Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-10-06
SNyAPPY AND BR!E:F L:
Items Gathered andT.o!d While
You fold Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar.
nered From che Fields Of Action
at Home, and Abroad.

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At Jersey City, N. j., black hand
stories had gotten the children in
parochial school in nervous condition.
Some fire works were put off Mon
day near the building in celebration
of some event wbereupon ] 900 chill
dren stampeded for the doors and
fourteen were seriously hurt.
Rain seriously interfered with the
Hudson-F Fulton celebration Monday at
! New York.
The. Federal government will aid
the storm stricken people on the Gulf
coasts with the loan of tents, and
with provisions and means of santa
tion where decomposed animals
threaten the health of the survivors.
Minnesota Is late Governor, John A.
Johnson, left his entire estate of $685.
900 to his widow.
President Taft seems to have ac-
complisfed the feat of so adjusting
matters in the department shat Mr..
Ballinger and Mr.. Pinchot will both
remain in the service though still un-
friendly. He emphasizes his adher-
ence to the Roosevelt policy on. the
conservation of resources.
4 disturbance occurred last Satur-
day morning that interfered with all
telegraph lines over the world. The
prenomenon is said to be due to the
same cause as that Of the aurora.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham Gold, Of
Baltimore, celebrated their 65th year
of welded life last Saturday.
President Taft, on last Monday at
Helena, Montana, went 1,,2OO feet
down copper mine therein beating
all previous presidential reords in
America.
A Norwegian ship was founded
near the Winter Quarter lightship out
from New York Sunday and II out
of crew of 18 were drowned.
Canada will place no duty on wood
pulp shipped to the United States but
will charge for pulp wood shipped out.
Her principal is, "All timber to be
manufactured in Canada. ~
Judge Campbell, in the Federal
court at McAlister, Monday issued a
temporary order restraining the State
officials from interfering with the pip.
ing of gas out of Oklahoma.
An explosion occurred Monday IN
Pittsburg, Pa, in the Columbian film
exchange by which fifty or more per-
sons were more or less seriously In
jured and loss of 100000 was suf-
fered. !.
g. w. Goethals, chirman Of the
Isthmian Canal Commission, says the
work on the canal is progressing sat-
sifactorily.
A lad Of seven years is to be tried
for murder at Spartanburg, S. c.
Five white men and ten Negroes
expiated crimes Of larceny at Will
mington, Delaware, last Saturday at
The whipping post. The fifteen men
received the aggregate of 100 strokes
of the lash.
Judge W. A. Poe and Banker Rob-
ert H. Brown, at Macon, Ga, We'd
nesday, were discussing the compare
tive merits of Cook and Peary as to
polar honors, till they engaged in a
fight.
AT Montgomery, Ala, fire prac-
tically destroyed 500 bales of cotton
Wednesday,.
Wilbur Wright few around the
Statue of Liberty on Bedloe Island,
Wednesday, as part of the programs
for tbs day in the Hudson-Fulton Gel
ebration.
Ex-Governor McSweeny, of South
Carolina, died Wednesday at Mount
Hope Retreat Hospital, Baltimore.
The estimate of Gov. Johnson's
estate grows. At last reckoning it
was $4,000.
A boiler at saw mill near Caney-
Vile, KY, exploded Tuesday killing
two and seriously injuring three.
There were furries in the wheat
and oats pits in Chicago Thursday
by which wheat ran up $1.06 to $1.2O
and oats from 441-2 to SO cents.
Commander Peary stood on the
Roosevelt with Mrs. Peary by his side
Friday in the Hudson-Fulton parade
and was showered with honors.
Spain is rejoicing over recent VIC
tories over the Moors in Africa and
the hope Of an early termination oil
the war. In an ambush by the enemy
Friday Gen. Vicoria and three officers
and Ia men were killed.
rHB ExAcrING BoARDER.
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