Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-11-08


led beneath tree on an island in
jackson Park, Chicago. The bills
were recovered after a confession
fIom Albert Leon. Leon was said to
be Russian political refugee and
the head of a successful counterfeit
ing outfit. For months notes OF this
denomination have been circulated In
the West. They were made in a log
cabin at Nootka Island, of the coast
of British Columbia.
In a great amphitheater formed by
the broad expanse Of the Hudson rlV-
er, the towering shore Of Manhattan,
the precipitous Palisades Of New Jer-
sey and a cloud-fecked sky, an awe
some marine spectacle was staged,
when Secretary Meyer Of the navy in
spected the most opwerful fleet of
fighting ships ever assembled in
American waters. Ninety-nine in all,
they lay at anchor gay with colors,
in six great divisions, seven miles
in length. This line the secretary
passed.,
With the suicide of Prince Chun.
the Chinese regent, hourly expected,
"in atonement to his ancestors for his
error of statesmanship;" with the
likelihood Of the entire imperial army
Of the North rising in mutiny against
the Manchu dynasty, following the
l---.,-.+;o,, ~ tbo co hinet as an inn
minent possibility and with the South
ern provinces menaced by genera!
slaughter by the Manchu princes
threatening the lives Of millions. Chi
ma faced the direst period OF her
crisis.
China's national assembly voiced
qualification over edicts issued by the
throne and expressed belief that the
situation in China would be improved
If the thrones promises were fulfilled
However, it is doubtful if the edicts
will have the effect of halting the rev.
olution. The edicts make complete
capitualtion to the demands of the ma
tional assembly and even go so far as
to offer extravagant praise to the reb-
els for bringing about the great re-
forms which are promised.
Rev. Clarence v, T. Richeson, pas
tor of Emmanuel Baptist church, Cam
bridge, Mass, was indicted on five
counts, charging murder in the first
degree by the Suffolk county grand
jury, for the alleged poisoning, on oc-
tober IA, of his former sweetheart,
Miss Avis w. Linnell Of Hyannis,
Mass. The grand jury reported their
finding to the superior criminal court
after hearing more than thirty wit
nesses during four days. 1t is under
stood that the jurors were unanimous
in adopting the indictment.
Mrs. Louise Ve,milya of Chicago
was formally charged with murder OF
Policeman Arthur Bissonette by pol.
soning hin with arsenic, following the
report of toxicologists who had exam
ined the Yiscera of the dead roomer at
the widows home. Coroner Hoffman
announced that he will have exhum-
ed the l,odies of at least two of the
other eight persons who have died in
her home during the past eighteen
years. Mrs. Vermilya is critically i'll
with pneumonia.
One brokerage firm suspended, and
another transferred for trades to
avoid going to the wall when the
heavy holders of wheat poured their
holdings into Chicago trade channels
to clear decks, in common belief for
the threatened inspection by Federal
authorities on a hunt for possible
wheat corners. The suspended firm,
small one, was that of Sam Finney.
Bringle & Wing got under cover by
transfer of trades when the call for
margins went out.
The town of Thelma, Is miles south
of San Antonio, Texas, was practically
destroyed and two persons were in
jured and damage the amount OF which
has not been estimated, was done to
crops by a tornado which swept the
country about Thelma, according to
news received here. According to re
ports of the storm received, resi-
dences, barns and other outhouses, the
small business structures and schoo
houses were wrecked, the debris being
scattered in the wake of the wind.
President Taft surprised large
audience at dinner in Chicago Of thu
Hamilton club by what most OF hi
hearers construed as an admission o
the possibility of Republican defea
in the coming national election. III
was speaking to what had promised
to be an unusually enthusiastic audi
ence of Republicans. Those presen
hastened to ascribe the president
utterances to WEAKNESS after his loni
tour of speechmaking and especiall,
after the three days hard Campaign
in Chicago.