Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-02-05
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
The --latest Telegraphic News of the
Day Boiled Down to a Focus
For Busy Readers.

Savannah, Ca, Jan. 3O.-Robert
Simmons, colored, was hanged here
to-day for the murder of George
Harris, a negro, one year ago.
Montgomery, Ala, Jan. 3O.-A
bill was passed by the House of
Representatives to-day prohibiting
the sale of cigarettes or cigarette pa
per in this State, by a vote of 81 to
So.
Atlantic City, Jan. 3O.-Thefreight
steamer Gulf Stream, Of the Clyde
Line, from New York for PhiIadel-
phia carrying a crew of twenty-one
men, is ashore on a sand bar off Tat
ham life saving station near Avalon,
about twenty-five miles south of this
city.
Durham, Jan. 3O.-Next week
court will be held i'll Oxford, but the
celebrated Gatti8-Kilgo case will not
come up for its fourth trial. The
term is for one week and for the trial
of both criminal and civil cases.
There will not be time to try the
case, the criminal docket standing
for trial first. It is supposed that the
case will come up at the next term
of Granville court.
London, Jan. 3O.-The first at
tempt to supply incoming vessels
with a news service was made TO-
day when Reuters telegram Com
pany fled with the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph Company one hun
dred words Of news for the Cunard
Line steamer Lucania which left
New York Saturday last and which
is due TO arrive at Queenstown to-
day or tomorrow.
Washington, Jan. 3O.-John ST.
Claire, alias Sinclaire, a negro, was
hanged at the district Jail to-day for
the murder Of his sweetheart, Daisy ,
Maddox, eight months ago. st.
Claire had a wooden leg which he (
jokingly said would be sure to
F'break his neck" On account of
this handicap a platform was built :
from his cell to the scaffold, obviat-
ing the necessity OF bis climbing the
:
Washington, Jan. 29.-George II.
Lindsay, the Snow Hill attorney who
was committed to ST, Elizabeth hos
pital for the insane because OF mental !
alteration, was taken to North Caro- 1
lima to-day by James T. Sugg, mayor
Snow Hill, He will probably be {
at the state hospital at Raj
Mr. Lindsay was discovered !
On the tracks Of the Pennsylvania {
signalling to an imaginary !
and when arrested stated that {
ne was en route to London to confer 3
with King Edward III regard to the +.
publication Of his poems. +
Rutherfordton, n. c., Jan. 30 t
Rev. w. IL. Perry, circuit preacher s
charge Of the Green River circuit, 8
an appointment at the Irwin {
house at 3 p NJ, for the first d
ii eacn NORTH. At his first :
appointment in January no u was i
but himself, and finding the !.
house fastened, he stood On the door |,
and delivered his message to T
he surrounding treos. While he was
,~reachiuo 4 s>EaGs@f riuIn5 q zclIe =
anne along, Intending to pass on his :,
vay. The preacher invited him 10 il
top, which he did, and sitting h
stride his mule, heard the sermon :,
ST
Charlotte, n. c., Jan. 3O.-After &
an unequal struggle against =
Leath for two weeks, o. R. Mcleod, h
f Lumberton, the North Carolina =
.edicaI student, who, with his room IL
nate, J. M. Boyce, was infected with sc
eptacaemia from ~dissecting a cada- "
succumbed this morning at 8
Mcleod had an abrasion on :
is hand, and through this the poisonN
-om the corpse was conveyed to his
lood, blood poison developing in
wenty-four hours. Every remedy(
nown to medical science, ineluding&
he now famous formalin treatment
7as tried but in vain.
IF the mother would use Anwav,S