The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-10-28
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.

three other persons were severely in
Jured Monday by boiler explosion
at q saw mill near Ell Dorado, Ark.
In stable fire at Wichita, Kan,
Monday, three men and % horses
were cremated. Two other men are
probably fatally burned.
Owing to- persistent rumors that
Hon. Stuyvesant Fish will become
minister to China he states positively
that he will not accept the position,
admitting too that he has had the re-
fusal of it.
+. A. Guerney, aged SO, was watch
ing President Taft return from meet
ing President Dias and began to cheer
Justify but fell dead.
President Taft retired Monday for
q our days rest on his brothers.
Texas ranch.
The State of Nicaragua is in
great state of unrest and rebellion
and martial law has been proclaimed.
Tuesday, the 10Th, was the. l2Sth
anniversary of the surrender of Corn-
wallis at Yorktown, Va. The event
was suitably celebrated.
At the aviation exhibition last
week at Juvisy, France, Aeronaut
Richter fell with his machine Moni-
tor from a height of so feet. He
suffered broker thigh and the loss
of an eye.
The woman's board of foreign mis-
slons of the Methodist church in ses-
sion at Savannah, Ga, last week,
made formal protest against news
paper supplements known as funny
papers.
The chairman of the Arctic Club Of
America presented a gold medal to
Or. Cook Friday evening in New
York over his protest that it be de-
layed till he could adequately meet
the charges of misrepresentation
lodged against him. The presenta-
tion was an emphatic declaration of
faith in DR.. Cook.
1t has been looked up that Prof.
r. 5. e. Lowe, on April 2, 1861 made
balloon trip from Cincinnati, Ohio,
to Pea Ridge, S. c., over 500 miles,
flight of Lambert and Won Phul from
st. Louis to Dorchester, S. c., last
! week. The former made 55 miles an
, hour, while the latter, which was
called record breaker, made A.
The famous Belle Meade farm, near
Nashville, Tenn, has again been sold.
y. y. Leake, of Nashville was the pur.
chaser at $4,000.
Wilbur Wright in sportive way,
raced with an express train at College
Park Wednesday and more than held
his own.
The United States Supreme Court
enJoins Judge kohlsaat, at Chicago.
from paying out any more huge fees
In the Oberlin NJ. Carter case.
Farmers of Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee and Kentucky met at
Danville last week and declared war
against the Tobacco Trust.
Mrs. Gerard Hubbard, "a years old,
was thrown out of her automobile in
Washington Wednesday and killed.
A letter signed "Bracken County
Night Riders,' was affixed to the
door of Fred Adams and wife near
Lexington, KY, recently threatening
dlre consequences if they neglected to
sign their tobacco to the Mason coun-
ty board of control. Mr.. Adams says
he will not sign.
A cloud burst struck San Marcas,
Texas, Tuesday when 10 inches of
rain fell within "a hours, entailing
a damage of $4,000.
DR.. J. IL. Carlisle. president emerl-
tus of Wofford College, died at his
home i'll Spartanbure. S. c.. last
Thursday morning at the age of IS
years.
United States Senator Martin n.
johnson, of North Dakota, died last
Thursday at his hotel at Fargo.
Mrs. Johanna Engleman, at Los
Angeles, Cal, was seated in the jury
box Wednesday, the first woman un-
der the new departure.
The British steamship Rowanmore
seemed to have been confronted with
gang OF genuine pirates to the east
OF Florida, on Oct. 6. This gang on
a schooner that plies about the BAHIA
ma Islands displayed the distress sig
nal to get alongside when an effort
was made to board the British vessel
and the armed crewe withstood the
pirates and prevented their boarding
the vessel.
Mrs. w. o. Munroe and Miss Strick
land were killed and another woman
was seriously injured Tuesday by
Central of Georgia switch engine that
ran into and demolished street car
IN the railroad yards at Columbus,