The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-01-17
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Happenings of Interest, Domestic and For
eign, Paragraphed.

One lot in New York city recently
sold for g, $780, 900.
Mayor Olney, Of Providence, R. l.,
was inaugurated Monday.
There is a movement on foot to build
S6oo,0o cotton mill at Athens, Ga.
A decree closing the session of the
Italian parliament has been published.
Monmouth Qll) college has been
willed S75,0 900 by the late Joseph Math.
ers.
The Mexican demand on Guatemala
for indemnity for invasion is s1,s6S,
544.14.
"A negro woman, named Dolly Am
NETT, died at Florence, Alabama, aged
los years.
Governor Foster has appealed to Lou
isiana citizens for assistance for Ne
braska farmers.
Mrs Paravacini. of Montgomery,
was burned to death by having her
dress catch on fire.
The Deuber works and the Canton
steel company at Canton, O., resumed
operations Monday.
Ex-senator Ingalls, has Cancelled his
lecture dates to take part in the sena-
torial contest at Topeka.
Governor Holcomb, of Nebraska, has
received many telegrams offering aid
to the drought sufferers.
The record Of business failure for 1894
shows heavy decrease as compared
with the preceding year.
The United States cruiser, Detroit,
arrived at Port Said in the Suez Canal
Thursday on her way to China.
Governor Mckinley will speak at the
Unconditional Republican club ban
quet in Albany, n. Y, February 12.
The third biannual convention of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
will be held in London June IA to 81
The finishing department of the War
rem (Ohio) Rolling mill, idle since June,
1898, resumed operations Thursday.
Joseph Bishop. member of the Ohio
state board of arbitration, is in Massi-
Ion t-ying to settle the miners strike.
Dispatches from the City of Mexico
indicate a corner on pulque, the popu-
lar drink, by the growers of the plant.
The Rome papers say warrant will
be issued for the arrest of eX-Premier
GiOletti, of Italy, who is now a fugi-
tive.
The condition of ex-senator Cullen,
of New York. remains unchanged. He
has been unconscious now for several
days.
Selma Green, the Syrian smuggler,
accusing the Detroit customs officials
of stealing from her $4,000 worth of
diamonds.
Big snowdrifts in the Allegheny
Mountain passes caused considera BILE
trouble to the Pennsylvania passenger
trains last week.
The postoffice department has been
notified of the murder of Postmaster
Frank NJ. Doll, wife and son at Alma,
Ariz-, by robbers.
Schuyler S. Olds, defeated candidate
for senator from Michigan, has de-
clined the republican committee chair
manship for the state.
The announcement of State Senator
Thomas z. Davies. of West Virginia.
puts six candidates in the race for the
United States senate.
Reports throughout the state Of Geor-
gia show that farmers have IN abund-
ant supply of hogs for home consump-
ton for the coming year.
At Friars, Miss, on January 10th,
Ivey Bobby, negro, was hanged for
the mudder of his wife. He confessed
the crime on the scaFold.
Nine of the Edgar Thompson steel
works furnaces have been put in blast
Three hundred strikers have returnoi /
to work, but 400 are still out.
Lehigh Valley stockholders opposi-
ton committee has not abandoned the
hope OF getting John Wanamaker as
the candidate for president.