The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-07
THE NEWS MINUTELYTOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.

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to its normal bouyancy and apparent
ly Is not very seriously damaged.
George R. Putnam, of Davenport,
Iowa, has been appointed commits
sioner of lighthouses at $4,000 Der
annum, and Arthur V. Canover, of
Passaic, N. j., deputy tender at $4,-
0oo. These appointments mark the
hrst Improvement Of the reorganiza-
tion in the lighthouse service.
A bill intended to knock out prize
fights and glove contests of any kind
In Georgia, has been introduced in
the upper branch of the General As
sembly. Boxing contests at present
are staged in Atlanta, Savannah and
Macon.
The President has signed an order
abollshing the Bureau of Equipment
IN the Navy Department and dis
tr1butlng its functions among the
other bureaus of the department.. in
accordance with the recommends
tions of the Swift board.
The upper branch of the Louisiana
legislature has not only gone on re-
cord as opposed to woman suffrage.
but refused to allow women to act as
members Of board of an educational
or charitable nature, even though ap-
pointed to such boards by men.
BY failing to act on the joint reso-
luton providing for the reinstate-
ment Of the West Point Cadets who
were dimissed for the hazing of
young Sutton last summer. the House
Committee on Military Affairs has
knocked out the chances of the cadets
In question for reinstatement at the
coming session Of the Military Aca-
deny
One man is dead, one is fatally
wounded and seven other persons are
In hospital with more or less seri-
Gus wounds as the result of a duel
fought on one of Cleveland's most
crowded thoroughfares Thursday. The
trouble started in a quarrel between
Frank Nlena and Antoine Mercurio,
over the alleged treatment of Mer-
curio of his wife, Viena s sister.
Though it had first decided to meet
In Mobile, Ala, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen,
In annual session III st. Paul, Mimi,
has reversed its decision and selected
Washington for the 1911 convention.
W. c. Riddick, a telegrapher of
West Virginia, and Miss Thelma
Smith, Of Americus, Ga, met at Bris-
tol, Va, after a correspondence of
wear. and were married by Rev. II.
W. Leslie. They were we'll pleased
when they met, and neither favored
a postponement of the marriage.
Word was received at Des Moines,
Iowa, from Chicago, that Rudolph j.
Faas, driving car in the Glidden
tour. has fallen heir to a fortune of
81 100000 through the death of his
grandfather, Rudolph A. Faas, of
Wurtemberg, Germany. The news
found no more surprised man than
Faas himself.
The one bright thing about the
exodus OF congress this year is the
absence of typewriters and other
freight matter going through the
mails with a Congressional frank
stuck on. The great moral wave
which has been riding the country
from four directions has had its eff
feet.
The college trained lawyer will
solve the great legal and economic
questions of government of this and
the next generation, declared Attorney
General Wickersham, who was the
principal speaker before the law school
graduates at Harvard commence
ment exercises Tuesday.
ESua mo, ,,o.o
injured, two of them probably fatally,
by an explosion which first wrecked
and then set fire to the saloon of
Edward Bushay, five miles north of
Minneapolis, Thursday.
Charged with poisoning the chick
ems of John Conde by feeding them
macaroni mixed with soaked-match
heads, Dominic Mature, a lamp-light-
er, was fined $4 and costs by Justice
Cramer at Derby, Pa.
United States Senator Samuel
Douglas McEnery of Louisiana, died
at New Orleans. Senator McEnery
arrived from Washington Tuesday
suffering from an attack of indiges-
tion.
Armed with knives, and keeping
their word TO meet at sunrise in the
woods near Macfarland Park. in West
Tampa, Fla, Mario Adalo and another
Cuban, whose identity has not yet
been established, fought until both
fell from loss of blood. Adalo died
within q few minutes. The un-
known man escaped.
Mrs. JAS. S. Sherman, wife of the