The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-08-02
A WEEKS NEWS cONDENSED'
TUESDAY,, July 81.

Tuesday, July 81.
President Roosevelt has extended the
eight-hour law to the navy depart
ment.
Fire destroyed The Crystal Ridge
breaker of Pardee & Co. at Hazleton,
Pa, entailing a loss of 100000.
The Western Pacific railroad is en-
deavoring to secure 1000 laborrs 10
rush construction work in the west.
While bathing in creek at Ash
bourne. near Philadelphia, James Nc
Closkey. Is years old, stepped into a
deep hole and was drowned.
Irwin Miller, son of the late Asso.
siate Justice S. II Miller. of the Uni-
ted States supreme court. died at
Springfield, o.. aged 4s years.
Wednesday, July 25.
Joe Cans, of Baltimore, was given
the decision over Dave Holly. of Phil,
adelphia in a 20-round bout at Seattle,
Wash.
In collision between a trolley car
and d wagon at Baltimore. Md, Annie
Braxton, colored. was killed and six
others were injured.
Nine persons were killed and seven
seriously injured in d wreck of fast
train on the Great Northern railroad,
near Spokane, Wash.
AS the result of a lovers quarrel, O.
G. Johnston and Miss Cora White, OF
Marion, O, committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid at their homes.
Henry Clayter, a negro. eloped with
a white girl from Irvington. Ky, and
is locked up at Louisville TO prevent
a lynching.
Thursday, July 26.
A warehouse containing $4,000 sacks
of rice at Beaumont, Texas, was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $315,.
900.
A. Baldwin Johnson, one of the lead.
ing coal dealers of Washington, D. c..
was found dead in bed from heart dis.
ease.
The 14th annual meeting Of the
United States League of Building and
Loan Associations was held at Cincin.
natl. o.
Two men were killed and four in.
jured, one fatally, in freight wreck
Oh the Northern Pacific railroad al
Valley City, N. d.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Sartiyel. near Carlton, Mimi, was
struck by lightning, and three childrer
were burned to death and Mrs. Sartivel
was fatally injured.
Friday july 2I
Henry Wise, Of Philadelphia, is un
der arrest at Reading, Pa, charged
with 20 robberieS.
y aSSN
PHILADELPHIA was found starved to
death in her home, her body being
covered with filth.
The plant of the Monroe Lumber
company at Monroe, La. the largest
in north Louisiana, was destroyed by
fire. causing a loss of $150,00G.
Mrs. H. A. Leaptrot was shot and
killed and her husband fatally injured
while sitting on their porch at Wynne
Ark. by three mounted men, who ther
escaped.
Saturday, July %.
Thirty persons were injured, two ia
tally in a wreck of passenger trains
at Springfield, Mo.
Fire at Maryville, Tenn, destroyed
the county court house and several
buildings. entailing a loss of $150,000
Alexander Cruickshank, one of the
founders of the Bath Silk company
died at his home at Bethlehem, Pa, oi
cancer, aged 67 years.
In collision between an engine anG
a car on the Reading railway neai
Reading. Pa. William Smith was killed
and A. F. Bender severely injured.
Francis g. Reynolds. 4 New York
booklnaker, either fell or threw him
self from the fifth-story window of the
Martin House and was instantly killed
Me-,day, July 80.
Charles p. Neill, of Washington
d. c., has been reelected president oi
the bureau of statistics and labor.
Leopold Lewith, well known
Wilkes-Barre Pa, merchant, 56 year.
old. dropped dead in his store. He wa:
q former resident of Cleveland
Michael Locuskey was killed ant
David Harney fatally injured by the
accidental discharge of a blast at the
Richards colliery, near Shamokin, Pa
William Harway, of Danville, Va
was killed near Sunbury, p while
stealing a ride on a Pennsylvania rail.
road freight train by falling between
the cars.
Secretary Root at Rio Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro. July 28.-Secretary
Root arrived here from Bahia and was
welcomed by a representative of Gen
eral Rio-Branco, the Brazilian foreign
minister, and by the civil and military
authorities He was heartily cheere
by the assembled crowds.