Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27
THE NEWS INFINITELY TOLD
The Hear. of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

tive on the Reading Rall"ay at Land
dale, Giovanni Mattera lost only a
| pint of blood, lived l hour and u
miutes and was conscious until within
10 minutes Of his death. Had one
/ wheel run over him, the doctors said
lie would have died almost instantly.
But the wheels Of both the engine and
tender passed over him and thus gave
him q lease CT life that physicians
cali remarkable. AS the wheels roll
ed wei Mattera. the tremendous
weight welded the skin together in
such a mNnner that the lower part of
the trunk vas virtually sewed togeth-
er, thus preventing the blood from es-
Gaping and also preventing hemor-
rnages. Shock killed Mattera, but he
conversed with his friends for more
tlan a hour before death.
Jimmie Holderby, the smallest
man in Missouri, died at the home of
his father, G. R. Holderby, of Kinks
! vile Friday. The funeral was large
ly attended by Kirksville citizens whs
were personal friends Of the little
man. Jimmie was % years old and
stood 8 feet 6 inches high in his
stocking feet. He formerly acted
as driver of one of his fathers ice
wagons. but the two prospered in the
ice business and retired wealthy sew
eral years ago. Jimmie was in strrk-
inc contrast in size to the Missouri
giantess, Miss Ella Ewing, a farmers
girl, who lives a few miles from
Kirksville. Miss Ewing is 8 feet {
inches tall. She is believed to be the
tallest woman in the history of the
world.
Ira G. Rawn, president of the Mo-
non Railway and one of the best
known railway men in the country.
was shot and killed by a burglar at
his home in Winretka, ILL.,, q suburb
of Chicago, early Wednesday.
Twenty representative negroes and,
a delegation of whites, under Chair
man Mcleod, of the Democratic State
Committee, visited Mayor Fitzgerald
and made vigorous protest against
the production of "The Ciansman,'
now being played az The American
Music Hall, at Boston.
The Georgia Senate has passed a
bill declaring the drinking Of intoxi-
eating liquors OH passenger trains a
misdemeanor, punishable by fine Oh
Imprisonment.
Joseph Bennorschild sneezed Linn
self to death. in a restaurant in New
York. After shaking pepper into his
soup he was seized with a fit of sneez-
ing and ruptured q blood vessel. He
was 81 years old.
AS a result of y years. study of
! the problem of aviation, Robert j..
Mckinley, a Brooklyn inventor, has
become mentally unbalanced and IS
confined in a hospital for observation
and treatment.
Sam B. Dobbs, of Atlanta, was re-
elected president of the Association
of Advertising Clubs of America, at
Omaha, Neb. Boston was chosen as
the place to hold the 1911 conven-
tior.
VIM. Plunkett, at one time chief
operator for the Associated Press, at
louisville, H., was stricken with
heart failure at his key in a down.
town brokers' Office, at New New
York, and quickly expired. he had
been an operator for twenty years.
General reports from all parts of
British Columbia, confirmed by dis
patches to Premier Mcbride, land
minister Ellison and other officials at
the Victoria, place the aggregate loss
of the present week by forest fires
at not less than $~1,OOO,O00, while
fully 100000 more will be lost in the
enforced suspension of affected indus
tries.
Collector Loeb has ordered the cap
tain of the Italian liner Duca di Ge-
nova to pay a fine of $3.50 for fail
IRE to put on the ships manifest two
"sleeper" trunks containing valu-
able laces brought to New York in
! Nav. 1909, but never claimed.
Miss Carrie May Glover, daughter
of ex-Mayor and Mrs. Charles L.,
Glover, was married at South Nor
walk, Conn.,, to THEODORE L. Adams.
who was best man al the wedding of
the brides father. Mr.. Adams is g
retired business mar of Reading and
rs years old. His bride is just past
20. The father of the bride not only
gave her away but returned the com
pliment of 45 years ago and acted as
best man for the bridegroom.
AS the result Of a mosquito bite
received while performing an autopsy
in the Newark City Hospital, DR..
James S. Ford, of Newark, came near
losing his life. 1t was announced at
the hospital that a series of opera
tions performed for the purpose of
stopping the spread of the poison had
proved, successful and that the sur
geon is now out of danger. Accord
ing to the specialists who have been
in attendance, the mosquito had evil
IDENTIFY gathered up poisonous SUBJ
stance from the cadaver over which
DR.. Ford was working. These were
injected into his blood when the mos
quito bit him.
The moon has lost its legal stand