The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-02-24
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

land he owns there, for $4,000
All records were broken on tn,
local hog market. Louisville, Ky.
when the top notch price of $9l5 pei
hundred pounds was reached las
Monday.
The Texas penitentiary investigat
ing committee has found that tn,
State prison books have been kept il
all incompetent and inaccurate WAY
for many years. No charge of wilfu
corruption is made in the report
The warrant against Lieutenant
William {. Stone. IL retired army of
ficer, charging him with the murder
of DR.. Charles W. Hickman. o.
Augusta, Ga, about two weeks ago
has been withdrawn. Stone wa.
turned over to the Maryland author
tiles. who returned him to an insane
asylum from which he escaped Janu
ary %.
Nearly S500,00O will be expended
on public improvements in Colum
bus. Ga, during the next few months
or before the end of the present wear
At Huntsville. Ala. the explosion
of boiler of n steam heating ap
paratus wrecked the home of Mrs
Mary Strive last Monday night ans
injured her son-in-law. d. G. Mon
roe. and Lee Johnson seriously TIL,
boiler jumped out through the base
ment and passed through two floor
and out Uf the room.
At Cleveland. O.. last Saturda,
the Evestosk quotations on all grade,
of hogs advanced to 1910 lOt
pounds. the highest prices here sine,
the civil war. Dealers claim tn,
lack of supply is causing the incrcas
ed price
The Pittsburg Pa.) Y. NJ. c. A. l.
to have four new branch buildings
The sum of 100000 has been rails
ed.
Capt. Kennedy. who commanded
the Celebrated Canadian Nile voyag,
under Lord Kitchner. in the Tel-El
kebl Egyptian campaign, and who
was noted military character of tn,
West. died at Winnipeg. Man., las
week. He was 20 years old.
AT Portland. Ore. Monday tn,
| jury in the case of Bingcr Hermann
charged with land frauds. announce,
a disagreement and was discharged.
| Maj. Ambrose Bancroft. who parti
clpated Ill 26 battles of the civil war
and was wounded four times. com
mitted suicide by hanging at hi
home in Woburn. Mass.
! Losses estimated at $4,000 in cur
tailed production and extra Labor
have been sustained by the coal min
ing interests of Westmoreland coun
ty, Pa, in the past few days. on ac
count of heavy snowfall being from
20 inches to two feet on the level.
The London Daily Express assert
that the British admiralty has de
cided to adopt the principle of oi
/ fuel as n substitute for coal in tn,
navy. and has ordered $4,000 tons o.
liquid fuel for the current year.
Owing to the continuous rise il
price of meat in recent wears. the de
| mand for horscflesh has increased II
proportion among the working ant
| poorer classes at Geneva. Switzerland
Ten years ago in Swiss towns ther.
were one or two horscflesh butcher
shops. but now the sale of horsefiesl
| is recognized business.
In a religious census of the worl,
which he has just Published. Or. n
Zeller, director of the Statistica
Bureau i'll Stuttgart. England. csti
| mates that of the l.:54i.510.0 900 peoph
in the world. 534.940000 are Chris
tians. 175.290.O00 are Mohamme
dams. l0.SG0.000 are Jews. and S23.
100000 hold other beliefs.
Massmeetings were held last weel
by Socialists all over Prussia to pro
test against the suffrage bill. and il
various instances the police used sa
bers. wounding number of th,
manifestants.
1nchan Angan. the Korean who as
sassinated Prince Ito. former Japan
ese resident general of Korea. a
Harbin. October 26. 1909. has beer
convicted and sentenced to death.
More thai 100 rioters were Klllet
in collision between foreign drill
ed Chinese soldiers and police a.
Canton last Saturday.
At the Wisconsin Agricultural Ex
pertinent association meeting JUS
closed at Madison. prize winnin,
wheat was sold for $64 bushel a.
auction. Barley brought $50 bushe
and oats commanded $44 a bushel
The best single ear of corn brough
$3.50
The Arkansas railroad commission
will have about 700 depots in Arkan
sas inspected for the purpose of in
vestigating the extent of enforcement
of laws requiring railroads to keel
the depots in sanitary condition ant
also requiring the depots to be KEEP
open for a fixed period of time be
fore and after arrivals of trains.
William G. Rockefeller. who's
hobby for years has been the breed
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