Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-12-09
SNAPPY and BRIEF
Items Gathered and Told While
You Hold Your Breath.
some EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered, From the Fields of Action
at Home and Abroad.

III liz SiANtS
tax fell off for the last fiscal year
S., sos, S31 and the ale and beer tax
S 22,44444,l83 compared with 1908.
The use of cigaretts seems to be
on the increase in spite of the war
upon them by many of the states.
The manufacturers paid tax on 7O3,-
OS7,278 more this year than in 1908.
James e. McGregar Of Newport,
N. H, has applied for membership
in the Sons of the American Revo-
luton. He claims to be lob years
old. Els father served in the war
and died at nearly 1O1 years
Capt. John Downing died at Dover,
Del, Tuesday at the age of lob years.
He, was a veterans of three wars, the
last being the great civil war.
Little Norwood Herbert, of Wash
city, fell from a tree some
DAYS age and his back was broken.
The vertebra we're replaced and he
was put in plaster Of paris case with
reasonable expectation of complete
recovery.
The s~witchmen's strike that has
it's centre about Chicago is doing
great damage to commerce as the
railroads cannot move freight.
The great Frisco and Rock Island
railroad merger was dissolved We'd
nesday by the purchase and changing
ownership of the San Francisco road.
The steamer Adelheld Mcneil of
Havre cleared from the port of Pen
Fla, last Saturday with 10000
bales of cotton valued at 100000.
A mine explosion occurred al
Marion, Ill.,. last Monday in which
one man was killed, but the 100
others in the mine escaped unln-
jured though there was something OF
panic.
The America Consul at .Managua,
the capital of Nicaragua, has applied
for land has gotten permission to
move his place of bushes from the
to the legation as a place
more safe and congenial.
North Carolina has the distinction
Of manufacturing more plug and
smoking tobacco than any other state
In the Union.
France has been drawn into the
Nicaraguan trouble by Zelaya1s bru-
tai treatment Of French citizens.
Three persons: were seriously IN
jursed and five less seriouslyShur IN
a derailment OF train on the Penn
sylyania railroad near Falrhayens
Tuesday.
The police of Cleveland, Ohio, dis.
covered a plot 20 assassinate John D.
Rockefeller Tuesday. The aged mul.
timillionaire semed little disturbed
ever it and declined a guard.
The German steamer Brewster was
stranded at Diamond Shoals off cas-
tern Carolina Sunday night and is
a total loss together with its cargo
of bananas and coacoanuts The crew
was saved.
South Carolina farmers generally
report very satisfactory results from
cultivating crops under government
directions.
Secretary Meyer, of the Navy has
made some sweeping changes in the
working machinery Of his depart
ments. 1t seems something like the
commission form of city government
in that the department is to be di-
vided and will he under four heads
who will bear the responsibility OF
affairs in his line.
The trial of four of the indicted
sugar weighers began in New York
last Monday.
Miss Lula E. Mackay, a member
of the Trumbull county; Ohio, bar
has purchased the dilapidated house
in which President Mckinley was
born and will put it in order to be
used as an historic museum.
Near Devon, W. Va, last week a
sheriff's posse was approaching the
home to Arrest Jim and Charles
Daniels. The mother and 16-year-old
daughter took up guns and held the
posse at bay while the men escaped.
A fusilade was kent up and the
mother was shot dead with rifle in
hand. The girl kept up the battle
until she wass killed also. The men
wanted escaped but one is severely
wounded.
There is a whiskey selling Grim
inal in the Wilmington, N. c., Jail
that has pellagra and consumption
and probably surface microbes"
besides. He had skipped a $500
bond but his bondsmen brought him
back to keep from paying the for,
felt. Now his pellagra gives him
sore feet and he can't work on the
roads and it is a puzzle what to do
with him and the authorities wish
they had cancelled the bond and let
the man be where he was.
Leo. S. Capes, of Atlanta, Ga,
aged %, was wounded by the acct
dental discharge of a shot gun a
week ago and took tetanus (lock-
jaw from which he died Monday.
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
has adopted the telephone by which
to dispatch trains instead of the
telegraph.
Ex-Governor Glenn of North Car.
DINA, predicts that Judson Harmon,
governor of Ohio, will be the next
Democratic nominee for the presi-
dency.
1t is not all sweet and lovely in
Cuba. Some would have Gomez to
step down and out and the Negro