Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-13
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Special to the ARGUS.
Chicago, Feb. 8.-License won in the
liquor fight here, but Sunday bars are
voted out.
Montgomery, Ala, Feb. Elm a
speech here today Governor Conner
told the Cotton Growers Convention
that all cotton gambling had been stop
ped in Alabama. He scored the New
gambling HE'LL"
Raleigh, Feb. S-Gov. Glenn today
granted a respite to Frazier Jones, the
negro who was to hang at Greensboro
at noon today. The Governor granted
the respite just a half hour before the
time for the hanging, at the request of
Solicitor Brooks.
New York, Feb. S.-The court Off
GERS attached today all the belongings
and holdings, securities, and tangible
property of Chas.W Morse in an even
one hundred banks in which he is in
terested. The statement that he will
start back nome tonight Ii ISCOINOU
with considerable doubt.
Lisbon, Feb. 8.-The funerals of
King Carlos and Crown Prince Philippe
we're held in ST. Vincent's CATHEDRAL to-
day with imposing The
diplomatic corps was largely repre-
scented. The remains were inclosed in
~glass-covered caskets, and the bodies
will yet lie in state three days before
interment.
Liverpool, Feb. 8-Charles w. Morse,
the noted American fnancier arrived
here last night under nom deplume of
Charles NJ. Moore. He refused to talk
except to say that he had to return to
New York and arrange his affairs. Ac-
cordingly he is booked to return to
New York on the Etruria, which sails
late this afternoon.
New York, Feb. 6.-Sugar expert
Gebracht, who draws an annual salary
of S25, 900 from the American Sugar
Company, and sever EN- ployes were
arrested today and taken to court as
result OF Investigations by the grand
jury. The charge is that the govern
ment has been detrauded out of mil
lions by their manipulation of he
scales on the platform at Williamsburg
pier.
New York, Feb. 6.-Mrs. Tower,
principal of the public schooll la of
this nitV- in q nnhIin St9tQnnnt de-
clares that many of her school children
are forced to come to school without
breakfast because of poverty that
scores have tainted in class room from
hunger, that she has reported facts
ofteniand eve has Egotten anything
It has caused a sensation in this city
today.
New York, Feb. 6.-Chas. w. Morse
credited with a fortune of twenty mil
lions less than six months ago, head Of
the Coastwise Ship and Ice Trusts cap
italized at ten millions, is today aboard
an ocean steamer fleeing to Europe to
escape the impending TROUBLES OF ruin
oAN AO0oy LIZ y
mansion was attached for q debt for
$243 900, on long overdue promisary
notes. Servants at the house say that
Morse has not been home in two days.
Pensacola, Fla, Feb. ga special
from Bombay, Florida, gives the hor-
rible details of a most unnatural crime
near there in which J, A. Strickland, a
prominent farmer, has been murdered
by his twelve-year-old son at the in
stance Of the boys mother, Strickland's
wife. Tempted by the promise of the
family horse and buggy and urged on
by the mother the boy, obeying the
woman's instructions, took the fathers
shotgun and fired through a window of
the house where the old man sat read
ing. At last accounts neither had been
arrested. There was great excitement
when the facts were revealed today.
Raleigh, Feb. SIT leaked out today
that there was another land this time
the most serious Of alp hazing affairs
at the A. & M. College here night be-
AOAO 1dSCs d1thOuSh 0hOItS " A00p IL
from the public were made by the Col
lege authorities. The meat Of the whole
story is briefly this: A lot of Sopho-
mores. during absence of Command
ant Lieut.. Young, numbering 25 or
more, attacked a number of freshmen
and ten of the latter were painted in
the face with Nitrate of Silver. Though
no permanent injury Is done, SO it is
claimed. he boys faces are in bad
shape and will be for some weeks to
come.