The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-09-30
.SNAPPY And BRIEF
Items Gathered and T old While
You Held Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered Prom the Fields Of Action
st Home and Abroad.

she had $50. She then climed down
to find the money gone, which was the
chief loss by the lit.le fire.
Rosa Elrod now confesses that sic
swore falsely against Jack Worthing-
ton, of Barlow county, Ga, whereby
he received a sentence of 20 years.
She claims that she was intimidated
into that course, but that her con-
science has driven her to confession.
1t seems that thu were equally i'm
phcated in her 81 anne.
A number of warrants have been
issued in Chicago for the arrest Of
officials charged with "fixing" juries.
The agitation about forming a new
State our of pert of California on ac-
count of taxation methods is subsid-
ing from the fact that it would have
to run the gauntlet of the State Leg
islature and Congress.
A street car riot broke out at Coun-
ell Bluffs, Neb., Sunday.
Treadwell Cleveland expert in Bu-
reau of Forestry, says our timber sup
ply is being rapidly diminished and
that only one-third of the trees is used
while the other two-thirds 60 to
waste.
President Taft drank toast to the
Mikado last Sunday at Minneapolis,
Min, while jollying the Japanese.
Wireless telegraphy proved its mer-
its again Sunday when it brought
help to the Clyde Liner disabled from
broken machinery and anchored off
Cape Hatteras.
The equinoctial gale came a day
early this year on the Gulf and it's
coasts and its fury was unusually
dreadful.
Broad Creek Neck in Maryland has
another sensation in the finding of the
dead body of farmer whose death il
all mystery.
The mother of Vice-President Fair
banks celebrated her SOth birthday
at Springfield on Monday. Her dis
tlnguished son and his wife sent n
congratulatory cablegram from the
Philippines.
DR.. Cook arrived at New York and
Peary arrived at Sydney, Now Scotia
Tuesday.
Peary says he will not ace anv
public receptions or participate in
public celebrations till the contro-
versy between him and Cook is
settled.
Mrs. Jacob Fickel (divorced), Of
Cleveland, O., embezzled $593.76 and
being informed by the court that if
she replaced the money she would be
spared service in the penitentiarv
She asked a loan of $500 from her
aforetIme husband who refused. Her
son was unable to raise the money.
Here s what the judge said of Fickel:
Amy man who is half man would
do as much as is asked of Fickel to
save the mother of his children. even
though he has no regard for her as
his wife,
The Spanish troops have made q
successful advance against the Moors.
killing a number and taking 1000
prisoners.
1t is said that the japanese are be-
ginning to raise more cattle and will
eat more beef and less rice.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, dispatch says
Francis Rogers has carried thres
grape shot in his head ever since the
battle of Antietam, until a few days
ago when they came to the surface
and dropped out. He is ninety years
old and is now free from headache
for the first time in many years.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Coke
Cmpany will begin at once the
construction of an immense impound-
ing dam at Village creek, near En-
sley, Ala, together with a suitable
pumping station and reservoir pre-
paratory to a $2,O0O,OOO coke oven
plant.
A bomb was found Wednesday
night in the house at Juares, Mexico.
where it is arranged for Presidents
Taft and Dias to meet.
Eight strike-breakers were injured
one of them perhaps fatally, John
Petricek, a bystander was shot
through the hip and eight cars were
partially demolished as the result
of riots which occurred after dark
Wednesday night in connection with
the street car strike which began here
last Saturday at Omaha.
Recent torrential rains have caused
The loss of 100 lives and the destruc-
tion of 500 houses at HONS, a town
of northern Syria.
Judge Afford has declared section
"A of the Fuller prohibition law in
Alabama unconstitutional and inoper-
ative. 1t attempted to prohibit the
impOrtation of Whiskey and beer for