Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-01-14
THE news IN BRIEF
Items Of Interest Gathered Ely
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events Of More
or Less Interest at Home and
Abroad.

liz CAlteQ8 OIateS leaQS the world
IN the production of lead.
The eleven-year-old son Of VIM.
Illlman, Of Chatham County, commit
TED suicide with a gun last week,
because his father punished him.
Six Tennessee night riders have
been convicted Of murder in the
hrst degree and two in the second
degree, with jury penalty Of 20 years
imprisonment, all for the murder Of
Capt. Rankin.
Sheriff Van Pelt, of Pensacola, has
had to stop street cars from running
on Sunday to conform to the law.
The Virginia Portland Cement Co..
has started up in full force again,
with 5OO~hands and hopes to double
its force soon.
Hampton, Va, voted on Wednes-
day to issue 100000 in bonds for
city purposes.
An address from the people of
Spottsylvania, Va, will be issued
soon, calling on the people of the ma.
ton to unite in erecting a grand mon.
ument at Bloody Angle, in honor of
Gems, r. E. Lee and U. S. Grant.
Hon. John S. Henderson, receiver,
announces that affairs at Whitney.
N. c., will soon be Strengthened out
and work will begin on the great
electric power plant.
The American Battle Fleet, as soon
as it came out of the Suez canal,
rendered its services to Italian au-
thorltles to aid at Scicily but were
declined because not needed.
Hon. Bert M. Fernald was inaugu-
rated Thursday as governor of the
State of Georgia.
Hon. Oben S. Draper took his seat
as Governor Of Massachusetts IN
Thursday. The inaugural assembly
was unprecedented.
The North Carolina Legislature has
increased the salary of the Governor
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The annual income of the lat.
Sugar King" Claus Speckles i.
$4,000 per month. Pending tn.
probate Of TIE will the widow is t,
have $4,000 per month.
/. Or. Rosebargh Of the Jefferson Med
1cal College. Philadelphia, has mad.
a wonderful discovery about tuber.
culosls germs, end hopes soon that an
ant1-toxine will be in use to which the
dread disease will yield. :.
The South Carolina P~enitentiar>
shows a net balance Of S29,495.19 fol-
19Oo over 1907, after losing abou!
$1o,ooo by flood and making perma-
nent improvements ID Tue extent
OF nearly $1,000.
Half starved dogs In the stricken
cities OF Italy are dangerous to The
crippled, and they eat the dead like
hyenas.
The next meeting of the Cotton
manufacturing Association will be
held. in Richmond, Va, on the 4tb
Tuesday in May.
A head-on collision occurred on
the Southern at Carnegie Tuesday. in
winch live persons were hurt, one of
them probably; fatally.
"A iate pltched battle between Wig
l!antes from Mexican ranches nea,
the California line and a party Of
stock thieves resulted in the killine
of the four thieves.
The Virginian Railroad is now one,
from Norfolk through Roanoke, Va.
800 miles.
James Treanor, a printer, wa.
burned to death with the loss by fir.
OF Central Hotel, Covington. Tenn.
on Tuesday. A score of others made
narrow escapes.
Senior Castro Venezuela IS depose1
ruler, IS fast recovering from "a
operation, which he has undergone ir
Berlin, and has promise Of health.
Congress has appropriated $500.
900 to the earthquake sucrers II
Italy.
A semi-annual dividend Of 31s|
per cent on North Carolina Railroad
stock was declared at Greensboro OF |
Tuesday.
A sanatorium for consumptives liza.
beer opened at Red Springs, a Yir.
sihla mountain summer resort.
C.F'. King, famous in finance, wa.
convicted of larceny in Boston. Hx
gave bail Of $4,000, and came orr
OF Jail, but 500 one Of the s@uretie.
surrendered him to custody again
He is in jail.
A convention Of the Virginia and
Carolina Hotel Association convened !
at the Jefferson, Richmond, Va, or
Wednesday.
Congressman will be limited this
season to 10000 packages Of vege-
table seeds to send to their consti-
tuents instead of $4,000 as before.
500 packages Of flower seeds are still
allowed to each.
The Brownsville trouble which has
been so much agitated, has cost $15,-
900, and the end is not yet.
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