The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-04-21

THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

feiter, who escaped from the federal
prison, at Atlanta, May %, 1906, was
captured near Houston, Tex.
Conscience-stricken after % years
because he cheated Governor Stubbs,
of Kansas, out of Is bushels of corn.
worth So, an Usage county farmer is
preparing to make cash restitution.
Aided by two women, who are
thought to have smuggled saws with
which to cut the bars of window
and provided an automobile for their
flight, two military prisoners escap-
ed from the guard house at Fort
Logan, Col.
The French submarine boat Ven
toz established record by navigat-
ing at depth of lib feet for ~
minutes.
Needless of the man hunt for the
bandits who killed the cashier and
manager of the Victor Bank III Scho-
envilc, Pa, robbers made raid on
the Thomas Supply Co. store, almost
opposite the bank, at the notorious
"bloody angle"
JOHN Red Walters, who has crim-
inal record, paid the penalty for wife
beating at Hagerstowu, Md, by re-
celving 10 lashes, vigorously applied
by the sheriff.
With assets of 20 cents, Brunslaw
Niemaszek. Il years old, of Newark,
had legislative influence to procure
the passage of two bills through the
New jersey legislature. amending
the procedure in the execution of
judgments against debtors under the
age Of 16 SO as to avoid their i'm
prlsonment.
President Taft received from the
members of Hiram Lodge, No. JOY.
Free, Ancient and Accepted Masons.
OF Baltimore, handsome Masonic
apron. The occasion was the fra
ternal visit of 300 Baltimore Masons
to the lodgcrooms of Naval Lodge.
No. 4, Of Washington.
Letter carriers of New York have
begun an active campaign in the in
terest of their movement for day
of rest each week, reduction Of
Sunday work TO n minimum and COM
pensatory time off during the week
for those who must work on Sunday.
Seventy-twO million eggs are said
to have been taken off the open mar
ket recently. and Chicago dealers say
one Of the effects of this will be tC
keep up the retail price.
The first OF the trials of persons
arrested i'll Philadelphia at the in
stance of the State Board of Phar-
macy for the illegal sale of cocaine
ended when George and Charles Rol-
Inns. colored, changed their plead
ings TO guilty and were sent to pris-
on for two years. A fine of $500 was
also imposed on each.
The Ohio senate passed the Dit
mars house bill, forbidding the sale
of tobacco in any form to minors
under 1S years of age. The bill as
it passed the house fixed the age
limit at 21.
The body of Mrs. Louisa A. Jar
rell. who died in n Huntington, w.
Va, hospital of septic fever, was
carried from the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway station at Colcord, a dist
ance of six miles on foot over the
mountains. to the cemetery.
That the province of Quebec will,
In the near future, prohibit the ex-
portation of pulp wood, cut on the
crown lands Of the province, to the
United States, was announced in the
legislature.
Mrs. Frank Norford. of Mary
land, has an Easter egg 45 years old.
The egg was attractively dyed and
etched in 1865.
Certain fat men of New Orleans
are wearing n complacent smile and
affecting self-satisled strut. They
are members of the Two-Hundred
Pound Club, organized with a con-
siderable membership and "ample
prospects,"
Lexington, n. c., has passed an Or
dance requiring all trains running
within the corporate limits of the
town to reduce their speed to 6 miles
an hour.
The liquor question figured IN nu-
merous municipal elections in Cali
fornia. BY substantial majorities, 9
towns voted dry and by majorities
equally substantial q other towns III
dorsed saloons.
Robert S. Sharp, collector of in
tenal revenue at Nashville, Tenn.,
has been appointed chief postoflice
inspector.
The University of Denve-, Col,
a Methodist institution, conferred
the degree Of dS-tor of laws on
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