The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-10-22

thlS week spending -FOUR days on MS
Brothers place at Gregory, Texas,
the size of which approaches the
proportions Of a principally. Here
tie President will be secluded from
all the demands of social life and he
viii rest from the onerous duties Of
making speeches, and he will follow
the pursuits Of his will, golfng, horse
back riding, duck shooting, etc.
The army post at Key West is to
issue rations to the storm sufferers
for a few days the cost to be borne
by the American Red Cross Society.
e. C. Logan, of Atlanta, one Of the
experts of the organization, has been
directed to 60 to the scene Of disas-
ter and report to Washington the ex-
tent Of relief necessary.
The Rev. G. W. H. Troop, an Epis-
copal clergyman, who recently re-
nouaeed the creed Of the Church for
the Unitarian faith, has been deposed
from the ministry by Bishop Alfred
Harding, Episcopal Bishop, Of Wash
ington. The deposition of the Rev.
Troop was at the latter's request and
not for causes affecting his moral
character.
On Monday y. S. Circuit Judge J.
&c. Pritchard approved the plan Of
reorganization Of the Seaborad Air
Gine Railway Company and signed
final decree directing the receivers,
IS. Warfeld Davies, R. Lancaster
Williams and E. C. Duncan, to de-
diver the property to therailway com
pany November 4. General Coun-
sci Watts entered the consent OF the
Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line
Railway, which has recently been IN
eluded in the Seaboard Air Line sys-
item.
The biennial meeting Of the Su-
preme Council of the Scottish Rite
Of Free Masonry for the Southern
jurisdiction of the United States was
held in Washington, October Is, and
was attended by three Masons OF the
highest standing in all America.
Miss Belle Bennett, Of Richmond,
Ky., President of the Womans
Board of Home Missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
which held its convention at Savan-
nah, Ca, urges suffrage for women.
Miss Bennett also demanded that the
Methodist women be given all me
rights of laity in the church. .
Count de Lambert, the French
aeroplanist, started from the aero
drome at Juvisy, in Wright aero
plane, and few to Paris, a distance
Of about thirteen miles, and returned
no Juvisy. The official time OF the
fight was 49 minutes, 80 seconds the
distance was roughly estimated at 81
miles and the height varied from SUI
to 1900 feet.
The Supreme Court will go over
all the records in the case OF McCue
vs.. the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance company and decide the case
on its merits. This case Involves
the question as to whether the ordl-
nary life insurance policy lnsures
against hanging under sentence OF
the law. McCue is one Of the heirs
of the late Mayor McCue, OF Char
lottesville, Va, who was hanged on
the charge of numbering his wife a
few years ago.
Judge Pritehard made an order on
Monday, October IS, confirming the
sales made by Receiver P. A. Will
cox, of Florence, to Martin Naloney,
Of the Rock Hill, S. c., Water, Light
and Power Company; Carolina Wa
ter, Light and Power Company, OF
Darlington, S. c., and Marion Water,
Light and Power Company.
In Mineral Point, Wis, Frank E.
Hanscome, cashier Of the Mineral
Point First National Bank, commit
ted suicide by taking carbohc acid
and then shooting himself in the
right temple with revolver, dying
by the side Of his mothers grave
Mrs. John GRAY, Hanscome,S aged