The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-02-14
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.


| the winter in the north and west
The daughter Of Victor Vifuuain.
United States consul-general at Pana-
ma, is dead.
New York railroad officials are of the
opinion that the Pooling bill will
| become law.
The tug Dickinson has been sent from
Chicago to search for the missing
steamer Chicora.
&. W. Dunn has been appointed re-
ceiver for the defunct Merchants bank
of Binghamton, n. Y.
State Civil Service Commissioner Van
Fleet, of New York, has sent his resip-
| nation to Governor Morton.
Because the superintendent would
not reinstate discharged man, 12s
miners struck at Mowequa, Ill
The agricultural appropriation bill,
carrying total appropriation of s3, 277,-
15O has been passed in the house
The annual dinner of the Harvard
! club OF the district took place at the
Shoreham, Washington, Wednesday
night.
1t is believed that Taylor, South Da-
kota detaultlng treasurer, is in South
America, beyond the reach of an extra
dition treaty.
The third annual convention of the
wholesale druggist of the south meets
in Atlanta today. This association
was organized last year
The Hawaiian correspondence called
for in the resolution of the house of the
1st inst, was laid before the house
Monday and ordered to be printed
Two hundred guests at the Allen
house, near the Chicago stock Yards,
were evicted by fire Friday night. The
hotel was destroyed. Loss, S4G,O
The credentials of Mr.. Perkins. of
California, for the unexpired term of
the late Leland Stanford, has been pre-
sented to the senate and the senator
sworn in.
The president sent the nomination of
Mr.. Robert G. Denig to the senate to
be chief engineer in the navy. Mr..
Denig formerly occupied the position
of passed assistant engineer
In order to avert crisis in the nresi-
dency of the reichstag the members of
the centre propose compromise in
creasing the powers of President Won
Levetzow.
The British parliament reassembled
Tuesday with the customary ceremo-
MES. The session was opened at >
o'clock by the reading of the speech
from the throne.
Burglars entered the bank at Vernon
small village west of New York, Fri
dag pight and blew open the safe with
dynamite. They secured 5000 in cash
and some valuables.
1t is worthy of note that the total
cotton receipts Tuesday at Augusta
Memphis, st. Louis, Cincinnati and
Houston were II, ,534 bales, against only
1887 on that day last year.
The terms of eighty-seven postmas-
ters at presidential offices expire during
this month. The most important in
the list is Cincinnati In March the
num- Der will hardly reach half dozen.
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwest
ern, in conjunction with the Illinois
Central, has put on fast freight train
between Cincinnati and New Orleans
to run through in fifty-nine hours
Frank Atkinson, of Peoria, ILL.,. a
patent medicine vender, recently shot
his sister-in-law, Lena Sitter, killing
her instantly. He then shot himself
fatally. The cause of the act was fam
lily troubles.
President Faure, of France, tried to
enter door leading to private apart
ments in the Elysee palace yesterday,
but not having the password and not
being recognized, was held as a suspic-
iOus person.
At the North Carolina department of
agriculture it is said there will be an
increase of IS to 20 per cent in tobacco
acreage, and at least 25 per cent in
truck. There will be a considera BILE in
crease in rice.
The steamer Cienfeugos, Captain
Smith, of the New York and Cuba line,
which sailed from New York January
81 for Santiago via Nassau, stranded
shortly before daylight February 4,
near Harbor Island. All saved.
w. B. Ryan has received the ap-
pointment Of general eastern joint
agent of the Mexican International,
Iuter-Oceanic of Mexico, Mexican
National and Mexican Central lines,
with headquarters in New York
Saturday, the 2Srd inst, at D. N.
has been set apart for the delivery of
eulogies of the late Senator Stock
bridge, of Michigan, in the house Of
representatives. The afternoon of Feb
ruary Goth for eulogies upon the late
Representative Post, of Illinois.
1t is said on excellent authority that
the Atlantic Coast line is preparing to
lower the record between New York
and jacksonville, Fla, and to that end
will in the very near future make an
effort that will far surpass any of its
previous efforts in the matter of reduc-
the time between the above points
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, submit
ted an amendment to the post Office ap-
preparation bill providing that no clerk
or letter carrier in the post Office de-
partment shall be asked for his resig-
nation or removed from service until
written charges shall have been fled
against him.
The Baltimore and Ohio express, from
Cincinnati, was wrecked at Woodell.
three miles west Of Washington. Pa.
None OF the passengers was seriously
injured. Ed Robinson, brakeman,
was killed. and Frank Kelly, brake
man, was badly hurt The express col
ided with freight train.
The investigation of the overtime
claims of letter carriers in Boston has
been completed. There were 472 claims.
which aggregated S216, 443- The report
recommends the allowance of S172. 40.
The claims of carriers in Providence,
K. l.. aggregate SCI 900, and claims in
Meriden, Mass. and two stations in
New York city have also been adjusted,
making total ofS60 000
Rheumatism in the back shoulders. hips,
ankles, elbows, or wrists, is caused by C