The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-12-09
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
at Home and Abroad.

ell the internal revenue. The whlSkey
tax fell off for the last fiscal year
$5,5O9,S31 and the ale and beer tax
$2,444, ,1S3 compared with 1908.
The use of cigaretts seems to be
on the increase in spite of the war
upon them by many of the states.
The manufacturers paid tax on T03,-
OS7, ,27S more this year than in 1908.
James E. McGregar of Newport,
n. H., has applied for membership
in the Sons of the American Revo-
luton. He claims to be 10S years
old. His father served in the war
and died at nearly 101 years.
Capt. John Downing died at Dover,
Del, Tuesday at the age of 1O3 years.
He was n veterans of three wars, the
last being The great civil war.
Little Norwood Herbert, of Wash
ington city, fell from tree some
days ago and his back was broken.
The vertebra were replaced and he
was put in plaster of paris case with
reasonable expectation of complete
recovery.
The Switchmen' strike that has
its centre about Chicago is doing
great damage to commerce as the
railroads cannot move freight.
The great Frisco and Rock Island
railroad merger was dissolved We'd
nesday by the purchase and changing
ownership of the San Francisco road.
The steamer Adelheld Mcneil of
Havre cleared from the port of PEN
sacola, Fla, last Saturday with 12,000
bales of cotton valued at 100000.
avnlpc,pn p..p,ral ~
Marion, Ill.,, last Monday in which
others in the mine escaped unin-
Jured though there was something Of
a panic.
The America Consul at Managua,
the capital of Nicaragua. has applied
for and has gotten permission to
move his place of busines from the
consulate to the legation as a place
more safe and congenial.
North Carolina has the distinction
of manufacturing more plug and
smoking tobacco than any other state
i'll the Union.
France has been drawn into the
Nicaraguan trouble by Zelaya's bru-
tai treatment of French citizens.
Three persons were seriously in
jured and five less seriously hurt in
q derallment of train on the Penn
sylvania railroad near Fairhaven
Tuesday.
The police of Cleveland, Ohio. dis
covered a plot to assassinate John D.
Rockefeller Tuesday. The aged mul-
timillionaire semed little disturbed
ever it and declined a guard.
Tho fa,-r,,an CT OF
stranded at Diamond Shoals off cas-
tern Carolina Sunday night and is
total loss together with its cargo
of bananas and coacoanuts The crew
was saved.
South Carolina farmers generally
report very satisfactory results from
cultivating crops under government
directions.
Secretary Meyer, of the Navy has
made some sweeping changes in the
working machinery of his depart
ments. 1t seems something like the
commission form of city government
In that the department is to be di-
vided and will be under four heads
who will bear the responsibility of
affairs in his line.
The trial of four of the indicted
sugar weighers began in New York
last Monday.
Miss Lula E. Mackay, a member
of the Trumbull county, Ohio, bar
has purchased the dilapidated house
in which President Mckinley was
born and will put it in order to be
used as an historic museum.
Near Devon, w. Va, last week a
sheriff's posse was approaching the
home to Arrest Jim and Charles
Daniels. The mother and 16-year-old
daughter took up guns and held the
posse at bay while the men escaped.
A fusilade was kent up and the
mother was shot dead with rifle in
hand. The girl kept up the battle
until she wass killed also. The men
wanted escaped but one is severely
wounded.
There is a whiskey selling GRIM
inal IN the Wilmington. N. c., iail
that has pellagra and consumption
and probably surface microbes"
besides. He had skipped a $500
bond but his bondsmen brought him
back to keep from paying the for
felt. Now his pellagra gives him
sore feet and he can't work on the
roads and it is puzzle what to do
with him and the authorities wish
they had cancelled the bond and let
the man be where he was.
Leo. s. Capes, of Atlanta, Ga,
aged 23, was wounded by the aeci-
dental discharge of shot gun a
week ago and took tetanus clock
jaw from which he died Monday.