The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

Uruguay Will De possible after De-
tober l next, the amounts in both
directions to be expressed in United
States money.
The tide of emigration of home
seekers to Canada has turned, in the
opinion Of officials of the Reclama-
tion Service. Thousands have re-
turned and great many more are
expected back soon.
! The elaborate funeral given King
Edward cost the English nation $2O2,-
500 as is shown in the supplementary
financial estimate issued.
Nearly rs years old, but hale and
hearty, Ross Magnus rode horseback
all the way from West Virginia to
buy q farm In Colorado. It was his
first trip from home and he SAYS it
was great and worth all the trouble.
While playfully tossing her G.
months-old son, at Morganton, W.
Va, Mrs. Plummer Pride allowed the
child to slip over her shoulder and
fall to the floor. The boys neck was
broken. and death was instantaneous.
The mother is overcome with grief.
William S. Kenyon, assistant to
the attorney general, is in Chicago.
assisting the officials Of the district
attorneys Office there in the pre-
sentation to the grand jury of evi.
dence in the so-called beef trust and
oleomargarine fraud cases.
Organized labor has not been fair
! ~ dealt with by the present admin
lstration, and its enemies are in the
majority in Congress. according to
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor.
The naval yacht Hornet, a steel
vessel OF 425 tons, built for Henry
M. FIagler and purchased by the
Government for $1175OO at the out
set of the Spanish war, will be sold
TO Nathan 5. Stern, of New Orleans,
for $500.
Contracts have bee2 signed bv the
navy department for the construction
OF steel fuel oil storage tank and
gasoline storage tank at each of
Ehe following naval stations: Brad
Ford. r. l.; Norfolk, Va; Charleston.
+. e.; Key West. Fla; Guantanamo.
Cuba, and San Juan, p. R.
The United Kingdom sobered M
S54,O0O,OOO worth in the year 1909,
tcrording to figures furnished this
government by Consul-General John
IL. Grlffiths, of London, who reported
a marked falling off in the consump-
tlon OF Intoxicating liquors in the
British realm during 1909. In that
year the amount expended for in
toI,eeting liquors was $73O,OOO 900,
decrease of $54,00O,0O0 from 1908.
Sixty thousand crates of peaches.
constituting n large portion of the
Elbersa crop, are rotting in Fort
valley, Ga., on account of the failure
OF the refrigerator car companies to
supply iced cars for Wednesday and
Thursdays harvest.
President Taft withdrew more
millions of acres of coal lands in
'dltferent States of the West, bringing
the total of coal lands withdrawn
made By him up to the enormous
total of 7l,5lS,58S acres. Something
like half of this amount is new with
'drawais.
Applications are pouring in FROM
banks throughout the country whose
pfhelals are anxious that their insti-
tutions De made repositories under
the postal savings bank law.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Barberi, of Pensa-
cola, Fla, received from Governor
Gllchrist handsome spoon bearing
the seal of the State of Florida
Married 10 years ago the wife is
now only thirty-seven years old, but
Mr.. and Mrs. Barberi are the par
ents OF l3 children. Six of the chill
dren are twins. Governor Gilchr;st
suggested that the Legislature pass
en- act. allowing the parents pension
Discovery of the existence Of a new
counterfeit $40 gold certificate has
been announced by Chief Wilkie. The
certlficate is represented to be of the
act OF July II, 1882, series Of 1901 !;
and bears the check letter "D,1
plate No. $50, the signature of w. r..
vernon, Register Of the Treasury; Lee
McClung, Treasurer of the United
States, and the portrait Of Hilligas
The note is from Photographic plate
printed on bond Eaper.
Because her mother doubted her
word and sent her to her room as
punishment, l0-year-old Alice Dunn.
at Meadvllle, Pa, drank carbolic
acid and died an hour later.
Owing to the fact that some let
tiers mailed to Mrs. Frances F. Cleye-
land, widow of President Cleveland.
have been charged with postage due
addressed, the Postmaster General ba 4.