Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-04-20
THE news INFINITELY TOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

By q UNANIMOUS vote the New YORK
Board Of Estimate voted 500, 100000
for new subways and $,5S9,472 for
public schools.
II. White, the western counter,
feiter; who escaped from the federal
prison, at Atlanta, May 20. 1905, was
captured neal Houston, Tex.
Conscience-stricken after % years
because he cheated Governor Stubs,
of Kansas, out Of is bushels Of corn,
worth SO, an Usage county farmer is
preparing to make cash restitution.
Aided by two women, who are
thought to have Struggled saws with
which to cut the bars Of a window
and provided an automobile for their
fight, two military prisoners escap-
ed from the guard house at Fort
Logan, Col.
The French submarine boat Ven
toz established a record by navigat-
ing at a depth. of lib feet for "a
minutes.
Needless Of the man hunt for the
bandits who killed. the cashier and
manager Of the Victor Bank in Scho-
e%nville, Pc, robbers made a raid on
the Thomas Supply Co. store, almost
opposite the bank, at the notorious
"bloody angle"
John Red Walters, who has a GRIM
inal record, paid the penalty for wife
beating at Hagersto, n, Nd, by re-
ceiving j. %iashes, vigorously applied
by the sheriff.
With assets of 70 cents, Brunslaw
Niemaszek, IL years old, Of Newark,
had legislative influence to procure
the passage of two bills through the
New Jersey legislature, amending
the procedure in the execution Of
judgments against debtors under the
e of 16 so as to avoid their i'm
p%risonment.
President Taft received from the
members Of Hiram Lodge, No. LOT,
Free, Ancient and Accepted Masons,
Of. Baltimore, a handsome Masonic
apron. The occasion was the fra
ternal visit of 300 Baltimore Masons
to the ,%lodgerooms Of Naval Lodge,
No. 4, Of Washington.
Letter carriers Of New York have
begun an active campaign in the in
terest of their movement for a day
of rest each week, a reduction OF
Sunday work to a minimum and "on.
~pensatory time off during the week
for those who must work on Sunday.
Seventy-two million eggs are said
to have been taken off the open mar
ket recently, and Chicago dealers say
one Of the effects Of this will be to
keep up the retail price.
The first of the trials Of persons
arrested in Philadelphia at the in
stance Of the State Board of Phar-
macy for the illegal sale Of cocaine
ended when George and Charles Rol-
Inns, colo1ed, changed their plead
ings to guilty and were sent to pris-
on for two years. A fine of $500 was
also imposed on each.
The Ohio senate passed the Dit
mars house. bill, forbidding the sale
Of. tobacco in any form to minors
under IS. years Of age. The bill as
it passed the house fixed the age
limit at 81.
The body Of Mrs. Louisa A. Jar
rell, who died in a Huntington, ".
Va, hospital of septic fever, was
carried from the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway station at Colcord, a dist
ance of six miles on foot over the
mountains, to the cemetery.
That the province of Quebec will,
in the near future, prohibit the ex-
portation Of pulp wood, cut on the
crown lands Of the province, to the
United States, was announced in the
Legislature.
Mrs. Frank Norford, Of Mary
land, has an Easter egg Is years old.
The egg was attractively dyed and
etched in 1865.
Certain fat men Of New Orleaa,
are wearing a complacent smile and
affecting q self-satisled strut. They
are members Of the Two-Hundred
Pound Club, organized with q con-
siderable membership and "ample
prospects"
Lexington, N. c., has passed an or
dance requiring all trains running
within the corporate limits Of the
town to reduce. their speed to 6 miles
an hour.
By a plea of guilty and the pay
ment Of a fine Of $1,000 and the
heavy costs of the case of DR.. James
B. Merritt, the Easton, Nd, physi-
clan indicted in the Caroline county
court for malpractice, went free.
The North Carolina Bankers As
ISOLATION is to meet at Wrightsville
On June %, %, "a.
Mrs. I. Fidelia Carhart, SO years
Did, arrived at Cape Charles, Va,
from her home in Easton, Pa, hav-
ing made the long journey all alone,
and, considering her advanced years,
she stood the trip well.
Fred Lampey, of Indiana, s. years
old. was gored to death by an IN