Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-07-26
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It is reported that the chair OF poe
try in the University of Chicago has
been offered to Thomas Bailey Aid
rich.
The first patrons of the new eiec-
trio underground railway IN Paris,
that was opened last week. com
planned that the air of the tunnel
was so cool, compared to the heated
air of the street, as to produce a
chilli
Shanghai, July "a. Ten thousand
Chinese regulars we'll armed and
European drilled will bar the way to
Pekin. Three thousand Russians
have Just arrived at New Chang from
Port Arthur. a decisive battle IS n
evitable. It will probably occur to-
day.
Washington, July 24.-W. W.
Rockhill, who will be made SPECIAL
commissioner or possibly special am
bassador to China, returned here to-
day. He will sail from Seattle Au-
gust 3rd on the steamer Amwrlka
Maru, of the Japanese line and go
direct to Shanghai, subsequently to
Tien Tsin.
The new underground railway in
Paris was opened for business last
Friday, and an accident did not oc-
cur until about noon Sunday, and
even then it was only a small affair,
resulting in nothing more than a
shutting off of the circuit and a de-
lay of some time. This is hardly up
to the average Partisan record.
The Chicago saloon keepers have
Joined hands with the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in an
effort to suppress the importation
into this country of absinthe. Lest
any one should misunderstood their
attitude, the saloon keepers say that
since no profit for them attaches tc
the sale of absinthe, it is a nuisance
and should be prohibited by law.
1t is said of Jerry Simpson, who il
now rated as one of the richest me1
in Barber county, Kansas, possess
ing an estate valued at $4,000, tina
to Congress, and actually had tx
borrow the money to buy a ticket t.
Washington He saved most OF hi
salary as a Congressman and invest
ed it in land and cattle.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, who has
renowned about every politica
party she has aver been connected
with, now renounces the Populis
party, and she does it in her usus
picturesque language. She say
among other things that Popul1s1
has become a Doodle refuge. Man
people think Mrs. Lease is gettin
ready to talk for the Republicans a
so much per talk.
Miss Lillian Hall, of Winfield
Kan, lately appointed Coroner {
Cowley county by Governor Stanle.
is still waiting to oMciate at her fir
inquest. Miss Hall is % years Of
and was for three years stenogr
pher in the Coroner's Office. Every
body laughed at her when she sai
she wanted to be Coroner, but ever
body signed her petition.
New York, July PA cable di
patch was received this morni1
from the London Office of the Ko1
Kong and Shanghai Banking corpo
alton Office as follows: "News b
just been received from Major S
Claude Macdonald dated July 4
from Pekin appealing for relief. /.
that time there were enough prov
ions at the legation to last a for
night. There had been forty-fo,
deaths and double that number
wounded"
Bishop Potter. during his last t,
abroad, was addressed as "Yo
Grace" with such persistency tn,
at first amused, he was at last 8
noyed and depressed by it. On
return home, while stepping off of t
gang plank of the ship that b
brought him over, he encountered
old vestryman of his, who grabb
his hand and exclaimed "Hello, Bis