The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-07-27
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Tuesday, July 10.

James Breen, white, and Charles Jack
son, colored, were put TO death In the
electric chair at Sing Sing, N. Y. FOL
murder.
It Is announced that Ger eral Leonard
Wood. who underwent al operation In
Massachusetts, will sail for the Philip.
pines in August.
After a stormy interview with hel
husband, Miss Kate Cleary, a we'll
known magazine writer OF Chicago
dropped dead Of heart disease
BY the overturning OF a rowboat on
Keuka lake, near Rochester, N. Y.
Miss Maude Masters and Miss Remel
Faulkner, OF Mansfield, Pa, were
drowned.
Wednesday, July 10.
The dspositors of the defunct Amer.
lean Bank at Manila will receive 40 per
cent of their claims.
George W. West, for years q leader
Of the Union Republicans OF Delaware,
died at Dover, aged 62 years.
Toots Taylor. A. NJ. Miles and Major
Mills, three negroes, were hanged at
Memphis, Tenn. for murder.
John Dunn and John Coll were both
crushed to death under hundreds Of
bales OF hair in a Philadelphia ware
house.
The magazine founded in New York
by Frank Leslie in 1875 and known IS
Leslie's Monthly, has changed Its name
to the Anne rican Monthly Magazine.
Thursday, July 20.
Mrs. ]. B. Cole, sister-in-law OF Vice
President Fairbanks, died Of heart dis
ease at Maysville, o.
The Charleston machine plant near
Bethlehem. Pa, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire. Loss, $4,000.
Two prisoners in the Macon, Ca, Jail
have warned the sheriff they will COM
NIT suicide if they do not get more air.
Four bricklayers employed on the
new court house at Greensburg, Pa,
were fatally injured by the scaffold
collapsing.
James Ternent, aged IS years, of
Homecoming, Md, died OF lockjaw, re-
sulting from the tearing of his hand
by cannon cracker on July 4.
Friday, July II.
Mrs. w. II. LantZ, of Beverly, W. Va,
and her baby were killed in runaway
there.
John F.. Stevens, the newly appointed
chief engineer of the Panama canal,
sailed for Panama on the steamship
Mexico.
John H. Dewell, aged 70, retired
Norfolk, Va, business man. committed
suicide by shooting while suffering
from heat.
Deane Miller, of New York, leaves
one-half his estate to his brother pro-
vided he does not drink liquor for three
years, according to the will
Judge John w. Price, 81 years Of
age, a Confederate soldier, for many
years judge Of the chancery court in
New Orleans, died at Newport News.
Va
Saturday, July 22.
John McMackin, of New York, has
been appointed American consul at
Georgetown, Guiana.
George and James Cubley, 6-year-old
twins, were burned to death in their
home at Muskegon, Mich.
William Leazer, colored, was hanged
at Annapolis, Nd. for the murder of
Police Officer John Mcnamara last
March.
Mrs. e. J. Kneware, of Lockport,
N. Y, left $4,000 for homeless cats
and dogs and $4,000 to her daughter,
who will contest the will
Captain H. Clay Evans, Jr, retired.
only son Of H. Clay Evans, former con-
sui general at London, died at his
home near Chattanooga, Tenn
Monday, July 20.
w. J. Parker, mining engineer Of
Cleveland, O.. was struck by lightning
and killed near Salisbury, N. C.
To celebrate the 59th anniversary of
their marriage. Mr.. and Mrs David
Shank, of Lock Haven, Pa, attended a
Sunday school picnic.
Jesse TomlinsOn, a brakeman on the
Pennsylvania railroad. sat down on
the rail at Miffiin, Pa, fell asleep and
was instantly killed by train.
Arrested on a charge Of opening a
railroad switch. James McGraw. who
claims he did it on a wager, was held
at Akron, O., for the grand Jury.
The third convention Of the Ameri-
can Institute of Bank Clerks adjourned
at Minneapolis after electing as chair.
man George H. Richards, of Mime
apolis.