Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-31
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Maginnis.
Tillman says we must either elect
Bryan or submit to rule by an En-
peror. However. he fails to disclose
the identity of the Emperor.
Signorina Loretta italian Carl
baldi, who has entered the prepa-
tory school of the Woman's College,
of Baltimore, is the great italian lib
orator. She intends to go through
the college, returning to Italy only
for the summer vacations.
Marconi, the wireless telegraph
man, is on his way to this country
from Europe with the reported in
tention of making further expert
ments. IF he wants pointers on tele-
phones, whether wireless or other
wise, he will, of course, visit Phil
adelphia.
DR.. Joseph II. Hertz, of Johannes
burg, South Africa. is temporarily
occupying the pulpit of the Madison
Avenue Synagogue in New York and
attracting much attention because of
the frequent reference he makes to
what he has seen Us an ye-witness
of the Boer war.
To avoid a suit instituted against
him Don Carlos of Spain, according
to a paper published in Venice, has
set up the contention that he is not
a spaniard, but an Austrian mot
even his most hostile a~dyersaries,"
says the paper, would have dared
to have hoped so much"
What with the reported corrup-
ton and Indifference of the New
York police Brooklyn finds no as
that crime in that borough
is diminishing because the arrests
made there last year were less by
eleven thousand than they were in
1896, before the consolidation.
". II. Barnes, aged 81, and Miss
Pierce, aged 70, who We refused a
marriage license in Massachusetts,
several weeks ago, managed to Sc
cure it in Newburgh, n. Y, and were
there married by the Rev. A. D.
Fuller, of the First Baptist Church,
at the home Of the groom's par
ents.
FL. T.. Barck. Overseer of the Poor
in Hoboken, N. J., is very warm in
his advocacy of a whipping post to
punish inhuman fathers who desert
their children. Governor Roosevelt
about a year ago, suggested the same
punishment in New York for wife
heaters. MI. Barck is circulating q
petition to present to the New Jer-
sey Legislature.
The prize given by Emperor vii
liam for which the German singing
societies will compete has just been
discovered by a newspaper reporter
in a government warehouse in New
York, where it has been knocking
about in a sealed case unknown tc
anybody since it's unannounced ar.
rival two weeks ago. It is a silver
z~statuette of considerable intrinsic
value
The replacing of the dummy
storpedoes used by japan at the
mouths of her harbors during the
naval manHuvre with real live tor
pedoes is regarded as significant by
those who are experts in watching
70. war, but diplomats say it is only
part of the being ready which is
found to be such an excellent pre-
~ventive of hosti1ities.
Richard Croker, who has declared
himself unequivocally for Bryan
tells a London correspondent of the
New York Journal that the silver
man will be elected as sure as fate.
He prefaces this, however, with the
remark that since going abroad he
has dropped American politics com
pletely and knows as little about
what is happening or likely to hap
pen as possible.
Mrs. James Brown Potter say
that while London society canno
get along without the professions
actress, American society maintain
a snobbish attitude towards womel
of the stage, and she does not recall
"a single instance where an actress il
America has had any social standing