Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-04-06
THE NEWS NINUTElY TOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

ndLIOAS u IL v "S
constitute the new Court Of Customs
Appeals. They are Robert H. Mont
gomery, of Michigan, to be presiding
Judge and William Fl. Hunt, of Mon
tana; James F. Smith. of California;
Orion N. Barber, Of Vermont, and
Marion Deveries, Of California, to
be associate judges.
A 37-inch copperhead snake, the
FIRST killed in Cecil county, Mary
land this year, was beaten to death.
Police are searching for Miss Sarah
Morales, a beautiful 1~7-year-old girl
from New Orleans, who disappeared
rather suddenly over a month ago.
The entire Knoxville, Tenny plant
of the Standard Oil Company with
the exception of n eighty thousand
gallon oil tank, vas destroyed by
fire. Fifty thousand gallons Of oil
in seven tanks were consumed. A
wood fibre plant located nearby was
consumed as were four or Ave small
cottages.
Friend W. Jenkins, the flag officer
, Of the battleship Maine, who lost
his life when the Maine was blown
up in Havana harbor, will be COM
%memorated by a statue in Pittsburg.
The bill, which purposes to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the statue, was in
troduced by Representative Graham,
of Pennsylvania.
Statistics compiled by the officers
Of the senior class at Princeton
show that the average expense of a
college student at Princeton, N. j., for
the four years of his course is 1851
Or about 1919 a year. The minimum
four-year expenditure reported is
$500 and the maximum $4,000.
| Mrs. j. R. Etchings rushed in
front Of a passenger train at Ada,
Okla, to rescue her 3-year-old boy,
who was playing on the track, and
she and the child were killed.
The colored State fair will be held
in Columbia, S. c., November 7-12.
The scout cruisers Birmingham and
Salem will try to communicate over
i distance of 5000 miles with the
new naval wireless station at Brant-
cock, Mass.
Miss Constance Hoyt, daughter Of
!he Counselor of the State Depart
ncnt and Mrs. Henry NJ. Hoyt, was
married at Washington on Wednes-
lay 10 Mr.. Ferdinand o Stumm,
lately promoted to second secretary
If the German Embassy.
Twins were born to Old Bel Airs,
4 Siberian camel, in the winter quar-
ters Of a circus at Baraboo, Wis. 1t
is said that this is the first time
camel twins ever made their appear
ance in this country.
In a dispute in New York with
Benjamin about his wages, two Of
Goldberg's teeth we're knocked out.
The jury awarded him a verdict and
the Court fixed the damage at $500.
The Secretary Of State Of North
Carolina finds that 1887 automobiles
have been registered. It is said that
there are five times as many auto
mobiles in the State at present as
there were two years ago.
Sister Aurelia G. Mace, head Of the
Shaker community at Sabbath Day
Lake, Maine, is dead, aged go. Sister
Aurelia was the author of several
books and many poems.
Becowitz is from Philadelphia, and
he says the street car strike made
it impossible for beggars to make
more than $50 a week at the 'tplease
help the blind" game.
Governor Kitchin, Of North Caro-
lima, some time ago accepted an in
vitation to deliver the Memorial Day
address before the Daughters Of the
Confederacy and Confederate vet
Grams at Raleigh, May 10.
Congress session may end by May
Is. Senator Aldrich expresses his
belief that adjournment is not so far
away.
The thirteenth annual conference
for education in the South will be
held at Little Rock, April 6, 7,s.
Andrew McMullin visited his in.
sane mother at the Eastern Ken.
lucky Asylum, at Lexington. Short.
" after leaving the institution he be-
came violently insane. and it was
necessary to ~incarcerate him in the
asylum.
Rising from the confessional in the
Jesuit s church, at New Orleans, Mrs.
Louis Mathis fell to the floor un.
conscious. She died before medical
aid reached her.
Decoration day has been selected.
by the American Automobile associa-
ton for the national championship
automobile races, which will be held
at the Indianapolis motor speed
way.
Ten other locomotives of the Nor
folk and Southern Railway at New
Bern are being equipped with cleo
tric headlights, in conformity with
the State law.
At present the naval cadets are re-
CURED to spend two years at sea
before receiving their commission.
The House has reported a bill to
change this.
Mrs. Sarah A. Jefferson, widow of
Joseph Jefferson, is the defendant