Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-10-06

close to the old prison. line, war DC
partment has just closed a contract
with the Van Anlringe Granite Com:
pany, 2of Boston, Mass, to construct
the monument of Pennsylvania white.
marble: It, is to DE completed by De-:
cember 10; 1909. The shaft will be
so feet high. Similar monuments are.
being erected, by act Of Congress
throughout the North, wherever there
are many unmarked graves Of Confed-.
crate soldiers. $50. ~
ARelease that woman at onceH' is.
in substance the order which the Act
ing Attorney General telegraphed to
City Sergeant J. G. Chichester at
Fredericksburg, after an appeal, from
an aged negress for the release Of her
daughter, Clara Rose Turner, from
the Fredericksburg jail. The old
negress works for General Miles,
family, and she has haunted the De-
partment Of Justice in the effort to
get her girl who is serving six
months sentence on the charge of
sending obscene letters through the
mails from the Jail Jail Fob de LaWd's
sake, She appealed Hdat jailor amt
got no business keepin' dat po' girl
down dar. a spassel Of girls down
dar got my, girl to say she done it.
She was jus ratified. Yo'aknow she
'stam8.rs, and they do say pusson
dat stammers am weak-minded.
Sherry. McSherry and Ice made the
warmest Kind of record at the recent
recort target practice of the Atlantic
.Ileet. Sherry being the left gun point
4iar in the: 8-mch turret of the battle
ship Minnesota, McSherry being the
right gun pointer, and Ice being the
trainer, who heated the ardor of his
men. The record was 81 IL per cent,
representing about two hits minute.
A number Of the friends of Mrsa
James 4! Sutton, mother of the late
Lieut.. James N Sutton, are arranging
to raise a fund Ito be used for the
erecting Of q monument over the
grave Of Lieutenant Sutton at Arling-
ton. 81:
AT about 5:15 O'Clock Saturday
afteroon an alarm was turned in from
the executive Offices Of the White
E[ouse in account Of a fire in the par
tition In the main reception room of
the old executive Offices, caused prob
ably b5S a defective fue in the fur
mace, which is directly underneath
that room. The fremen were ompell-
ed tos chop a great hole in the side of
.tIeWall from ceiling to floor, and the
fl:e wasl very quickly extinguished
with hose fremthe chemical wagon
Increases ranging from rs to $50
per cent are shown in the quantity Of
Imanue acturers' materials imported
lito sthas sUniteiI State. during the sew
Cd months ending with July, 1909,
over the: corresponding period of the
Immediately preceding year.. These
figures, complied by the Bureau OF
Statistics, relate to variety OF arcie-
les in general use by manufacturers.
An almost forgotten incident in
which the present Secretary of War,
James M. Dickinson, heroically resu-
cued James +. Joy, Detroit lawyer,
from the Detroit River, fourteen
.yfeessrs ago, was recalled Wednesday
VIII ia handsome solid gold medal
suspended from ribbon held in the
jheak of an a1neiican eagle, was pre-
.sented to Mr. Dickinson on behalf Of
the United States Government. The
medal, approved by President Taft
before his departure on his trip and
eonlmemorating the courage Of the
War Secretary in saving the life Of
fellowman, was presented by Assis-
tanb Secretary Of the Treasury
Hilles.
The board Of directors Of the Nat
ionsl Geographic Society Friday
held q special meeting tc determine
the attitude it should assume toward
DR.. Frederick a. Cook upon the oc-
casion 6f his visit here next Sundays
when he will deliver a lecture on his
Arctic experiences. The decision was
reached that Dr,y Cook under the cir
cumstances, could not be recognized
in an official way.
!: With considerable progress made in
checking the ravages Of the boil
wevil in the South, the prospects for
a large production of cotton are un-
usually good, according to Prof. W.
R. Beatty, assistant horticulturiest Of
the Department of Agriculture, who
returned Wednesday from a tour. Of
fhn Southern States.