Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-10
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 che Fields Of Action
at Home and Abroad.

Thirty students Of the Georgia Mil
ltarv academy are still sick from the
eating of homeless ham that contain
ed ptomaine poison.
Two of Wilbur Wrigbt's students
at College Park made fly Of 6134
minutes duration Wednesday, exceed
ing all amateur records and coming
nearly up to their tutor.
Tom L. johnson for 10 years mayor
Of Cleveland, Ohio, vas defeated in
the election Tuesday.
It is said that The cranberry crop
Of Massachusetts, is 80 per cent and
that of New Jersey is so per cent
greater this year than last year, max
ing something of an impetus to the
turkey Thanksgiving dinner.
The Glowing cup presented by
Mrs. Lindsey Patterson of Winston,
N. c., for the best literary work for
the past year was won by Mr.. Clar-
ence Poe, editor Of the Progressive
Farmer. It was presented on Thurs
day by Ambassador Brice who at
tended the farmers congress at Ra-,
leigh. The book on which Editor Poe
won the prize is entitled ga South
erner in Europe"
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad is
now restored to the management of
its regular officials, all Of whcTl are
retained and the policies are to be
continued by which the receivership
made it a browning success.
A serious situation exists at Glass;
away, w. Va, growing out of an
assault by a negro man on q white
woman. The supposed guilty party
was shot down while running to es-
cape. Two others said to be accom-
plices are in jail and mobocracy
reigns. Two military companies are
present but in answer to Gov. Glass
cox's direct question the captain said
his men had voted to do all they could
to save the prisoners except to shoot
their fellow citizens.
William Holloway, of Sioux City,
Iowa, had lost his sight. His son
Tom had been away for som time
and on visiting his father recently,
the latter buried his face IN Toms
shoulder and wept. When he wiped
away his tears he could see his son.
The Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterways
association mean to send 500 lobby
lists to the national capitol at the
next session of congress to urge ac-
ton on the subject.
Trespassing OIL railroad property
in violation of law, says the Phila-
delphia Dispatch, is responsible for
47,416 deaths in the United States
within. the last 10 years, and along
with these were more than $4,000
persons injured.
Rougier, the French aeroplanist,
made a flight Tuesday at Antwerp.
in which he attained height oe5SS9
feet.
The great national Farmers Con-
gress met in Raleigh, N. c., Thurs
day. Ambassador Brice from the
court of st. James was the prin-
cipal speaker and greatly pleased his
audience.
Gov. Ansel, of South Carolina, or
dered the dispensaries closed Friday
and Saturday as a means of preserv-
ing the best of behavior while Presi-
dent Taft was the city's guest.
The National Association for the
study and prevention of pellagra was
formed at Columbia, S. c., on Thurs
day night at the close of a two days
conference for the study of the dis
ease.
Otto Mueller who murdered Annie
Luther in New York State now o n
fesses to have murdered even wives.
His motive seems always to have
been to obtain a few hundred dollars\
from them.
Practicing physicians, heads Of
medical colleges and prominent edu-
Gators will convene at New Haven.
Conn.,, on the 18th and 18th to con-
slider means to lessen the mortality Of
infants.
A monument to the Confederate
veterans of Granville. N. c., county
was unveiled at Oxford last Satur-
day.
Kentucky farmers not in the COM
pact are again uneasy and are arm
ing against the outrageous b%arnburn-
ing night riders.
Nine lives were lost in a burning
bank building at Johnsburg, Vt, on
last Saturday.
Forty-fve fine horses and mules
were burned in a livery stable fire
at Pelham, Ga, on Monday.
Two men were killed and one was
seriously scalded in a freight wreck
at Hannastown, Pa.@, Saturday.
Milton Mullen, an old man living
near Rolfe, Logan county, w. Va,
believing that he was going to die re-
vealed to his grand son the hiding
nI,oo In tbo Ground of $1,000 which