The Monroe journal., 1910-03-29
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Current Events in the United States
and the World at Large Briefly
Set Forth.


lexington Dispatch
Papers have been filed in Green
wich, Conn, By Maria Ross, aged 60,
against John Masser, aged 60, charg-
ing breach Of promise. Maria wants
$4,000 as balm for her heart wounds.
Crate Bright, a young man Of Calf
ney, shot his father, W. ii. Bright,
one day last week, to protect himself
and his mother, the elder man being
drunk; and Immediately after the
shooting he went to the county jail
and gave himself up. His father died.
Tomorrow the case Of l.. ii. Smith
will be called at Bristol, Va. He is
three score and three years old and
feeble, yet he stands charged with
heinous murder, having shot down
and killed Columbus Stout while the
latter stood in his own door one
night recently.
Miss Evelyn Whitney, who allow
ed the doctors TO transfuse her blood
into a dying old woman, Mrs. Hattie
Mulligan, which operation prolonged
the patients life several days, has
brought suit for a thousand at st.
Paul, claiming that she has not re-
ceived any pay for her blood.
Mrs. Fannie Carson, who murder
ed her husband Is years ago in South
Carolina, was pardoned by the Gov
ernor last week after having served
the above number Of years. She is
from Spartanburg county and has re-
peatedly made efforts to get pardon
without success.
The venerable pedestrian, Edward
Peyton Weston, who has made so
many record breaking long distance
walks and who is now walking from
Los Angeles to New York, was eight
days ahead Of his schedule when he
passed Hutchinson, Kans., last week.
He is away up in years.
Fearing that she would be taken
to an insane asylum, Edna Summer
ton, aged IS, at Hamilton, o., pour
ed a can of gasoline on the bed Of
her numbering spouse, set it on fire,
and, as an explosion Immediately fol-
lowed, leaped head foremost from the
second story window and was fatally
injured.
New York is shipping babies to
New Orleans. What? It's the truth.
There seems to be a rage among the
women Of the Crescent City who
have no children to adopt orphans
A car load Of foundlings was sent
there from New York and the little
ones were gobbled up in a rush, SC
another car will be sent.
When Lyman Ougust, a pawnbro,
ker in Spartanburg, awoke the Other
morning he found that some pirate
had broken his window and stolen
$4,000 worth of watches and dia-
monds. Crazed by the loss, the Jew
raved against the police for not pro
tecting him better, and was there
upon arrested for IL.
Of the Greenland coast last Wed.
nesday was picked up a bottle thrown
overheard from Peary's ship, the
Roosevelt, September 2, 1909, and in
it was found a letter addressed to E.
MILAN, at Frankfort. on.the- Main, sta
ting that the bottle was thrown out
to ascertain the drift of currents
along the coast Of Labrador.
Because his Is .year-old stepdaugh-
ter, Amy Lilly, refused to elope with
him, Richard Sneed shot and killed
the girl and when the officers arrest.
ed him, seriously wounded himself
with the same weapon, at Bluefeld
w. Va, last Wednesday. Sneed's
offensive attentions had driven the
girl from his home and he had fol,
lowed her.
Although at deaths door a few
weeks ago, and supposed to be like.
ly to die any minute, Senator B. r
Tillman has so far recovered as TO BIZ
able to 90 to his home in South Caro-
lima, where he is now. He plans 9
trip to Europe later. The senator is
a man Of remarkably physical vitality
Hamilton Fish Of New York urged
the passage of a bill by the House
last week to give ex-President Roose.
welt the right Of free postage for life
but no action was taken. Mr.. Fish
showed that Washington, Jefferson
Madison and Adams all had this priv.
ilege, but the law was repealed il
| 1925.
1t has been decided by the courts
that when a railroad allows a traiI
of live stock to go over 2S hours with
out water and feed, the penalty pro
vided against same applies to each
car in the train and not to the trair
as a whole. For instance, if there