The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-09-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED'
Tuesday, AUGUST %.


While suffering from cramps Will
liam Shirley, Of Philadelphia, drank
brandy and fishberries and died in
great agony.
Miss Florence Mullen and Lucy Hill
were drowned by the overturning Of a
buggy while crossing small stream
near Loveland. o.
The Japanese government has mott
fed the state department that it will
open the port of Dalny, Manchuria, to
the commerce of all nations.
Governor Folk, of Missouri, has re-
prieved until October rs Mrs. Agnes
Myers. now in Jail at Liberty awaiting
execution for the murder of her hus-
band
Wednesday, August 20.
The 10th annual convention of the
International Leageu of Press Clubs
was held at Denver, Col.
The annual Industrial Exposition at
Cincinnati, Ohio, was opened by Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, who pressed .
gold button in Music Hall.
Mrs. Margaret Schaeffer, of Phila-
delphia, was given carbolic acid in
mistake for medicine by her nurse and
there is little hope for her recovery.
William and Theodore Holiday, col
ored, were sentenced to nine years in
the penitentiary for assault and bat
terry on a policeman at West Chester,
Pa
Thursday, August 80.
One man was killed and several 9TH
ers seriously injured in a freight wreck
in the New York Central yards In
New York
Mrs. Mary Harris, of Millville, N. ].
ate potato salad and complained OF
distress before retiring, and was found
dead in bed.
Fred Beasley and Norman South
worth were drowned in the Hudson
river at New York when their motor
baot was run down by a ferryboat
While at work along the railroad
four laborers' were killed and another
fatally injured by a Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern train near Loveland, O.
Friday, August 81.
Lady Campbell -Bannerman, wife o1
the British premier, died after long
illness at Marienbad, Bohemia.
Dora Morowitz, years old, fell into
a tub of water at her home in Phila
delphia and was drowned.
George J. Gould and Judge D. Cady
Herrick resigned as members of the
board OF directors of the Equitable
Life Assurance society.
The Pennsylvania railroad fyel
struck a switch engine at Ebenezer
near Buffalo. n Y. and both engineers
were seriously injured.
Homer S. Castle. Prohibition candt
date for governor of Pennsylvania
was notified of his nomination at hi:
| home in Pittsburg.
Saturday, September I,
Fifteen buildings were burned a
Fryeburg. Me-, including IL residences
causing loss of $4,000
Edward Rosewater, proprietor an,
| editor of the Omaha Neb., Bee. wa
found dead in the newspaper building
Helen Keer, aged 6 years. fell from
a second-story window at South Bend
| Ind, was impaled on a picket fenc
| and fatally injured.
| A~ B. & o. passenger train collide,
with a freight at Wheeling, w. Va
and Engineer Lee McMann and Fire
| man William Moran were killed.
| Masked robbers, who travel in al
automobile, blew open the safe in tn
postoffice at Highland, N Y, and sc
cured $500 in money and $500 in stamps
| Monday, September 3.
The Marquette Club, of Chicago, vii
give a banquet on October 9 in homo
of Speaker Cannon.
/ Jacob Suydsm, of Flemington, n
J., was instantly killed by stepping il
front of fast-moving train.
Three hundred butchers in Bait
more have gone on strike for a nine
hour day. without pay reduction.
Miss Dottie Glover. OF New Yori
saved Walter Stinson from drownin
after his canoe upset on lake at Ne,
Egypt, N. ].
James C. Abernathy. managing ed
tor of the Charlotte. N. c.. ObserYel
died at Asheville, where he had gon
for his health.