Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-17
SHAPPY and BRIEF
Items Gathered and Told Willie
You Hold Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS


SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered From the Fields Of Action
at Home and Abroad.
It is now estimated that Warmer
pocketed 100000 Of the Big Four's
earnings that came into his hands.
Annie Policy, a young rigorous and
powerful shop girl was fouly muir
dered in Carlo, Ill, Monday night.
From her torn clothing scattered
along an alley it is believed she put
mp a game fight for her purity and
her life but odds seemed against her
and her voice was stifed with a
heavy cloth gag. The confessed Grim
inal was lynched Thursday.
j. H. Bryant and Randall Barber
were instantly killed while crossing
the S. A. L.. Ry, in a wagon near
Tampa, Fla.
There is said to be another woman
in the Warmer d%efalcation though
it is said she will only be a witness
and one knowing where the stealing
went but not getting any of it her
self.
John R. Hare, of Baltimore, has
evolved what he believes to be an
improved type Of .diligible balloon.
He will inelose all the machinery in
a cylinder that will be open at the
ends thereby protecting it from dam
age by tree tops, etc. He will also
provide for saving the gas of an
o~vercharged balloon to be utilized
when needed. Scientific men pro-
nouncc the plan feasible.
James Thielman, head waiter at
Delmonico's. N. Y, died recently
worth half a million dollars, which
he saved out Of his wages and tips
and invested judiciously.
Thomas Jefferson Hall killed the
cashier, j. II. Fawcett and probably
MORALLY wounded the president, Jno.
K. Woodward, Thursday in q reckless
effort to rob the Merchants National
Bank of Louisville, Ky. He was cap
tured and narrowly escaped violence.
Mrs. jeanette Stewart, accused b.
Charles L. Warmer of sharing tho
proceeds of his defalcation Of $643,.
600 from the Big Four Ry., says she
did not share in it at all but tina,
she knows all about the defalcation
| and will tell it in court.
E. M. Davis, head of the Mathison
! Alkali Works, Bristol, Tenn, was
driving his auto at a high speed in
the country Wednesday and on a
turn ran into a wagon, the tognue of
which struck him in the face. He
has a narrow chance Of life.
Hamburg Belle, a famous trott'
that sold recently for $4,000, di
on the farm of her owner ne.
Townsville, Ga, on Wednesday, {
pneumonia.
. Paris now has a sensation in the
trial of Nine. Steinheil for the MUIR
der of her husband and ~step-mother.
The judges of the court do the
vehement accusing and she parrie:
their assaults with consummate clev-
erness. She seems now to be getting
the better Of public sentiment at
least.
Alexander Miller, for twenty years
the private secretary to the late e.
Fl. Hartman, says that great iran-
cier was never known to swear and
vas intense and feryent in is relig-
ious beliefs.
The American Federation of Labor
in meeting at Toronto, Canada, com
mitted the organization to sustain
President Gompers, vice president
MITCHELL and secretary Morrison in
their fight to evade the sentence of
Imprisonment.
Col. G. r. Cotton was maugurated
governor Of Porto RIGA last Saturday.
Joe Wells and John Clark. farmers
Of near Mint Springs. Ala, quarreled
over some liquor Sunday mornin:
and drew their guns. They fired at
the same instant with perfect aim.
Boil. are dead.
William w. Robinson, editor of
the Roswell Register-Tribune. was
rendered the governorship Of his own
New Mexico Territory hut declines
to serve. He would rather be, editor
than governor.
-Four employees are dead and the
lives of many more were endangered
in Jersey City, when the engine of the
Philadelphia and New York express
Sunday morning jumped the track
and butted into an engine and tender
on the other track.
1t is said that Mrs. John Jacob
Astcr will get her divorce secretly,
not suing for alimony, but her hus-
band will settle S10,eOO,00O upon her
and she will live abroad.
President Taft asked for a chat
with Ty Cobb at Augusta Monday
and of course was accorded the honor.
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