The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-03-09
The GOLD LEAF.
THURSDAY. MARCH 9, 1905.
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
TUESDAY,, February 20.

Jo3epE w. j. Lee, vi MAI idho' i0o
1cea appointed consul general at
Panama.
The battleship Minnesota will be
launched April at the Newport News
Ua) shipyards.
Dr.. E. s Freed, q prominent physi-
ian of Chambersburs. Pa. committed
suicide by shooting.
Emma Jones, As years old, and
weighing 3e0 pounds, dropped dead at
West Chester. Pa. from heart disease.
George 8 Boutwell,. former COVER
ror OF Massachusetts, and former
United States secretary OF the treas
ury, died at Groton, Mass, aged 81
years.
Wednesday, March 1.
The Porto Rican legislature passed a
bill to loan $4,000, 900 to improve pub
lie roads.
Charles YarneIl was hanged in Phil
adelphia for numbering his mistress,
Bella Boyce.
Judge Elliott Rodgers, of the Allie
gheny county, Pa, common pleas court,
has resigned to resume his law prac-
tice
President Roosevelt has signed the
joint resolution providing for the re-
turn Of battle flags captured during the
Civil War.
Secretary Of the Navy Morton an
nounces that Rear Admiral James H.
Sands will succeed Captain Brownson
as superintendent OF the Annapolis
naval academy.
Thursday, March 2.
One Of tne new battleships author
lied in the naval appropriation bill
will be named the South Carolina.
James d. Scott, Of Wilmington, Del.
tell in front of Reading shifting en-
CINE at Coatesyille, Pa, and was in.
ttantly killed.
Seven people were injured, two IA
tally, by the overturning of a passen-
ger coach on the B. and o. railroad at
Colfax, w. Va.
Captain Joseph Umble, aged Is, well
known in the anti-slavery crusade in
Pennsylvania before the Civil War,
died at Reading, Pa
Freeman S. Farr, president of the
Atlantic Coast Lumber company. and
a well-known capitalist, died at Nor
folk. Va, while On business trip
Friday, March 8.
Frank Tidmarsh, of Bridgeton N J.,
committed suicide by hanging himself
to the post of his bed
Princeton University has added
wrestling to the list Of college sports
and a club has been organized
Burglars entered the postoffice and
railroad station at Carrcroft, Del. and
secured 500 in stamps and yalnables.
One man was killed and over 30 in
jured in a head-on collision between
trains on the Mt. Vernon railroad at
Spring Park Va.
While repairing a broken electric
wire at Chester. F2., George McGfn-
mis- forgot to turn OF the current ID
was instantly killed.
Saturday, March q.
Charles +. Horst. stell worker. was
struck and killed by train at Ear-
risburg. Pa. his body being horribly
mangled
Three men and one woman were in
jured in a rear-end collision between
trains on the Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington railroad at Wawa, Pa.
Four railroad labOrers were killed
and two fatally injured near Pikeville.
Ky, by an explosion OF dynamite
which they were heating in powder
cans
The Texas legislature adopted
resolution endorsing President Roose-
velt's policy regarding the Standard
Oil company and the alleged beef
trust
Monday, March 6.
The Texas legislature is preparing
data to assist the government in in
vestigating the methods of the beef
trust.
Using her hands to stop fire in lace
curtains, Mrs. w. II. Emigh. of Hunt
ingdon, Pa, may lose one of them by
amputation
High Wall" one of the finest dor
mitories at Yale College. New Haven.
Conn, was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire.
President Roosevelt will attend the
dinner of the Empire State Society of
the Sons Of the American Revolution
in New York, March H.
In a head-On collision between
freight trains on the 3. & o. railroad
at Defrance, O., one raiIroader was
killed and two fatally injured.