The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-10-14

SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp ~ They Are Gar
nered From the Fields Of Action
st Home and Abroad.

| nagen Unlver I'M
to prior exam Is.
In doing so i. nas ~ mee. the de-
mand in America for scientific test
of the claims both of Cook and Peary.
Copenhagen does not take we'll to it
but DR.. Cook hopes to make it right
and let the examination go on.
Samuel E. Herman fell overheard
a gun boat and was drowned and II.
Daniels and E. Hermaine were aspyx-
ated with gas in a room as naval
casualties last week amid the great
Hudson-Fulton celebration.
Sheriff H. J. Pope, of Taylor coun-
ty, Ca, was terribly if not fatally
wounded, being shot three times by
j. Il. Brown, whom he was attempt
ing to arrest Saturday night.
President Taft was moved to tears
Saturday at Portland, Oregon, by
school children in drill. They spell
ed Taft by rising with flags in form
to make each letter and then in one
burst pronounced the word.
Two men were killed and a number
OF other street car passengers in
Plttsburg, Pa, were injured Sunday
by the breaking of an axle which
caused the car to tumble over.
Arthur Wright was arrested Sat.
urday at Portland, Oregon, as he
pressed too hard to get near Presi-
dent TAFT with a camera. He was
found to have a revolver of heavy
callbre with a pocket full of cart
ridges. Upon further examination it
Is now believed that he really had no
bad intentions toward the President.
Albert Pulitzer, brother of Joseph
Pulitzer, the phenomenal genius of
the New York World, committed
suicide at Vienna Sunday evening.
tie had been a great sufferer from
nervous breakdown.
The difficulties of Spain, with The
Moors i'll Africa, in which Morocco
Is about to be involved, is assuming
the attitude of holy war and the
tribes seem frantic.
Charles A. Gordon, who, by con-
fession of the woman was criminal
iy intimate with Mrs. VIM. n. Fault
ing and killed him on account of
these conditions, was sentenced TO
lie imprisonment at Walthourville.
Ga, last week, and Mrs. Faulling
was banished from the State.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles johnson. of
Duncannon, Pa, have a living child
weighing less than two pounds and
that could be put into a quart cup.
In France recently a man was tried
for killing his wife. He explained
that he did it as an act cf mercy at
the request of his wife, who was a
prolonged and intense sufferer. The
jury pronounced him not gnilty.
st. Louis, Mo-, is celebrating the
clty's centennial in jubilee of a
week. 1t began on Sunday by $4,000
children in exercises.
A farmer named Vostburg, near
Lake Champlain, N. Y, recently
plowed up some gold coins. He went
to digging out till he had more Of
the coins than he could carry, prob
ably $4,000. 1t is believed that the
money was put there by some thief in
the Burgoyne campaign, who never
lived to make use of it.
James E. Martin, Jr., is a babr
living on Long Island, N. Y, and is
heir to $500,009. His widowed moth
er asked the court for an annual al
lowance for his Fearing and here are
the items as allowed: For a home,
$4,000; for maintaining same, $500;
Tor an automobile and its keep. So
OO0; for entertaining, recrations, and
exercise, $1,000; for medical atten-
tion and medicines, 5000; for cloth
ing, $3.50; total, $15,75O.
Captain C.. E. Borchgrevink, the
antartic explorer, opposes the propcs-
ed submission of DR.. Cook s records
to the university at Copenhagen and
to the committee of the American Geo
graphical Society. He declares that
tins would not prove satisfactory,
both bodies being, he thinks, pref
udiced in favor of DR.. Cook. Cap
tain Borchgrevink suggests that the
Geographical Society of Genoa, as
an unprecedented body, should be ,sk-
ed to settle the matter.
The little son of Congressman f.
y: Webb, being critically ill. Mr..
Webb could not attend the King
Mountain celebration on Thursday
and Friday.
The Rhode Island monument was