or which it is said there is a
case of bubonic pleague.
The big boxes of specimens receiv-
ed from Africa by the Smithsonian
are marked "T. r." in huge white
letters.
Cholera at st. Petersburg, Russia,
and Rotterdam, Holland, has excited
much fear of scourge. Precaution-
ary measures are being taken by all
the ports against vessels arriving
from the infected points.
PostmasterSfe feneral Hitchcock has
decided to rise the registry fee to
10 cents.
The Army Signal Corps has begun
the erection Of its aeroplane shed at
College Park, Nd.
President Taft has called upon the
Interior Department for full re-
port upon the coal lands in dispute
in Alaska.
Mr.: Taft seems to favor !, Ling
the Interstate Commerce C.m,a,.
sion judicial body, transferrir tao
work Of investigation to 9TH de-
partments.
Miss Anna Jones, in a Parke ~.1lr.
hospital, had premonition hat
something was wrong at hon and
was finally told her father, DR.. l.. II.
Jones, had died at Ellenboro on HE
18th. 1t Sns feared that she couId
not bear the shock of the news until
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