Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-04-12
GENERAL NEWS

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who are TO be ccmmcmoratel IN the
Hall of Fame a very large majority
nearly al IL fact-are college pro
fessOrs.
Proposals to change the date of
the Populist-Fusion national con-
vention; at Sioux Fails. S. D.. from
May 9 to about the first week in
June, are supposed to be due to a
distrust of the weather, ana 2 desire
to have it not too cool or too change
able.
The declaration by the Hon.
George Fred Williams that he has
no wish to be Vice-Presideut would
seem to refute the insinuation that
he is out Of harmony with the rank
and file Of his party or with his fell
low-citizens in general.
Congressman Fitzgerald, of Mas
sachusetts, who is agitating the ex-
clusion Of Daudet's ''Sapho' from
the Unired States mails, is going to
carry his copy to the Post Office
Department IN Washington and
there read it aloud to Postmaster
General Smith.
A number of slot machines seized
in Jersey City saloons and billiard
parlors last week we're burned on the
meadows by the police authorities.
The ashes, when they were cold,
were investigated by the %irrepress-
ible small boy, ana $50 worth of
nickels found.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, made
the significant statement day before
yesterday that unless the non-union
contractors and emplovers of that
city shut down their factories and
places Of business on election day
there would not be enough police to
man the polling places.
General Miles thinks the great ma
tional highway from She Atlantic to
the Pacific, Of which he is the Eead
is expected shortly to make a re
port, will be built IN FIVE years. This
estimate probably does not include
the time required to determine the
point on this coast from which the
road shall start.
Clarke 3. Carr, who is now in
Paris trying to introduce Indian
corn as an article of popular diet for
the poorer classes, has adroitly be
gun by an effort to popularize it first
with the well TODD He gave a din
ner to General Horace Porter, the
United State Ambassador, last night
and corn occupied a prominent place
on the menu.
It transpires that the claim of
Michael j. Dady, OF BROOKLYN. that
his million dollar contract for sew
ers and paving in Havana is valid
and binding. winch claim has Just
been repudiated by the decision of
Eihu Root. Secretary Of War, was
based on the favorable opinion Sc
cured by EIr Dady from the law firm
of which Mr.. Root was a member at
a cost Of $1,000.
When, on touching the button OF
the elevator in a hotel in Waterbury,
Conn, at IL 80 the other night, Miss
May Irwin was informed that the
machine cid rot run aftf- II O'Clock
she demanded that someone carry
her up to her room Nobody would
do this, aud the irate actress called
for her bill, paid it, and found an
other hotel where the elevator was
still runnig.
Since Senator Hanna is generally
admitted to be the greatest Presi
dent-maker-1f not the maker of the
greatest P~resident-in the annals Of
this glorious republic, the invitation
extended to William mckinley to bt
one of the judges to choose the
names of the greatest American fol
the Hall of Fame is obviously EN-
b~arrassing, and it's acceptance would
involve a most harassing conflict be
tween gratitude and modesty.
nxiety there may have beer
as to Queen Victoria's reception il
Dublin was set at rest by the ap
parently cordial demonstrations o
affection and respect that greeted
her in the Irish capital. There ar
plenty of Irishmen, no doubt, VIII
are far from enthusiastic in their al
legiance. but the occasion was no
one for the expression of polilica
sentiment. and the Irish are not tn
people to show ill-will to a visitor.
A case has been made in Ney
York that is intended to bring abou
a judicial determination of the sta
tus of citizens of Puerto Rico unde
the laws of the United States.
Puerto Rican was engaged to com
to New York under contract as
laborer. On his arrival he was d.
tanned by the immigration official