Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-02-02
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS.

ton were burned. Loss estimated at
100000.
Headquarters of the Rockefeller
| Hookworm Commission has been
opened in the Union Trust Building,
Washington.
At Memphis, Tenn, W. J Hayes,
formerly manager Of the Union Saw
ings Bank Of California, was arrest
ed.
A determined campaign for an
eight-hour-a-day schedule is going to
be made by the Atlanta (Ga.) FEEDER
alton Of Trades. This decision was
reached at a recent meeting Of the
eight-hour committee. The move
ment will be launched on February
8, and the first speech will be made
by ex-Gov. Hoke Smith.
The Chicago packers distributing
point for Eastern Carolina and Tide
water Virginia at Norfolk, Va, in
augurate a boycott against high
priced meat.
At Galveston, Texas, Chew Duck
Fun and Stratakos got one year each
in the Federal prison at Leavens-
worth, Kan, for smuggling of Chi
nese in to United States.
John B. Tatum of Autauga, Ala,
was shot by an unknown man and
instantly. killed. Tatum was on his
way home with his son-in-law when
the shot was fired from behind. The
assassination is said to have been the
result of an old feud.
Goshen, a town below Troy on the
Central Of Georgia railway, was al
most wiped out by fire. Twelve build
ings were burned. The origin Of the
fire is thought to have been incen-
diary. The loss will be heavy.
Reports from Port Reposit, Nd,
says the flood in the Susquhanna
river is the worst in years. Loss
estimated at 100000. About 500
persons are affected by damage to
houses and business.
Warner M. Van Norden, the bank
er and president Of the Van Norden
Trust company, New York, was rob-
bed Of $4,000 as he was leaving the
Waldorf-Astoria.
The stockholders Of the Barre (Pa.)
Savings bank reelected George How
ard, who il three months more than
100 years old, to the banks board Of
trustees.
Kingston and other islands in the
West Indies were shaker by earth
quake, but no damage is reported.
w. B. Mitchell, a prominent citi-
zen, who was sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for six months for kidnap-
ping and assaulting Miss Linton, a
wealthy heiress, has been ordered to
the chain gang to serve the remain
der of his sentence, owing to an. out
break Of public indignation at Thorn
@asvil..e. Ga.
Frauds connected with the under
valuation Of foreign automobiles have
been discovered in the New York
Custom House.
Judgments aggregating 100000 on
Kieran notes have been entered
aginst the Benedictine sisters.
Paulhan, the French aviator, made
what is regarded as the most remark
able cross country flight in history at
Los Angeles, Cal. {.
Mrs. Keith Donaldson, a. million
dollar bride, obtained a divorce in
Reno, Nav.
Fifteen men were blown to pieces
and five others badly mutilated by a
premature explosion Of nitroglycerin
in the tunnel which will be part of
New York's new aqueduct.
A New York Bar Association com
mittee has recommended tentatively
that insanity pleas be excluded in
murder trials.
An Illinois minister took poison
and n in Pittsburg shot himself
dead because of i'll health.
A New York woman, crippled by
rheumatism, has spent 81 years in
mi room, W going out, and doing
her own work.
A mar under arrest in Chicago is
said to have obtained 100000 by
swindling upward Of 100 persons.
Kansas, by a divided Supreme
Court, lost its case over the law fix
ing a school fee on charters of inter-
state corporations doing business in
the State.
All the eastern railroads have re.
fused the demands Of the trainmen
for all increase.
Eight New York dressmakers were
fined sums aggregating $4,000 in the
sleeper trunk fraud cases.
A boy was carried is miles on an
ice foe in Connecticut before he was
swept to death.
The Waverly Hotel in Hot Springs,
Ark, was destroyed by fire and the
guests lost all their baggage.
Strikers at Bridgeport, Ohio,
brought $4,000 into court when sur
rendered or charges of disorder.
Mrs. Stetson finally lost her Chris
tian Science church fight in New
York.
II. is becoming more evident that
the Irish will have the whip hand
over Premier Asquith in Parliament.
Japan and Rrssia have rejected,
Secretary Knox's plan for the nen-
tralization Of Manchur:an railroads.
American shoes are being rushed