The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, October 22, 1909, Page TWO, Image 2
ABOUT PERSONS AND THINGS
News Briefly Told.-Gathered From
In and Out of the State, Nation
And World.
President Taft tried ranch life
this week spending four days on his
brother's place at Gregory, Texas,
the size of which approaches the
proportions of a principality. Here
the President will be secluded from
iall th'e demands of social life and he
.will rest from the onerous duties of
making speeches, and !he will follow
the pursuits of his will, golfing, horse
taek riding, duck shooting. etc.
The army post. at Key West is to
issue rations to the storm sufferers
for a few days the cost to be borne
zy the American Red Cross Society.
L. C. Logan, of Atlanta, one of the
experts of the organization, has been
directed to go to the scene of disas
ter and report to Washington the ex
lent of relief necessary.
WThe Rev. G. W. H. Troop, an Epis
copal clergyman, who recently re
mouneed the creed of the Church for
the Unitarian faith, has been deposed
from the ministry by Bishop Alfred
-Harding, Episcopal Bishop, of Wash
ington. The deposition of the Rev.
Troop was at the latter's request and
mot for causes affecting -his moral
eharac-er.
On Monday, U. S. Circuit Judge J.
1C. Pritchard approved the plan of
re-organization of the Seaborad Air
Line Railway Company and signed a
-final decree directing the receivers,
S. Warfield Davi*s, R. Lancaster
Williams and E. C. Duncan, to de
iver the property to therailway com
pany No.vember 4. General Coun
sel Watts entered the consent of the
Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line
Raiway, which has recently been in
eluded in the Seaboard Air Line sys
tem.
The bi-ennial meeting of the Su
preme Council of the Scottish Rite
cf Free Masonry for the Southern
jurisdiction of the United States was
held in Washington, October 18, and
was attended by three Masons of the
higibest standing in all America.
Miss Belle Bennett, of Richmond,
Ky., President of the Woman's
Board of Home Missions of the
M?ethodist Episcopal Church, Sout.h,
which held its convention at Savan
nah, Ga., urges suffrage for women.
-Miss Bennett also demanded that the
Methodist women be given all the
rights .of laity in the church..
sCount de Lambert, the French
aeroplanaist, started from the aero
drome at Juvisy, in a Wright aero
plane, and flew to Paris, a disitance
of about thirteen miles, and returned
~to Juvisv. The official time of the
flight wa~s 49 minutes, 39 seconds, the
distance was roughly estimated at 31
mniles and the height varied from 300
to 1,300 feet.
The Supreme Court will go over
all the records in the case of McCue
'vs. the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance company and decide the case
on its merits. This case imvolves
the question as to whether the ordi
nary life insurance policy insures
against hanging under sentence of
the law. McCue is one of the heirs
of tihe late Mayor McCue, of Char
]ottesville, Va., who was hanged on
the charge of murdering his wife a
few years ago.
Judge Pritehard made an order on
Monday, October 18, confirming the
sales made by Receiver P. A. Wil
cox, of Florence, to Martin Maloney,
of the Rock Hill, S. C., Water, Lighi
and Power Company; Carolina Wa.
ter. Light and Power Company, of
Darlington, S. C., and Marion Water
Light and Power Company.
In Mineral Point, Wis.. Frank E
Hlanseome, cashier of the Minera.
Point First National Bank, commit
ted suielde by taking carbolic acid
and then shooting himself in thE
right temp:e with a revolver, dying
by the side of his mother's grave.
Mrs. John Gray, Hanseomie's aged
mother-in-law dropped dead when:
she viewed his body. Hanscome was
entirely innocent of wrong doing in
connection with the bank.
Chief of Police R. W. Rouse, of
Georgetown, who has been ill for
several days at his home, and whose
condition was up to Monday thought
ritical, has improved and is doing
very well.
The commit tee -hav'ing in hand the
arrangements for 'the C'., C. and 0.
eeradion are sending metn oJut all
aiO'lon the new roJad advert iinz the
harlleston arnd Wes:erin Carolina are
advetising the event and both the-se
..a wil onerate special trains into
Sparianburg fY,r the celebration.
-:spector Gregory came in Tues
day night to inspect a prisoner at
the local jail at Columbia who is
thought to be "Tennessee Duteih, "the
yeggman who broke out of the
Greenville jail.
