The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-02-02
The GOLD LEAF.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ?, 1905.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, January 81.

The Countess Buxhoewden, nee Nc.
Knight, of Bordentown, N. j., died at
Nice, France.
The New Hampshire Hotel, at At
lantic City, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing loss of $4,000.
King Victor Emanuel has conferred
the Grand Gordon of the Crown Of
Italy on Whitelaw Reid, of New York.
]. Mahlon Barnes, a cigarmaker, OF
Philadelphia, has been elected ma
tional secretary of the Socialist party,
with headquarters at Chicago.
Mrs. Rachel Peters, an octogenarian
and inmate of the almshouse at York,
Pa, was burned to death while alone
In her room at the institution.
Wednesday, January rs.
Nathan b. Scott has been reelected
United States senator by the West
Virginia legislature.
The 2Stn annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania state board of agricul-
ture was held at Harrisburg.
Colonel Theodore s. Barton, former.
ly senior vice eommander-in-chief OF
the G. A. R., died at Providence, R. I.
The Retail Grocers' Association held
their national convention at Cincia-
natl. with 5000 delegates in attend
ance.
Mrs. Ella Greeley, 25 years old, of
Lickingyille, Clarion county, Pa, Is
charged with killing her 6-year-old
son by cutting his throat with razor.
Thursday, January 20.
A bill absolutely prohibiting collie
giate football as felony was intro
duced in the Nebraska legislature.
Captain William Carter, once q
famous horseman and millionaire. died
penniless in New York from apo
plexy.
The Texas legislature has elected
Charles A. Culberson, Democrat. so
succeed himself in the United States
senate.
Charles Bonier, aged rs years, has
been convicted for the second time of
murder for killing Granz Frehr, at
Buffalo, N. Y.
.Zacharias T. Lair, a trackman on the
a freight train during a snow storm at
Bi d-in-Hand, Lancaster county, Pa,
and instantly killed.
Friday, January ~.
The First National Bank OF Neder-
land, Tex, has been closed and a re-
ceiver appointed.
William F. Frick. aged 81 years, the
oldest member of the Baltimore bar,
died from bronchitis.
The next national convention of the
Reail Grocers' Association will be held
at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
The Union Ex-Prisoners of War AS
ISOLATION of Pennsylvania held their
annual meeting ut Wilkesbarre, with
over 100 veterans present.
Charles Lockhart, at one time presi-
dent of the Standard Oil company, died
after long illness at Pittsburg. His
wealth was estimated at from SIS, O0O,-
600 to $10O,O0O,OO0.
Saturday, January %.
Julius Cooper, colored, was hanged
ut Annapolis, Nd, for the murder of
George Harris, also colored.
Charles d. Sims, general manager
of the B. & o. railroad, with head
quarters at Baltimore, has resigned.
Four trainmen were killed in a col
lision of freight trains on the Nash
vile railroad near Tullahoma, Tenn.
William Farraday, a laborer, drop
ped dead from heart disease at Allan
tic City, N. j., while shovelling snow.
During a fire in a veterinary hospi-
tai at Baltimore. Md, William B. Will
mer. Civil War veteran, was burned
to death.
Monday, January 80.
The Lewis and Clark Exposition at
Portland, Ore, will be open on Sun
day.
Damage claims filed against the
owners of the burned steamer General
Slocum aggregate so far $1,475,673.
Three small children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Saxon, of New York, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed their home.
Anthony Bessi and Frank Com
brash, Reading railroad trackwalkers,
were instantly killed by a freight
train at Shamokin, Pa.
One man was killed and six seri-
ously injured by premature explo-
sion of dynamite on the Western
Maryland railroad extension near
Hancock, Md.