Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-11-22
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manding an indemnity which China
could not pay, But whether the En-
glish press is pleased or displeased,
Uncle Sam is strong enough to do
as he chooses in the matter and our
course is going to be one of fairness
and reason.
If Uncle Sam and John Bull form
that alliance and go to sleep peace
fully in the same bed, we predict
that on cold nights there'l have to
be two sets of blankets.
Mark Hanna is quoted as saying
that if they put his statue in the
Hall of Fame, he insists that it shall
be made with horns. so the Ameri-
can people will be able to identify
him when they see him.
Georgia has within it's borders
four known real daughters of the
American revolution, they being
Mrs. Olina T. Way, Mrs. Martha
Penn Rodgers, Mrs. Oliver P. Ber-
ry, and Mrs. Mary Bibb Hall, each
the daughter of soldier who fought
in the continental army during the
revolutionary war.
Neodesha, Kan, has a population
of about fifteen hundred, which in
cludes more thin people than any
place twice it's size in America.
Many of the men weigh less than
one hundred pounds, though in good
health. Physicians say that the pc
troleum and natural gas wells there
are responsible for making the peo-
pie look like withered refugees
from famine district in India.
The announcement that Presi-
dent Mckinley will ask his Cabinet
to Keep your seats, gentlemen!
sounds little strange. It was sug-
gested that the Secretary of War
could continue to "Root" for him
self; that the Secretary of the Navy
has already served "Long'; that the
head of the Treasury has ''Ga(u)ged"
the finances of the country; that If
the Secretary of State remains much
longer he will become a ''Hay'-
seed, and that there may be some
glitch" about the Secretary of tie
Interior.
Mayor F P. Stoy was the first
prisoner in the new Jail at Atlantic
City, and he remained locked up for
over an hour before he managed to
make his escape The Mayor was in
specting the jail accompanied by his
secretary, Alfred Roger. He tried a
lock on a gate and it snapped in
place. There was no way to open it,
and his Honor and secretary clam
bered to a window with the aid of
boxes and dropped safely to the
ground, some eight feet.
Hawaii has been heard from and
the election returns show that
Prince David, the Democratic can
didate, was defea ed for ongress.
This royal parsonage, it will be re-
called, is the man whose vote in the
Platform Committee OF the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Kan
sas City, as he himself boasted, in
sured the insertion of silver plank
in the party's declaration of princi-
pies and made it's defeat certain.
The Princes first year in American
politics has resulted in a very Sc.
we're humping process all around.
The Chicago Tribune publishes
some significant election figures
showing the weakness Of the Bryan
ticket as compared with Democratic
State tickets. In Illinois, for instance,
the plurality against Bryan was 95,.
O93, while that against Alschuler TO,
governor was only 81, lila. In Mime
sofa Bryan was defeated by a plu
rality of 10000, while Lind failed o1
election only by about 5000 votes
In Indiana the plurality against
Bryan was so, 800, and that against
Kern about $4,000. In Michigan
Bryan lost by 9o,s5s votes,and May
berry by about 10000. In New YorI
the plurality against Bryan was 145,
332, and that against Stanchfel6
} 11O,856. Kansas went against Bryan
} by about $4,000, and against Bried
enthal for governor by only about
, 10000. Thus it will be seen tina
} there was in these six States q los,