Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
TELEGRAPA!C BREVT|ES.
Passing Events Boiled
Down For Busy Readers.
Special to the ARGUS.

Washington, Feb Ex-senator Lat
timer, of South Carolina, who was be-
leved to be dying last evening. is
still living and is probably a little i'm
proved this morning.
Washington, Feb. 1s.-Crosby S..
Noyes, the famous veteran editor Of
the Washington Evening Star, is criti-
cally ill here. Advanced z is the
chief trouble, he beng 50 years old.
Baltimore. Feb. 19.-"Jack'' the
vitr1ol thrower. vino has ruined thous-
alds of costly pieces of women's APP
parel as the wearers passed along he
police here.
Richmond, Va, Feb. 19.-By the
day for permanent and central location
at the State penitentiary tor the execu-
ton OF criminals, the electric chair is
adopted as a substitute for the %gallows.
There were only tour votes against the
bill.
Raleigh, Feb. 1S-Rev. Doctor Alex
ander Sprunt, of Charleston, recently
called to the passionate of the Presby-
terrain church here, today notified the
church committee that he would not
accept. He will continue to serve the
First Presbyterian church of Charles
ton.
CIi1~-o NIL 70 I~4 $4,000 IIs.-@-I
in the history OF Chicago is sweeping
over this city, and is general all over
b southwest. Traffic on railroads is
iinpeded and on some lines in Nebras-
ka huge drifts Of snow have stopped
traffic altogether, Many lives have
been lost already, and the end is not
yet.
Washington, Feb. 19.-Another in
stance OF negro prejudice against
Roosevelt is illustrated by the negro
bishops of the African Methodist
church in session here, adopting a res
olution opposing Taft or any one favor
ed by President Roosevelt, and calling
on the negroes Of the country to so
| FOL0 III conventions ana
Mt. Carmel, Penn. Feb. 18-Today
after Is hour of desperate digging by
comrades 81 Of the % entombed miners
here were rescued. The other, Frank
Orlky, was fonnd dead. The men were
imprisoned by the breaking of a dam
and b rush Of mud into the gangway
where they were working.
Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Stone,
OF Missouri, in a speech in the Senate
today attacking Aldrich currency bill,
scored the growth of stock gambling
and declared it threatens, The stability
of the banking system of this country.
New York banks he believed to b,
involved in stock transactions.
Reno, Nevada, Feb. l8.-Equalline
the famous stampede to Klondyke
: eleven years ago., is the rush to Raw.
hide, the new Nevada gold camp, to.
day, where the output is assaying fifty
thousand dollars a ton and plenty of it
Four Thousand miners are there al
ready, and four newspapers hav.
9 started UP.
Connellsville, Penn, Feb. 1S.-In
> big riot at Dunbar Penn, late las
l night, in which something like on
hundred men and mn participated
. two men were stabbed to death,a scor'
i badly injured and a wagon load Car
Il ried off by the police. and are in jail to
y dow a vuoitinu trial rphav ara mnStI,
fol- eigners, and the rio originated il
9 jealousy Of boarding house keepers.
o stance of moral d~epravity has bee
1t brought to light here by the confessiol
today of a 18-year-old girl, Celia Pat
le terson. h boasts she had PERSONAL.
l. committed Or participated in owe fit
Il burglaries, usually accompanied by
boy younger than herself, and VIII
v~erifies her statement. Both are in tn
hands OF the police, whom they hav
long baffied.
l. Washington, Feb. 10 1t is under
IL stood here that the President has d.
cided to promote Captain Richar
Wainwright to rear admiral, and plae
him i'll charge OF the fine fleet of wa
- ships, when Admiral Evans arrive
> with it in Frisco harbor. Wainwrigl
will command the fleet during the ba
ance Of the journey to Asiatic water
and the Far East. Evans reaches tt
10 age limit in August. and his ill healt
I'd has led him to desire Id be relieved.
Charleston, Feb. 19-Chairman Fov
" Ter of the House committee on bankin
and currency. declares that the estal
ishmant OF the gold standard shou]