The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-04
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
st Home and Abroad.

]. B Cleveland, 33 years old, was
killed at Atlanta Monday by stepping
off the track of a freight train on to
the track of an unobserved approach
ing passenger train.
President Diaz expresses himself
as very much pleased at meeting Pres.
ident Taft. He formed a favorable
impression Of him personally and
thinks the meeting will have good
political and industrial effects.
DIR. Cook is making up his party to
scale Mt. Mckinley next spring to
show to the world that it can be done
and thereby to offset the sworn test.
mony that he did not do it as he
claims to have done.
Six persons are known to have per.
lshed and it is believed that many
others were killed in the havoc
wrought by the terrible wind storm
that passed over the island Luzon,
PHILIPPINE Islands, last week.
Senator Ben Tillman refused to pay
ten dollars for a plate at the Column
bla banquet to President Taft. He
says if Columbia wants the honor of
banqueting the President it should
not charge up the bill to others.
Six persons were killed in a recent
cullission on the Pan Handle division
OF the Pennsylvania railroad neal
Collinsville, o.
The ashes of Mrs. Hayes, the last
member Of the jefferson Davis fam.
lly were shipped Monday from thc
home cemetery in Colorado to be plac
ed In the Richmond cemetery with
the other members of the Davis fam.
lily. Mrs. Hayes body had been Gre
mated when she died.
A fine fat "possum" in one side
OF an orange crate whose other side
was filed with "taters" was nut
aboard the President IS train at Hemp.
stead, Texas, for the Sunday dinner
nut .unaccountably all disappeared
However another "'possum" read,
dressed was put on at Longwood anj
the 'possum" liking president had
his feast.
1t is said that the British and the
Beers arc living harmoniously ir
South Africa as if there had never
been hostilities between them.
The State commandery of the Iowa,
Legion Of the United States has seni
out a circular protesting against a
congressional appropriation to erect q
statue in the National Capitol of Gen
Robert F.. Lee. This body uses the
word treason in connection with his
name
Peter Richstein, at Dallas, Texas
Saturday, was fatally stabbed by =
memmbee of the Texas guards. 1t
seems he was in front and was push.
ed by the press when the guard SEEM
ed recklessly hasty in thrusting him
through the breast with the modern
sword bayonet. The guard was ar.
rested.
On account of the failure of yes.
sells to keep up with the Oleander,
president Taft's flag ship, his sche.
dule was greatly broken into.
The "teamer Gray Eagle, of tn.
presidential fleet, went aground neal
Helena Wednesday, and her cargo OF
officials and delegates were transfer.
red to The steamer Illinois.
In q special election held last Tues.
day In Duvall county, Fla, the ST..
OOO,OO0 bond issue was carried. This
money is to be used in building good
roads to tho county lines, connecting
with romfs from other counties.
AT Sun Dance, Wyoming, last Sun.
day, Mrs. Lent Henderson was in the
yard with her small child. Hearing
shrleks from her two children in the
house she rushed in and found them
bitten by rattle snake. While do.
ing for them she heard a faint cry
from the younger child and rushed
out in time to see is fall into the we'll
where it drowned. Coming back To-
the two she found them in the throes
of death from the snake poison, thus
losing three children in one day.
The sickness among the girls that
caused the temporary closing Of the
Athens, Ga, Female College, has been
diagnosed as ptomaine poison from
eating fish.
Mrs. John Kunselman, living near
Punxsutawney, Pa, could keep tn,
secret no longer, though threatened
with death if she divulged the secret,
had her father arrested Tuesday fo,
killing her mother a year ago.
Gen. o. o. Howard, the last of the
Union commanders in the Civil war.
died at his home near Burlington.
Vermont, Tuesday.
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