The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-20
The thermometer registered ITO de-

grees in Kansas.
September 1S was set as the date
for the trial of Governor Sulzer.
General Edward F. Jones, the Civil
War veteran, died at Binghamton, n
Y, aged IS years.
NJ. H. De Young has resigned as
chairman of the Panama-Pacifc Ex'
position Committee.
The Knights Templar, in session at
Denver, voted to hold their next con-
vention at Los Angeles.
The State Commissioner of Agricul-
ture estimates the loss by the
drought in Kentucky at s30,0O0,000.
William H. Locke, president of the
National League Baseball Club, died
at Ventnor, n. J., after long illness.
Mrs Hinran Barrett, II years old,
of Indianapolis, Ind, died when she
saw her dog killed by blow from a
whip.
Samuel Levine, a feather manufac-
turer, of New York city, died OF acute
Indigestion, while riding in an auto
mobile
Governor Sulzer and Lieutenant
Governor Glynn both undertook to
transact the States business at the
Capitol, Albany.
Nine miners were killed when a
cable pin on an oar car snapped,
causing it to speed down 5000 foot
grade near Clifton, Ariz.
Sanders Franklin and Henry Raj
ston, two negroes, We're lynched at
Ardmore, Okla. They were accused
of killing man and boy.
The seven cotton mills of the Fall
River Iron Works, shut down since
early in May, will resume operations.
The mills employ 5000 hands.
Sir Arthur Macarthur, of Troy, N.
Y, was elected Grand Commander of
the Grand Encampment of the
Knights Templar of the United State.
The Manila, now at Mare Island
Navy Yard, is offered for sale at S1o,-
900. She was captured by Admiral
Dewey in the battle of Manila Harbor.
Abraham Snyder, of No. 65 Market
street, Paterson, N. j., is dead as the
result of being bitten by a spider dur
ing a straw ride in Sullivan County;
N. Y.
Mrs. Nelson L. Pollard, Of Eliza
beth, N. j., accused of sending
poisoned pen" letters to some of her
neiehbors. was held for the Federal
Grand Jury.
Porter Charlton was taken from New
York in the steerage of the Italian
steamer De d. Italia to answer to the
charge of killing his wife at Lake
Como, Italy, in 1910.
Friends of Mayor Gaynor, of New
York, told Tammany leaders that he
could not afford to accept renomina-
ton if the fight with Governor Sulzer
were carried to much greater lengths.
Henry Jackson, a negro, Of Phlla-
delphia, who pleaded guilty to seven
indictments charging him with rob-
bing seven saloons at Camden, N. j.,
was sentenced to 25 years in the State
prison at Trenton.
Water famine in Butler and Bloom
ingdale boroughs, New Jersey, has
been averted through the generosity
Of Morris and Warren Kinney, cigar
cite manufacturers, who will lift the
sluice gate of the Kinneylan lake.
A factory firm in New Britain,
Conn, enclosed notices in the STEM
ographers' pay envelopes warning
them against slit skirts and trans
parent hose and waists. Many Of the
young women took umbrage at the
order.
Messrs. Sulzer and Glynn, each
claiming to be Governor, signed
acquisitions. Efforts to arrange a plan
for a test in the courts did not sue
ceed. A Sulzer adviser said Tammany
had paid cash for votes to impeach
the Governor.
The Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany gave assurances to the widows
of all the men killed at East Brook
side shaft, where twenty miners met
death two weeks ago, that they will
be carried on the paydoll of the CON-
pany indefinitely.
The Roseville Trust Company, OF
Newark, N. j., was closed by State
officials after a shortage of at least
100000 was discovered. Detectives
and police were seeking Raymond E.
Smith, Secretary and Treasurer and
virtual head of the concern.