Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-12
General.

Thirteen deaths from the celebra-
ton of the fourth Of July was the to-
tai reported in the United States, ac-
cording to figures compiled by the
Chicago Tribune. The nationwide
spread of the sane fourth movement
brought fruit in the smallest number
of celebration casualties ever re-
corded.
Before President Taft took his seat
in the reviewing stand in front of the
soldiers monument at Indianapolis,
Ind, what is believed by the police
to be a spent bullet hit Mrs. Mary G.
Tutewiler, the wife Of prominent
citizen who was sitting near the pres
ident's box, in the thigh. The bullet
c.-le from a 3S-caliber revolver and
penetrated about three-eighths of an
inch. Mrs. Tutewiler left her seat for
a half hour, had the wound dressed
and returned.
Postmaster General Hitchcock an
nounced that applications from depos-
itors to purchase postal savings bonds
on July l aggregated $4,000. o.
this sum more than $4,000 worth
were applied for in the registered
form, indicating the intention of de-
positors to retain the bonds as ar
investment. Fifty additional second
class officers were designated by the
postmaster general as postal deposito
ries. They will be ready to receive
deposits on July 29.
A lynching was narrowly averted in
Norcross, Ca, when Harry Rogers,
the negro slayer of Cleve Wofford, a
white farmer, was rushed from Nor
cross to Atlanta for safekeeping A
big touring car containing the negro
covered up and lying down in the ton
neau, drove swiftly through mob
of 100 incensed citizens of Norcross,
Ga, and the surrounding vicinity, who
were never aware that their intended
victim was being carried away. When
It was authenticity learned that the
black was 10 miles from Norcross,
the mob quietly dispersed.
About 100 members of the North
Side mission of the Broadway Baptist
church, New York city, celebrated the
fourth Of July by erecting house of
worship in which a service was held
the same night. The material was
assembled on the ground the day be-
fore the fourth, and on the morning
OF the fourth the members began the
construction at $50 o'clock. At &
O'Clock the building was completed,
and the electric lights were turned
On at 1880 o'clock. The building will
seat 800 people.
A cutter which has just arrived
here from Rolsoehayen. Hamerfest,
Norway, reports that the Norwegian
steamer Eclipse has foundered off Ice
land. The steamer had ffty-six per-
sons on board.
Eight persons were drowned in
Michigan waters seking relief from
the heat.
Two persons were prostrated by the
excessive heat at Toledo, Ohio. The
mercury reached 81 at three o'clock,
the highest point Of the year. Many
street thermometer registered 1O5 de-
grees.
Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff, who has
developed a penchant for aeroplaning,
flew again with Aviator Sopwith, this
time over Mineola and Westbury at
an altitude of 1900 feet.
Michael Brennan, one of the best
known men about town in Birming-
ham, was shot and fatally injured in
a place on Avenue E, by an unknown
person. Four bullets took effect. Con
siderable mystery surrounds the affair
and the police did not learn of the
shooting until some time after the
crime occurred.