The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-07-06
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, June ~.


Morgan II. Beach, United States at
torney for the District of Columbia,
has resigned.
A-seyere forest fire north of Ogden,
Utah, got beyond control and laid
waste five square miles of rich farm
Ing country.
Ellwood Garman, under sentence Of
death for murder, committed suicide
in the Miffiintown, Pa. jail, by drink
ing carbolic acid.
Willie, the 9-year-old son of George
Smith, of Port Jervis N. Y. while
playing with a gun, accidentally shot
and killed his 2-year-old brother
Herbert Rirdsall, aged Is years, &C.
cidentally shot and killed Edward
Rush at Stamford, Conn, and then
killed himself with the same weapon.
Wednesday, June %.
The next convention of the Interna-
tional Sunday School Association will
be held at Louisville. KY.
The Scranton, Pa, Gas and Water
company has purchased the 13 water
companies in the upper part of Lacka-
wanna county.
The breaker at the Sioux colliery,
Shamokin, Pa, was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $4,000 and rendering
400 employees idle.
Joe Bush, aeronaut, had a narrow
escape from death near Belleville, N.
+. when his balloon started to burn
$50 feet from the ground. He alighted
in safety.
Thursday, June 20.
Miss Ada Rehan, the American ac-
tress, was operated on in London tor
appendicitis.
A box Of insects has arrived in San
Francisco from the Orient to be used
to destroy the gypsy moth pest in Mas
sachusetts.
Edward c. Hill, assistant postmaster
at Pittsfeld,- Mass, while riding a
bicycle was struck by trolley car and
instnatly killed.
The state convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Democrats to nominate candi-
date for superior court justice will be
held at Harrisburg, August 16.
Columbia Post, No. 706, G. A. R.,
gave camp fire in honor OF General
| Stephen D. Lee, commander Of the
Confederate Veterans, in Chicago.
Friday, June 80.
Maxwell X. Moorehead, of Pittsburg,
has been appointed American consul
at St. Thomas, Ont.
The 32d annual Chautauqua Assem-.
bly opened at ChautauQua, n. Y, with
T. ]. Meehan committed suicide in
Chicago by jumping from a bridge at
Harrison street to the river, so feet
below.
Edward Burke, a prominent resi-
dent of Scranton, Pa. was killed on
the Delaware & Hudson railroad, his
| body being cut in two.
Washington T. Capps, father Of Rear
Admiral w. l.. Caps, chief of thebu
reau of construction in the navy de-
partment, died at Norfolk. Va. aged
76 years.
Saturday, July I.
General Hugh Boyle Ewing. a grad
uate of West Point, died at Lancas
ter, O.. aged 70 years.
Four-year-old Andrew Kolb, of Phil.
adelphia, was drowned in bathtub in
his home while taking a bath.
Fire destroyed the pattern depart
ment of the Dayton, O., Malleable
Iron Works, entailing loss Of $780,.
900.
The first annual reunion of the
United Spanish-American War Veter.
ans of Pennsylvania was held at Har.
| risburg.
President Roosevelt has received
petition signed by 10000 Norwegians
residing in Chicago, asking the recog.
milton of the new government of Nor.
way.
Monday, July 3.
James E. Ream, of Baltimore, was
shot and killed by his brother Harry,
owing to love affair.
George Schadler, while working in a
potato field at Grimsville, Lehigh
county, Pa, found coin dated 1924.
In a freight train collision at Spar
tansburg, S. c., Sherman Justice and a
member of the train crew were killed.
Emperor William dined with Mr.. and
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt on their
steam yacht North Star at Travemunde
At Cleveland five Independent mills
have signed the scale Of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Tin
Plate Workers, giving employment to
| 1000 men. The mills have been idle for
| some time.