Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
THE NEWS INFINITELY TOLD
The Hear. Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

York subway TRAN, Jonn Cancey, a
telegrapher, was conmatted to the
.aorshouse for six months by Masis-
trate Breen, in the West Side Court.
Application of the Gather
clause was made for the first time
in a gas franchise election at West
vile, Okla, and it proved to be hard
on the negroes. Only three of 100
negroes passed the educational test
which the clause requires, the cleo
tion judges reported.
The tax returns for Georgia when
complete will show a gain of $4O,-
100000 for the year.
Unda: am agreement Of attorneys
the Porter Charlton case has been
postpol-ed until September 20.
Turner Browning, aged lis, accord
ing to most authentic records, died at
Durham, N. C.
The Alabama division Of the Ma
tior Red Cross has been organized
WI. .ov. B. B. Conner as presi-
dent.
Tyrus Cobb, the base ball idol, is
valued at $4,000 by the managers of
the; Detroit team, with which he plays
under the usual contract.
Advices from Costa Rica say there
was a severe hurricane last week
on the Atlantic Coast, destroying a
million banana trees, worth more than
$1,00O,000 and belonging principally
10 the United Fruit Company.
Robert Treat Payne, president of
the American Peace Society and
widely known as a philanthropist,
died at his home at Waltham. Mass.
All franks and half-rate certificates
have been called In by the Postal and
Western Union Telegraph Companies.
Governor Patterson, of Tennessee,
has eommuted the sentence Of Mar
cellus Reinhart, the Montgomery
county Night Rider, to life imprison.
ment: Reinhart was convicted Of the
murder of Rufus Hunter and SEN
fenced to death.
About Is additional day schools
have been established in various
parts of the country since July l and
half a dozen more wall be organized
before the fall term begins. State
and county officials are being urged
to open the white schools to the In.
dian children.
Children in play poured water down
the throat of Ralph, the 4-year-old
son Of j. A. Juan, of Calmar, Iowa,
and the little fellow only lived an
hour. The water went into his lungs
and he was drowned.
During the month Of July 52,727
citizens of foreign lands entered the
port of New York and of this number
the Ellis Island records class ~.
9S5 as illiterate. The number bar.
red was 1,127. The immigrants
brought $1,537,794 in money.
Material reductions SIRE made in
the freight rates on cottonseed from
points on the Central of Georgia
Railroad, and Jacksonville, Fla, by
order of the Interstate commerce
Commission in connection with a de.
cision handed down in the case Of
the Florida Cotton Oil Company
against the Central Of Georgia Rail.
road and other carriers.
Only 30 generals of the Confederate
forces, one lieutenant general, four
major generals and Is brigadier gen.
erals now survive, according to q
statement by Gen. Marcus j. Wright
who has been an agent for the wal
department In the collection of mill.
tary records since 1872.
Further competition with the Vir-
ginia-C Carolina Chemical Company in
Columbia, S. c., territory is promised
through the commissioning of the
Congaree Fertilizer Company with
an initial capitalization of $100, 0OC
to build a large mill at Columbia.
Mrs. John Hanan, a well-known
society woman, of New York, frankly
admits that she was in the Maria
gansett Club on the occasion of the
anti-gambling raid Sunday, and
she is the only person yet found
who has admitted as much.
For the first four months of the
fiscal year Canada's revenue Shows
an increase of $5,6OO,OOO over the
same period last year.
CaNalieri, as she remained on the
stage, an Italian, and Of lowly origin,
is declared the most beautiful of
present day singers. Only IL years
ago she worked for a small pittanee
folding papers in a printing Office in
the city Of Rome. She married mil.
Ionaire Chanler of New York.
The Allegheny County, Maryland,
Commissioners made the first rward
under the new Miners Relief law:
which originated with former State
Senator David ]. Lewis, to Mrs. Eliz.
abeth Hosken, widow Of James Hos.
ken. who was killed in Mine No. Z of
the Consolidation Coal Company, May
10 last. She received $1,000.
Expert engineers have recommend
ed to the italian Government that the
famous leaning tower of Pisa be
torn down and regretted on a better
foundation. The tower was built in
l154. 1t is of white marble, 1873
feet in height. The inclination from
the top to the base is 16 feet.