Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-01-22
GOSSIP OF The WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
The Latest Telegraphic News Of th'
Day Boiled Down to Focus
For Busy Readers.

Insurance against automobile acci-
dents can now be had.
New York, Jan. 16.-The steamer
st. Louis is overdue and much alarm
is felt for her safety.
After thirty years. courtship a
compile, both over fifty, have just
married at Leeds, England.
More Mexican children than ever
before are being sent to the United
States for education.
The man who introduced an anti
kissing bill in the Virginia Legisla-
ture is named B. Ware.
The irrigated area of the United
States is 7,51O,598 acres, of which
Colorado contains ,611 ,271 and Cali
fornia l, ,446, 119.
Extensive experiments in wireless
telegraphy are to be carried out at
Portsmouth in connection with the
new submarine.
Artificial tea is made by mixing
oxide of iron with tea dust and rolled
by means of starch into pellets re-
sembling the genuine tea.
Newton, Jan. 16-Yout's livery
stables, together with all the vehic-
les and nineteen horses, were burned
this morning. Loss about So, 500.
New York, Jan. 16.-The morning
Bulletin says "Hewitt's condition
continues practically unaltered. The
family and physicians have practi-
snaally bore Of. bis recovery.
isnIa, J sla. L. An md Keeper
named Amler, of Karlsberg, Bo-
hemia, shot and killed his wife and
4 children while temporary insane,
is the result of financial trouble.
San Francisco, Jan. 16.-Frank
Mcconnell, who was knocked out on
he fourteenth round last night by
Spider Welz," is unconscious and
a critical condition at hospital.
It is pretty safe to say that the
.mily pocketbook is not carried by
| ,e wife of the man who keeps his
at in the car while women with
3bies in their arms have to stand.
Berlin, Jan. 16.-The notorious
surer, Pariser, whose victims were
le most prominent society people
whose unfinished trial in 1898
used great sensation, has been re-
rested because of new evidence
'ainst him.
AThe question used to be asked
Lean man make 81, ,OOO,OOO honest
ly?'' But in view OF J. Pierpont
Morgan's record, it might better be
asked if man can make $42, 900, ,OOO
in one year without working the
hold-up game overtime?
Rome, Jan. chbishopChap-
Gle, the apostolic delegate to Cubs
and Porto Rico, has cabled the Vati
can that great satisfaction is felt il
those islands over the granting o
his proposition for their welfare
especially over the institution of th'
diocese of Cienfuegos and Pinos De
Rio.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Presiden
Roosevelt has determined to max
systematic warfare against such loca
Republican leaders in the southern
states as may be found guilty Of sell
ing their influence to aspirants for o1
f1ce or carry ing on blackmail of offic
holders. He announced to-day tha
in every case where there was til
slightest suspicion Of this sort {
blackmail he would send a post 0
fee inspector to the scene and woul
be governed in his final action solel
by the report of that officer.
Washington, Jan. 14.-In the Sci
ate to-day, Mr.. Hoar, of Massach'
setts presented resolution reques
ing the president to inform the Sci
ate the kind of governmental at Guam
the population, and whether an
persons are detained there again
their will, and if there ar
whether they have been notified
the charges against them; and whetl
er one Mabini is detained there, ar
whether he is now deprived of iiber
and right to meet his accusers face
face; also whether any oath of alleg
ance is required of the inhabitants
the islands.