Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-03-30
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Abingdon, Va, March 24.-Roht.
Turner, a negro was hanged here to-
day for the murder of Louise Jeffer-
son, cOlOred.
Now that the tender season is at
hand the old discussion about bath
Ing suits has been resumed. 1t bids
fair to continue until we all become
birds and there will be no further
necessity for such garments. In the
meanwhile, watch pious folk, the
photographers and the doggerel poets.
Cleveland, O., March 27.-Unless
the niger court interferes, Mrs. Cas-
sic l.. Chadwick will spend the
greater part of the next ten years in
the Ohio State penitentiary. A SEN
tence of ten years was imposed upon
her by Judge Robert w. Tayler in
the United States Court this even
ing.
Animpoverished F. erch nobieman
is trying to dispose of his title to an
American millionaire. The price
viii no doubt be rather high but they
who have longing to be addressed
as ME lord" DOW have an opportu-
nifty to satisfy that vanity. There
are very few things these days that
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Professor Prentiss of Rutgers Col
le e, says that Mars Is inhabited by
intelligent farmers. The canals are
not canals after all but strips of culti-
yatel land The beauty about Mars
is that every scientific dreamer can
entertain a notion Of his own and
there is scant possibility of any one
rising up on the planet to call him a
liar.
1t was "Five Weeks in Balloon"
and not .ssix." NJ. Verne could have
made it six easily enough. There
was no limit to his imagination but
he wrote it five" This reminds one
that contemporary mentioned
"Forty leagues Under the Sea-" The
first mistake was a case of staying
too long, the second a case of not
going deep enough.
So = e.
Gunshu Pass, March 27.-8p. H.
The japanese apparently have with
drawn from the region to the south of
the Russian front. Cossack patrols
which have been making extensive re-
connoissanCe5 southwark found no
japanese within 35 miles. General
Linevitch is spatching scouting par
ties east aud west 10 guard against a
possible turning movement.
New York, March Blown
through break in tunnel IN the
East River by an explosion today car
RED to the surface of the water and
shot twenty feet into the air, Richard
Creedon, a laborer, was rescued only
slightly hurt. His escape from death
Z
his companions were rescued ia the
tunnel and carried out, all painfully
but not seriously injured.
aris, March 27.-In the Chambel
= of Deputies to-day Count B mi dt
Castellane, speaking upon the bill
for the separation of church anC
State, declared that as the bill stooC
it would destroy the church. H
blamed the republicans for not re
epecting tile Cath )lics, whereas IL
other republics, notably in tn
United States, Catholics were re
spected. 1t was, said Castellane,
duel between God and demagogry
and God would probably win.
Wilmington, n. c., March 27.-I
was announced to-day that et
fectiveA pril Ist, w. II. Newell, Super
lntendent of the Norfolk district c
the Atlantic Coast Line is appointe
to succeed as superintendent of th
Charleston division GIG. Lynch, W b
was appointed last week to succee
Mr.. w. N. Roy tllas general superir
tenpent of the fest division, E. T
Wooten, of Rocky Mount, superir
tendenr of the Ia. {, evllle dlotric
Is appointed to sue ,eed Mr.. Newe
In Norfolk.
The Congrt & ionll ministers
=. New England, ~ atrotest filed wit
the American b ,drd dofcommiesionel
for foreign miss Ansagains, acceptin
500, 900 from john u. Rockefelle
have put themselves on record
determined not 10 RI ceive donation
tainted by tlu,t methods. This d
spite the fact III It tin y were lOokif
gift horse SOU ,r,lS III the mou
and dispite th i.,ct hatth rprote
is a most scathl- g Indictment oi
man who would DO the.H co ls;dt
able favor. The minis ers ave tax,
stand that have aireedy started
t<4ively discussion. Many instftutio
in this country would be poorer no
if they had refused to accept Stapda
ard Oil donations. DIR. Harpersisn n
one ofyour finicky persons and tax
all the Rockefeller money he can e,
There are lots OF other people W
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