Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-06-29
THE NEWS INFINITELY TOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

bad boy" of theatrical fame died at
Boston.
Theodore Roosevelt has asked Gov
ernor Hughes to visit him at Saga
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, al
the age of rs, after a lingering i'll
ness.
One of the biggest jobs which Col.
Roosevelt found himself confronted
with when ne reached the Outlook
Office was the looking over of nearly
5000 letters.
By a vote of 255 to 20 the House
passed a bill providing for the is
suance of certificates of Indebtedness
to the amount Of 100000 to pro-
vide a fund for the completion Of
reclamation projects already begun.
M%aharajah Sir Sayaji II, gaekwar
of Baroda, who enjoys an annual in
come of $l2, 600, 900, and is one of
the richest potentates in India, is
visiting New York and Boston. His
son, Prince J~asingaro, is a student al
Yale.
Practically every window in the
town of Algiers, Ill, was destroyed.
Hailstones which by actual measure.
ment were five inches in circumfer-
ence fell and hundreds of chickens
were killed. The damage is estimat-
ed at 100000.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion denied the application of the
Pullman Car Company to- postpone
the date when the commissions order
requiring the company to lower its
rates shall become effective. The
rate goes into effect July 1.
The Cuban house Of representa-
tives passed a bill granting a 30
years. concession to an American
company to operate bull fights, cock
fights, horse racing and gambling gen.
orally on the reservation at Buena
Vista, a suburb of Havana.
The spider beauty spot veil is the
latest novelty offered to women. OF
course, it originated in Paris. 1t is
a copy of a spider in black chenille
and is posed outside the veil. 1t i.
almost an inch and a half in diameter.
The veil is worked in imitation Of
a SPIDERS web.
At Dusseldorf, Germany, the first
regular air ship passenger service was
inaugurated when >Count Zeppelin's
great craft, the Deutschland, carry
ing 20 passengers, successfully made
the first scheduled trip from Fried
richshafen to Dusseldorf, a 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
fetal jaw of pure gold to replace o
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
erick H.. Joss, a business man, trans.
fers his wife to Harry W. Rogers.
a bookkeeper, for the sum of 81. The
agreement contains many stipulations
concerning pavTnent Of debts, etc. Mr..
and Mrs. Joss have been married for
10 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, by
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 3G
inches long and Ia inches wide at the
time he called in several of the neigh
bors. who vouch for his statements.
Some do not credit the story, and
think hat a quantity of hail was
swept together and frozen
The report of the local Internal
Revenue Collector, at Wheeling, W.
Va, shows that 100000 stogies are
made in Wheeling each month. More
stogies are made there than in. any
other city in the world.
A Recommendation has been made
to Congress by Postmaster General
Hitchcock that a 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 Marysville,
near Helena, Mont, found two nickels
and a dime on the floor, he began
laughing at his good fortune and con-
tinued to laugh violently until he
fell over dead. 1t was found that
his violent laughter had resulted in
the breaking of a blood vessel.
Brown was colored and 60 years old.
The factory of the B. j. Harrison
Chair Company, Winstead, Conn.,.
which is operated by water from
Highland lake, has been running "a
hours ! day for several days, so many
eels having found their way into the
gates n the wheel pit that it was
impossible to close them.
Mrs. George Beach, wife Of a lead