Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
THE NEWS INFINITELY TOLl
The Feart of Happenings carva
From the Whole Country.

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eradication Of black rot in cotton
was passed by the Georgia House Cd
Representatives.
1t is the purpose of the government
to establish postal savings banks al
various points throughout the coun-
try on October l.
Chicago is now connected with ST.
Louis and other Mississippi river
ports by a continuous water course,
deep enough for barges.
County Supt. Charles E. Talking
ton says that race suicide is respon-
sible for the closing of four schools in
Bartholomew County, Ind.
Julius Neuman, a Brooklyn inven,
tor, was arrested in New York by
Anthony Comstock for sending sour
rilcus post cards to Commissioner of
Patents Edward B. Moore.
The quarterly statement of the
United Sts6es Steel Corporation fol-
the three months ending June 80 last,
shows total earnings of $%4O,l7O,960.
With en- agreement that the men
shall do all the cooking and house
hold work, the wives of a number Of
ministers of Wilkesbarre, Pa went
into camp with them at Harveys
Lake.
Henry Male, Of Davis, W. Va, who
entered the employ of the pulp mill
at Davis in 1892, receiving s1.30 9
day, has been appointed superinten.
dent of the plant, effective August
l, and is to- receive $4,000 a year.
He has been filing the position OF
assistant superintendent.
A bill recently approved by Cover
nor Hughes is discouraging Washers.
Two young men charged with follow
ing Mrs. Alice Tackaberry from a,
subway station to her home in Har-
lem and annoying her wsre sent to
the workhouse for 80 days each by
Magistrate Appleton. Under the new
law they were not given the alterna-
tive Of a fine, and will have. to serve
the time on Blackwell's Island.
At Nashville, Tenn, Lille Sawyer.
colored, was stabbed in the heart by
another colored woman, and seven
stitches we're taken in that organ
She was doing well until pneumcnia
set in in her lungs. She died.
Mrs. Russell Sage has developed
into an aeroplane enthusiast. She
has no intention of making a flight
herself, but she is anxious to do all
in her power to help the develop
ment of aviation and she wants par
ticularly to see. that women has a
part in the work.
Property on Michigan boulevard,
Chicago, sold for $4,000 a front foot
Saturday. The lot, 50 by III feet, at
1s9 to 1872 Michigan boulevard, was
sold by the Leander j. Mccormick
estate for $1,14S,00O, a profit Of
$69S,OOO in seven years.
Laura Jean Libbey, the prolific
writer of love stories, announces that
she will appear on the stage in a little
play written by herself. If it sue
ceeds she will star.
After eating a zone of ice ream
bought from a street peddler Katie
Kaviack, 3 years old, Of Passaic, NJ;
j., was seized with cramps and died
within an hour at the hospital.
Aprora, ILL.,, residents are ordered
by the health department to take a
bath once a week. The order is con-
tanned in a list of rules and regula-
tons issued by the health officer.
Commissioner Driscoll, Of the New
York bureau of weights and measures,
startled the bankers and grocers of
the city by announcing that under
the new ordinance governing the sale
of food commodities in New York,
eggs and bread will have to be sold
by weight.
Oklahoma City, to which Governor
! Haskell moved the capital of Okla
bona from Guthrie without Federal
authority, has had the remarkable
growth Of almost SO per cent. in
ten years, according to figures emu
me:ated in the thirteenth census.
Henry Hoofen. q prominent drug
gist Of Rochester, N. Y, who was in
the last stages of tuberculosis a year
ago, and who has been treating him
self with rattlesnske venom, has been
pronounced cured by the same ply
| sician who examined him two years
ago and told him that he could net
live. Hoofen has suffered q severe :
hemorrhages and was weak and
emanciated.
! Declaring that there is truth in the
assertion that the drinking habit OF
some husbands was due in a large
measure to the poor cooking of their
wives, Ella A. Poole, Phi. D., of New
York, suggests as a remedy the IN
dustrial training of young girls IN
the public schools.
Having driven a team of Ansora
goats a distance of more than 1000
miles as the result of a wager, Capt.
v. Edwards, a ranch owner of San
Diego, CAL, has arrived at Washing
ton. D. c.. from San Diego. With
CAPTAIN Edwards are six young men
and q pack team of three Mexican
burros. hitched to 4 canvas-covered
wagon.
East Clevela. / appraisers have ap-
nl;ad q valuation of 81. 060,000 on