Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-01-14
Items Of Interest Gathered BY
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events Of More
or Less Interest at Homo and
Abroad.
Washington, N. c., had a $4,000
blaze Friday morning.

III tne production of lead.
The eleven-year-old son Of wm
iliiman, OF Chatham County, commit
ted suicide with a gun last week.
because his father punished him. -
Dix Tennessee night riders have
been convicted of murder in tho
nrst degree and two in the second
degree, with jury penalty of 20 wears
Imprisonment, ali for the murder of
Capt. Rankin.
Sheriff Van Pelt, of Pensacola. has
had to stop street ears from running
on Sunday to conform to the law.
The Virginia Portland Cement Co.
mas started up in full force again.
with 500 hands and hopes to double
its force soon.
Hampton, Va, voted on Wednes-
day to issue 100000 in bonds for
city purposes.
An address from the people of
Spottsylvania, Va, will be issued
soon, calling on the people of the ma
tion to unite in erecting grand mon
umcnt at Bloody Angle, in honor of
Gems. r. Il. Lee and U. S. Grant.
HoE. John S. Henderson. receiver
announces that affairs at Whitney
N. {, will soon be Strengthened ont
and work will begin on the great
electric power plant.
The American Battle Fleet. as soon
as 1T came out of the Suez canal.
rendered its services to Italian au-
thorities to aid at Scicily but were
declined because not needed.
Hon. Bert M. FernaId was inaupu-
rated Thursday as governor of the
State of Georgia.
Hon. Oben S. Draper took his seat
as Governor of Massachusetts on
Thursday. The inaugural assembly
was unprecedented.
The North Carolina Legislature has
increased the salary of the Governor
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The annual income of the late
Sugar King'' Claus Speckles is
100000 per month. Pending the
probate of the will the widow is to
have $4,000 per month.
DR.. Roseburgh of the Jefferson Med
zeal College, Philadelphia. has made
wonderful discovery about tuber-
culosis germs, and hopes soon that an
antl-toxine VIII be in use to which the
dread disease will yield.
The South Carolina Penitentiarv
shows a net balance of $29,495.19 for
1908 over 1907, after losing about
$4,000 by eood and making perma-
nent improvements to the extent
of nearly $1,000.
Half starved dogs in the stricken
cities Of Italy are dangerous to the
crippled, and they eat the dead like
hyenas.
The next meeting of the Cotton
Manufacturing Association will be
held in Richmond, Va, on the 4th
Tuesday in May.
A head-on collision occurred ON
the Southern at Canegie Tuesday, in
which five persons were hurt. one of
them probably fatally.
:. A late pitched battle between Wig
llantes from Mexican ranches near
the California line and q party of
stock thieves resulted in the killing
of the four thieves.
The Virginian Railroad is now open
from Norfolk through Roanoke, Va,
800 miles.
James TIeanor, a printer, was
burned to death with the loss by fire
of Central Hotel, Covington, Tenn,
on Tuesday. A score of others made
narrow escapes.
Senor Castro Venezuela's deposed
ruler, is fast recovering from an
operation, which he has undergone in
Berlin, and has promise of health.
Congress has appropriated $780,
600 to the earthquake. sucrers in
Italy.
A semi-annual dividend Of 31-2
per cent on North Carolina Railroad
stock was declared at Greensboro on
Tuesday
A sanatorium for consumptives has
been opened at Red Springs, Vir-
ginia mountain summer resort.
c. F. King, famous in finance, was
convicted of larceny in Boston. He
gave bail of $4,000, and came out
of Jail, but soon one of The sureties
surrendered him to custody again.
He is in Jail.
A convention of the Virginia and
Carolina Hotel Association convened
at the Jefferson, Richmond, Va, on
Wednesday.
Congressman will be limited this
season to 10000 packages of vege-
table seeds to send to their consti-
tuents instead of 12,50C0 as before
500 packages of flower seeds are still
allowed to each
The Brownsville trouble which has
been so much agitated, has cost $751;
600, and the end is not yet
1t is reported that Geo. f.. Milton,