The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-09-16
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
ut Home and Abroad.

AZ ndWHluS, NeVaQS, q cloud DurSG
sent roll of water tlrought the city
estimated as much as twelve feet
high. One hundred and sixty-five
houses were destroyed. Six women
and several children failed to escape
and were lost.
Mexico will hold centenary cele-
bration September, 1910. The COM
mittea will offer prizes aggregatins
from $4,000 to 100000 to air ships
if the international meet can be Sc
cured for the occasion.
Examinations will be hold through
out the county October % to secure
eligibles for 5000 temporary posi-.
tions in the Census Bureau.
Edward H. Hartman, the great
railroad king, is at his home at Ar
den, N. Y. His health is very delicate
and there is great fear that he will
not survive.
The town of Tula, in the State Of
Tamaulipas, Mexico, was visited by
another food Sunday. A number Of
houses were carried away and rich
plantations were destroyed.
Two brothers, Louis and Horace
McGinnis, near Salem. Ind, fought
last Sunday. Luther is mortally
wounded and Horace is in serious
condition. Their father was found
dead some weeks age and bad blood
rose between the brothers.
Detroit, Mich, has a murder mys-
terry in the person of young woman
badly mutilated.
L. L. Waters, Herbert Vandergriff
and Monroe Hickman were killed
near Retro, 25 miles above Chatta-
nooga last Saturday in a runaway Of
eight freight cars.
Six men were buried alive and arc
believed to have been killed Saturday
afternoon in a cave-in of q new sewer
near East Shicago.
Miss Adeline Trapp, 20 years old,
swan nine miles through He'll Gate,
New York, last Sunday, distancing
all men and girl competitors.
The latest estimates from govern
mental sources, too, place the number
of deaths from the late floods at Mon
teray, Mexico, at 5000 and from
places along the river below at 800
making total of fatalities $500.
Edward Fl. Hartman the grear
financier and railroad king, died
Thursday at his home near, Arden,
New York.
The school authorities at Denver
Col, refuse to allow student to
register if he belongs to fraternity.
Bloodgood Cutter, known as "The
Farmer Poet,' who died recently,
left an estate valued at $900,662.95.
AS the more minute reports come
in from the great Mexican floods of
recent date, it is shown that first re.
ports were far inside the range Of
horrors In loss of life and ruin of
property.
Col. James T. Bacon, of Edgefsid
S. c., died at his home after lin
gering illness on last Wednesday.
Attorney General Denman has
brought suit in the Ohio courts
against the National Cash Register
company, charging restraint of trade
and asking withdrawal of its charter.
Count Zeppelin took the King OF
Saxony up for an hours ride in his
airship Thursday at Friedrichshafen.
The King was delighted with his ex-
perience.
The Baltimore Sun offers $500 u
the committee to have the worlds
airship contest for 1910 held in
Washington city.
Orville Wright took Mrs. Hide
brand in his aeroplane Thursday OIL
a flight of IL 1-2 minutes at Berlin.
A. A. Robinson, owner of the
Commercial Supply company, Detroit,
Mich, his wife and Mrs. H. E. Tre-
maine of Bay City were instantly kill
ed in Bay City when their automobile
was struck by fast Michigan Gen.
trail train Sunday. A daughter of
Mrs. Tremaine is fatally injured.
Miscreants wrecked the Royal
Blue Limited No. 2, near Newcastle,
Pa, Saturday doubtless for purposes
OF robbery, but abandoned the wreck
and fled without obtaining the booty.
Two men were killed and many were
injured.
William Rouse shot William Bailey
dead in the formers home at Poulan,
Ca, Saturday. 1t seems that Bailey
was the aggressor and began the
shooting. Rouse returned the fire
with better aim than Bailey took.
The deposed Shah Of Persia, has
had to cede his vast estate to the gov