The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-01-17
NEWS CONDENSED

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News Of Interest Gathered From An
Parts Of the Country-Paragraphs,
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What the World Is Doing.
Col. Patko AndrieT, Chief of Gend-
armes in the LODI district was ASST
mated.
The assassin of General Pavlof was
sentenced by court-martial to be
hanged.
Severe earthquake shocks are re-
ported from Norway, Sweden and
Russia.
Corporal Knowles, of the Twenty
fifth Infantry, will be tried by court
martial for attempting to kill Cap
tain Maeklin.
The gold production of the United
States in the calendar year 1906
amounted to $96,101,400.
President Roosevelt has been in
vited to deliver the grafton at James
town, Va, on May Ii.
The Senate passed the La Toilette
bill providing that railroad employees
shall not work more than 16 consecu-
tive hours In a day.
Senator Foraker gave notice that
he would try to get a vote Saturday
on his resolution for an investiga-
ton of the Brownsville affair.
A personal encounter on the floor
Of the House between Representative
Gaines, of Tennessee, and Repres-
entative Mahon, of Pennsylvania, was
averted by the intervention of friends
Wallace c.. Mays, aged Is, unmar-
ried, shot and killed at Roanoke Mrs.
Eta Murray, aged 80, the wife Of
Frank Murray, and then blew out his
own brains. Mays and Mrs. Murray
were cousins and he was madly in
love with her.
Charles Goode was convicted at Lu-
ray of the murder of his sweetheart,
Miss Fannie Stroop, and was SEN
fenced to be hanged on March s.
Governor Dawson, of West Virgin
la, made a number of important rec
concentrations in his message to the
West Virginia Legislature.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company will issue a new mortgage
for $18,O00,000.
Howard E. Young, of Baltimore,
and Karl Jungbluth, presidents, re-
spectively of the j. S. Young Com
pany of Baltimore and the MacAn-
drews & Forbes Company, were ac-
quilted by the jury in the licorice
paste case, while the companies were
convicted on two of the three counts.
Governor Glenn, of North Carolina,
read his message to the Legislature.
Representative William Alden
Smith was nominated by the Michi-
gan Republicans to succeed Russell
A. Alger in the United States Senate.
Archbishop George Montgomery
died at San Francisco.
Writs are to be issued against E.
II. Hartman, William Rockefeller
and others, to compel them to remain
the jurisdiction of the Inter
state Commerce Commission until
they have testified.
What are believed to have been
earthquake shocks were felt in Penn
.syivania and Michigan.
President Roosevelt has accepted
a place on the Simpliied Spelling
Board.
An order for a special uanel of
iurymen to try Harry K. Thaw was
by Justice Fitzgerald.
A conference of members of the
Thaw family is to be held to get the
consent of Harry K. Thaw's mother
TO an examination of him by a lun-
acy commission.
A negro was hanged to a tree and
with bullets in Alabama be-
rause he had attempted to assault
a bankers daughter In her room at
The t~error:sts are said to have
condemned Grand Duke Nicholas,
Premier Stolypin and others to
death
President Roosevelt ordered that
all private fences inclosing public
land be torn down at once.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
son sent to Congress a request that
appropriation be made for test
ing automatic appliances to prevent
train collisions.
The president gave a special din
ner at the White House in honor of
Speaker Cannon.
With liabilities of $4,000 and few
assets, ex-Mayor Johiah Quincy, Of
Boston, was petitioned into bankrupt
cy.
Mrs. Lydia K. Commander and Mrs.
Rose Pastor Stokes advanced some
very radical views on race suicide and
wealth.