The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-05-12
THE news MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

From the Whole Country.
First becoming insane when his
wife gave birth to twins and later,
when again normal, refusing to sup
port the woman and her offspring,
Johan 7. Scheck at Wilmington,
DEL, was arrested for desertion and
non-support.
The Presbyterian Ministerial Un-
ion of San Francisco adopted a reso-
luton calling on churches throughout
the country to join in a concerted
protest against the Jeffries-J ohnson
tight. The protest will be laid be-
fore the General Assembly in New
York this month.
The Odd Fellows order, founded
in Baltimore in 1919, began with 5
members, and has now grown to a
membership of more than a million
and half
The Trans-Andean Railway tunnel
is 10000 feet above sea level and
links the Republics of Chile and Ar
gentina. 1t is five miles long and
affords direct communication between
Valparaiso and Buenos Ayres.
The first ticket for the fight be-
tween Jim Jeffries and Jack John
son at San Francisco on July 4 will
be presented to Theodore Roosevelt
on his arrival in New York. The
ticket will be made of solid gold.
Assessments made by the internal
revenue bureau on account of the cor
poration tax to date, aggregate $23,-
954 ,536. The amount collected $50
far is $132,4 ,433. -s"
Railroad freight rates throughout
the country will be materially in
creas by tariffs filled with the Inter
state Commerce Commission by West
ern trunk lines.
Two slick young men, at Towaco.
n. j., drove off with most all the
chickens In town while the residents
OF the village were assembled on
Waukhaw Mountain looking for Hal
ley's comet.
Having refused to answer the
questions of Census Enumerator
Heebner, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, Mrs.
Elizabeth Dugan was arrested and
sent to Jail in default Of bail.
Jack johnson, heavyweight champ
ION OF the world, is installed in his
training quarters at the Seal Rock
House on the California beach, where
he is to prepare himself for his fight
with James j. Jeffries, at Emeryville,
July 4.
One thousand convicts at Atlanta.
In the United States penitentiary.
were in tears Tuesday afternoon as
Geraldine Farrar, grand opera star,
sang to them, and the emotion of the
prlson-garbed men before her caused
Miss Farar herself to weep.
A police magistrate at Ivy Bridge.
In Devonshire, has decided that the
word dammit is obscene and that
Its use may be punished as a crime.
Two new prizes for the successful
accomplishment of further aerial feats
were announced at a luncheon given
at Parls III honor of Louis Paulhan,
the French aeronaut, who won $50
OOO by flying from London to Man
chester.
Alleged frauds in Alabama coming.
1t IS believed within the scope of the
bankruptcy law, have been RECEIVING
attention at the hands of Attorney
General Wickersham.
John Quincy Adams Ward, one of
Amerlca's greatest sculptors, died at
his home in New York in his 8Oth
year. He had been ill for three
months.
Branding the match a "desecra-
ton of our nations great patriotic
holiday the greater Oakland Char
ter Convention adopted a resolution
protesting against the holding of the
Jeffrles-Johnson prize fight on July 4.
Nlnety-two sail and steam vessels
were added to the merchant marine
Oh the United States during April, ac-
cordlng to the Department of Com
merce and Labor.
Declaring the negligence of the
city police of many Municipalities is
responsible for the ravaees of tho
white plague, Robert j. Newton, of
St. Louis, In an address on the en-
forcement of the anti-spitting ordi-
nances, bitterly assailed local author
itles for neglecting to support the
law. VIC
f. M. Deminick of the University
OF Alabama won first prize in the
Southern intercollegiate oratorical
contest, held at Vanderbilt Uniyer.l
sity, Nashville.