Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-13
The news IN. BRIEF
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANlNGs FROM Day TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events CT More
or Less Interest at Zone and
Abroad.
Washington, N. C, had a $4,000
blaze Friday morning.

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blaze Friday morning.
The United States leads the world
in the production Of lead.
The eleven-year-old son of VIM.
Tillman, Of Chatham County, commit
ted suicide with gun last week,
because his father punished him.
Six Tennessee night riders have
been convicted Of murder in the
first degree and two in the second
degree, with jury penalty of 20 years
imprisonment, all for the murder Of
Capt. Rankin.
Sheriff Van Pelt, of Pensacola, has
had to stop street cars from running
on Sunday to conform to the law.
The Virginia Portland Cement Co.
has started up in full force again,
with 500 hands and hopes to double
its force soon.
Hampton, Va, voted on Wednes-
day to issue 100000 in bonds for
city purposes.
An address from the people Of
Spottsylvania, Va, will be issued
soon, calling on the people of the ma
tion to unite in erecting grand mon-
ument at Bloody Angle, in honor Of
Gems. R. E. Lee and o, S. Grant.
Hon. John S. Henderson, receiver,
announces that affairs at Whitney,
N. c., will soon be Strengthened out
and work will begin on the great
electric power plant.
| The American Battle Fleet, as SOON
as it came out Of the Suez canal.
/ rendered its services to Italian au-
I.thorities to aid at Scicily but were
declined because not needed.
/! Hon. Bert M. Fernald was inaugu-
rated Thursday as governor Of the
State Of Georgia.
I Hon. Oben S. Draper took his seat
as Governor of Massachusetts on
Thursday. The inaugural assembly
vas unprecedented.
| The North Carolina Legislature has
! increased the salary of the Governor
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The annual income of the late
"Sugar King" Claus Speckles is
$275,0O0 per month. Pending the
probate of the will the widow is to
have $4,000 per month.
DR.. Roseburght of the Jefferson Med
ical College. Philadelphia. has made
a wonderful discovery about tuber-
culosis germs, and hopes soon that an
anti-toxine will be in use to which the
Edread disease will yield. 3
The South Carolina Penitentiary
shows a net balance Of 500, ,495.19 for
Il908 over 1907, after losing about
i SIS, 900 By food and making perma-
rent Improvements to the extent
Eof nearly 1000. 81f,5s 555
Half starved dogs in the stricken
cities Of Italy are dangerous to the
crippled, and they eat the dead like
hyenas.
The next meeting Of the Cotton
Manufacturing Association will be
held in Richmond, Va, on the 4th
Tuesday in May.
| A head-on collision occurred on
the Southern at Canegie Tuesday, in,
which Ave persons were hurt, one Of
ILL., PROBABLY fatally.
/ A late pitched battle between Wig
ilantes from Mexican ranches near
the California line and a party OF
stock thieves resulted in the killing
of the four thieves.
The Virginian Railroad is now open.
from Norfolk through Roanoke, Var
| 320 miles,
James Treanor, a printer, was
burned to death with the loss by fire
of Central Hotel, Covington, Tenn,
on Tuesday. A score Of others made
narrow escapes.
Senior castro Yenezuela's, deposed
ruler, is fast recovering from an
operation, which he has undergone in
Berlin, and has promise Of health.
Congress has appropriated $780,
OUU W Lue q1oho SuoAoAS AAA
Italy.
A semi-annual dividend Of 31-2
per cent on North Carolina Railroad
stock was declared at Greensboro on
Tuesday.
A sanatorium for consumptives has
been opened at Red Springs, a Vir-
ginia mountain summer resort.
C. F. King, famous in finance, was
convicted of larceny in Boston. He
gave bail of $35,OO0, and came out
of Jail, but soon one of the suretles
surrendered him to custody again.
He is in Jail.
A convention of the Virginia ana
Carolina Hotel Association convened
lat the Jefferson, Richmond, Va, on
Wednesday.
Congressman will be limited this
season to- 10000 packages of vege-
table seeds to send to their consti-
tuents instead of 12,5000 as before.
500 packages of flower seeds are still
allowed to each.
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