Prominent Methodist ministers and
laymen from eleven Southern con
ferences gathered Tuesday night for
the Home Mission Conference of the
Southern Church, called to consider
the relation of the Church to the in
dustrial problem. The meeting was
held in Charlotte, N. C.
Feeling is very bitter against
Howard Little, in Bluefield, charged
with the murder of the Mead>rs fam
ily of six, and burning them in their
home at Hurley, Va., several weeks
ago, and a party of seventy-five to
one hundred 'horsemen armed with
firearms, formed Monday night to
intercept the officers with Little, who
was being removed from the jail at
Lebanon and taken to Grundy for
trial. The removal was not attempt
ed, however.
Mr. L. F. Dorn, a prominent Ma
son, leader among the Baptists, de
veloper of electric power and mer
chant of Parksville, 9dgefield coun
ty, met a tragic death at Trenton, by
being struck by a Southern passen
ger train backing into the station on
its way to Edgefield. The deceased
was about 55 years old and leaves a
widow and a large family of children
most of whom are now married.
The program for the entertain
ment of President Taft. in Savannah,
has been completed. The dates for
the President 's visit to this place
are November 4 and 5.
Eighty thousand dollars worth of
cotton was washed away Tuesday at
San Marcos, Texas. Over ten inches
of rain fell within twenty-four hours.
Many houses in the low Jands were
flooded batr. no loss of life was re
ported.
In the discharge of, their duties as
magistrate and deputy, Messrs. Doug
las and Charles Jenkins, ere assault
ed by a negro, George Mitchell, whom
they were trying to arrest. In the
scuffle wihich ensued the negro fired,
infleting a severe wound upon Mag
istrate Jenkins in the thigh, and
rwounding a negro child in ~the neck
from which the child may die. In
self defense either Douglas or Jen
&ins shot. and instantly killed the
negro.
Because of no wire communication
beyond Dagupani and Luzon details of
the typhoon whieth swept northern
and cenitral Luzon Sunday, are lack
ing. A message from San Farian re
ports loss of life heavy, and the
washout of a railroad bed at several
points, and one railroad station
swept away.
At Hong Kong many casualties
attended a:typhoon that played havoc
'with native shipping and damaged
other vessels at various points on
the coast during the night. At tihis
port the Standard Oil steamer
fouled the Japanese steamer Hong
IKong and both were damaged. At
Macao, the Portuguese gunboat Pa
tria was lifted from its moorings and
carried up the Canton river and was
stranded on a rice field. Many houses
were blown down at this place.
Two desperate criminals, Robert
Bynum and Steve Griffin, colored,
who were sentenced to serve a term
of ten years each, on the chain gang,
escaped from the county cihain gang
some time during Saturday night.
1The chain gang to which ithese two
men belonged is making a new road
in Shandon and the camp is stationed
about two miles and a half from the
town.
The conceusus of reports made at
the early session of the home mission
conference of :he Methodist Episco
pal Church is that the conditions of
'the people who work in tue cotton
mills vt South Carolina are much
beCtter~ than when these peop)le lived
onfairms.
The Southern Textile association
met in Raleigh. N. C., on Wednesday,
October 20, anid was presided over by
Vice President W. P. Hamriek, Su
perintendent of the Olympia mills of
CoAumbia, S. C. The next meeting
will be held in February in Colum
bia. S. C.
The Southern railroad announces
that the change in the schedule on
the Cumbia and Greenville railroad
will go into effe.:-t on November 7
The exact schedule figures are not
yet aval:ihbl but will be given to the
Rasmussen, :he Danish-Eskimo ex
plorer laims that ook ot to the
pole. The report which is dated at
Julianshaab, Greenland. September
25, states that he, Rasmussen, was
the only white man to see Cook start,
and he says that no one in the world
can name Cook as a swindler.
With all the solemnity of the
Protestant Episcopal Church and in
the presence of a distinguished as
semblage of the clergy and laity, at
Alexandris, Va., the Rev. Dr. Arthur
S. Lloyd was on Wednesday made
bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal
diocese of Virginia. The ceremony
took place in Christ Church, where
George Washington attended ser
nices during his residence at Mt.
Vernon.
