Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-13
THE NEWS MINUIELYTOLD.
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

increased during the fiscal year just
ended, 1902 merchant vessels of
347,G25 gross tons being built, as
compared with 1882 vessels of 232r
SIG gross tons the year before.
Peter Smith, husky young tan-
merry worker in } sSark, N. j., drank
II iiggers of whiskey in succession,
thereby winning a bet Of ST.. As he
pocketed the money, he fell to the
for unconscious and died soon after
in a hospital.
Glenn II. Curtiss made an eight
minute flight directly over the ocean
at Atlantic City. The fight W en-
tirely successful, his trip needing
a flight along the entire front of
the city about a mile off shore and
1880 feet above the ocean.
Mrs. Henry Mulsaw, of Chicago,
goaded to desperation by the alleged
brutality and unfaithfulness of her
husband. a street car conductor, shot
and fatally wounded the latter and
their ~3-ycar-old daughter and then
killed herself by taking carbolie acid.
By an overwhelming majority,
Governor Jared Young Sanders was
declared the choice of both houses of
the Louisiana General Assembly for
the seat in the United States Senate
left vacant by the recent death Of
Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery.
Unique in the history Of surgery
was an operation performed at the
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospital
when surgeons replaced the entire
scalp of William Jermond, Al years
old. He will recover.
A son was born to George Hedgelon
and wife. living at Scotch Hill
Church, Pa, just over the line in
Mercer county. The father is seventy
five years of age, and this is his
twenty-eighth child. The mother IS
his second wife.
The incorporation of the Universal
Aerial Navigation Company, Of St.
Louis. las revealed plans'for a COM
mercial passenger airship which will,
carry up. to q hundred passengers in
a 6O-mile wind and at a speed OF
100 miles an hour.
Grievins over the death of another
bird, which had been its singing mate
for over two years, a canary owned
by Mrs. Martin Hammond, who lives
near Seaford, Del, committed SUI
eide by hanging itself in the top of
his cage.
An empty jail, resulting in an
empty pocketbook to him, led ]. A.
Turner. who has the contract to feed
the prisoners in the Bluefeld, Nv.
Va, lookup, to ask the city authori-
ties to lodge his sixteen-year-old son
behind the bars without any charge
against him, in order to get money
for feeding him. The request was
refused.
William Boland, a bcyish crook,
credited by police with being one OF
the ~cleverest forgers in the East, was
sentenced at New York to term Of
not more than ten years FOR less
than Eve years iii Sing Sing prison.
Though only twentystwo years old
Bolands was leader Of a band which
operated not only in New York, but
in Chicago, Boston, New Haven, Prov
idence, Syracuse and other cities.
With the air full of aeroplanes,
two accidents from collisions oc-
Cured during the meet at Rheims,
France. At one time q machines
were lodging and swooping over the
Bethany plain. The aircraft gave the
appearance Of q flock Of giant birds
sweeping down on the field.
A toy balloon, which had been IL
days in the air and had Travelled
all the way from Cincinnati, about
six hundred miles, was picked up on
a farm near Three Bridges. N. j..
by Abram Shonek. He found pinned
to the frail craft the card Of Miss
Zeba Goldstein, Of PAL Shielto street,
Cincinnati, and he wrote her a letter.
She replied, and he got her missive.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon will take an
automobile and make a house to house
canvass in his district. He insists
that there is not any danger that he
will not be renominated and re-
elected. The speaker was asked if he
would be a candidate again for the
His eyes twinkled as
he recalled the famous recipe fer
pot pie-frst catch your rab-
bit. In other words, the house must
be Republican.
A record breaking baseball game
was played at San Antonio, Tex, be-
San Antonio and Waco, of the
Texas League. The game started at
$50 p. M, and was called at z p. M,
on account Of darkness, with the
score l to 1, after playing twenty
three innings.
Judge Joseph G. Letter, of the Cir
cult Court, at Muncie, Ind, must
decide whether the fact that a hus-
band failed to take a bath in eight
years is sufficient cause for a. divorce.
Mrs. Mary Shull, wife of Malen Shull
makes this allegation in her suit, in
she also asks the custody Of
their two children.