The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-10-21
SNAPPY and BRIEF
Items Gathered end 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

Jasper w nltney In magazine nr-
ticle recently accused the midship-
men club at Annapolis, of deceit and
lack of craftsmanship in the national
rifle matches Mt Camp Perry, Ohio.
They are stung and announce that
they will sue in the courts, not for
the sake of money, but as the only
means of public vindication.
Key West, Fla, suffered the worst
storm Monday within her history, the
wind blowing 100 miles and hour.
The Lenoir. N. c., News says it is
reliably informed that John s. Green
OF Caldwell county, has received o
check for $1,000 as first premium on
apples awarded by the International
Apple Slow at Spokane, Washing
ton, last winter.
The mansion of Former Governor
William Sprague at Narraganset, R.
l., was destroyed by fire Monday
morning. Many art treasures were
lost. The total loss will be 100000.
The Chicago police have furnished
In advance to police of cities in the
route of President Taft the pictures
of noted pickpockets and it is hoped
that most of the band following tie
President will be earning living
when he gets back to Washington.
Ion Hammer, director of the Swed.
lsh Export Association, was a vic.
tim of Socialist bomb last Sunday.
1t was sent by mail and as he was
taking off wrappers it exploded, tear
ing off his thumb and forefnger and
gashing his face somewhat. His in
Juries are not fatal.
An autoist gong at good speed
struck baby carriage in New York
Sunday, knocking baby and carriage
~ feet but the baby escaped unhurt.
According to statistics from Wash.
lngton, the Indians in the United
States are not being exterminated
but on the contrary are increasing at
n normal rate.
The Law and Order League of
Pensacola, Fla, caused the Sunday
law Of fifty years standing to be en-
forced last Sunday when not a cigar
could b. bought. Those who neglect
ed to lay in their meat and bread for
Sunday had to take meals at the res
taurants.
Prof. d. G. Caldwell of the chair
of Latin and French at Erskine Col
lege, Due West, S. c., died Sunday
afternoon after suffering two weeks
from a stroke of apoplexy. Prof.
Caldwell had won the appellation of
The Friend of the Boys" South
Carolina greatly mourns him.
+ Robbers. surprised, bound and gag
ged the chief clerk and assistant in
the Seattle Express office Tuesday
morning and robbed the Office getting
considerable booty.
At Waters Creek near McNeal,
Texas, Wednesday an engine and two
cars plunged into a burning bridge.
killing one and injuring eight per-
sons.
Prof. L. L. Dyke, head of the de-
partment of natural history in the
University of Kansas who made sew
eral trips north says: Commander
Peary's statement just published, to
my mind, Is absolutely incredible. It
is based ON the testimony of ignorant
Eskimos, who were incapable of un-
derstanding a country to which they
had never been before well enough
to outline such a map as that pub
hshed and credited by Mr.. Peary to
their explanation. Only intelligent
white men with instruments could
make their way to such country and
be able to report in detail upon it a
year after the trip was made"
Uillisses Wise, near Lincolnton, n.
C., in a fit of insanity, Wednesday
night, frightened his family from
home. His wife's father answered a
call and came to the rescue where
upon Wise cut his head off with all
axe, went into the house, set it OH
fire and burned to crisp with the
house.
Killing frosts are reported on the
18th as far south as Alabama and
snow as far south as Maryland.
DR.. Cook expresses astonishment at
Edward Barrill, who was with DR..
Cook on Mt. Mckinley, but now says
under oath that neither of them ever
reached the summit. DIR. Cook saws
If any expedition will follow the
route he took, they will find the
records deposited by him at the sum-
NIT of the mountain.
Miss Carrie Hunter, of Wadesboro,
having lost her health, took an in
sane impulse to commit suicide and
plunged into a we'll on Wednesday
night, accomplishing her design.
The mayor of Key West calls for
American citizens to help the desti-
tute of that storm stricken city.