The people of Ginter Park, a su
burb of Richmond, Va., and a fash
ionable settlement, have extended
,suffrag.- to females over twenty-one
years of age.
Lexington people are greatly in
terested in the discussion now going
on between the two Arctic explor
ers, Cook and Peary. Almost to a
man they are according the honors
to Cook, but it is decided tfhat it will
be even more interesting to vote on
the question which is being done.
Behind the Screen.
A negro preacher in a Georgia
town was edified on one occasion by
the recital of a dream had by a mem
ber of ihis church.
"I was a-dreamin' all dis time,"
said the narrator, "dat I was in
Ole Satan 's dominions. I tell you,
pahson, dat was shore a bad dream!"
"Was dere any white men derel"
asked the dusky divine.
"Shore dere was-plenty of 'em."
the other hastened to assure his min
ister.
"What was dey a-doin?"
"Ebery one of 'em," was the an
swer, "was a-holdin' a cullur pusson
between him an' )de fire! "-'Harper's
Weekly.
EXCURSION RATES
Via Southern Railway.
Account of Atlanta Horse Show,
Atlanta, Ga., October 19-22, 1909, the
Southern Railway announces very
ow round trip rates. Tickets on sale
Otober 18, 19, and 20 only good-to
eave Atlanta returning up to and in
luding midnight October 25th, 1909,
but not later.
Very low round trip rates will also
e in effect account of National Ex
ibition of Automobiles and Auto
mobile Races, Atlanta, Ga., Novem
er 6-13, 1909. Tickets on sale No
ember '7 to 12 inclusive and for
trains scheduled to arrive Atlanta
before. noon November 13, good to
leave Atlanta returning np to but
ot later than midnight November 16,
1909. For further information call
n ticket agents Southern Railway, or
W. E. McGee.
. T. P.A., Augusta, Ga.
J. L. Meek,
A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga.
The Medicinal V
is admitted by the hi'ghest m<
many slight disorders it is a sa
effective., it must be the genul
Sunny
SUNNY BROOK is unsurpas
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SALE OF VALUABLE LANDS.
Desiring to dispose of all my lands
to go into business, I will sell to the
highest bidder Monday, November
1st, 1909, at Newberry, S. C., imme
diately after the legal sales, the fol
lowing traets of land situated in
Newberry County:
All that tract containing 271 acres
and bounded by lands of R. T. C.
Hunter, Geo. Hawkins, Thos. Boozer,
Wm. Boozer, S. C. Amiek, Mabel M.
Fellers, and others This tract has
been cut in the four subdivisions as
follows:
Tract No. 1. Containing 121 59
100 acres, more or less, and bounded
by lands of R. T. C. Hunter, Mabel
Fellers, road leading to Wise's Ferry
road and tracts Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of
this subdivision.
Tract No. 2. Containing 28 11-100
acres, more or less, and bounded by
lands of Geo. A. Hawkins, Thomas
Boozer, Nathan Hunter and road
leading to Wise's Ferry.
Tract No. 3. !Containing 58 78-100
acres, more or less, and bounded by
lands of William Boozer, S. C. Min
ick, road leading to St. Luke's church
and tracts Nos. 1 and 4 of this sub
division.
Tract No. 4. Containing 62 81-100
acres, more or less, and bounded by
lands of Shelton Boozer, William
Boozer, road leading to Wise's Ferry
and tracts Nos. 1 and 3 of this sub
division.
Also the following tracts:
Tract No. 5. Containing 80 acres,
more or less, and bounded by lands
of Mabel Fellers, T. B. Bedenbaugh,
Mrs. Kisiah Harmon, and known as
the "George Rabbit" place.
Tract No. 6. Containing 37 1-2
acres, more or less, and bounded by
lands of Geo. A. Hawkins, Minick,
Rankin and Nichols.
Tract No. 7. Containing 33 1-3
acres, more or less, and bounded by
lands of West Boozer, Conwell and
others.
Terms. One-half cash and balance
on a credit of one year at 8 per cent.
secured by a mortgage of premises,
or purchaser may pay all cash. Pur
chaser to pay for all papers and re
cording the same.
Plats may be seen at the office of
Hunter and Sligh at Newberry or
People's National Bank at Prosper
ity.
W. W. Fellers.
10-19-09-tf.
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