The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-05-05
THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

Gently at Lake Forest university
Chicago, revealed the fact that one
of the girl students has been exist
inc without food for Ave days and
that four of the men students have
been starving themselves for a week.
Young women students adopted the
practice of starving in the belief that
it would improve their health.
In order to settle the moot question
of whether Jews, Armenians and
Syrians may successfully apply for
citizenship in the United States the
Committee on immigration and Nat
uralization favorably reported to the
House bill by Representative Hayes
of California, providing that nothing
in the statutes shall be construed to
prevent "Asiatics who are Armen-
ians, Syrians and Jews from becoming
naturalized citizens"
The lone prisoner in the Jay coun-
ty, Ind, Jail, Ira W. Porter, possibly
will be set free in a few days, al
though he is charged with numbering
his wife, for the reason that opinion
in the neighboring county of Ran
dolph, where the alleged murder was
committed, is divided as to whether
it is worth while for the county to 60
to the expense Of second trial OF
his case.
With the determination of breaking
up the evil of sending obsence mat
ter through the United States mails
Postmaster-General Hitchcock is ser
iously considering the advisability OF
suggesting that hereafter all treaties
ms-le with foreign powers shall con
tain provisions for the extradition of
those found guilty of the offease.
Three youths, each less than 20
years old, were taken to the Federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga, from Coving'
ton, KY, to serve sentence of a year
imposed by the United States Dis
trict Court for fraudulent banking
scheme which they conducted in the
little mountain town of Orr, Ky. A
fourth was sentenced to four months
in Jail.
- After they had danced 19 hours
and 3S minutes, breaking all known
terpsichorean endurance records, a
contest in which four San Jose, Cal,
men were the only survivors out of
list of II entrants, was stopped
by the police. Women relayed with
the contestants.
Although Sue plan had been un-
der consideration for some time, II
came as a surprise when about 81
Of the 1900 convicts at the Western
Penitentiary, at Pittsburg, appeared
for the Sunday dinner dressed in neat
black suits instead Of the regulation
prison stripes.
Thirty-six divorces were granted in
the Bibb county, Georgia, Superior
Court in two hours. Only four of
the suits were filed by negroes. One
wife was sued for drinking her hus-
bands whiskey. One man who sued
= woman for a divorce, was himself
sued by another woman.
William Kendall, near Williams
port, Nd, has a cat that, besides
taking care of five kittens, is raising
a rat. She seems as fond of the young
rat as she is of her own offspring.
The rat suckles at the cat just as
the kittens do.
An epitome of the relation between
man and his animal companion, the
dog, is found in the following want
ad. which appeared in a Ney York
paper the other day: ~ want a
crackerjack bulldog, qualified to be
my pal.'
One of the most daring burglaries
ever perpetrated in New York City
was committed in the office of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at No.
434 Broadway. The big safe in the
center Of the main room was drilled,
its combination lock was opened, and
all the money and ticqets were
stolen.
Fleas and ticks which carry tine
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tuber-
culosis germs, the hookworm and lep-
rous organisms may thrive without
the further light Of Government pub
licity if Secretary MacVeagt's recon-
mendation for a $4,000 appropria-
tion fails of approval by Congress.
The trouble springs from the ex-
haustion of the printing and binding
fund for the Marine Hospital and
Public Health Service.
E. H. R. Green, of Terrell, Tex,
president of the Texas Midland Rail-
road, and son of Mrs. K.tty Green,
of New York, and who r-:ently an
nounced in st. Louis that he had not