Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-03
LETTER
Especial Correspondence

A1l Sc SOAGL ALlCGNAd1k1s NLO 0ASN -
ter of Mrs. Lola Ida BONNIE, has ar
rived in Washington from her home IN
southern Kansas. Mrs. Meecham has
come to Washington to remain until
after the trial of Mrs. BONNIE for the
murder Of james Seymour Ayres for
the specia1 purpose Of caring for h
two sons OF Mrs. BONNIE.
The meeting Of the two sisters was
somewhat affecting.
Mrs. Mcecham closely resembles
Mrs. Bonnie both in form and feature.
She is the wife of a physician and is
evidently q person of refinement and
culture. She Of urse believes firmly
IN the statement of her sister regard
ing the Kenmore tragedy, and, while
feeling keenIy the position of the fami-
Iy, she ~rnanifests the same wonderful
self control that Las marked the con-
duct Of Mrs. BONNIE.
Those who have seen Mrs. BONNIE re-
gently sav he is looking physically
better as well as more bright and hope
full than she has since her life in the
District Jail began.
No move has yet been made by Ell
Their the prosecution or defense as to
the time OF the trial. When the court
convenes on the 1st of October the
matter VIII come up and a date will be
set. 1t is believed that the last of Oc-
tober or first Of November will be fixed
upon as ehe date of beginning the trial.
Its termination is still more prob
le1naticaI, but it is understood the de-
Tense estimates that foul or more
weeks will be consumed in the hearing.
Dredging the Potomac.
Colonel Allen, the engineer officer in
charge Of the improvement of the Poto-
mac river, reports to the war depart
ment that dredging operations at
Washington are progressing satisfac-
torily under the contract with the At
1antic, Pacific and Gulf company. Re
cent operations have been confined to
the Virginia channel above Long
bridge. The dredge has worked night
and day, excavating an average Of
ia cubic yards of material an hour.
This material has been deposited on
the upper end of section Ill of Poto-
mac park, adjoining the causeway.
This tract Of ground previous to the
filling was the lowest portion of the
park and was frequently covered with
water at high tide. The dredging has
resulted in increasing the width Of the
channel through the bar at that point
to 400 feet from the Long bridge to the
first angle above, a distance of about
400 feet.
Over One Hundred Years of Age.
Mrs. Eliza Williams, a colored wo-
man, who was said to be Ill years old,
died the other day at her home, S32
Twenty-fourth street. Eighteen Of her
grandchildren and eight g~reat-grand-
children We're among the mourners.
She was born, according to the state
ments of her relatives, in Fauquier
county, Va, in 1880 on the plantation
of Colonel William Squires Gibson,
who gave her, when she was a young
woman, as q wedding present to his
daughter Alice upon her marriage to
Judge Richard Henry Field of Gull
pepper. General George Washington
was q frequent visitor to the Gibson
house, and Mrs. Williams said she re-
memBered him well and that he once
patted heI. on the head and said she
would diC Dung, as she was then such
a weakly girl. She said she had also
waited or General Lafayette when he
passed through that part Of Virginia
and was Il guest Of Colonel Gibson.
where Males Predominant.
The census bureau the other day is
sued a bullerin giving the population
Of SEX, nativity and color for North
Dakota. Ohio. Oklahoma and Oregon.
The L--lgs iHtLCu.-nlte, Oregon hay
ing the largest proportion, or 56.3 per
cent, Of males. North Dakota and
Oklahoma also show Il notable excess
of males. In Ohio the population is
moro evenly divided, the percentage
for the males being 5O.6.
The foreign born element constitutes
over one-third of the population in
North Dakota, while in Oregon the
same element constitutes less than one
sixth and IN Ohio a little more thar
one-tenth. In Oklahoma the proportion
of foreign born is only 80 per cent.
The white element represents over
,nine-tenths OF the total population.
Minister Wa May Stay.
Owing to the fact that before the
Boxer troubles developed in China that
government appointed Kuei Chun, q
member of the tsung Ii yamen, to the
post of Chinese minister at ST. Peters
burg Minister WI is lot inclined tc
credit the press dispatch from London
stating that the Chinese minister a
London is to be transferred to ST. Pc
tersburg and that Minister W.T. will be
transferred to London.
MI. WI said that recently he reat
in a Chinese newspaper that Kue
Chun was making preparations for hi:
departure from Peking for the Russian
capital, and he could not reconcile
these facts with the report from Lon
don of the transfers.
Pictorial History Far From Ready.
The Photographic office Of the wa