Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-16
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burned TO death while hgl1tlng forest
fires neal her home.
Regular troops will be thrown into
Philadelphia at the first ~infraction
of any Federal law by the strikers.
Compelled to resign her work as
school teacher becauce of i'll health,
Miss Efie Simpson, 20 years old,
a member of a prominent family in
Georgia, shot and killed herself at
her home in Milledgeville.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
in San Francisco. The motion was
long and slow. Telephone and tele-
graph companies report that it was
felt in other parts of the State.
After falling into a vat filled with
tanning acid William Karcher was
ground to death in Newark, N. j.,
by the revolving steel ladies in the
leather manufacturing works Of Blap-
chard Brothers ond Lane.
The elimination Of a romance be-
gun years ago came when Col. Julius
A. De Lagnel, 81 years old, the last
of a distinguished Huguenot family
of Washington, and Mrs. Josephine
c. Cowles, aged "a, also Of a promi-
nent family, were married by Rev.
DIR. Joseph 7. Kelly. Both had been
married before.
A scolding by his woman teacher
F., was more than Guy Moses, "A years
old, could endure and he killed him
! self in Maple Hill, Tenn.
After five hours and a half of
hauling and tugging, the pilot boat
Florida towed into port a 0O-foot
whale at Sabine, Tex.
David Alexander Munroe, assistant
editor of the North American Re-
view, died Of a complication of
diseases, aged 70.
Live hogs are selling at $1,000 a
hundred pounds, which is the record
price in Columbus, Ohio, since 1870.
Mrs. Helen M. Walter, the Chicago
widow who sued Theodore A. Ryer.
son, a hloker, to recover $4,000 for
alleged breach of promise, was award
ed $4,000 by the jury in the SUI
preme Court in New York.
The potters. field will be the last
; resting place of a score Of victims Of
the Great Northern Railroad ava
lanchc at Wellington, Wash, the
O said. The bodies recovered
! are clad only in sleeping garments
or are nude ard Identification. is al
most impossible.
Annoyed by the barking Of a
farmers dog, William Miller follow
ed the animal for a mile along the
tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road and in a deep cut found a pile
of ties on the track, near Wheeling,
! w. Va, apparently placed there to
wreck a train. The New York and
Chicago Express No. 70 was due at
the moment, but as the train was 30
minutes late Miller succeeded in
clearing the track before the train
appeared.
Lawlessness at Harveytown, W.
, Va, where a church was besisged
Sunday night aud three persons
wounded by bullets fred through the
walls, was renewed. Two men were
arrested and brought to Huntington.
Col. Alexander Robert Chisolm,
formerly lieutenant colonel or the
staff Of Gen. Beauregard Of the
Armies of the Confederacy, died at
his home in New York after an i'll
ness of about a month.
A bill authorizing the construc-
, ton of a building in Washington for
the Departments of State, Justice
and Commerce and Labor was passed
by the Senate. The limit of cost is
fixed at $12,OOO,OOO
Matt Henson, lecturing in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, OH his trip to the North
Pole with Commander Robert E.
Peary, expressed Indignation at what
he termed Peary's "shabby treat
ment" Of him since their return to
this country.
Mrs. "Jack" Cudahy, whose hus-
band tied and cut Banker Jere f.
Lillis in Kansas City, Mo-, when the
lattjr was found in the Cudahy
home, says that she has received a
scor, of offers to go on the stage,
but had declined them all.
A Pacific Electric suburban car
was struck by a Salt Lake, Los An
geles e. San Pedro train at Also
street, Los Angeles, CAL, Is passen-
gers were injured, several fatally.
Electors of the Southern Industrial
Educational Association met in Wash
ington, with delegates from auxil-
iaries in New York, Baltimore and
Richmond. DR.. George E. Meyers,
of Washington, in an address to the
assemblage, pointed out the advan-
tage of an industrial education, as
evidenced by the great demand for
training of that kind in this city.
Thomas Nelson Page urged the need
of publicity regarding the work of
the association. -Four members were
elected to the board of trustees for
three year terms-Justice Seth Shep>
pard, Mrs. Samuel Spencer, O. c.
Calhoun and DR.. George E. Meyers.
Meeting in the narrow hall of a
house in Gainesville, Ga, both armed
with pistols, Robert @. Thompson
| shot and killed John Mason.