The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-05-05
THE NEWS RlINUTELY TOLD
The Heart Of Happenings Carved
From tie Whole Country.

VI tue gin Stt"ttllS mas been exist
ing without food for five davs and
that four OF the men students have
been starving themselves for a week.
Young women students adopted the
practice Of starving in the belief that
II would improve their health.
In order TO settle the moot question
of whether Jews. Armenians and
Syrlans may successfully apply for
citizenship in the United States the
Committee on Immigration and Nat
uralization favorably reported to the
House bill by Representative Haves
OF California. providing that nothing
III the statutes shall be construed TO
prevent ''Asiatics who are Armen-
lans, SyrianS and Jews from becoming
naturalized citizens.'
The lone prisoner in the Jaw coun-
ty, Ind, Jail. Ira w. Porter, possibly
will be set free i'll Il few days. al
though he is charged with numbering
his wife. for the reason that opinion
III the neiehboring county of Ran
dolph. where the alleged murder was
committed, is divided as 10 whether
1t Is worth while for the county TO 90
TO the expense of IL second trial of
his ease.
With the determination of breaking
up the evil Of sending obsence mat
ter through the United States mails
Post oStmasler-Gcncral Hitchcock is ser
louSly considering the adviSabilitv of
suggesting that hereafter all treaties
made with foreign powers shall con-
tam provisions for the eXtradilon of
those found guilty Of the oiTense.
Three youths. each less than 20
years old, were taken 10 the Federal
prison at Atlanta. Ga. from Coving-
ton, NY. tC serve sentence of Il wear
imposed by the United States Dis
trlct Court for Il fraudulent banking
scheme which they conducted in the
little mountain town Of Orr. Nv. 4
fourth WAS sentenced TO four months
III Jail.
After they had danced 10 hours
and IS minutes, breaking all known
terrsich"r"an endurance records.
contest Ill which four San Jose. Cal,
men were the only survivors out of
list of II entrants. was stopped
by tn" police. Women rclaycd with
the contestants.
Although the plan had been un
der consideration for some time. il
came as Il surprise when about 33
OF the l.20O convicts at the Western
Pcnitenliary. at Pittsburg. appeared
for the Sunday dinner dressed in neat
black Sui:S instead OF the regulation
prison stripes.
Thirty-six divorces were granted in
the Blhb county, Georgia, Superior
Court i'll two hours. Only four of
the suits were filed by negroes. One
wife was sued for drinking her huS-
band IS whiskey. One man who sued
woman for divorce. was himself
sued by another woman.
William Kendall. near Williams.
port. Md. has Il eat that. besides
taking care Of five kittens. is raisin"
a rat. She seems as fond of The young
rat as she is of her own offspring.
The raj suckles at the eat lust as
the kittens do.
An cpilOme Of the relation between
man and his animal companion. the
dog. Is found i'll the following want
adj. which appeared in a Nev York
paper the other day: ~ want Il
crackerJack bulldog. qualified to be
my pal
One of the most daring burglaries
ever perpetrated in New York CITY
was committed in the Office of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at No.
4''4 Broadway. The big safe in the
center Of the main room was drilled.
Its combination lock was opened, and
all the money Ind ticqcts were
stolen.
Fleas and iicks which carry the
RockT Mountain spotted fever. tubcr-
culoslS germs. the hookworm and lep-
rous organisms may thrive without
the further light of Government pub
llciiy if Secretary MacVeagt's : recon-
mendation for IL $4,000 appropria-
tlon fails of approval by Congress.
The trouble springs from the ex-
haus'ion Of the printing and binding
fund for the Marine Hospital and
Public Health Service.
l.. II. r. Green. Of Terrell. Tex,
president Of the Texas Midland Rail
road. and son of Nh. Hctty Green.
of New York. and WHO recently an
nounc?d III ST. Louis that lie had not
married because he could fimd no wo-
man WHO woald accept him except for
his money, admitted the receipt of
100 letters from women asking his
hand III marriage during the last two
weeks.
y Judgment of $3.Ij0 was given in