Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-22
NO 1873
GENERAL NEWS.
Sir Henry Irving has contributed
500 to the Dewey arch fund.

Sir Henry Irving has contributed
500 to the Dewey arch fund.
The Sheldon editions of the To-
peka Daily Capital aud cheap copies
OF ''Sapho" are having a neck-and-
neck race for the record in street
sales IN Chicago.
Edward Higginson, member Of
the Peruvian consulate In London,
suggests that the Beers be offered an
asylum anG place to settle in Peru.
How those South American Repub~
lies do look for trouble!
The fact that the occupation of
the gamblers and dive keepers of
the metropolis. is Temporarily gone
development OF New York's exhibit
at the Paris Exposition.
Miss Katherine Clark. daughter of
the contestjng Senator from Mon
tana, is engaged to be married to
DR. Lewis Rutherford Morris, of
New York, Miss Clark is about 26
years old and very pretty.
Michael J. Dady, the Brooklyn con-
tractor, who has been trying for SO
long to have the United States sane
ton MS contract for new streets and
sewers in Havana, now intends 10
secure controlling interest," in La
Iucha. the leading newspaper there,
and to become It's editor
Evans Weed. wealthy farmer of
NewIield, Conn, will petition the
Legislature to change his name to
Adam, after which he Will transform
his large farm into a duplication, as
far as may be, of the Garden of
Eden. Then he will advertise for
some woman, named Eve, to be his
escort.
Senator Depew's continuing and
repeatedly expressed surprise at the
number and perslstency Of petty Of
nce-seekers at Washington is rather
curious and tends to accentuate the
difference between the running of a
grefvt kusih ese, with which the Sem
ator is familiar, and the running of a
government.
Mrs Emmons Blaine, Of Chicago,
proposes as solution OF the domestic
service question TO give the servants
in her house and to urge for others
and eight-hour day. Servants begin
ming work at o clock IN the morn
ing are to be replaced at 2 O'Clock IN
the afternoon by others who Will
work until 10 o'clock.
What with the influence of the
~
ments of The big trust companies and
the fame of Dakota as a divorce CEN
tire, Chicago lawyers are said to be
suffering from lack of business and
greatly reduced incomes. Some one
ought to start there a crusade
against protected vice, as in New
York.
Leslie Livermore. a survivor of
the civil war and a well-known
tramp. has refused an admission to
the Soldiers Home IN Washington,
which had been secured for him af-
ter some trouble, because it would
separate him from his faithful dog,
Kaiser, which once saved his life by
waking him up while a fire was in
progress.
Attempts are to be made, it is
said, to continue the Topeka Capital
as religious daily. but some of the
owners approve of and some object
to this idea, and the matter may be
carried into the courts. Another re-
port is to the effect that Mr.. Shell
don's experiment was really for the
purpose, unknown to the minister,
of preaching socialism in Kansas in
way that would disrupt the Popu-
list party there.
Though we ought by this time to
have islands to spare, the United
States photographic Office at Wash
ington has made arrangements to
have the United States ship Iroauois
make search for the missing Nor
rill Island while the vessel is engag-
ed in the survey for cable route in
the pacific Ocean. The island is de-
scriped In recent reports as not being
where it was last chartered or any
where else, and unless there is some
mistake in the charts it has sunk.
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