Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-12-22
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Condensed from Wide Fields,
Domestic and Foreign.
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Suited to the Wants Of Blsy Readers
Seeking aKnowlsdge Of What is
Going on.

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The STEAMER GOV. Ames, found from
New York to- Brunswick, Ga, went t.
pieces off Wimble Shoals, IS miles
north of Hatteras, N. c., Monday
The captain and wife and eleven OF
the crew were last, n of the crew
only escaping.
George p Sheldon is indicted for
larceny In the shortage Of $4,000
or Sc, 1000: dollars in the Atlanta Of
fee of the 2 Fire insurance
company of Brooklyn, N. Y.
,Zelaya hassresigned the presidency
of Nicaragua amid riotous demonstra-
tons IN which the populace cry down
with the old and up with the new
regime.
The sugar scandals at the New
York custom house are being ferreted
out and the Arbuckle Brothers have
coughed up $695,543 out Of which
they had wronged the government.
The Brokaw. divorce suit in New
York is now a live topic. 1t is
brought out that the husband wa
about TO sue for the divorce but
he is fighting the suit now as there
is 100000 q: stake in alimony.
1t now develops that Capt. Au-
gust W. Loose and his man Dunkle
who swore that they made Capt.
Cooks calculations to help him de-
ceive the world about his getting to
the North Pole and squealed because
he did not pay up were after selling
their fabrications and Loose says
Dunkle got most of the money for
the fabrication.
News has just arrived that a mine
explosion in, Southern Japan recent
iy claimed 762 victims. Forty-three
others escaped. The mirc. works d.
755 hands and has a monthly output
Of $4,000 tons Of coal.
Secretary Of War Dickinson will
takela tripto inspect Santo Domingo
and Porto Rico, paying special at
tention to the revolutionary con-
di!ions in the former islands.
1t is estimated that Z to 8 million
people visited Coney Island during
the late summer making about 10000
trips besides spending $4,000 ,OOc
mostly in nickels and dimes, sums
three times as much as the United
States paid for Louisiana and six
times as much as Alaska cost.
Women in high social position
members of the Colony Club-held
an enthusiastic meeting Wednesday
afternoon an their clubrooms at l22
Madison avenue, in the interest of
the striking sllirtwaist workers, who
will receives substantial financial aid
from the organization.
The Brownsville court Of inquiry is
sitting behind closed doors in Wash
ington, hees such applicants of
the Negro dfs5anded regiment as wish
to- re.enter the army and can show
themselves eligible under the Fora
ker act.
Congressman Kitchin, of North
Carolina, introduced a bill in the
house Wednesday the object Of
which is to prevent corporations do
ing business in the. state from ap-,
pealins cases from the state to the
federal courts.
King Leopold. the sovereign. Of
Belgium, died Friday morning in
Brussels.
The National Geographic society in,
Washington City Wednesday night
bestowed on Commander Peary the
honor Of the discovery OF the North
Pole and awarded a suitable medal.
Capt. Bartlett also received 4 medal
for sailing a boat further into the
artic regions than any one else.
A fire at East St. Louis, ILL.,, on
Monday, burned 100 car loads Of
grain. The loss is estimated at
$10O, 900.
Zelaya who is so CONSPICUOUS be-
fore the world now has a nephew in
New York who is in trouble in love
affairs. Miss ,Tuliette Hero. Of Gre
clan descent, is suing him for $780,
600 dollars on breach of promise.
Another severe storm accompanied
with snow, ice and SECT passed over
New York, Pennsylvania and the
great lakes Monday and Tuesday.
Considerable damage was done to
wires.
Three sisters are in New York jail
charged with the murder of Ocey
Snead, whose body was found sub
merged in a bath tub long after
death.
The Senate committee on judiciary
voted unanimously Wednesday to
report favorably the nomination of
Judge Horace II. Lurton, of Tennes-
see, to be an associate justice Of the
Supreme Court of, the United States.
Some members of the committee ex-
pressed the opinion that it would
have been better to have named a
Younger man, Judge Lurtor being in
his Goth year, but there was no gen.
eral opposition to him, or any criti-
cism except as to his age.
Passenger tram No. IL on the
Southern Railway was wrecked We'd
pesday at $50 a. M, at Recdy Fork
Creek, jus. north of Greensboro, N.
c., proDablysa broken rail caused two
coaches and three sleepers to drop
from a high trestle and twelve per-
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