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a fex hours later.
The Philadelphia Record says that
the reports are that pellagra La In
ereasing rapidly In extent and vIru-
lance In Kentucky. Tennessee. North
and South Carolina and Georgia
Col. VIM. W. Glass. Confederate
veteran and descendant Of Gen
James Wood, the founder Of Win
chester. died at bis home near Win
chester, Va. October 2sth. OF parai-
ysis.
DR.. Simon Flexner. diree.az OF the
I Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search. has announced that O discov-
ery has been made whereby epidemic
spinal meningitis can be entirely con-
| trolled.
Joe Reese. q fireman In the employ
| of the Illinois Central Railroad. and
Frank Seitz fought a duel Sunday
morning at the Illinois Central Rail-
way Station, Aberdeen. Miss. result
ing In the death of both.
The tariff boards much discussed
report on the wollen industry is TO
be transmitted to Congress upon the
I opening OF the next session in De-
cember and the boards report on
cotton will follow probably before
January LIST.
! Joseph Pulitzer, millionaire, and
| one of the most commanding figures
in modern journalism, died aboard
his yacht, the Liberty, in Charleston
harbor, October 29th, of heart fail
ure. His body will be taken to New
York for burial.
The Chinese revolution is said to
be having a serious effect on the cot
| ton mill industry Of the Southern
States and many orders for goods
have been cancelled. 1t is said that
at least thirty mills in South Caro-
lima are dependent on the Chinese
trade.
Thirty-six sticks of dynamite were
found on the track of the Southern
Pacific Railroad at Ellwood, Cal, Oc-
tober 9th, just after the southbound
passenger train No. IS had passed
was pulverized evidently by the
| wheels.
J. Green, young farmer of Henry
county, Virginia, was shot and killed
October 30th, by Edward Martin, of
the same section. Green was shot
four times and died instantly. The
shooting occurred at the home of a
man named Cobler, where they en-
gagged in quarrel.
Mr.. Jake J. Cromer, a we'll known
and substantial farmer Of Anderson
county, South Carolina, committed
suicide October 30th, by shooting
himself with shotgun. His mind
!. had become unbalanced on account
|, of the death Of his wife and a broth
er, coupled with an attack OF pella-
, gra.
Hundreds Of inquiries from all
sections Of the country are being re.
ceiyed at the treasury department in
, Washington, from persons hearing
| reports that all nickels dated 1910
= are counterfeit. There are 10000.
y 600 nickels of 1910 in circulation
! and so far as the Treaury knows al
!. are genuine.
/ Harry Crieger, a machinist of New
: York City, while ON board an in
/, coming train on the Illinois Contra
e Railroad, near Magnolia, Miss, DC
tober 2Sth, became violently insan,
f in a crowded car and welded
g large knife slashing six other pas
n sengers before he was overpowere,
e by trainmen.
DR.. B. Clarke Hyde is for the sec
e ond time on trial at st. Louis, charg
y ed with numbering Col. Thos. r
re Swope by poison. The verdict of tn
r, first jury which, on May 16, 1910
te found DR.. Hyde guilty and fixed hi
- punishment at life Imprisonment
was reversed and the case remande
for re-trial by the Missouri Suprem
% Court, April IL, last.
j. At Newark, O., last week, the jur
f. in the cast of Walter Diehl, charge
10 with being principal in the Lynch
oy ing of Carl Etheridge, anti-saIoo
as detective, brought in a verdict ins
r ing the defendant guilty of life in
]. prisonment. Etheridge, who was
at native of Kentucky, was lynched la.
If year, in July, after he had been dra,
en- ged from the county jail.
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