Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-03-16

The income of John D. Rockefel-
Ter is said to be five million dollars a
month. Most any country editor
could live on half that sum Lin
coin Home Journal.
Andrew Carnegie is said to be
studying Mrs. Chadwick closely. It
would haye been money in the poe
kets Of those Ohio bankers had they
done the same thing.
Richard III. Wright, agent of the
Merchants and Miners Transporter
ton Company at Norfolk, and one
of the most prominent transporta-
ton men in Virginia, died yester-
day of pneumonia, aged so years.
First Lieutenant Roscoe H.Hearn,
9Th infantry, has been datailed by
the War Department as professor of
military science and tactics at Cor
don Institute, Barnesville, Ga, tc
take effect September 18th next.
Paris, March 13.-The Russian
government will issue five per cent.
treasury bonds to the amount of
$12O, 100000 The loan will be of
fered probably in April, and will be
issued at SO per cent, Iedeemable in
1913.
The bureau of supplies and ac-
counts, Navy Department, Wash
ington, will open bids On April %,
for $50, 900 pounds of tobacco to be
,ielive ed in May or June. Hereaf-
ter bid. for the annual supply of to-
bacco will be received in the fall.
Fremont, Ohio, March 13.-The
vault of the Genoa Banking Com
p any, at Genoa, Ottawa county, was
blown up last night by robbers. 1t
is reported the thieves secured 3d.
900 in cash and papers valued at
$4,000. The robbery occurred near
daybreak.
Santos-Dumont is dreaming now
about sure enough 'castle in the
air." which will be nothing more
than a tiny cottage built of pine
wood, piano wire and aluminium
covered with many thicknesses of
vanished balloon silk, which he will
suspend beneath an airship.
Wilmington, N. c., March 49,
w. ]. Shaw, soldier, at Fort Cas-
we'll, cut his throat with a pocket
knife, Sunday afternoon shortly af-
ter O'Clock, Immediately after SEN
tence Had been formally read to
him, which was that he should serve
a term of eighteen months imprison-
ment for desertion.
Suffolk, Va, March 13.-Maggie
Miedheal, Is years old, eloped to-
day from her home in Gatesville, N
c., and was married to Ray Co
bines, aged Is. The father, being
too late to stop the marriage, inter
rupted the couple after the honey
moon had begun and took away the
young bride in spite of fearful pro
tests.
A Chicago professor has created
all kinds of trouble for married mel
by urging women to insist that thei
husbands quit going out at night ant
remain at home to amuse the chill
dren. He suggests that papa coult
naake:shadow pictures, deck himsel
up to represent an Indian chieftain
caper about as a horse and do in
Vulnerable tricks to entertain his Off
spring, all of which makes it appea
that there is a hard row of stump
waiting for papa.
Roanoke, Va, March 13.-Las
night near Ironvilie, small tow
ten miles east Of Roanoke, a dog be
longing to Charles Mcdonald, VIII
lives at Ironville, returned hom
carrying in his mouth human
head. The head was badly decom
posed and there is an ugly hole be
hind the left ear. Just where tn
dog got the head is not yet known
but party is securing the cour tr.
searching for the balance of the re
mains. lhe case is shrOuded i
lmystery.
Colonel Watterson asserts that tn
Rivierted is deserted. Not long ag
he told us that Paris had grown al
most commonplace, certainly muc
iamer than il Was in the halcyO
days of his youth. Ii would apped
that Europe of today is not quite S
fascinating to the distinguishe
Kentuckian as it was when he toe
his fast trip abroad. Even th
greatest of the worlds show place
lose a part of their charm when see
more than once and it also must b
remembered that the world befor
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