Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-01-08
GOSSIP Of THE WORLD.
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DIVERS SOURCES.
The Latest T~eIegraphic News of the
Day Boiled Down to a Focus
For Busy Readers.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novel
list, is critically i'll.
The wife of President Loubet, of
France, is leading the fight against
tuberculosis in her country.
Arson G. Phelps, a retired finan-
,cier and long connected with JAY
Gould, is dead in New York.
Prof. Edmond O'Neill, of the
University of California chemistry
department, has discovered a new
process of making cyanide Of potas-
SUM from nitrogen of the atmos-
phere.
Washington, Jan. 2.-TheOdOre
G. Lennon, superintendent of the
Indian training school at Grand
Junction, Col, is in Washington ar
ranging for improvements in the in
StitutiOn.
Mrs. Mary Scott Harrison Mckee,
daughter of the late ex-President
Harrison, has brought suit to force
the sale Of indianapolis real estate
in order that she may obtain her
portion in the property.
Fall River, Mass, Jan. Judge
Henry K. Braley has been nominal
ed by Governor Crane to fill the va
cancy in the State Supreme Court
caused by the resignation of Chief
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Miss Elizabeth Ney, the sculptor,
of Austin, Tex, is on her way home
from Germany, where she has just
completed two statues to be placed
in the State capitol, one of General
Sam Houston and the other of
Stephen T. Austin.
Norfolk, Jan. 2.-The list of fa-
talities from lockjaw, caused by pow
der burns from toy pistols on Christ
mas, was increased by two to-day
and has reached a total of six, while
several other children are being
treated.
The Wilson Times says that DR.. 1.
w. Sutton, of Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, who was reported as having been
murdered in Wilson,, came to his
death by walking off the culvert on
the railroad ana striking his head
against the bFiCk-WOrk. It is said
thar he had been drinking.
Scranton, Pa, Jan. .2.-Abandon-
ed orkiacs Ct the Eddy Creek col
Iiery OF the Delaware ana hudson
Company, beneath the very heart Of
the town Of ELEPHANT, caved in this
afternoon and engulfed framed build
ings covering an aggregate ground
spact 0fsi1 4hoEsand square feet. The
settling = gradual aud people in
the affected territory escaped with
out accident.
Norfolk, Jan. 2.-Vice-President
and General Manager j. III. Barr, of
the SeabOard Air Line, refused to-
night to confirm or deny the report
that Major T. X. Huger, superin-
tendent of the second division of the
Seaboard Air Line, would be named
officially tomorrow as general sup
erintendent Of the Seaboard Air
Line system to succeed n. .. Nfaher,
resigned, It is generally believed
on the outside, however, that he will
be appointed.
Washington, Jan. 2;-The Navy
DEPARTMENT has received the follow
ing cabIegram from AdtniralDewey,
ds.tA Gan 1, z
sQuadrons reassembied at Cule5ra;
visits to various West Indian ports
most cordially welcomed, effect ex-
cellent in every respect; feet contin-
uing tactical exercise; marine and
topedo fotilla engaged in special
drills including night attacks by the
latter upon designated ships; E. B..
Railey, coal passer, drowned in sink
ing of n of the Newark's steam
cutters by collision with torpedo
boat"