Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-15
THE NEWS INFINITELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

Senator James P. Taliaferro for the
Senate in Florida.
Forty-two additional officers in the
army are provided for in a bill pass
ed by the Senate.
Mr.. Cullom, Of Illinois, is the sec
ond man in age in the Senate. If he
lives until November II next, he will
be 81.
The most aged man now in the
Senate is Mr.. Stephenson, Of Wis
consin. On June 20 he will be 81
years old.
Andy Craig, a w%ell-known Chicago
sport, placed $4,000 on Jeffries
against $4,000, wagered by Edward
Dickson, broker, on johnson.
Four people were killed and one
seriously injured at Haverstraw, N.
Y, when a locomotive struck a coach
returning from a funeral.
Mrs. Helen Stittz, of Toledo, O.,
when informed that her daughter,
Helen, aged IA, had been killed by
an auto, lost her power Of speech.
Collector Loeb has completed ar
rangements with the Treasury De-
partment for the loan of three rev.
enue cutters for June Is to meet Col.
Roosevelt.
Senator Frye is an enthusiastic and
successful angler, and spends the
greater part of his vacation on the
beautiful lakes of his native State
INDUCING in his favorite sport.
Jules A. Silon, or Simon, stated to
be a resident of San Francisco, as
cended to the crater of Vesuvius,
which is again becoming active, and
was killed by inhaling. the fumes.
The President hopes that the Sem
| ate will accept the postal savings
bank bill as it passes the House, and
if this can be brought about speedy
adjournment is said to be assured.
There will be no report at this
session of Congress from the special
committee of which Representative
Olcott, cf New York, is chairman,
which has been investigating the ship
subsidy scandal.
Charles Warner, at n time a pros
porous manufacturer of canned goods,
died in a Brooklyn hospital from a
razor cut, which he inflicted upon
himself shortly after his arrest on a
charge of forgery.
When President Taft nominated
"Col." Thomas D. Murphy to be
postmaster at Augusta, Ca, he nam
ed the champion poker player of Mr.
Taft's trip to Panama just before the
Presidents term began.
Five men were killed in the Rich.
ard Mine near Dover, n. j., by the
overturning Of a car, in which they
were being drawn to the mouth OF
the mine. The miners fell a distance
of 700 feet down the shaft.
"My feet hurt and nobody cares
for me. May.God have mercy OF my
SOUL" was the suicide note left by
Joseph Kress, a rural mail carrier
whose body was found hanging In
a barn at Bennettstown, Ky.
At London Col. Theodore Roose=
Welt declared that lie had neither
asked for nor would he accept any
favors from the New York Custom
House upon his return to America on
June IS. He will pay all duties on
his goods.
The Georgia Bankers Association
adopted resolutions emphatically en-
dorsing New Orleans as the city fitted
in every particular for the holding
| Of the Worlds Panama Exposition in
celebration of the completion of the
| Panama Canal in 1915.
Vital statistics made public show a
decrease in the birth rate in France.
The births in 1909 were 100000,
against $4,000 in the preceding year.
Since 1851 the population of the re-
public has been increased by 3,000,-
900 only, while the population of
Germany in the same period has been
increased by 30,00O,0O0.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
| sion has received notice that the rail-
roads, on June ] increased their rates
on wool Approximately 20 per cent.
will reduce them again on July z.
A resolution condemning the plac-
ing of a statue of Robert E. Lee in
the National Capitol was tabled at
at the closing session of the 44th
annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Encampment of the G. A. R., at
Harrisonburg.
The Methodist ministers Of Greater
New York have adopted resolutions
calling upon voters to support Gov
ernor Hughes in his fight for direct
primaries. j
At St. Louis DR.. John B. Murphy
of Chicago was elected president of
the American Medical association and
DR.. Geo. H. Simmons of Chicago,
secretary. Los Angeles was selected
as the next meeting place.
Characterizing the river and harbor
bill as a "pork BARREL" Senators
Burton, of Ohio, and Newlands, of
Nevada, severely criticized the con-
ference report on that measure, which
was called up in the Senate by SEN
ator Nelson.