Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-03-09
Condensed Specials

more to be tried. Fines already as
sessed for violations of the liquor
laws aggregate $4,000, and workhouse
sentences amounting to 1000 days
have been imposed. Danville is one
Of Kentucky's "dry" spots, and in
the effort to enforce the laws even
the trains are watched.
The body of a negro boy, identified
as Dan Williams, who has been miss
ing from his home since before
Christmas, was found under the coal
shed Of the Charleston & Western
Carolina Road at Port Royal, S. c.
DR.. Sans, county coroner, went to
Port Royal and examined the body,
and found that the boy had come to
his death from natural causes, there
being no sign of violence.
Counsel for Mrs. Ava Willing AS
tor has filed in White Plains, N. Y,
q note of issue for a motion to make
permanent the introductory decree
Of divorce she obtained from Col.
John Jacob Astor, granted by Justice
Mills at New York more than three
months ago.
Daniel Collins Graves, the "Paul
Revere" Of one of the greatest disas-
tiers that New England has known,
The Mill river food of 1874, is dead
1T his home in Williamsburg, Pa. He
was 10 years old.
Mrs. Grace Gayou, aged 10, was
shot and killed in a store at 3019 f.
18th street, New York, by Louis Hill
son, who then killed himself after he
had assaulted and severely beaten
Jack Doyle, a rival for Mrs. Glayou's
affections.
In a miserable room on the second
floor of a Memphis, Tenn, deserted
building on Madison avenue, the
body Of j. S. Lockeridge, about IS
years old, has lain, it is believed since
the latter part Of November. With
no relatives in the city and no friends
to investigate his absence his death
was not discovered until this week
when contractors began to raise the
building. In a pocket was a letter
from w. J. Wells, Of 1872 Sitter street.
T%exarkana, Tex, who signed himself
"Your loving nephew" Enclosed
was a short letter written in the
round baby hand of his nephew's
little daughter, in which she said she
wished "papa's uncle would come
and make them a long visit"
Mr.. F. M. Sawyer, an architect, is
to bring suit against the Charlotte
IN. CO. Sanatorium for 100000, al
leging damages to Mrs. Sawyer as
the effects of administering ether
from an operation.
Fire in Hobart, Okla, destroyed
the entire plant of the Traders Com
press together with 2,4O0 bales of cot
ton, wharves and two freight cars
The loss is estimated at $500, 900.
The headquarters of the Traders
Compress are at Fort Worth, Tex.
While G.. E. Sewright was eating
a w~ienerwurst, commonly known as
a "hot dog" in a restaurant in Los
Angeles, CAL, he bit something metal
lie. 1t proved to be dog license No.
4,413. Sewright went to the city
hall and asked the license clerk whose
dog was numbered 4,413. The clerk
replied: "Miss Anna Bell, 300 1-2
South Los Angeles street; a female
Scotch terrier"
After an acquaintance of two hours.
during which time he proposed mar
rage and was rejected, Frank Marsh,
of Dillondale. o., shot and probably
fatally wounded Grace Hall, in New
York, and then killed himself. He
was 81 years old, she 20.
Mayor V. C. Billiard in behalf Of
the city of Fayetteville, N. c., issued
a warrant for the arrest of the At
lantic Coast Line Railway. The war
rant was served on C. S Mcmillan.
agent for the company here. The
complaint made by ]. Med, Monaghan
sets forth that the conditions Of the
franchise granted the old Western
Railroad required said road to keep
Russell and Mumford streets and
sidewalks In good condition, which
they had failed to do,
Marriages brought about 90 a re,
suit Of advertisements are binding
in the eyes Of the law In the opinion
Of Justice Van Orsdel, Of the Court
of Appeals Of the District Of Column.
b:a. He has held that Clyde L. Will
hanson, who won his wife by cores.
pondence begun through q matrimon-
ial bureau and who married her with
in two hours of their first meeting.
must retain her, there being nothing
"that would in law vitiate the mar
r,a4e contract"
Having raised the $4,000 bond
named by Judge E. B. Jones in the
habeas corpus hearing in Charlotte,
N. c., Ed Cox, the young man charg,
ed with the killing of Reece Hreks
last August, has been released from
Jail. The bond is signed by G. T.
Cox, father Of the defendant, and
Squire W. D. Alexander.
The Brazilian battleship, "Minas
Garaes," which is to convoy the Uni
ted States armored cruiser, "North
Carolina" bearing the body of the
late Brazilian ambassador, Joaquin
Nabuco, to Rio de Janeiro, has been
sighted $50 miles off the Virginia