The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-12-16
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quilted Of the charge of perjury in
swearing that the Walters-Pierce Oil
! Co., of Texas was not connected with
d. tee Standard Oil Company when the
Standard Oil company owned ma
| Jority of the stock.
John K Early, who was some time
ago diagnosed as no! having leprosy,
is again confined III Washington and
a charge is brought against him OF
crime in exposing himself with con-
| tagious disease.
According to the last report from
Washington the value of the South S
agricultural crop this year st.:us up
nearly 50 ,400.000,OOO.
The twelfth juror has at last been
| secured for the night riders to be
tried at Union City, Tenn, for the
assassination of Col. Quinton Rankin.
a boiler al the Union Phosphate
| plant, Tioga, Fla, exploded. demolish-
! ing the plant without in.juriug one of
100 men at work III the plant
The apprehension which gave rise
! to he Monroe Doctrine may be said
to have nearly disappeared says
! President Taft.
The 6lst Cugrcss opened in regular
session Monday. Both bodies were in
session less than one hour. The Pres
ldcnt's message was read Tuesday.
1t is said that $4,000 Armenians
are on the verge Of starvation.
The work on the Cape Cod canal
! has been suspended until next spring.
The House of Lords by rejecting
| the budget has caused an alienation
| Of the House of Commons and has
caused the King TO proorgue parlia-
ment besides stirrin" English politics
to fever heat.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh estimates the national expenses
for 1911 at Sl03,37O,303 less than the
appropriation for 1910.
| The Phoenix Insurance Co., of
Brooklyn, \. V. it seems has had
Il million dollars filched from it by
| its president who has been suspend
ed since his unfaithfulness was dis
| covered.
President Taft in addressing the
American Red Cross in Washington
Tuesday expressed the hope that
some one would yet endow the as
sociation with a $5,0OO,000 gift.
President Taft was on Tuesday re-
elected president of the American
Red Cross.
Senator Root presiding over the
Senate in the absence of vice Presi-
dent Sherman made blunder by
which the report of Secretary Nc
Veagh was releasd before it was in
tended. He attempted to call in the
release an hour later but some of the
papers had sent it out already.
The Charlotte, N. c., aldermen
have determined that the pop-stick
noise and confusion shall not form a
part of the Christmas celebrations
this year. This action was taken on
account of the abuses of the privi-
leges heretofore.
Four Austrians, near Cumberland,
Nd, last Saturday, were thawing 80
pounds of dynamite for blasting,
when it exploded and all were fear
fully injured.
Navigation closed on the great
lakes at II O'Clock Sunday night.
Twenty-Five vessels and 62 lives were
lost during the last season.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says letters received confirm the re-
port that Zelaya had the bodies of
Groce and Cannon burned and the
ashes swept in dust and filth and
then into the San Juan river.
Three prisons in the State of New
York contain "a men condemned to
die in the electric chair.
Antonio Mangino at Cleveland,
Ohio, on last Saturday, murdered his
wife and three children, two of whom
were his step children, in the most
horrible way, crushing their heads
and stabbing them beside
George Marty, Of Norfolk, Ohio,
who is 81 years old, got his neck
broken some time ago and he has
been successfully treated, the physi-
clans believing he will soon be en-
tirely recovered
1t has been satisfactorily ascer-
tanned that an inexperienced boy, not
properly instructed, left a car with
hay upon it near an open torch that
caused the great Cherry mine dis
aster. The boy escaped to tell the
tale on the witness stand.
The four-masted schooner, Marie
Palmer, stranded near Pan Shoals, N.
o., Wednesday,, is total wreck.
Very little of the cargo was saved.
j. Pierpont Morgan has secured
a majority of the stock and there
fore controlling interest in the Eau-
liable Life Insurance Company.
Half of Charles WARMERS steal
ings from the Big Four Railroad can
not be accounted for.
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