Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-21

William p. Perot. of Baltimore,
Md, and his granddaughter, Gladys,
who was kidnapped by her mother
and carried to London, have arrived
in this country.
Oysters and game may form part
of the projected Dewey banquet at
New York without any special bat
tie allusion to shot and shell being
intended.
The governments new smokeless-
powder factory, near Washington,
is about completed. It would prob
ably be heard, if not seen, if it
should blow up.
Croker is that kind of a person
ever since,it was announced he was
three weeks in Michigan all the
political bosses there are beginning
to eye each other suspiciously. :.
A Mr.. Kant, of near Gravelly
Springs, cut one hundred and fifteen
railroad c~rossties out of one tree
recently. The tree was within fifty
yards of the Tennessee river and
ties brought % cents apiece.
A manufacturing at
Hamilton, Ohio, has shipped to
Yokohama for the Japanese govern
ment 81 equipment for one of the
finest paper mills in the world. Japan
has decided to make her own pa
per.
Andrew Carnegie, besides declar-
ing he will not be a candidate for a
seat in the British Parliament, an
nounces that his naturalization
papers as a citizen of the United
States are in his private safe IN New
York city. More than this, his father
was naturalized when he was still a
minor. This ought to settle it.
Says the Charlotte Observer:
president Winston's scheme to
have the boys III the Horticultural
and forestry departments of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
beautify Pullen Park at Raleigh
under the care of their skilled IN
structors is characteristic of the
man. 1t looks as if two splendid op-
portunlties have met. in this pro-
position"
The New York World, which has
probably published more exclusive
rumors about the Philippines than
any other paper IN the country, now
says that General Otis has been con
fined to his bed room for three days
as a result of what the home news
papers are saying about him and has
declared that if Washington does
not relieve him he will relieve him
self. The ambiguity of this state
ment evidently puzzles the World
and it prints tue rumor under a
modest double column head,
The Decision of the government
that the commissary department OF
the army shall ship 1000 tons of
provisions to Porto Rico, purchas-
ing enough stores itself to make up
the deficiency in case contributions
fall short of the full amount, is
tardy rather than timely, but it may
be that now this determination is
made known the contributions will
fall off. Perhaps, indeed, this ex-
plains the hardness. Uncle Sam is
quite as thrifty as any of his people.
The prominence of the Vanderbilt
family is well exemplified in the
news of one day, which tells of the
death of Cornelius Vanderbilt, ST.;
that Miss Amy Bend, at one time
the fancee of William K. Vanderbilt,
is engaged to marry Cortlandt Field
Bishop, and that the Duchess of
Marlborough, formerly Hiss Con
suelo Vanderbilt. has become a
silent partner of Lord VIM. Beres-
ford in that nobleman's famous rae
ing stable. Young Alfred Wander
bilt, who is making a tour of the
world, is now somewhere on the
Pacific Ocean, or perhaps in Hawai-.