Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-14
GENERAL NEWS.

vestment would be Otis
Now the question is, Will the re-
public of France be able to Withstand
the shock of the monumental injus-
tice done to Dreyfus?
Senator Foraker boldly announces
that he considers Aguinaldo a hero
and will assist in the Republican
revolt in the Senate against imperial
ism.
From the way prices are jumping,
and considering the demand for fu-
ture deliveries, the cry in the indus
trial world will soon be that iron
is king"
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania,
says that mfr. Rockefeller made the
Standard Oil Comparative thought
that oil consumers all over the coun-
try had a hand in it.
A Key West, (Fla.), dispatch, un-
der date of Sept. 8, says: The total
number of yellow fever cases to date
is 152; % having having been re-
ported in the past "a hours.
The thread trust is reported
tangled up in legal proceedings
brought by the Commercial Travel
lers' League, which, it is said, has
evidence of Ilegality to offer.
The Judges of the Dreyfus court
martial were out a few minutes less
than two hours, and curiosity is be-
coming greater and greater as to
what they could have been doing all
that time.
The house in which General Sher-
man died, IN New York, has been
sold by the heirs for about $500 O
1t IS situated on West Seventy-frst
street, and was purchased by the
general a year before his death.
Thomas A, Edison, who has pur-
chased the Ortiz gold mines IN New
Mexico, paying something like
S 5000, 900, will treat the ore by his
new electrical process, and for this
purpose will build a large reduction
plant at once.
Fernand Labor, the counsel for
Dreyfus, is the editor of an exhaus-
tive encyclopedia of French law, the
Twelfth volume of which was issued
last year. He is also the editor of a
monthly political and literary review
called the Grand Revue.
The first prize Of $40, 900 for de-
signs for the new buildings for the
University OF California has been
awarded to a French architect, E.
Bernard, of Paris. The second, third,
fourth and fifth prizes-$4,0 900,
So, 200, $4,000 and 81, 900 respectively
all went to american architects.
Miss Ada Rehan, who reached
New York Saturday, where, by the
way, she was affectionately greeted
by a kiss from William Winter, the
the management of Richard Dorney
in nine plays, two of which are new
and will probably not go out with
THE Great Ruby" either now or at
any later date.
Queen Victoria is reported to have
sent a copy OF her family tree, with
Kind David at the top, to Emperor
William of Germany. It is said to be
a favorite idea with the Queen that
she is descended from the Psalm1st
through Zedekiah's oldest daughter,
and the Emperor's conviction of his
divine origin may be the result OF
the same notion.
Labor is so scarce in the broom
corn districts of Eastern Illinois
that the farmers have requested the
Governor to furnish them with con
Wet labor in order to save the crops.
More hands than usual ARE needed,
too, because of the recent storm,
which has blown down the corn to
such an extent as will about double
the work required to harvest it.
Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company say they have
been robbed of nearly $4,000 in the
last six weeks by the new conduc-
tors, who have taken the place of
the strikers Of last July. The new
men r said 20 have been '.knock-
ing down. fares industriously, but
the leakage has at last been stopped.
When Benjamin Franklin pub
lished a weekly paper it was the
only thing of the kind west of New
York. A casual perusal of it's pages
to-day will convince anybody that it
was one publication too many. As
was to have been expected, the paper
contained news" a month old, and
yet people were satisfied. Its cir
culation was 300 copies. And it
didn't have a Sunday edition.
Says the Raleigh News and Oh
server: I'm the death of Rev. DIR.
j. B. Cheshire, for many years rector
of the Episcopal church in Tarboro,
the State loses one of it's first min
listers He had lived long and well
and few men have been spared to
see the ripening of the harvest of
good seeds sown in fruitful SOIL"
Assistant Naval Constructor
Lieutenat Joseph Wright Powell, u.
S. N, who was married to Miss
Bertha Allen Osterhout in Oswego,
N. Y, last Thursday, is the young
man who hung about the entrance to
Santiago harbor in a steam launch,
waiting, under the fire of the Span
ish batteries. for Hobson and his
crew to come out after the sinking
of the Merrimac.
The naval collier Matteawan,
| which has arrived at San Francisco,
CAL, from Norfolk, Va, with a cargo
of coal, has nine men IN her crew
who were sailors on the Spanish
warship Almirante Oquendo, which
was destroyed at Santiago by Samp-
sons fleet. These former Spaniards
will aid in coaling the battleahip
Iowa, one of the vessels which des-
trnuad tho Anuondn lth nn;1o,.c Ill