The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-09-10


go to the jury today.
Lieutenant Love, an army aviator,
was killed in California.
The Government brought suit to dis
solve the Hard Coal Trust.
Ex-President Taft was elected Pres
hent Of the American Bar Associar
tion.
Senator Root asserted the income
tax measure is aimed at New York
State.
Mrs. Pankhurst intends to conduct
a militant campaign in the United
States.
This year may end the trans-Atlan-
tic steamship pool, says special ca
Bile despatch.
A new basis for peace negotiations
in Mexico has been discovered, 1t is
said in Washington.
A woman in purple tights was
roughly handled on the beach at At
lantic City. She is now In retirement,
suffering from bruises.
By a court decision four legatees Of
Colonel John Jacob Astor saved S12,-
900 On the inheritance tax.
Before the Panama Canal is COM
pletely finished 25,743,o51 cubic yards
yet remain to be excavated.
John Daley, 16 years old, was killed
when his bicycle collided with an au-
tomobile near Albany, N. Y.
Henry E. Moore, known as the
millionaire alimony dodger," died in
q Hackensack, N. J., hospital.
Captain John G. Vail, known as "the
best quartermaster in the Army Of the
Potomac" is dead at Washington, aged
IS years.
Miss Marie Wagner, national indoor
champion, reached the semi-fnal
round Of the Quaker Ridge tennis
championship.
Thomas A. Sperry, founder Of the
trading stamp firm Of Sperry & Hut
Crimson Co., is dead in New York city,
aged SO years.
A thief stole s1,S0o from the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroads At
lantic City station when a crowd was
standing about.
Dan Morrison, an electrician, was
killed when his motorcycle hurdled an
enclosure around a motordrome at
Montgomery, Ala.
Thaw was ousted from the jail in
Sherbrooke, Canada, and taken by i'm
migration authorities to Coaticook to
await deportation.
The Lord Provost Of Glasgow, D. M.
Stevenson, cited municipal ownership
as an ideal that Chicago might attain,
In an interview with Mayor Harrison.
Henry Bottorf and William Cheek,
his brother-inlaw, were killed and
Mrs. Cheek was mortally injured in g.
race between motorcars at Ottumwa,
iowa.
John Kilbride, second-degree MUIR
derer, was missed in Sing Sing. No
trace Of him was found. The Warden
thinks he is hidden somewhere in the
prison.
Sulzer strategists hope to show that
phone charges rolled up when Charles
F. Murphy was ordering legislators to
impeach the Governor have been paid
by the State.
Ex-President Kirby Of the N. A. M,
testified he had sought to cause the
election or defeat Of candidates for
public Office and believed he had a
right as a citizen to do so.
The steamship Oceanic reported
that her just-ended voyage a crazed
seaman leaped overheard and was
drowned and somnambulist was res
cued when hanging from the outer
edge Of a portfolio.
Twenty-three passengers are dead
and more than thirty others seriously
injured as the result Of collision on
the New Haven rod when the White
Mountain Express. passing signals,
crushed three Pullman coaches at the
end of the Bar Harbor Special. The
accident occurred nine miles north OF
New Haven city at 6:55 A. NJ.
A pardon issued to Joseph G. Robin
by Governor Sulzer was not recog:
nized by Warden Hayes Of Blackwell's
Island, New York. But he must pro-
duce Robin on a writ Of habeas cor
pus and thereby the Supreme Court
will pass on the legality Of the Sulzer
Impeachment.
It was decided at conference Of
Army and Navy officials, held in Wash
ington, that the annual Arny-Navy
football game this year shall be play
ed On the Polo Grounds, New York,
and by this decision Philadelphia lost
one Of the most interesting and spec
tacular contests Of the approaching
football season.
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