The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-03-03
NEWS BREYITIES
Condensed from Wide Fields,
Dsmestic and Foreign.
AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY
Suited to the Wants Of Busy Readers
Seeking knowledge Of What II
Going on.

Announcement OF q national Iu-
berculosis Sunday" to be held April
"a, in 215,000 churches of the United
States, has been made by the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis.
Alleging that garbage dumped
by the railroad near his home caused
his family to be stricken with ty-
phoid fever, James H. OVERLY, of At
lanta, Ga, last Wednesday filed suit
against the Central of Georgia Rail-
road for damages aggregating $62,-
500.
The Supreme Court of Ohio last
Wednesday held that all saloOnists
selling near-beer in "dry" counties
must pay the Aiken liquor tax of
$1,000 a year. About 81 100000 is
involved throughout the State and
the decision is admitted to be blow
at the liquor interests.
Citizens of Granville county,
North Carolina, have organized a
Fair Association.
A warrant has been issued charg-
ing DR.. James R. Hull, of Munroe
City, Mo-, with numbering Professor
j. L. Vaughn by strythine poisoning.
A serious wreck occurred Thurs
day near Medulla on the Winston
& Bone Valley railroad, in Florida,
five miles south of Lakeland, as the
result of a head-on collision between
passenger train bound to Fort
Meade and an extra work train. Sew
eral were badly injured, but all pas
sengers escaped.
The sand dunes in New Zealand,
as stated in an official report by DR..
Cockayne. cover 24.000 acres in the
South Island, and 100000 acres in
the North Island, the dunes of west
ern Wellington stretching 10 miles
along the sea with an area of more
than 10000 acres.
The replies of the Southern rail-
roads to the wage demands Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
and the Order of Railway Conduc-
tors were opened mt Cleveland, O.,
last Thursday. The refusal of the
roads to meet the men s terms were
unanimous.
At Charleston, S. c., Friday the
South Carolina Cotton Seed Associa-
tion voted to continue the organiZa-
tion five years and four more months
at least.
That what is known as the "black-
listing' statue of Texas is not con-
trary to the Federal constitution, is
the opinion Of the court of civil ap-
peals for the Fifth district of Texas
in a case wherein a brakeman was
given a verdict of $4,000 against the
st. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.
The case will probably be appealed
to the United States Supreme Court.
At Fayetteville, N. c., the family
of S. Nj. Beasley, roadmaster of the
Atlantic Coast Line, had a narrow
escape from being burned alive i'll
their home, which was set on fire by
an incendiary. evidently with the
purpose of robbery.
Personal friends of Charles w.
Morse. the convicted banker, are pre-
pared to spend more than $l,000,000
in working for his release from the
Federal prison in Atlanta, Ga.
Officers were elected by the Ma
tional Association of Cement user.
in convention at Chicago. ILL.,, Thurs
day. Richard l.. Humphrey, of Phil
adelphia, was reelected president for
the sixth time.
From the records in the geological
department of Hampton College, at
Utica, N. Y, it is computed that the
fall of snow there this winter thus
far has been 90 inches. This is a
record for central New York.
William Seyler was charged with
the responsibility for the death of
Jane Adams, at Atlantic City, N. j.,
by the coroner's jury last Thurs
day, after a hearing that lasted IS
minutes.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was reported to the Senate Thurs
day. 1t carries $13,512. .635, an in
crease of only $1S2,359 over the
amount voted by the House. OF
this amount $4,000 is an additional
amount to be used in stamping the
boil weevil out, making 1926, 900 in
all for this purpose.
Edwin L. Quarles. secretary of the
Petersburg (Va) Chamber of Com
merce, has resigned his position, in
order to give his entire time to the
field work of the Southern Connie
rcial Congress among educational in
stitutiOns and commercial organiza-
tions.