The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09

Angered PlttSburg mothers VINO
had seen an uncontrolled automobile
plunge through a throng of several
hundred children preparing for a pa
rade on the streets Of West Pittsburg,
almost tore the clothes from the ma
chimes chauffeur, Abe Yuengling, be-
fore he was turned over to the police.
One of the children in the throng was
killed and twelve others were hurt.
Yuengling declared brakes on his au-
tomobile refused to work while he was
coming down a steep grade.
The Mohave desert in California has
A story of misrepresentation, imper-
sonation of public men and organized
effort to influence Wall street finan-
ciers probably without parallel in the
history of congressional investigation
was unfolded before the senate lobby
committee. A prosperous-looking self
possessed individual, calling himself
David Lamar Of New York, self
described as IAN operator in stocks"
and admittedly the bearer of several
assumed names, was the principal in
the remarkable session.
A bill to appropriate 100000 to
drain the swamp and wet lands of the
country was introduced by Represen-
tative Tribble of Georgia. He explain
ed that reclamation of the swamp
lands of Georgia was important. He
stated that if the swamp lands of Geor-
gia we're drained, the state Of Geor-
gia would buy no more corn and the
other states would be coming like
the children of Israel down into Geor.
gia to buy corn.
gone dry For the first time in its
history the desert is minus the saloons
which dotted the sandy stretch for
a distance Of 200 miles. The hottest
day of the year marked the advent
of the "dry rule"
1t is reported that rifle pits and
trenches are being dug by federal SOL
diers on the western outskirts of Jua-
rez and barbed mire is being stretch
ed as an additional defense against
attack by the Constitutionalists. An
outpost of 100 federals has been sta
toned two miles south of the town,
across the Rio Grande from Ell Paso,
Texas.
Logan A. Villas, an amateur avia-
tor of Chicago, made the first aero
plane fight across Lake Michigan. His
trip, made in hydro-aeroplane, from
ST. Joseph, Mich, to Chicago, con-
sumed one hour and A minutes.
Denver was selected for the 1916
meeting and w. F. Carter Of Peoria,
ILL.,, elected president of the Brother
hood Of Locomitve Firemen and En-
ginemen convention.
Federal Judge Charles S. Wolverton
signed the decree in the Oregon and
California railroad grant case, which
forfeits to the government. 2,075,616
acres of land in the Willamette Val.
ley held by the Southern Pacific.
In the pitiless glare Of sun that
sent the mercury bubbling over the
100 mark and made clothes burden
and bath only delusion, the armies
of the North and South have begun
semi-centennial Of Gettysburg.
: Forty women, mostly Of the better
class, have committed suicide in Du-
range since its occupation by the reb-
els after long seige, according to
a private letter received in Mexico
City. The women, said the letter, be-
came desperate because of their treat
ment by victorious rebels.
Four hundred coal miners were res
cued from the Paradise mine, Illinois,
near Duquoin, which caught fire. The
chief engineer stood at his post, few
feet from the burning coal chutes, and
worked the hoist that brought the
men up the shaft in spite of the heat
that blistered his hands and singed
his hair. When the last man was res
,cued Mathis fell unconscious. He
was taken to his home
A newspaper has legal right to
expose business firms business
methods, provided motives Of its pub.
fishers are "open to the belief that
they are in good faith This was
the opinion handed down by Federal
Judge Hand in New York City.
The Roumanian government tender
ed a note to the Bulgarian govern.
ment refusing Bulgaria's offer to rec.
tify the Bulgarian-Roumanian frontier
in consideration of Roumania's con.
sent to remain neutral.
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