Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-10-13
'SNAPPY lind BRIEF
Items Gath seetand Told While
YouE EioEd four Breath.
SOME EVERY V DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as, They Are eas.
nored From the Fields Of Action
ss Home and Abroad.

O request Dy tne american deogTaIpn-
ie societies in requesting the Copen-
hagen University to waive its claim,
to prior examination of his records.
In doing SO it was to meet the de-
mand in America for a scientific test
of the claims both Of Cook and Peary.
Copenhagen does not take we'll to it
but DR.. Cook hopes to make it right
and let the examination go on.
Samuel E. Herman fell overheard
a gun boat and was drowned and 81.
Daniels and E. Hermaine were aspyx-
ated with gas in room as naval
casualties last week amid the great
Hudson-Fulton celebration.
Sheriff Fl. ]. Pope, of Taylor coun-
ty, Ga, was terribly if not fatally
wounded, being shot three times by
J. R. Brown, whom he was attempt
ing to arrest Saturday night.
President Taft was moved to tears
Saturday at Portland, Oregon, by
school children in drill. They SPELL
ed Taft by rising with flags in form
to make each letter and then in, one
burst pronounced the word.
Two men were killed and number
of other street car passengers in
Pittsburg, Pa, were injured Sunday
by the breaking OF an axle which
caused the car to tumble over.
Arthur Wright was arrested Sat-
urday at Portland, Oregon, as he
pressed too hard to get near Presi-
dent Taft with. camera. He was
found to have a revolver Of heavy
calibre with a pocket full of cart
ridges. Upon further examination it
is now believed that he really had no
bad intentions toward the President.
Albert Pulitzer, brother Of Joseph
Pulitzer, the phenomenal genius Of
the New York World, committed
suicide at Vienna Sunday evening.
He had been great sufferer from
nervous breakdown.
The difficulties of Spain, with the
Moors in Africa, in which Morocco
is about to be involved, is assuming
the attitude Of q holy war and the
tribes seem frantic,
Charles A. Gordon, who, by con-
fession of the woman was criminal
ly intimate with Mrs. VIM. N. Fault
ing and killed him on account of
these conditions, was sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Walthourville,
Ga, last week, and Mrs Faulling
was banished from the State. Y
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles. Johnson, of
Duncapnon, Pa, ha,5esa living child
weighing less than two pounds and
that could be put into q quart cup.
In France recently a man was tried
for killing his wife. He explained
that he did it as an act of mercy at
the request Of his wife, who was a
prolonged and intense sufferer. The
jury pronounced him not guilty.
St. Louis, Mo-, is celebrating the
city's centennial in a jubilee of a
week. 1t began on. Sunday by $4,000
children in exercises.
A farmer named Vostburg, near
Lake Champlain, N. Y, recently
plowed up some gold coins. He went
to digging out till he had more Of
the coins than he could carry, prob
ably $5O,O0O. It is believed that the
money was put there by some thief in
the Burgoyne campaign, who never
lived to make use Of it.
James e. Martin, Jr., is baby
living on Long Island, N. Y, and is
heir to $5OO,OOO. His widowed moth
er asked the court for an annual al
lowance for his rearing and here are
the items as allowed: For home,
$4,000; for maintaining same, $500;
for an automobile and its keep. 3d.
900; for entertaining, recrations, and
exercise, $1,000; for medical atten-
tion and medicines, 5000; for cloth
ing. $3.50; total, $15,750. 81
Captain C. E. Borchgrevink, the
antartic explorer, opposes the propos-
ed submission Of, DR.. Cooks records
to the university at Copenhagen and
to the committee of the American Geo.
graphical Society. He declares that
this would not prove satisfactory,
both bodies being, he thinks, pref
udiced in favor of DR.. Cook. Cap
tain Borchgrevink suggests that the
Geographical Society of Genoa, as
an unprejudiced body, should be ask
ed to settle the matter.
The little son of Congressman E.
l.Y. Webb, being critically ill, Mr..
Webb could not attend the Kings
Mountain celebration on Thursday
and Friday.
The Rhode Island monument wa
unveiled at New Bern, N. c., on We'd
nesday in the National Cemetery.
President Taft discarded his car
Thursday and took a 30 mile auto
mobile ride, viewing Yosemite Val
Ley and other scenes, making it the
best day of the trip.