Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-30

animals, and Prof. Methnikoff has
now succeeded in injecting monkeys
with the typhoid germ. BY this means
he has been able to obtain exact
symptoms permitting accurate expert
ments on the action Of his vaccines.
AS the result of a quarrel over the
boundary line between their planta-
tions, Will Voolfolk was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Mrs.
Fannie Perry, his sister, near Wool
folk, Pa.
Because, as it is alleged she re-
fused to receive his attentions, Will
liam Schroeder at Lewiston, Pa, shot
and killed Bertha Singley, aged 26.
Schraeder was captured and taken
to Jail by the girls brother.
Lieutenant S. B. Buckner broke the
record for time in the ascent of
Popocatepetl, going from the Las
Cruces to the crater, a distance of
about 5000 feet, in snow and soft
volcanic ash, in two hours and Is
minutes.
Mrs. Antony hibernate, to foil pos
sible burglars, concealed $500 in
money and $1,000 worth of jewels in
the toe of a shoe in her Brooklyn
home, and during her absence an at
tentive servant gave the shoe to a
cobbler to be repaired, the maid hav-
ing heard the mistress remark that
the sole needed repairing. The shoe
was recovered with the valuables.
Mrs. Margaret Wickliffe Beckham
one of the best known women in
Kentucky, is dead. She was a daugh-
ter of Robert Wickliffe, formerly
Governor Of Louisiana, granddaugh-
ter of Charles A. Wickliffe, former
ly Governor Of Kentucky and Post
master General in President Tyler's
Cabinet, and aunt of j. C. Beckham,
who a few years ago was Governor
Of Kentucky.
The lid has been lifted in the up
per tenderloin Of San Francisco,
bringing joy to the hearts of the re-
sort keepers. The r~evivals Of the
gay night in the cafes was made
possible by an order adopted by the
soard Of police commissioners upon
the petition of 600 business men.
A record run by a special train
from New York to Greenwich pre-
coded the arrival in the world of a
grand nephew to Andrew Carnegie.
George Lauder, Jr., a nephew of the
ironmaster, is the father of the latest
candidate for a share in the Carnegie
millions. The one-car special which
broke all speed records between New
York and Greenwich carried two New
York doctors.
The average child at 1 year of age
represents an investment Of about
$75, according to Prof. E. H. Arnold,
Of the Yale Medical school. AT the
age of Is, he says, the child owes
the world in the neighborhood Of
$4,000. At Is he begins to keep him
self and at 30 or IS he has given back
all that he has cost and is square with
the world.
The most unusual robbery in the
history of the section of Forest Hill,
La, was perpetrated when the re-
mains of E. D. Gainier we're ex-
humed and gold teeth, a diamond ring,
a gold watch and cuff buttons were
taken from the body. The body was
sealed in a tomb more than thirty
years ago.
Bob (Robert L. Tucker, we'll known
horse owner and trainer, died sud-
denly Thursday at his homeI at
Louisville, KY, Of heart failure.
Liberty, Miss, observed it's one
hundredth anniversary by shipping
a carload Of molasses.
The report that a pot containing
$4,000 in gold was dug up on the old
Fort place, in the heart of Lexing-
ton, S. c., is attracting considerable
Interest. TOT many years parties have
beb trespassing on this piece of
property in search of money, it is
said, and unless all signs fail, the
hidden treasure has been at las
found.
The Woodmen of the World of
Durham, N. c., have decided to erect
a marble monument to mark the
spot to commemorate the surrender
of General Joseph E. Johnston to
General w. T. Sherman at a spot four
miles from the city.
The House has declined to provide
Speaker Cannon and Vice President
Sherman with a. present Of horse
power touring cars.
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