Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-26
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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
The Latest Telegraphic News of the
Day Boiled Down to a Focus
For Busy Readers.

The failure is announced in Lon
don, Eng, of Booty & BayIiae. So
hcltors. Their liabilities are over
| 100000
Pittsburg, March l8.-A freight
train on the Fort Wayne road to-day
ran into furniture van at Alleg-
hany, killing two men instantly.
Salisbury, n. c., March 19.-Dr.
j. ii. Enniss, one of Salisbury's old
est citizens, died this week as the re-
suit of Injuries sustained in fall last
| week.
President Schurman, of Cornell
University, has received a letter
from Andrew Carnegie, Offering to
payfor the projected Cornell fItering
plant. The trustees undoubtedly
will accept 1Tr. Carnesse offer.
Kansas City, Mo, March 18.-
A special from Joplin, Mo, saws:
Five boys were drowned here to-day
by the capsizing Of u raft on which
they were playing. The sad calan-
1ty has cast a gloom over the entire
city.
Washington, D. c., March 49,
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial AS
sociation Will give a subscription
dinner in this city April 18th, in
celebration of the one hundred and
fifty-ninth birthday anniversary of
Thomrs Jefferson. a number of
prominent men will attend.
Albany, n. Y, March 18.-Goy-
ernor Odelps life has been threaten
ed by an assassin. Extra precautions
are being taken TO guard the chief
executive of the State and any sus-
picious persons found in the vicinity
of the capitol will be arrested and
clapped into prison.
Asheville, n. c., March 18.-Prof}
A. T.. Weaver, at the head of a lead
ing educational institution, has been
sent to Jail because he refused to he
vacclnated and also because of his
refusal to pay a fine of $25 for the
same. The vaccination was ordered
as precautiOn against smallpox.
Prof. Weaver, it is said, may insti-
tute legal proceedings against the au-
thoritles and may take bis case before
the Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima.
New York, March 1S-The ele-
phant JingO, said to have been lar
ger than Jumbo, died at sea on the
steamer Georgia, which arrived to-
day from Liverpool. The animals
death occurred March -, and the
huge body was buried at sea. An
animal show bought lingo in Lon
don. The elephant had not travelled
since infancy, and from the time of
sailing from Liverpool it fretted and
pined away. Jingo was % years
old, II feet high, weighed six tons
and was valued at fifty thousand dol
ars.
Greensboro, N. c., March 18.-By
request of the chief of police Of Dan
vile, the police here tonight arrest
ed Misses Robertson and Morrison,
students of Roanoke College, of Dan
vile. Officers were in waiting and
when the train for Danyille came in
promptly recognized the two young
women by the college caps. The
telegram from Danville stated that
the young women had run away to
get married. The young women
said they had come here to spend the
night with a friend, giving the name
of a well known young lady of this
city. They were unaccompanied
but the police think that two young
men were here awaiting their ar
rival. They will be detained in the
Office of the chief Of police subject to
instructions from Danville and if is
possible that they will be sent back
to Danville on late train tonight.