Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-30
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Canton, O., April 24.-It is announced
that President McKinley's old home
here has been bought by the diocese of
Cleveland and is to be used as a Catho-
lie hospital.
dem today sent to the Senate the name
of Capt. William ). Cowles to be Rear
Admiral. Cowies is brother-in-Iaw of
the President.
Lakewood, n. j., April 24.-Grover
Cleveland is better today. He had one
of his old attacks OF rheumatic govt at
the Lakewood Hotel and has been a
pretty sick man.
New York. April 23.-Mrs. Annie
Bryan is dying at Gounenour Hospital
AS the result of her automobile getting
beyond her control while speeding
over Williamsburg bridge. EEEKssNls
Paris, April 24.-The Duke deChaul-
daughter Of Theodore Shonts, formerly
the head of the Panama canal commits
sion, died this morning.
New York. April PAT. a. McIn-
ty re 81 Co., brokers, and prominent on
the stock, produce and cotton ex-
changes, made an assignment this
morning. No details are given out.
Atlanta, Ga, April 25.-The south
bound freight on the Seaboard Air
Line fell through q trestle near Mon
treat at 5 o'clock this morning. The
engineer is reported killed and several
trainmen injured.
Cory, Pa, April 24.-An entire fam
lily was cremated in their house at 2
2 o'clock this morning. David With
erby, aged 70; his wife, aged 80, and
their daughter, Mrs. Albert Lemm,
aged so. How the fire started nobody
knows.
Pittsburg, April pa report has
just been received here that several
men were killed by an explosion at
Ellsworth Coal Mines. near Mononga-
hClo N1ty thlo ihoI II II IL bob u
known how mary were in the mines
at the tim OF The xplosion.
Washington, April 24.-John P. Mar
lowell convicted OF robbery and sen
to fifteen years. and John How
ard, for assault with intent to kill, also
sentenced to fifteen years, were taken
to the Atlantis p~enitentiary today by
deputy marshals and u strong guard.
Los Angels, Cal, April 23-The city |
bloomed out today in full regalia to do
closing honors to the lee before its
for the Orient. The wreck
age left by the heavy storm of yester-
day had been cleared away and the
entertainment as planned WAS carried
out on the Beach.
Hot Springs, Ark, April 23.-The
Indiana Club, the wv ell gambling house
Of this place, was held up this morning
with s~iA-shooters, " no then locked up !
the members in a small room and fed,
The loot will probably mount to ten
thousand dollars.
New York, Eugene Mursell, presi-
of the Mica Insulating Co and a
prominent hardware man, jumped
from a 7th story window, of the Van
Dyke Hotel today and was killed. He
had been planning suicide sometime,
and his wife and daughter constantly
watched him, but this morning he sue
ceeded in GLIDING them.
Raleigh, April l2S.-rhe Republican
congressional eohventioni of this dis
trict, in session There this afternoon,
endorsed Roosevelt, Instructed tor
TAFT, and named W. &. Briggs and J..
C. Stancil to the National Convention.
There was a contest fl ON Nash county
by negro delegates, but it was thrown
out on the grounds OF irreguiarity.
New York, April 23.-Everything is
in readiness tor the great auto race to-
morrow over the three hundred mile
bfiar cliff course. Twenty cars will
start. The course is full ofsharp turns
and bad II ana IL Is atlnost eek
tain some driver will meet with a seri-
Gus mishap. Towns along the route
have been well insured by the promo
tiers against damage to roads and pro-
perry by wild racers.
Washington, April % Every mem
Der OF the House, today received ii tele-
gram from the American Newspaper
Association in convention in New
York to protest against the subterfuge
OF Cannon, Payne and Dalzell on wood
pulp and print paper tariff. John