Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-01
THE NEWS MINUTELYTOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

genuity employed in torturing them.
In some instances victims tongues
have been torn out by the roots,
and they have been mockingly told
to preach the new creed. Bound till
they could scarcely move o muscle,
others have been tickled continually
till their brains gave way. The
water torture-the steady dropping
of water on one spot of the body
has been frequently employed.
The oldest theological student ever
graduated from the Union Theological
seminary, New York, is the Rev.
H%areatune Jinishian, who has just re-
ceived his diploma, Mr.. Jinishian
will be 70 years old in q few months.
His wife and children witnessed the
graduation exercises. He is an
Armenian and is older than any Of
the professors who taught him during
his work in the seminary, where he
has been a student for six years.
After a delay Of 80 years, Charles
Dana Burrage, a wealthy attorney Of
Boston, was graduated Wednesday
from the University of California with
the degree of bachelor of arts.
"Charles" Burrage we denied a
diploma because of a snake, an owl
and a pair Of lizards which appeared
in Professor Palda's French class
back in '7S. But his classmates have
labored necessarily in his behalf.
And new the faculty has relented and
Burrage was given his degree.
Mrs. Alfred Gillison, was nearly
pulled overheard by a shark, which
grabbed her line while she was fish
ing, with her husband, off South At
, lantic City. The woman pluckily held
on to the line until her husband
reached her and pulled in the fish.
The shark was owe five feet long,
and weighed so pounds.
Glenn II. Curtis decided not to
make the trip from Albany last week
in an aeroplane in an attempt to
reach New York and win the $4,000
prize offered by the New York World.
The 9-months-old child of Mrs.
Anna Blakely was found suffocated in
bed at Chicago, presumably by the
house cat, which previously had been
lying across the child's neck.
Mrs. Tabitha King, who died at
London, KY, at the age of "a years,
leaves 95 living grandchildren. She
was the mother of u sons and daugh-
| tiers.
Benjamin Boyce, accused by Chi
cago Blackstone Hotel officials of dis
orderly conduct in assailing his father,
W. D. Boyce, the millionaire publish
er, pleaded guilty in the Municipal
Court and paid a fine Of IS. He OBJ
jected to his divorced father remarry-
ing.
Champ Clark, minority leader Of
the House, sees a long and hot road
ahead Of Congress before it finishes
the work of this session.
Two officers are out of the National
Guard of Georgia as a result of their
failure 10 attend school for officers
at Fort Mcpherson.
Capt. George W. Ruggles, inventor
Of the rotary snow pillow and Of na-
tion-wide fame as a canoe builder, is
dead at his home near Rochester,
N. Y.
Net profits of $4,000 we're realiz-
ed for the Actors Fund, devoted to
the care of aged and needy stage
followers, by the recent fair held in
New York city, according to the state
ment of President Daniel Frohman, of
New York.
l Alfred H. Marshall, on trial. for
murder, at Savannah, Ga, growing
out of the killing of two negroes
with his automobile on April !, was
acquitted after the jury had been out
but a few minutes.
Uriah Stevens, who pleaded guilty
to having shot two blackbirds, at
Allentown, Pa, was fined $50 and
costs by Alderman Reninger. The
prosecution was brought by Game
Warden Milton H. Weiss.
Friends Of Miss Elinor Wickham,
OF st. Louis, are authority for the
statement that the father Of her
fance, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., has pre-.
scented her with a solid gold dinner
service for o wedding gift, costing
$4,000.
A bill has been passed by the Sem
| ate appropriating $25O,00O for the
purchase Of a site and the erection
of buildings for an immigrant sta
tion at Seattle, Wash.
It would be unlawful for the Post
office Department to print the name
or address of a business firm on
stamped envelopes after June 80,
1911, if a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Tou Velle, of Ohio, and re-
ported ~favorably from the House
Committee on Postofiees and Post
Roads is passed.
In the last nine years the price Of
mule-power has gone up more than
one hundred per cent. In 1901 a first
class mule could be bought for $145,-
in 1907 the price had risen to $210,
and it is now about $500.
The late Woodbury. Kane's famous
polo and tandem pony Punch is dead
at the age of As years.
The elimination from bill boards of
the abbreviated skirt and Of tights