Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-10-26

ing to head an exploring expedition
Unto Abyssinia He will start from
England, where he now is, taking
sixty armed men, as many porters
and ninety came1s. He has the assis.
tance of the Royal Geographical So
lciety of London.
The verdict of voluntary man.
slaughter pronounced againstG George
Wanko, the pugilist. as result OF
his trial for killing Felix Carr, his
antagonist in a prize fight near
Parkersburg, W. Va, seems to have
been brought about chiefly by the
defendants own testimony. Wanko
attempted to show that the blow
which caused Carr's death was dealt
In self-defense. The punishment of
the crime of voluntary manslaughter
is from one to five years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
Mr.. John X. Mclean, wife of the
Democratic candidate for Governor
of Ohio, will, according to a Wash
lngton correspondent of New York
paper, travel through Ohio during
the campaign in her husbands pri-
vate Car, accompanied by number
of beautiful girls from Virginia,
Washington and Maryland. These
ladies will not make speeches, but
they will electioneer, nevertheless.
Whether they will adopt the English
method OF offering kisses to the
voters the correspondent is too dis
Greet to say.
One of Senator Proctor's lieuten-
ants in the plan to nominate Dewey
for President is credited in the New
York World with saying that of the
ffty-one members of the national
committee sixteen are set down as
being positively hostile to the present
administration and hoping to see the
President defeated for reelection;
seven are suspected of entertaining
the same opinions, but are likely to
keep their views to themselves until
the movement assumes more de )
finite shape, and five are for the
winner, whoever he may be.
Dennis B. Ryan, a resident of
Jersey City, has testified before the
industrial commission, now sitting
in Washin gton, in a way to throw
some light on the trust-making in
dustry as carried on in New Jersey.
II have helped organize during the
last year several hundred trusts and
corporations in New jersey" said
Mr.. Ryan. 81 have two friends in
New York city authorized to insert
my name as resident director and
agent in the articles of incorporation.
For this they have given me a fee of
SIS each time. As soon as the charter
was granted I resigned from each
corporation.
Inasmuch as the electrolysis,
which, according to experts. is caus-
ing rapid deterioration in some of
the New York Elevated Railroad
structures, comes-supposedly-l
from a current carried over the
Brooklyn bridge, it is feared the
bridge itself may be undergoing
damage from the same cause. The !
places where electroysis would be i
the most dangerous to the structure |
are at the anchors of the cables.
which, being covered with masonry,
cannot be inspected. If, however,
the moisture has been excluded |
there is no danger of electrolysis
and in any event it is supposed that |
any weakening of the bridge suffi
cient to cause 1t to give way would |
be preceded by ample warning.
A letter written by Colonel Ma
tividad, one of Aguinaldo's staff, and
smuggled through the lines to
Escamila, who used to be the gen
erals secretary, but who, after cap
ture by our troops, las turned to
teaching music in Manila, has been
made public. It seems to show that
the insurgent officers are all anxious
to have the war stop, not alone be-
cause it is hard work, but because
Manila with all it's s'life, go and
gayety" is SO attractive. Somehow
the letter reads as though obviously
intended for publication, or possi-
bly, an out and out ''fake." If Col
onel Natividad has not lost his head
he is likely to do so when Aguinaldo
hears of the affair, unless the writ
ing was arranged between them for
campaign purposes.