Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-04-27
THE NEWS MINUTELYTOLD
The Hesrt of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

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he began a sentence of six months
Imprisonment at Grafton, Ill.
A large steel safe containing diae
monds, jewelry, and money estimated
at more than $4,000 has been locat-
ed in the Gulf in twenty feet of water
and buried deep in the sand at Gal
weston, Tex.
Stirred to a deep fear by predic-
tons from some Of their prophets that
dire results will attend the appearance
Of Halley's comet, many Of the negro
population Of Guydan, La, section
are holding nightly prayer meetings
to ask for safety.
William Jennings Bryan and Presi-
dent Taft ~spentmore than an hour
together at the White House Tues
day.
A bill authorizing the president to
make Withdrawals. of public lands for
purposes Of conservation was passed
by the house.
For the first time in fifty years the
Madison county, N. c., Jail is without
a single prisoner.
President Taft is utterly opposed to
the principle Of the boycott, and that
will be the attitude of his admins
tration so far as he can control it.
A new record price for a painting
sold at public auction in this country
was established at the Yerkes sales,
New York, when $4,000 was paid
:'or Franz Halls "Portrait of a Wo
man." In all SO pictures were sold,
fetching $595,25O, making the total
to date $1,526,25O. This also is a
new record, as it betters the proceeds
from the entire Mary j. Morgan col
lection which brought about $780,
900.
Conservation Of child life" and
compulsory education" were the
battle cries sounded at the first
session of the Southern Textile Con-
ference, at Memphis, Tenn.
Canada may be asked to send n
of her statesmen to arbitrate a dis
pute of long standing between the
United States and Mexico, involving
the division of valuable lands which
now include a part of the city Of Ell
Paso, Texas.
A dispatch from Prague says that
the twin sisters Black, known as
the successors of the famous
Siamese twins, recently entered a hos
pital there, where Woss, one OF the
sisters, became the mother of a fine
boy.
The chapel services of Marietta,
o., College broke up in disorder Sat-
urday, following the appearance of the
junior class in costumes burlesqling
the caps and gowns of the seniors.
President Perry suspended the entire
junior class.
With 60 clowns in makeup looking
on, with circus paraphernalia all
about and the sawdust under foot,
Frances Macginley, of Chicago, be-
came Mrs. Harry La Pearl in Madi-
son Square Garden. The bride was
the only one present not in custome.
The prices Of rubber goods of all
description will advance approximate
ly 10 per cent, according to an an
noupcement made by the United
States Rubber company. The reason
assigned by the. corporation is the in
creased cost of the raw material.
Mexicans are greatly excited over
the appearance of Halley's comet.
Upon some plantations the laborers
cannot be induced to work on account
of the end which they believe is near
at hand, and crops are suffering.
Whether the fact that a wife is adj
dicted to the habit of chewing tobac-
co is cruel treatment of the husband
within the meaning Of the statue is a
question that will be decided by
Judge Letter when the divorce case Of
John w. TIefferline against his wife,
Georgia, is called in circuit court, at
Muncie, Ind.
The Bankers Trust Co. building in
New York is to be SO stories, the
entire height Of the building will be
windowless tower "a feet high. The
$50 feet from curb to top of tower.
The front will be of granite, orna-
mented with Ionic columns from the
second to the fourth floors.
Just a few hours after eating two
small ice cream cones little w. 4.
Ward, Jr., of Atlanta, fell into q
stupor and died from commissions.
With no mention IN the inscription
of the fact that he was at one lime
president of the United States, but
reading merely: "Grover Cleveland,
born Caldwell, N. j., March IL. 1887,
died Princeton, N. j., June "a, 1905"
a monument to the memory Ct ez-
Grover Cleveland is CON-
pleted on his grave
The balloon Oelitzsch, belonging to-
the Bitterfeld Aero Club, Berlin, was
struck by lightning during a violent
storm and the four occupants were
The indoor rifle shooting team
championship of the United States
was won by the Rocky Mountain Rife
club of Butte, Mont. This club and