Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-05-25
THE NEWS MINUTELYT
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

make the annual address at the
commencement exercises at Bryn.
Mawr College June 2.
The National Credit Mems Asso-
citation, in convention at New Or
leans, declined to take action on a
proposition to raise a fund of $1,000
900 for the investigation and prose-
cution in credit transactions.
Concentrating the completion OF
the lock and dam in the Ohio river.
at Cincinnati, thereby furnishing a
harbor Is miles long, there will be
held at Cincinnati from August 18th
to October 4th, the Ohio Valley Ex-.
position.
The annual Reunion Of the South
Carolina Division Of the United
Division Of the United Confederate
Veterans will be held on August l7.
and l8 at Spartanburg.
Mrs. Hannah Sullivan, Of New
York, the widow Of "Little Tim"
says that he left no real estate and
a personal estate worth only $4,000.
One of the most interesting under
takings Of the Southern Baptists is
the annual Cowboys Campmeeting,
which is held every July in the Davis
Mountains of West Texas. Rev. DR..
George w. Truett, of Dallas, conducts
the services, with the assistance of
ministers of other denominations.
Lilsiuokalani, former queen Of Ha
wall, has again met defeat in her
effort to secure $45O,0O0-the rentals
from the crown lands in Hawaii.
Mrs. Jarrett Pittman, of near Nc
Connellsburg, Pa, 80 years of age,
whose head has been covered for a
decade with .snow-white hair, is Great
ing no end of surprise for her neigh
bors and friends Of the vicinity by
growing very dark hair.
So tight has the short skirts that
is now the vogue, become around the
ankles and below the knee, that if
it grows any tighter, the ear will
be quite unable to walk.
Harvard College has abandoned the
idea of the erection of memorial
tablets in Memorial Hall in reverence
to her; sons who died fighting under
the colors of the Confederacy.
Disquieting rumors Of an anti
foreign movement not unlike that
preceding the Boxer troubles are be-
ing reported by the American con-
sulate at Nan King.
Miss Eva Harmon died in Spartan
burg, S. c., of ~pellagra. Miss Har-
mon was % years old, and had been
ill for several months. This is one
of the first victims of pellagra that
has died in Spartanburg County.
The Gath annual report of the
American Bible society shows that
during the past year the total issue
of publications at home and abroad
amounted to 2,S26,S31.
George Mitchell, colored, was SEN
fenced to serve five years in the pen
itentiary in superior court at Sayan-
nah, Ca, for stealing a diamond pin
valued at $500, which evidence show
ed had been given to Billy Kersands,
a negro minstrel, by the late Queen
Victoria Of England.
A jagged fragment Of. glass was
found in the appendix of a young
man operated on in New York. Cor
oner, 1. L. Feinberg, who operated,
said that as far as records known
to him show this is the first case in
which the presence of glass was a
cause Of appendicitis.
Los Angeles probably has the only
woman deputy district attorney in
the county. Mrs. Clara Shortridge
Foltz has received her commission,
and took the oath Of Office.
Judge John D. Haymaker made an
adoption order in an unusual case at
Pittsburg, which makes Ida Selma
Light, 40 years old, the daughter of
Mary L. Mcintosh, who is 76. Neither
woman has ever married and have no
heirs. The order Of court gives the
adopted woman the right of a child
and heir, and directs that she shall
be subject to the duties Of a child.
Significant Of the growth Of Cath
olicism in the new world was the
splendid ceremony performed by
Archbishop Ireland in St. Paul, when
for the first time since the church,
came to America six bishops were
consecrated simultaneously.
Woodmen Of the World observe
memorial day June 6, this being the
date set for the members of this
order throughout the country to honor
their dead.
Following the spirit of the recent
conference held to consider social
diseases and their prevention by edu-
cation, the Department Of Public
Health and Charities, Philadelphia,
makes in its weekly health talks an
earnest appeal to parents to talk
plainly with their children, and not
to be reticent through a telling Of
false modesty, on the important facts
Of personal and sexual hygiene.
William Fl. Barrett, a hotelkeeper.
of Locust Valley, L. l., famed for
being considerably broader than he
was long, is dead. His collars were
size % l-2, he was 6 feet 8 inches
around the waist and weighed 500
pounds. He was 48 years old.