Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-26
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st. Petersburg, March 1S.-General
Smirof was today probably fatally
wounded in a duel with Genera Fock.
Plainfeld, Conn, March 1S.-The
Montville cotton mills have hut down
and more han 5000 employees III ad-
jacent towns were notified Of a 10 per
cent. reduction in wages.
Dublin, March 1s-Tommy Burns
had the easiest sort OF q picnic in his
bout here with the "Irish Champion
Roche. It took only 80 minutes for
him to put Roche out of business.
Raleigh, March 21.-State Treasurer
correspondents and the papers Of Raj
eigh with a formal signed
ment OF his candidacy for another term.
Raleigh, March Is -Revenuers de-
stroyed a new moonshine still last
night in Wake county. It had just
started up in the Holly Springs neigh
borhood, and had fifty gallons of mash
on hand.
London, March 19.-First Lord Ad-
miral Tweedlnouth, in b House OF
Lords today, announced that in 1911
the British navy will be greater than
those Of all other powers of the world.
Pittsburg, March 21-Six men were
horribly burned-most of them fatally
and one side of the New Eagle Hotel,
largest in MoKees Rocks, as the result
of a big fire this morning. caused by
gas explosion.
Indianapolis, March 19.-Chairman
Taggert, of the Democratic national
committee, said today, in expressing
his opinion of Bryan, that the latter
will certainly be nominated. and added,
will make a great race thi. time
New York, March 21.-AbeH ummel
sailed under a disguise, alias Herman
Newberger, today, on the Luisitania
for Europe, in search OF health. He
threatens to come back and make an
other fortune at the ''crooked law bust
ness.
Raleigh, March ia special from
Winston tells how Harden Moore, q
negro. who killed William Christopher,
white, a Rockingham farmer, last
Christmas, was taken from Stokes to
Forsythe county Jail early this morn
ing to prevent l%ynching.
Raleigh, March 2l.-United States
Marshal Dockery was today informed
that Deputy Collector H. G. Reece was
shot, but not fatally wounded, last
NIGHT. by moonshiners, near Spout
Spring, Harnett county. Reece was
taken today to the hospital at Sanford.
;, Chicago, March 21-The horrible
finale to a sensational tragedy was en-
acted here today when a Tilted lover,
the river to escape death at the hands
of a mob which was seeking to lynch
him because he had sought to kill Mrs
Rosie Dibiuse, who had rejected his
;ove.
Chattanooga, Tenn, March 21.-
Making the eighteenth man he had
killed, D. D. Edwards, a no ed Ken.
Il lucky desperado, late last night muir
dered w. D. Davis, a foreman in the
shops where he worked and who dis
charged Edwards, yesterday. Edwards
recently confessed to having killed
@ seventeen men. Officers, with blood
b hounds, are trailing him today.
Tarboro, N, c., March 21-Two o
Tarboro's leading stores went int
9 bankruptcy yesterday. These wer'
9 Morris-Kaufman Co., one of the lead
= ing dry goods and millinery stores il
, Edgecombe county, which has beef
years, and the general m~erchandis
store of Deans & Brown, which firm
was formed here two years agos Jane
r. Gaskill has been appointed refere
for the former, and W. o. Howard re
~ceiver for the latter.
Milwaukee,, March 2O.-Mad wit
IN love for another woman, George Wi
loughby today shot and killed b:
wife, wounded himself slightly, an
then called in the police and declare
the house had been attacked by bu
glars. Willoughby is prominent
a. church circles and in business. Lat,
T, he made confession to the police of b
t. crime as above.
vs. Raleigh, March 19.-The impressio
= being conveyed by thy the formal al