The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-09-27
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, September 10.

James w. Hail, night Watchm8n OF
the Air Line Manufacturing company,
at Norfolk, Va, was murdered and
robbed.
The 27Gth anniversary of the found
ing of Boston was celebrated Monday
In jumping from moving train at
Cairo. ILL.,. P. J. Thistlewood, wealthy
grain dealer. fell and broke his neck,
dying instantly.
A. H. Baker was murdered in his
store at Barbourville, w. Va, and tha
place robbed.
Wednesday, September 10.
: The National Negro Baptist Con-
vention will meet next year in Wash.
ington. D. c.
John Strothcamp died at Harrison,
y. Y. from knockout blow received
n boxing bout with Philip Ryan.
While sitting in the street before
his home in Philadelphia, Benjamin
Goldsmith. aged 8 years, was run over
by trolley car and killed:
Two laborers were killed and nine
injured two fatally, by the collapse OF
steel superstructure at the Wood
worsted mills, Lawrence. Mass
Despondent because of i'll health.
Walter Brooke, farmer, living near
Newtown Square. committed suicide
by shooting at the home of his brother
In Philadelphia.
Thursday. September 20.
General Adam f. King, former con.
sui general at Paris, is critically i'll at
his home, in Baltimore, Md.
The American Red Cross Society
sent $4,000 to Chile in aid of the Val.
paraiso earthquake sufferers.
The Religious Educational associa.
ton will hold its convention next year
in Rochester. N. Y. September to 7.
Lehigh university, at South Bethfe.
hem, Pa. began its 41st scolastic year
with over $50 students, 200 being in
the freshman class.
In pistol fight between the Mullins
and Fleming faction. near Sergeant,
KY. James Anderson was killed and
Hiram Mullins fatally injured.
Friday, September 81.
John Torrey Morse. the oldest grad.
uate of Harvard University, died in
Boston, aged SO years.
William ]. Bruehl, of Philadelphia,
dropped dead from paralysis of the
heart on board a yacht at Still Pond,
Nd
While stapding on the porch OF his
home at Berwick, Pa. Dominick Caulse,
an Italian. was shot to death by un.
known men.
Eight masked men held the people
Of White Cloud. a village near Grand
Rapids, Mich, at bay and robbed the
bank of over $4,000 in cash.
Howard Fillmore, colored, was sen.
fenced to five years Imprisonment and
fined $500 for shooting and slightly in.
Turing Cornelia Jenkins, colored, ia
Wilmington. Del.
Saturday, September 22.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows will meet in St. Paul next
year.
T. Edward Hambleton, retired
banker of Baltimore, Nd, died at his
country home. aged 78 years.
Application has been made in Tren-
ton. N. j.. for a receiver for the Pater.
son Press; liabilities, $20.00O assets,
not given.
William Sheets, a well-known resi-
dent of Bellaire. O., was killed by
stray bullet during fight between po.
licemen and tramps.
General James C. Hill. a distin.
guished Confederate officer and the
first railway commissioner of Virginia
died at his home in Scottsville. Va.
Monday. September "a.
Michael Kolin was blown to pieces
by mine blast at the Enterprise col.
liery. Shamokin. Pa.
Warfare between the Standard OIL
and the labor unions has been started
with a strike at Whiting, Ind. a wage
increase being demanded.
While working behind vicious
horse in his stable at Wolfburg, Bed.
ford county, Pa, Theodore Lehman
aged 5S. was kicked to death.
Despondent over loss of rank, acting
Drum Major T. M. Doherty, of the
fourth United States infantry, killed
himself at Fort Thomas, Ohio.
The fire insurance companies OF
Hartford, Conn. have paid on San
Francisco losses to date SIS 1852. 749, or
about 6 per cent less than the claims