The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-06-30
THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

more Hill in the hear future for a
conference.
Mrs. Hattie German, widow of the
late Senator Arthur Pue German, Of
Maryland. died at Washington, at
the age of rs, after a lingering i'll
ness.
One of the biggest jobs which Col.
Roosevelt found himself confronted
with when he reached the Outlook
office was the looking over of nearly
5000 letters.
BY a vote of 255 to 20 the House
passed bill providing for the is
suance of certificates of Indebtedness
to the amount of $20,0O0,OOO to pro-
vide fund for the completion of
reclamation projects already begun.
Maharajah Sir Sayaji II, gaekwar
OF Baroda, who enjoys an annual ik-
come of $12,0OO,000, and is one of
the richest potentates in India. is
visiting New York and Boston. His
son, Prince JasinSaro, is student at
Yale.
Practically every window in the
town of Algiers, ILL.,, was DESTROYED.
Hailstones which by actual measure
ment were five inches in ciraumfer-
ence fell and hundreds of chickens
were killed. The damage is estimat-
ed at 100000.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion denied the application of the
Pullman Car Company to postpone
the date when the commissions order
requiring the company to lower it's
rates shall become effective. The
rate goes into effect July l.
The Cuban house of representa-
tives passed a bill granting a 80
years concession to an American
company to operate bull fights, cock
nights, horse racing and gambling gen.
orally OIL the reservation at Buena
Vista, a suburb of Havana.
The spider beauty spot veil is the
latest novelty offered to women. Of
Course, 1t originated in Paris. It is
a copy of spider in black chenille
and IS posed outside the veil. 1t j..
almost an inch and half in diameter.
The veil Is worked in imitation of
a SPIDERS web.
AT Dusseldorf, Germany, the first
regular air ship passenger service was
lnaugurated when Count Zeppelin 3
great craft, the Deutschland, carry
ing ~ passengers, successfully made
the first scheduled trip from Fried
rlehshafen to Dusseldorf, distance
OF 300 miles, in nine hours.
A remarkable operation has Just
been performed at the New York
postgraduate hospital by which
man has been provided with an arti-
nclal Jaw of pure gold to replace
Jawbone destroyed by disease. The
operation is said to be the first of
the kind ever performed in a New
York hospital
A document has been filed in the
Office OF the County Clerk of Onon-
daga county, N. Y, by which Fred
erlck ii. Joss, a business man, trans
fers his wife to Harry w. Rogers.
a boukkeeper. for the sum of ST.. The
agreement contains many stipulations
concerning payment of debts, etc. Mr..
and Mrs. Joss have been married for
l9 years. Rogers was a roomer in
their home
Old stories about hailstones fall
ing from the clouds as large as hen
eggs were eclipsed at York. Pa. bv
William Diffendaffer, who lives in
West Babbitt. He says that a hail
stone weighing so pounds or more.
composed Of a lot of smaller ones
during the storm of Saturday night
fell IN his back yard. 1t was SO
inches long and IA inches wide at the
tlmo he called in several of the neigh
bors, wko vouch for his statements
Some do not credit the story, and
think that a quantity Of hail wa,
swept together and frozen.
Inc repbrt of the local Internal
Revenue Collector, at Wheeling, w
Va, shows that 100000 stosies are
made in Wheeling each month. More
stogies are made there than in anv
other city in the world.
A recommendation has beer moda
TO Congress by Postmaster General
hitchcock that law be enacted to
indemnify the senders or owners Of
third and fourth class domestic mat
ter lost in the mails.
When Henry Thompson Brown. en-.
ployed at a saloon at MarysviIIe
near Helena, Mont, found two nickeIs
ana a dime on the floor, he beoan
laughing at his good fortune and con
tinued to laugh violently until he
feii over dead. 1t was found that
ms violent laughter had resulted in
the breaking of blood vessel
Brown was cOlored and go Years old.
The factory Of the B. J }H.rr;son
Chair Company, Winstead Conn