Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-11-09
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. alleged friends of General
Ser in Washington are pointing
yhe blunder of the British at
adysmith to say that in compar-
son with it the Santiago campaign,
was brilliant. This is surely a case
in which General Shafter himself
would say comparisons are od1ous.
Such is his sympathy for the
Beers that Baron Won Golsteln,
Minister Plenipotentiary to Great
Britain from the Netherlands. has
rendered his resignation to Queen
Wilhelmiha, The resignation is not
to take effect until January l, how
ever, and by that time the trouble
may be over.
The announcement made by Count
D'Almenas in the Spanish Senate
that three islands of the Philippine
group were not included in those
sold to the United States caused a
sensation in Madrid, but will net
have any such effect here. Many
people, indeed, will be sorry to learn
that the Count is mistaken.
Assemblyman Robert Mazet, OF
New York, who has come into such
prominence by eason of the lnvest1-
CATION of municipal affairs in New
York city instituted by him, will be
married next Wednesday to Miss
Elsie Moore, daughter of Chief En-
gineer Moore, of the United States
Navy, now retired with the rank OF
Commodore.
Miss Lillian Tracy, of Troy, an
employee in a factory, finding when
her trial for SANDER was called that
her lawyer was too i'll to appear and
that she could neither get another
one nor secure q postponement, de-
cided to conduct her own case. She
did it successfully, cross examining
the witnesses for the prosecution SO
clearly, that she was acquitted
promptly.
Some students of the Chicago I'm
iversity are going down into the
mountain regions of Kentucky to
study the peculiar sociological con
ditions that prevail there. If their
mission is kept secret the we'll
known Kentucky hospitality will
doubtless be extended to them and
they may be able to get back alive
from among the illicit distillers and
fighters of feuds with mach valuable
information.
The company operating a trolley
a line between New Britain and
Berlin, Conn, has put On a Jag"
car. 1t appears that there is nothing
to drink in Berlin and, citizens who
go to New Britain to quench their
thirst are apt to take too much The
Gag car leaves New Britain every
evening at 10 o'clock and drunken
men are not allowed to ride on any
other. This scheme is said to be
working well.
The London Chronicle says that
President Kruger's wife is of the
same family as G ardinal Richelieu.
He has been welded twice, and both
his wives we're chosen from the Du
Plessis family, which is not only
one of the oldest families in South
Africa, it's founder having gone to
the Cape in the seventeenth century
but the family to which Richelieu
belonged. Mr.. Kruger by his first
marriage had one child, who died
young. By his second wife he has
had sixteen children. His %grandchil
dren number 104.
The Ashville Citizen of Thursday
says: Lieut.. Will Fl. Williams, &C
cording to a letter recently received
from his brother officers to his par
ents, DR. and Mrs. John Hey Will
liams, is reported to have recently
been critically i'll from the the eff
fects of a wound he received in one
of his eyes in an engagement with
the insurgents near Manila. The bull
let has never been extracted, and as
the nurses letter was six weeks old
when it arrived the outcome is still
in doubt.