The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-01-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, January 5.

Tuesday, January D.
D1niel Miller, q well known citlzen'
living neac Boyertown, Pa, VINO ceie-
Erated his tooth anniversary last Au-
gust. died Monday.
Mrs. Harriet Estes, who is said to
have been the only surviving daughter
of the Revolution, died at Ithaca N
Y. aged eightyseven years.
Henry C. Potter, Jr., of Detroit, vice
president of the Peoples State Saw
ines bank. committed suicide at his
home by shooting himself in the head
Frank Davenport, negro. VINO IN
November last shot and killed Jonn
TAYLOR. a reputable negro, in Norfolk
county, was put to death in the cleo
trio chair in The state penitentiary at
Richmond. Va.
Wednesday, January 8.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of Colonel George H. Ter
ney 10 be surgeon general, medlcai
corps.
Nah Hong. q Chinaman, was hanged
at Macleod. Alberta. by Radcliffe. Can
ada's official hangman, for the murder
of his partner in laundry.
Henry Reel, a well known Confed-
crate veterc1 aged sixty years. com
mitted suicide near Waycrosse Ga,
bv firing hotgun with the aid OF a
stick.
An explosion which shook houses
and shattered windows five miles dis
tant occurred at Wood River, H., wnen
an oil TAM, Of 100000 gallons capacity
caught fire.
Thursday, January 7.
The senate ratified arbitration treat
ies with tho Argentine Republic and
Salvador.
Mrs MARI McVanneu Campbell, a
real daughtrr of the American ReVo-
luton. whose father served seven
years with the Revolutionary army
died at Warren. Pa. aged n1nety-tWo
years.
Edward Wright, commissioned by
General Both to investigate the ad'
visibility of establishing a Salvation
Army colony in Mexico, was received
bv President Diaz. who warmly com
mended the project.
rrlOay, ia udIJ O.
The Fort View hotel. at Winchester
XIV. was destroyed by fire, and one
guest was burned to death and several
injured.
Because the date is too near his
African trip. President Roosevelt has
declined an invitation to attend the
dinner of the Iowa society in New
York on March 10.
Mrs. Dougles Bolton was killed and
Miss Eva Bolton, John Bolton, Mrs
Fred OdeIl and Mrs. Fred Curtis were
seriously injured in fire at Calumet
Mich. which destroyed a small apart
ment building.
Harry Gilmore, seventy years old
who has spent thirty-six years IL
prison for various robberies, received
a sentence of eight years in Jersey CITY
for clearinghouse thefts to which be
confessed his guilt.
Saturday, January 9.
The frankfort arsenal at Philadel
phia will decrease its output one-half
and as a result 1000 of the $500 EN-
ployes will be laid off.
While their parents were at a froll'
at a neighbors home at Spartansburg
S. c., three negro children persisted Il
a fire that destroyed their house.
Rev. Horace w Bolton, D. d., TEN
perance evangelist of the Whining
ton NJ F. conference, died at his hom'
in Camden. Del. from an attack o
| diabetes.
Frederick Corby Pole, thirty-fou
| years old, wanted in Montreal on
| charge Of grand larceny in the sum
| $25. 900. has surrendered himself to IN
| police at Cincinnati, o.
John Witizar was instantly killed
| and John Thorma probably fatally in
| jured In Braddocly, suburb OF Pitts
| burg. at crossing of the Baltimore {
Ohio railroad by a shifting engine.
| Monday, January II.
| A cat, apparently suffering with tn
| rabies, attacked and seriously bit Mrs
| Mary Corners in a Chicago grocer
| store
| Despondent, Frank Naftzgar a well
TODD mill owner of Wooster. O.. kille
himself by shooting on his mother
| grave.
| Ross Shingler, of Altoona, Pa, eigh
| years old. found dynamite cap, struc
| 1t with a hammer, and the explosion
| carried away his left hand.
| Julia Zimcavage. aged three year!
| fell from a chair into tub of scaldin
water at Shenandoah, n, and was S
terribly burned that she will die.
Two blind inmates. an aged negres
and a negro boy. persisted in fir
which destroyed the parish home fc
the poor in Lancaster county. s. c.