Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-20
THE NEWS MINU1ELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carved
From the Whole Country.


Uruguay will be possible after De-
tober l next, the amounts in both
directions to be expressed in United
States money.
The tide of emigration of home
seekers to Canada has turned, in the
opinion of officials of the Reclama-
! ton Service. Thousands have re-
turned and a great many more are
expected back soon.
The elaborate funeral given King
Edward cost the English nation $2O2,-
SEQ as is shown in the supplementary
financial estimate issued.
Nearly IS wears old, but hale and
hearty, Ross Magnus rode horseback
all the way from West Virginia to
buy a farm in Colorado. 1t was his
first trip from home and he says it
was great and worth all the trouble.
While playfully tossing her g.
ronths-ol6 son, at Morganton, W.
Va, Mrs. Plumner Pride allowed the
child to slip over her shoulder and
fall to the floor. The boys neck was
broken. and death was instantaneous.
The mother is overcome with grief.
William S. Kenyon. assistant to
the attorney general, is in Chicago,
assisting the officials of the district
attorneys. Office there in the pre-
sentation to the grand jury of evil
dence in til. so-called beef trust and
oleomargarine fraud cases.
Organized labor has not been fair.
ly dealt with. by the present admin.
istration. and its enemies are in the
majority in Congress. according to
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor.
The naval yacht Hornet, a steel
vessel of 425 sons, built for Henry
M. Flagler aud purchased by the
Government for $117,5O0 at the out
set of this Spanish war, will be sold
to Nathan S. Stern, of New Orleans,
for $500.
Contracts have been signed by the
navy depar ment for the construction
of a .teel fuel oil storage tank and
a gasoline storage tank at each Of
the following nava. stations. Brad
ford, r. l.; Norfolk. Va Charleston.
S. c.; Key West, Fla; Guantanamo,
Cuba, and San Juan, P. R.
The United Kingdom sobered up
$54,OO0,O0O worth in the year 1909,
according to figures furnished this
government by Consul-Genera John
L. Griffishs, of London, who reported
a marked falling off in the consump-
ton of Intoxicating liquors in the
British realm during 1909. In that
year the amount expended for III
toxicating liquors was $4,000, 900,
a decrease Of $%54,00G,000 from 1908.
Sixty thousand crates Of peaches,
constituting a large portion of the
Elbersa crop, are iotting in Fort
Valley, Ga., on account Of the failure
of the refrigerator car companies to
supply iced cars for Wednesday and
Thursdays harvest.
President Taft withdrew more
millions of acres of coal lands in
different States of the West, bringing
the total of coal lands withdrawn
made by him up to the enormous
total of 71,518.588 acres. Something
like half Of this amount is new with
drawals.
Applications are pouring in from
banks throughout the country whose
officials are anxious that their insti-
tutions be made repositories under
the postal savings bank law.
MI. and Mrs. 7. Barberi, of Pensa-
cola, Fla, received from Governor
Gilchrist> a handsome spoon bearing
the seal of the Slate of Florida.
Married 10 years ago the wife is
now only thirty-seven years old, but
Mr.. and Mrs. Barberi are the par
ents of Is children. Six of the chill
dren are twins. Governor Gilchrist
suggested that the Legislature pass
sn-act .allowing the parents a pension.
Discovery OF the existence OF a new
counterfeit $40 gold certificate has
been announced by Chief Wilkie.: The
certificate is represented to be of the
act Of July u, 1882, series of 1901;
and bears the check letter 3d."
plate No. $50, the signature of W. T..
Vernon, Register of the Treasury; Lee
McClung, Treasurer Of. the United
States, and the portrait Of Hilligas
The note is from a Photographic plate
printed on bond paper;
Because ler mother doubted her
word and sent her to her room as
punishment, 1O-year-old Alice Dunn,
at Meadville, Pa, drank carbolie
acid and died an hour later.
Owing to the fact that some let
ters mailed to Mrs. Frances F. Cleve-
land, widow of President Cleveland.
have been charged with postage due
addressed, the Postmaster General has
at the postotice to which they were
issued "a order calling attention of
r'ostmasters to the bill passed at the
last session of Congress whereby!
Mrs. Cleveland S letters, like those of
Mrs. Mary Lord Harrison, widow of
President Harrison, are entitled to
free transmission.
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