The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-27

! Fire swept four blocks in jersey
City, destroying eight factories and
| seventeen dwellings,.
The Administration decided to &C
back to the policy Of non-interference
in Mexico.
! President Wilson went scouting
with some Boy Scouts in the White
House grounds.
Five sticks of dynamite were found
outside of Mayor Gaynor's Office in
| the New York City Hall.
The striking miners at the Coal
| Creek, Va, mining district have agreed
to accept wage increase OF II per
cent.
Raymond E. Smith, the missing
Treasurer of the Roseville IN. J.)
Trust Company, was found to be
short s35S,OOO.
Harry K. Thaw, who escaped from
/ Matteawan Insane Asylum was ar
rested at St. ermenegilde -Garforde,
| Quebec, Canada.
Wearing overalls, Governor Major.
Of Missouri and Governor Hodges, Of
Kansas led an army of S5O,OOO good
| roads workers in Missouri.
Senator Jones, of Washington State,
introduced bill setting aside space
near the Capitol for erecting statues
and memorials to women.
George w. Griggs, missing million
aire bachelor and grain dealer, was
found in the Mississippi near ST. Paul.
The police say suicide.
Robert C. Ogden's will was filed.
His two daughters and his brother get
the bulk of the estate, which totals
from S2,500,000 to s3,o00,000.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Company's report shows that damage
to corn in that lines territory in Ne
braska is estimated at Is per cent.
Edward Asmuth, of New York, and
Miss A. NJ. Grubb, trained nurse,
were killed when their carriage was
struck by railroad train near Sar-
anac Lake, N. Y.
Preston C. McGoodwin, of Okla
homa, nominated as Minister to Vene-
zuela, will be allowed to answer
charges before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
Harry Elionski failed by 800 yards
In his second attempt to swim from
the Battery, New York, to Sandy
Hook, N. J., distance of 211a miles,
after swimming continually for 15
hours and Is minutes.
Assemblyman Arthur A. Quinn, of
Perth Amboy, was chosen president
of the New Jersey Federation of La
Dor in annual convention at Trenton.
The convention adjourned to meet in
Newark next year.
Katherine Packard, the ten-year-old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William l..
Packard, was drowned in Seneca
Lake, N. Y, while bathing. She sank
without being seen by her younger
sister and a nurse nearby on shore.
The Senate committee rejected the
Presidents Currency bill.
A sheriff's jury assessed damages
Of s100 against Sigmund Greenberg, a
house owner, because the disposition
of little daughter of one of his
tenants was spoiled when the jani-
tress accidentally threw an ash can
on her.
Governor Sulzer will be formally
charged, before the Court of Impeach-
ment, with usurpation Of Office 1t is
also planned to charge him with hav-
ing tried to threaten and cajole" AS
semblymen against voting for his i'm
peachment.
The bodies of three sons of Thomas
Fleming, who have been missing from
Ticonderoga, N. Y, were found in
Trout Brook, near that city. Four
years ago three La Rose brothers
were drowned in the same place.
Allie Burris, II years old, was
drowned when she attempted to save
her father trying to rescue a sixteen
year old boy who had fallen into the
water at Stockdale, Tex. The boy
was drowned, but the father was res
cued
Mayor Gaynor, of New York, said
Magistrate Deuel. disgraces the Mag
istrate's bench and ought to be re-
moved. He said that because Mr..
Deuel. had asserted that restaurant
guests could drink after 1 A. NJ. liquor
ordered before that hour.