The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-09-19
GENERAL NENS CONDENSED.
News Of Interest Gathered From An
Parts of the -Country-ParagTaphs
Of More or Less Importance
What the World Is Doing.
Serious demonstrations of sedition-
lists have occurred In Calcutta.

ISIS nave occurred III CaIcuCId
The probability of Lieutenant-
Governor Chanler's nomination for
President is doubted In washington.
Gen. Luke Wright said Japs view
ed the war talk as not even respect
able nonsense
After an unsuccessful attempt
Walter Wellman has given up trying
to reach the North Pole by ballonn
this year.
Russian newspapers denounce the
lack of s~eamanship which is blamed
for the grounding of the Imperial
yacht STANDARD.
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, started on his evangelizing
tour to Canada and the United
States.
Secretary Of the Navy Metcalf ex-
planned that Secretary Leob denied
the Pacific feet story probably be-
cause he didn't know of the decision
The Interstate Commerce Commits
.sion's report for 1906 shows passen-'
gers we're carried for an average of
2.002 cents a mile. @
The Merchants and Miners steam
er Dorchester, ran down and sank the
schooner Fannie S, Grovesman near
Norfolk.
The negro rioters Burton and Con-
quest were convicted in the Aceomac
county court and sentenced to the
penitentiary for 10 years.
The great Government pier at
Jamestown will be turned over to the
Exposition management.
Robert Newton Wildbore, driver Of
an express wagon in Richmond, will,
on November 8, come into possession
of an English fortune the value of
which is estimated at upward Of $5,-
OOO,0 00.
The new Cunard liner. Lusitania
made the voyoge in five days and "a
minutes, but did not beat the speed
record of her German competitors.
D. Willis James, senior member of
Phelps, Dodge & Co., of New York,
and a philanthropists, is dead.
The San Francisco Health Board
offered a bounty for rats In. the hope
of stamping out bubonic plague.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
have a combined population of 1,40S,-
1872 persons.
Forty persons were injured, 20 OF
them seriously, by a coal-dust explo-
sion in a Wyoming mine.
A Northern Central Railway engi-
neer's belief in a dream enabled him
to save his train from a landslide.
The Grand Army of the Republic
adopted a resolution recommending
legislation by Congress to establish
a hospital for soldiers in the South.
Artists Frederick Pinney Earle has
joined his "afinity" in Bethlehem,
N. H. :
Coast defenses at Portland, Bos-.
ton, New York, San Francisco and on
Puget Sound will be completed soon
if Congress gives the money.
Negro troops returning from the
Philippines will be sent to New York
State posts.
The coal for the Pacific journey of
the big feet will be bought by bids,
giving Welsh mines an opportunity.
Mrs. Mary Lawless Rorshach wa
buried In Portsmouth.
The great Council of Red Men adj
journed It's session at Norfolk to meet
at Bridgeport, Conn.
W. B. Patterson a sailor on the re-
ceiving ship Franklin confessed that
he murdered Agrippa Jones .
As a>result of the deadlock between
producers and consumers over the
price the copper mines may close.
Secretary Taft sailed from Seattle
on his voyage around the world.
Charles G.. Burton of Nevada, Mo-,
was elected commander-in-chlef OF
the Grand Army of the Republic at
Saratoga.
Hartman and President Harahan
of the Illinois Central II hunting
for proxies.
Randolph Guggenheimer a native
of Lynchburg, Va, and a well-known
New York lawyer is dead.
Colonel Gaynor says he is glad to
get back into prison as the curiosity
of people at the summer resorts was
too much for him.
The international theatre trust is
said to be assured.
Rear-Admiral Cowles said the Pa
cifc coast has enogh docks to care
for the big ~battleship fleet going
there.
The new turbine steamer Lusitania
is reported to have passed the Luz
cania.
The armistice ordered by General
Drude in command at Casablanea was
fruitless as the Moorish tribesmen
failed to send delegates.
A new Persian Cabinet has been
formed.
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