The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-02-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, January %.

Tuesday, January 20.
Frederick S. Stedman, the we'll
known dog fancier. dropped dead in
Pittsburg Of heart trouble.
General Robert S. Brown. a promi-
nent retired agriculturist, died at his
home at Bethlehem, Pa, aged SO years.
bill was introduced in the Virginia
legislature to erect a monument to
General Fitzhugh Lee in the capitol
Equare at Richmond.
Ernest Baker, negro, was taken
from Jail at Hopkinsville, KY, by a
mob and hanged for attempted crimi-
nal assault on a white woman.
Wednesday, January "a.
The Mississippi Cotton Compress at
Jackson, Miss. was burned, with $500
| bales of cotton. Loss. $750,000.
Z. d. Gartner & Co., stock brokers.
| of Pittsburg, Pa, made an assignment,
with liabilities exceeding 100000.
Many Alaskans have petitionad Pres
ident Roosevelt to appoint Judge James
Wickersham as governor of Alaska.
w. B. Fairless. of Marks, Miss, has
been shot and killed by Mrs. E. B.
Written, whose husband Fairless killed
several months ago.
A consignment of American school
readers, printed in Japan, is being held
up at San Francisco, as they are be-
lieved to violate copyrights of readers
now in use.
Thursday, January rs.
Charles Snisman, while driving In
Camden, N. j., was thrown from the
seat of the team and run over and
killed.
The Chinese imperial commission,
sent to the United States to study
conditions, was received by President
Roosevelt
Simon Shupp, a wellknown Demo
cratic politician of Stroudsburg, Pa,
committed suicide by shooting while
respondent from i'll health.
The Coal Dealers Association OF the
Virginias and Carolinas was formed
at Lynchburg, Va, by re preventative
dealers from the four states.
Friday, January 20.
Luella Charlesworth, years old, of
Millville, N. j., became blind after
severe coughing spell.
Cardinal Peter Lambert Gossens,
archbishop of Mechlin, died at Brussels,
Belgium, aged 70 years.
While stealing ride on the Reading
railway at Hatfield, Pa, Roy Bailey,
Is years old, was run over and killed
A. j. Howard, of Philadelphia, COM
mitted suicide in hotel at Colorado
Springs, Col. by shooting himself in
the head
The justices of the supreme court
and their wives were guests of honor
at a dinner given by President and
| Thursday night.
Saturday, January 27.
Nicolo Muida,o, an Italian, was
hanged at Jersey City, N. j., Tor the
murder of his wife.
The grain mill and elevator of Close
Brothers at Schenectady, N. Y, was
| burned. entailinG loss OF $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie has given Mount
Union College, Alliana, Ohio, $4,000,
| conditioned upon sl5000O additional
| being raised.
Grady Miller, 16 years old, of Flor
| ida Ala. and colored porter in the
| Lakeview Hotel, had a pistol duel in
| which both were killed.
President Roosevelt has refused to
| pardon Charles H Cole, formerly a
| bank president of Boston, convicted of
| violating the banking laws.
Monday, January 20.
| RadOmO ECmini's foot was caught in
| switch neal Lancaster. Pa, and he
was run down by freight train and
| killed
The release Of Elijah Lynch, serving
| o2e and q half years fer forgery, has
| been ordered at Toledo by President
| Roosevelt.
| George Wharton Pepper, receiver of
| the Bay state Gas company, began
| proceedings at Wilmington to foreclose
a mortgage for 1913 1898 which he holds
| against the farm of j. Edward Addicks
| in Brandywinc hundred, Del
Captain William H. Van Schaick, of
! the steamboat General Slocum, which
was burned in the East river New
| York. in June, 1904, with the loss of
1000 lives, was found guilty of GRIM
| inal negligence and sentenced to 10
| years imprisonment.