Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-01-28
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The Japs are not indulging in any
'On to st. Petersburg" talk.
A collision between passenger
trains on the Burlington roads north
of st. Charles, Mo-, is reported. Four
persons are reported dead and twelve
others injured.
Des MOines, Ia, Jan. 25.-MaIor
w. T. Sherman and John Sherman,
died at his home here to-day. Major
Sherman was one of the oldest resi-.
dents of Des Moines.
JohnstoWn, Pa. Jan. 21.-Thirteen
men were killed and twenty eight
terribly injured by the explosion of
one-blast furnace of the Cambria
Steel Company this morning. Most
of the dead were roasted alive. The
injuries were caused by flying molten
iron which ignited the building.
Tarboro, N. c., Jan. 25.-Bud
Bell, white man, was found dead
in Macclesfeld, near Tarboro, Sun
day morning at 9 o'clock. He was
murdered the night before. His
head " as bloody, showing signs of a
heavy blow just above the right ear.
No clue as to who committed the
crime has yet been found.
Nashau, n. III Jan. 25.-John
2. Goggin, treasutr of the Nashua
Trust Company, was arrested to-day
charged with emoezzling a sum Of
money from the bank. The amount
is placed at between $4,000 and
100000. Goggin Was held in $1O,-
900 bond for the grand jury. He
made no statement. He is one of
the most prominent bank officials I'D
New Hampshire.
Washington, Jan. %. The Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions to-day determined to enter up-
on an investigation into the charges
against Sena, or SmOOt in connection
with the demand for his expulsion
from the Senate, and authorized
Senator Burrows, chairman of the
committe, to present a resolution in
the Senate permitting the committee
to send out for witnesses and docu.
ments.
Chicago, Jan. 25.-Carter III. Har-
rison, as mayor of Chicago, was
found responsible for the IroquOiS
Theatre disaster by the cOroner's
Jury late tonight IN that he was de-
clared to have shown a lamentable
lack of force in his efforts to shirk
responsibility. He was held to the
grand jury. Fire Marshal Musham,
Commissioner of Buildings Williams
and w. J. Davis, manager of the
theatre, were also held "until they
shall be discharged by due course of
law"
st. Paul, Jan. 23.-The lowest
temperature recorded here in twelve
years, 80 degrees below zero, is the
official figure at midnight. All day
the temperature was falling until it
has reached the record never before
exceeded, except in 1892, when the
mercury registered 33 degrees below
zero. There is little snow in the
northwest, but forty mile an hour
wind is blowing, which has practi-
cally suspended travel, and all trains
| are from two TO ten hours late.
London, Jan. 23.-At last it is pos
sible to affirm with strong confidence
that the situation in the far east is
distinctly hopeful. The basis for this
welcome announcement is a fact
/ which should be decisive, namely,
that Japan has the best reasons for
believing that Russia is prepared, in
the interest of Ieace, to concede prac-
tically all the claims in the last Japa-
nese note, and is delaying her reply
only to find the best means to- give
proper diplomatic expression of her
decision.