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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
2
A Central Illinois farmer notes that bumper yields exhaust soil nutrients. With drainage and proper plowing, land can stay productive, but years of one sided cropping deplete elements. Restoring balance requires attention to nitrogen and other nutrients to sustain future harvests.
An excerpt from Harper's Weekly argues the imagined typical Bostonian is fading from daily life as observers move away from the East. The piece muses on reconstructing the city from external impressions and contemplates a drop toward ten or fewer representatives to preserve its ancient quality.
Excerpt critiques socialism as democracy stretched to excess and warns that without inward moral reform the movement risks crushing humanity. It cites Matthew Arnold on democracy, laments mechanization without spirit, and questions socialism if it must alter human nature, drawn from the Hibbert Journal.
Text discusses how strengthened muscles and nerves aid graceful carriage and social ease. It stresses natural grace, unstudied attractiveness, and self-assured posture as marks of well bred demeanor, noting a calm, confident presence over showy effort.
A jumble of brief items covers murders, cyclones, floods, robberies, and accidents across the U S. Highlights include a white yacht pursuit in Oklahoma, a deadly Cleveland tornado, a nitro factory blast at Robinson, Va, and the Powhatan county murderers’ scheduled executions. Also noted are legal cases, political debates, and financial industry moves touching Texas, Montana, and Ohio.
The Niagara River ice jam stretches twelve miles long and sixty feet high, threatening riverbank destruction. State officials and War Department approve dynamite to break the ice, after expert Betsz urged immediate action following extensive damage from uprooted trees and boat houses along the banks.
A powerful tornado struck northern Ohio at noon Wednesday, killing one unidentified young woman, injuring many and causing extensive property damage. The storm surged five minutes, darkened skies, hail shattered windows, and lightning ignited numerous buildings. Telegraph and telephone lines were down, traffic snarled, and many homes and ten dwellings were blown down in the southwest part of Cleveland.
Judge Thomas G. Ju of the U S district court for the middle district of Alabama ruled the state law void. The act sought to annul foreign corporations licenses and transfer cases to federal courts, violating the 14th Amendment and Alabama constitution. The order enjoins the secretary of state from acting on the Western Telegraph license. A separate note reports a man alleged to be Tennessee Dutch arrested in Howling Green Kentucky, awaiting identification.
London dispatch reports from Athens via cable say 10,000 people were killed in anti Christian rioting across Adana and Tarsus districts. Entire villages were razed and the country lies a smoking wilderness.
The Dominion government cruiser Kontrol seized the American halibut schooner Charles Levi Woolbury near northern waters after firing four machine gun rounds and threatening to sink the vessel until it surrendered. The incident occurred Sunday afternoon amid tensions described as between nations, with casualties reported in a separate Persian conflict context.
The Senate began the first reading of the tariff bill with plans to amend each paragraph upon final consideration. Committees will revise schedules, with substantial progress noted though many provisions like wood pulp and wool were passed over on objection. Senators pressed for suspensions of various schedules while Philippine sugar faced sharp criticism over free imports.
Senator Aldrich projects 1910 receipts at 399,052,079.70 based on 1907 imports, vs 329,118,263.64 in 1907, and claims the bill would raise 0,934,426 more than the 1907 Dingley law. He breaks down expected luxuries and dutiable necessities revenues and lists actual and estimated federal receipts and disbursements through 1911, showing surpluses, deficits, and nine and a half months data for 1909.
Mercer grand jury returned indictments Friday night against James H. Boyle and his wife for the abduction of Willie Whitle of Sharon on March 18. Boyle faces a kidnapping charge with a maximum life term. The woman is charged with aiding and assisting.
The indictment identifies Mary Doe alias Helen Anna McDermott Parker Miner Yorke and Boyle in a kidnapping case. The abductors’ trial starts Friday April 30. The grand jury says Sheriff Chese was told to place Boyle in a burglar‑proof cell due to recent outside attempts to free him.
A cyclone swept through Clay County Georgia causing numerous injuries and extensive property damage. Thousands of dollars in losses reported as residents fled notable disruption near Fort Gaines. Women and children cried in panic as the storm approached, with near townwide alarm.
A damaging cyclone swept Hin Georgia destroying multiple negro homes and country houses of B F Grimsey and J W Sutton. Grimsey, West, two Grimsey children, and two farm hands were injured as a Central of Georgia line escaped by a margin of about thirty seconds.
Governor Willson granted pardons to former Gov W Taylor and other fugitives tied to the 1900 Goebel murder saga in Kentucky Special clemency order. Indictments against several figures were dropped or left unsettled as remaining cases struggle through the state system.
An automobile aboard a ship on the James River had to be lashed to the deck to prevent it from washing overboard. Crew members were forced to tie themselves to thwarts to avoid being blown over the side as the steam powered vessel battled rough conditions.
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