Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-23
THE news INFINITELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

Joseph Burns, who recently raced
from the interior Of Alaska to Cleve-
land, Ohio, in a futile effort to reach
his baby before she died, was order
ed by the Federal Government to re-
turn to the snowbound territory as
a witness in a stabbing ARRAY in
which he was injured.
The American Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals in
New York, has sent a notice to all
department stores and to bird and
animal dealers that the act Of keep
ing or selling newly Matched incu-
bator chickens intended as easter
favors or presents, is in violation of
the laws relating to cruelty to ami
mails.
Jerry Faust, an employe Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad at Ell Paso,
Tex, has received a letter mailed in
Pennsylvania IS years ago.
The recovery of Louis Graf, a TO-
year-old Brooklyn boy, who was TAX
en- to a hospital a year ago with q
broken neck caused by a fall from q
cherry tree, is assured. For days
the lad lay near death and for weeks
his recovery was despaired of. Then
he began to improve slowly and now,
after nine months spent with his
body encased in a plasttc cast, is
declared sound again.
A financial tringency extending so
wide and pressing so hard that it
would be practically, if not absolute
ly impossible for Chicago to carry
on one-half of its municipal func-
tons, was pictured to the city coun-
ell by Corporation Counsel Brundage
and City Comptroller Wilson as .
reality If saloons are voted out at the
aldermanic election.
DR.. James D. Hills, city health
officer in Lafayette, Ind, is suffering
from an injury caused by a hat pin
that may cost him an eye. DR.. Hills
visited a local vaudeville theater,
and in the crowd he was showed
against a large hat Worn by a woman
in front of him.
A court in Brussels, has awarded
$4,000 to a man who was blinded in
one eye by a woman's hatpin. He
was standing on the platform of a
street car, which stopped suddenly
with a jerk, which caused the hatpin
to- pierce his eye.
With only a small portion Of his
juglar vein left, after a recent opera
ton, Harold Erickson, a 19-year-cld
boy, is recovering at the Long Island
College Hospital, New York, and SIR
geons intend to remove the remainder
of the vein in a few days. :.
Celebrants of st. Patrick's day
who had the misfortune to be brought
before city judge in Ell Paso, Tex,
found their shamrocks would be
accepted for bail.
In the federal court in Louisville
The .Louisville and Nashville railroad
pleaded guilty on ten counts in eight
indictments charging rebating, and
Judge Evans imposed q fine of ST.
600 for each count, or q total Of
$4,000, The eight indictments con.
tanned forty-seven counts, but con-
victi6n on many of the counts was
impossible.
An old flag that recalls many Of
the differences caused by the civil
war has been presented to the Maine
Historical Society by the Rev. John
Collins, who served in a Maine regi-
ment in the great struggle. The
banner is an emblem of the state of
Mississippi. 1t was formerly the
property of Captain William Collins
Of the confederate army, and broth
er of the donor. Connected with the
flag is an interesting story of a feud
between the two brothers, who held
opposing political opinions. William
Collins was one Of the men participat-
ing, in the Calais bank raid in 1864
and when he fell into the hands of
the federal authorities, his brother
tried hard to hav. him hanged as a
rebel. William escaped, however, and
made his way back to Mississippi,
where he died some years later.
1t is claimed by some that the
Rockefeller foundation will have
greater power than the government
which is asked to create it.
Probably the most peculiar politi-
cal contest now being waged in this
country is in progress in Early coun-
ty, Georgia, where L E. Black, ST.,
and L. E. Black, Jr., father and son,
are opposing candidates for sheriff.
Naturally there is a great deal Of
feeling.
A terrific explosion of gas in the
number i've c%olliery of the Lehigh G.
Wilkesbarre Coal company at South
W~ilkesbarre, Pa, shut in from 10 to
II men.
In o pitched battle with "Parson"
Wallace, q negro preacher, in Green
wood, Miss, Policeman j. W. Slack.
received a bullet wound through the
wrist. Afterwards he fred several
shots and inflicted wounds on the
negro from which he died. Officer
Slack was trying to collect a debt
Prom the negro.
Commander Robert E. Peary, who
lectured in Atlanta, Ca, on how he
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