Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-22
BRIEF news NOTES
FOR THE BUSY Man
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLDS NEWS EPlT0MlzED
Complete Review OF Happenings Of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts Of World.
Southern.

Birmingham, Ala, was given a de-
cided shock when a pretty blonde
appeared on the down town streets in
a harem skirt. There was no ques-
tion about it's interfering with traffic.
The curious grew to regular mob
and no less than five hundred people
followed her for the few blocks sac
walked before rushing into one OF the
big buildings for protection. The
crowd waited, but she did not reap
pear.
That seventy-five per cent. OF the
normal peach crop in middle Georgia
has been destroyed and that the total
loss over the state will be over one
million dollars, is the estimate made
by ]. w. Baird, manager of the Hale
orchards at Fort Valley, as a result
of the "bIack FROST which visited
middle Georgia. The lowland peach
es are total loss.
Brothers and sisters and other
heirs-at-law of ex-slaves may not in
herit property, according to decls'
ion handed down by Chancellor Heis-
kell in Memphis, Tenn. In the suit
at issue Calvin Sanders was suing for
a share in the estate Of NorVeu San
ders, his brother.
The so-called statewide prohibition
bill was signed by Governor Colquitt
of Texas 1t provides for the submis-
sion of a constitutional amendment
for statewide prohibition at an elec-
tion on July %, next. The governor
also signed the bill transferring to
the United States the San Jacinto mil.
itary reservation on Galveston island.
Another bill signed provides per
cent. tax to pay Confederate pensions
and to build home for Confederate
soldiers and their widows.
Neglect of duty and incapacity" are
the reasons assigned by Governor
Blease OF South Carolina for an Or
der peremptorily removing from Of
dice DR.. w. j., Murray of Columbia, j..
Steele Brice Of Yorkville, A. H. Wood
OF GaifRey, Avery Patton OF Green
vile and John McSween of Timmons-
vile, composing the commission 10
wind up the late South Carolina state
.dispensary
Gen. Julian S. Carr, president of the
Confederate Women's Monument COM
.mittee, "an organization designed to
erect upon the grounds of each state
capitol of the eleven Southern states
a monument to tne memory of South
ern women, who really fought the war
between the states" has just signed
and executed a contract with Miss
Belle Kinney, artist and sculptures,
formerly of Tennessee, but now OF
New york, for the execution and erec-
tion OF three monuments to Southern
womanhood.
Senator Tillman does not believe ne
win ever recuperate from his recent
illness. This was the tenor OF an In
terview secured from him at the close
of the Carolinian's spring shopping
trip to Augusta, Ga. But when told
he was looking much better than
might be expected. after reading the
newspaper accounts of his health ne
said: 'My appearance misleads every
one. / look we'll and / tell people I
am well, but 1 find I cannot do the
things that l formerly did"
Nearly 1900 square miles OF addi-
.tional territory were released from the
Federal quarantine for Texas fevor or
tick fever Of cattle by an order Of the
secretary of agriculture. This action
ds taken as result Of good progress
made during the past year in the ex-
termination of cattle ticks which
spread the disease. The total area
released from quarantine since the
eradication Of the ticks was systemat-
ically undertaken in the summer OF
1906 by cooperation between Federal,
state and local authorities. now
amounts to nearly one hundred and
forty thousand square miles.