The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-01-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items of Interest Gaehered Rv.
Wire and Cable
CLEANENGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events Of More
Or Less Interest ut Home and
Abroad.

IN the production OF lead.
The eleven-year-old son of VIM.
Tillman, 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
first 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 500 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.
HoE. 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-
thorities to aid at Scicily but were
declined because not needed.
Hon. Bert M. Fernald was i~naugu-
rated Thursday as governor of the
State of Georgia.
Hon. Oben S. Draper took his seat
as Governor of Massachusetts on
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 late
"Sugar King' Claus Speckles is
$275,000 per month. Pending the
probate of the will the widow is to
have $4,000 per month. :
> DR.. Roseburgh of the Jefferson Med
ical College, Philadelphia. has made
a wonderful discovery about tuber-
culosis germs, and hopes soon that an
anti-toxine will be in use to which the
dread disease will yield.
The South Carolina Penitentiary
shows a net balance of $29495.19 for
1908 over 1907, after losing about
$4,000 by food and making perma-
nent improvements to the 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 4th
Tuesday in May.
A head-on collision occurred on
the Southern at Carnegie Tuesday, in
which five persons were hurt, one Of
them probably fatally.
A late pitched battle between Wig
ilantes from Mexican ranches near
the California line and a party of
stock thieves resulted in the killing
of the four thieves.
The Virginian Railroad is now open
from Norfolk through Roanoke, Va.
800 miles.
James Treanor, a printer. was
burned to death with the loss by fire
of Central Hotel, Covington, Tenn,
on Tuesday. A score of others made
narrow escapes.
Senior Castro Venezuela s deposed
ruler, is fast recovering from an
operation, which he has undergone IN
Berlin, and has promise of health.
Congress has appropriated $780,
600 to the earthquake suerers IN
Italy.
A semi-annual dividend Of 31-2
per cent on North Carolina Railroad
stock was declared at Greensboro on
Tuesday.
A sanatorium for eonsumptives has
been opened at Red Springs. a V1r-
ginia mountain summer resort.
C. F. King, famous in finance, was
convicted of larceny in Boston. He
gave bail of $4,000, and came out
of Jail, but soon one of the suretles
surrendered him to custody again
He is in Jail.
A convention of the Virginia and
Carolina Hotel Association convened
at the Jefferson, Richmond, Va, on
Wednesday.
Congressman will be limited this
a to 10000 packages of vege-
table seeds to send to their constr
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 Sl9'
600, and the end is not yet.
1t is reported that Geo. E: Milton
of the Knoxville Sentinel. has Pur
chased the Chattanooga News COZ
s~ideration, $175 5000.
Fire which ragged for five days
the steamer Texas, while on n5
maiden voyage, has been extinSulsnsu
and the Texas is ready for rePa"
to try it again. l..
There are 81 midshipmen at "
United States Naval Academy