The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-02-17
Condensed from Wide Fields,
Domestic and Foreign.
AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY
Suited to the Wants of Busy Readers
Seeking a knowledge Of What IL
Going on.


and was instantly killed.
John l.. Sullivan, the former heavy
weight champion of the world, was
last Monday married to the sweet
heart of his school days, Miss Kath-
crime Hartnett, wealthy real estate
holder.
j. +. Ong, prominent contractor,
of Columbia, S. c., committed suicide
last Saturday at Augusta, Ga.
At Long Beach, Cal. the strain of
supporting a 200-pound patient, who
had rolled off the operating table,
burst a blood vessel in DR.. William
Lawrence Woodruff's lungs, and the
surgeon died shortly afterward.
District Attorney Whitman asked
for and got $4,000 appropriation
from the Board of Estimates of New
York to pursue the investigation into
the so-called "white-slave" traffic.
That wealthy Chinaman. whose
headquarters are either in Chicago
or San Francisco, is at the head of an
opium into the United States, is the
belief of Federal officials whose in
vestigations eliminated last week in
seven arrests-four in Chicago. two
in Los Angeles and one in Ell Paso.
Eighty-eight letters to Andrew
carnegie, asking him to buy an or
Jan for the Cote Brilliante Presby-
terian Chuch, of st. Louis. Mo-, writ
ten in the last eight months, brought
check for SLIPS last week from
the philanthropist.
One person was killed, one SER
iously injured and l3 others more
or less hurt when passenger train No.
43 OH the Rock Island railroad col
llded with freight train mt Fourche,
81 miles west of Little Rock last
Monday.
The enrolment Of the North Caro-
lima College OF Agriculture and Me-
chanlc Arts has now reached $50,
eighty new students having been
registered since the new year. This
record breaking registration has
been made possible by the compile
tion of the new dormitory. Another
gratifying feature of the enrolment
for this year is that there is a gain
OF "a per cent in the number of agri-
cultural students.
Lnmlnda Lotten, negro woman.
aged 1l9 years. died at Donaldsville,
La. last Monday. She was a native
of Virginia. Until a month ago she
was engaged i'll active labor.
Five hundred clerks employed in
the general offices in Boston of the
Boston and Maine railroad have re-
ceived notice of 10 per cent raise
in wages.
The Paltka, Fla, board of trade
Will have an interesting celebration
upon the opening of the Putnam
county highway bridge, ut Palatka,
Fla, OH the 22d.
Three thousand shirt waist work
ers at Philadelphia, returned to
work, after being on strike for sew
eral weeks.
Prof. M. NJ. Parks. president of
the Georgia Normal and Industrial
college, at Milledgeville. Ga, return
ed last Monday morning from his
tour of the world. after having en-
circled the globe in a trip that oe-
cupied nearly four months.
James X: Patterson, president of
the Kentucky State university, has
announced to the committee of the
State Legislature that Mt his death
his fortune will 90 to the college of
which he has been the head for over
forty years. 1t amounts to something
like $250,00O.
The announcement OF Mrs. Marilla
M. Kicker, lawyer and leader in the
suffragette movement. that she is to
be candidate for the governorship
OF New Hampshire has created a sem
sation at Dover.
AT CarrOllton, Ga, in a duel with
pistols, II. j. Johnson, wealthy
planter, killed his son-in-law, Henry
Camp. The duel followed the elope.
ment of Camp with Johnson's lS-
year-old daughter.
Nicholas Timmes, of Shamakin,
Pa, died last week, and in his will
he left $4,000 to Miss Anna Will
hams for nursing him during his i'll
ness.
According to advices from Chuich-
upa, Mexico, Indians in that vicinity
are IN an ugly mood, and an up
rising is thought not improbable. Col
onlsts report a number of cattle
driven away by the Indians.
report from Bay Minette, Bald
win county, received at Mobile, Ala,
Tuesday states every prisoner con-
lined in the Jail at that place had
made their escape about midnight
Monday, except one man, John Eskew
who stated that he had no desire to
leave the place
After several conferences at the
White House last Monday Wade H.
Ellis OF Ohio resigned his position as
assistant to the attorney oeparal -