The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-04-29
THE news IN brief
Items of Interest Gathered BY
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live ITEMS Covering Events Of More
or Less Interest At Home and
Abroad

-Four wealthy white men wers
lynched by hanging in Oklahoma last
Monday for the murder Of an officer.
A terrific cyclone passed up James
River, Virginia, on Wednesday,
working wonderful freaks and doing
considerable damage especially to
boats along the river.
Since the Easter cold an ice wall
II miles long and 60 feet high has
made dam just above Niagara Falls.
1t is being dynamited to prevent the
great damage of turning the river
out of its natural course.
Robbers tunrelled their way under
four buildings and entered a bank at
Suffolk, Va, last week. They could
not open the vault but secured about
$500.
Capt. Minus, who recently resign
ed as military commandant at Glenn
son College, has published some sharp
reflections on President Nell, who
seems to defend himself against ev-
cry charge. The controversy how
ever is a matter of much interest in
South Carolina.
The Beech Island Farmers Club,
at Augusta, Ga, is said to have the
original copy Of Gen. Lee farewell
address delivered at Appomattox.
Leo Mullhern, IL year old boy,
is missing from his home in Cinci-
natl. Several letters have been re-
ceived by his mother demanding
ransom.
A tornado struck Cleveland. Ohio,
at noon Wednesday and left FIVE
dead, with possible fatal list of 20
and property loss of $5OO,0OO.
The widow of the famous Col.
Robert G. Ingersoll, recently won
long drawn out suit against An
drew j. Davis, a wealthy mine owner,
of Montana. for S13S,s10, a fee for
her husbands legal services.
The FIVE Powhatan county, Va,
murderers will be put to death-two
on April 80, two on May 5, and one
on May z. They were sentenced to
die on same day but prison officials
realized too much difficulty in the
electrical arrangements.
AT Robinson, Ill.,, a nitro-glycerine
factory blew up last week carving
two men and every trace of the plant
away into atoms.
At Stuart, Iowa, last Sunday hail
stones weighing as much as half q
pound fell almost as in sheets.
A glass factory at Warrington, W.
Va, was burned Monday entailing a
loss of $4,000 and throwing $50
men out Of employment.
1t is said that James A. Patten
made about $5,000,00O on the late
Hurry in the weat market. and that
he will retire from the pit.
Judge William Hodges Mann and
Mr.. Henry st. George Tucker, eandi-
dates for governor had a hot joint
debate at Boydton, Va, Monday
night.
A negro ran amuck in Richmond,
Va, with a shotgun and a pistol.
wounding four persons before he was
captured.
Five men were seriously burned by
an explosion Of gas in a mine at
Marnock, Ohio, near Wheeling, w.
Va, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Boyle held
as the kidnappers Of "WilHe"
Whitla, are to be tried in Pennsyl-
yania. Ohio had set up a claim on
them.
The steamer Elberward was sunk
IN Lake Michigan by striking an ice
noe and five of the crew drowned
Wednesday.
1t is said that the Houston Oil
company will take over the proper.
ties Of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany, which was ordered to cease
business in Texas.
The builder of the railroad across
the Florida Keys is dead
Miss Jesse Brown shot Earl p.
Adams, an actor Of the Mabel Paige
Company at Jacksonville, Fla, on
Tuesday, because having been once
engaged to her he had since copclud.
ed to marry Miss Elizabeth Bagley.
Washington Notes.
Senator Stone, Of Missouri, op-
poses the policy of President Taft
as to the Philippines and would have
the United States to prepare to with
draw by 1915.
Senator Aldrich spoke on the tariff
lighting the income tax and giving
notice that he intended to hurry the
bill through.
The state of Texas has finally won
suit against the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company by which it will receive
$2.000,0 900 in cash.
Mrs. Matthew Y. Scott was elected
on Thursday as president general ~