The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-11-16
ABOUT PERSONS AND THINGS.
News Briefly Told.-Gathered From
In and Out Of the State, Nation
and World.

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and World.
4 resolution was adopted at the
third annual convention of the
Southern Medical association endors-
ing President Taft s proposition that
there should be established a fed
eral health department. The associa-
tion also went on record as strongly
fa7oring the acceptance Of Mr..
Rockefeller's gift for a campaign
against the hook-worm disease, and
Instructed the councillors to prepare
resolutions thanking the donor.
Secretary Wilson Of tie depart
ment Of agriculture is not satisfied
with the advancement Of the south
agriculturally as compared with its
gain in manufacture.
That Nine. Steinheil aided by
some unknown accompice, murdered
her husband so as to obtain her free
dom and marry the wealthy Maurice
Borderel, but that the killing Of her
stepmother was unprecedented and
merely an accident in the tragedy Is
the theory Of the. State as outlined
by Trouard Riolle, the Judge Advo-
cate in opening the argument in the
prosecution Thursday afternoon,
Robert A. Lewis, preside lent Of the
Bank of Belton, this State, died
Thursday at the Johns Hopkins Hos
pfsal, Baltimore, aged so.
SAT the meeting Of the executive
committee Of the Chamber Of Com
merce held Thursday morning the
matter Of offering inducements to the
Lutheran denomination to locate the
Lutheran Seminary in Columbia on
It's removal from Mt. Pleasant, was
enthusiastically discussed.
The whole rear Of the store Of l..
D.. Cullum & Co., at Batesburg, S. c.,
was gutted by fire, after a fight OF
four hours and a half to subdue the
fire. J. G. Cooner fell and sustained
injuries which, however, are not Sc
riious and a Leesville citizen was
hurt, also negro was overcome by
the dense smoke and had to be car
>ried out, The stock contained IN the
store was valued at $4,000, the IN
suranee being $12.50O. The estimated
loss and damage amounts to about
$4,000.
"A boy. bandit, by the name of
Thomas Jefferson Hall, and but II
years of age, attempted to rob the
Merchants National Bank at New
Albany, Ind, shooting and instantly
Killing the cashier, J. Hungary Faw-
eett, and seriously wounding John <.
Woodward, President Of the Bank
and James R. Tucker, negro chauf-
fer. He did not succeed in making
his escape.
The Warriner mystery deepens,
and another woman is thought to be
involved in the disposal of the funds
stolen!
President Taft added New Eng
land to his conquests by visits to Mid
dleton and Hartford. As a part OF
the installation exercises at Westlyn
university, degrees of doctor OF laws
we're conferred upon President TAFT.
'Vaee4PFesident Sherman, Senator
Root and others.
DR.. Bigham's brother declares that
his brother has not forfeited his bond
and that he is in Greenvllie. Judge
Watts says the bail is yet in force.
The reunion Of the Mississippi d.
vision Confederate veterans came to
close Friday with the dedication
Of Mississippi's $4,000 State me-
mortal and % regimental and bat
terry monuments in the Vicksburg ma
tional military park.
A Pope-Toledo car exploded on the
Atlanta race track Friday IN the
practice on the back stretch. The
driver Fitzpatrick, and the mechanl-
clan erich, were thrown about hun
dred and fifty feet over the embank-
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