The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-03-17
EVENTS TOLD TfRSElY.
News From Everywhere Printed in
Short Paragraphs.

Mrs. U. w. Jackson, wife of a
wealthy citizen of Electra, Fla, was
burned to death while fighting forest
Sres near her home.
Regular troops will be thrown into
Philadelphia at the first infraction
OF any Federal law by the strikers.
Compelled to resign her work az
school teacher because of ill health.
Miss Effie Simpson, 20 years old.
member of a prominent family in
Georgia, shot and killed herself at
her home in Milledgeville.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
In San Francisco. The motion was
long and slow. Telephone and tele.
graph companies report that it was
felt In other parts OF the State.
After falling into a vat filled with
tanning acid William Karcher was
ground to death in Newark, n. j.
by the revolving steel ladies in the
leather manufacturing works of Blan.
chard Brothers ond Lane.
The elimination of a romance be.
gun years ago came when Col. Julius
a. De Lagnel, 81 years old, the last
OF distinguished Huguenot family
OF Washington. and Mrs. Josephine
1. Cowles. aged "a, also of a promi.
nent family. were married by Rev.
DIR. Joseph I. Kelly. Both had been
married before.
a scolding by his woman teacher
was more than Guy Moses, IA years
old. could endure and he killed him.
self i'll Maple Hill, Tenn.
After five hours and half OF
hauling and tugging, the pilot boat
Florida towed into port u 9O-foot
whale at Sabine, Tex.
David Alexander Munroe. assistant
editor of the North American Re-
view. died of a complication of
diseases, aged 70.
Live hogs are selling at S1O.5O 8
hundred pounds, which is the record
price III Columbus. Ohio. since 1870.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Walter. the Chicago
widow who sued Theodore A. Ryer-
son, broker, to recover 1000 for
alleged breach of promise. was award
ed $4,000 by the jury in the SUI
preme Court in New York.
The potters-field will be the last
resting place of a score of victims of
the Great Northern Railroad ava.
lanche at Wellington, Wash. the
coroner said. The bodies recovered
are clad only in sleeping garments
or are nude and Identification is al.
most impossible.
Annoyed by the barking of q
farmer $ dog. William Miller follow.
ed the animal for mile along the
tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road and in deep cut found pile
OF ties on the track, near Wheeling.
w. Va. apparently placed there to
wreck a train. The New York and
Chicago Express No. 20 was due at
the moment. but as the train was 30
minutes late Miller succeeded in
clearing the track before the train
| appeared.
La~lessness at Harveytown. w.
Va. where a church was besieged
Sunday night and three persons
wounded by bullets fired through the
walls. was renewed. Two men were
arrested and brought to Huntington.
Col. Alexander Robert Chisolm.
formerly lieutenant colonel on the
staff of Gen. Beauregard of the
Armies of the Confederacv. died al
his home in New York after an ill.
ness of about a month.
A bill authorizing the construc.
tion of building in Washington fo1
the Departments of State. Justice
and Commerce and Labor was passed
by the Senate. The limit Of cost is
fixed at $4,000. 900.
Matt Henson. lecturing in Syra.
cuse, n. Y, on his trip to the North
Pole with Commander Robert E.
Peary, expressed indignation at what
he termed Pearv's "shabbv treat.
ment" of him since their return te
this country.
Mrs. "Jack" Cudahy, whose hus.
band tied and cut Banker Jere F.
Lillis in Kansas City, Mo-, when the
lattdr was found tn the Cudahy
home, says that she has received o
score of offers to 60 on the stage.
but had declined them all.
A Pacific Electric suburban ca1
was struck by a Salt Lake, Los An.
geles & San Pedro train at Alisc
street, Los Angeles, Cal, 1S passen.
gers were injured. several fatally.
Electors of the Southern Industrial
Educational Association met In Wash.
ington, with delegates from auIil.
iaries in New York. Baltimore and
Richmond. DR.. George f. Meyers.
of Washington, in an address to the
assemblage, pointed out the advan-
tage of an industrial education, as
evidenced by the great demand fo1