The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-02-17
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, February 8.

Inc main IdCIOEy Oul1OlnB O1 lHe
Quaker Shade Roller company, at Bay
City, Mich, was partly destroyed by
fire, causing loss of 100000.
John H. Core, aged seventy years
one of the wealthiest men in eastern
vi: ginia, and the largest individual
holder of real estate In Norfolk, Va.
is dead.
Homer c. Cope, an indianapolis
Ind, briclilayer, shot and killed his
motherin-law, Mrs. Louisa C. George:
shot his wife in the. head and ther
killed himself with the same weapon
Cope and his wife had separated
Wednesday, February 9.
Herman Strauss, twenty-four year:
old. who just completed a penitentiar,
term. shot and killed his wife Annie
eighteen years old, and then killed
himself in a fiat in New York.
William o. Parsons, thirty-fiv.
years old. of Ripley, w Va, Demo
cratic nominee for congress in the
Fourth West Virginia district in the
last campaign, died suddenly of hear
failure in a local hotel.
CLYDE MOrlen, eight years old, was
attacked BY wolves at the city parl
menagerie in Parkersburg, w Va, anc
al arm was SO badly lacei ated that II
will have to be amputated. AS the boy
stood near the cage one animal seized
his left arm and two others fastened
their teeth in his legs.
Thursday. February 10.
Three men who slept in one room
il brooklyn were found dead from gas
and the theory of the police is that the
gas vas accidentally turned on.
Health Commissioner Rex Shell, O.
PeOriO, H.. has ordered an immediate
investigation as the result of what is
declared t. be widespread epidemic
Of stomach and bowel trouble, the
cause Of which is thought to be EN-
balmed beef
Bessie LOngenecker, exhibited IL
museums throughout the country un
der the name of Baby Madeline" who
although orly seven years old, weigh
ed 250 pounds, died in hospital al
Columbus, O., an hour after her cloth
ing caught fre from a stove.
Friday, February II.
Mary Cain, colored, is dead at th>
age Of 116 years at Durham, N. c. De
tails of the War of 1912 and the par
that Orange county soldiers played il
ii we're fresh to her.
Guilty of involuntary manslaugh
ter" was the verdict rendered by {
jury at Parkersburg, w. Va. in the
case of ]. Everett Sayre, a busines:
man. charged with having caused the
death of his wife by administering II
her bichloride of mercury on thei
wedding day.
Frank Hartsough, forty years old, {;
prominent oil operator, committed sui
eide at his home near Huntingdon
w. Va. by firing a bullet into hi:
brain. He had been married only {,
month. and left a note saying that the
Indifference manifested toward him By
his bride was responsible for his de
spondency
Saturday, February II.
Brigadier General Robert L. Meade
U. S. M. c., retired, died at his home
several months.
Friday was the seventy seventh
birthday anniversary of Chief Justice
Melville W. Fuller, of the supreme
court of the United States. He ha:
served almost twenty-five years a.
chief justice.
Represents Edgar D. Crumpack
er, of Indiana. was placed in the fielG
as a candidate to succeed Speak,
Cannon at a meeting of the Indiana
Society Of Washington. The society is
non-partisan.
G. w. Thomas, jail guard, anC
Matthew Godsey. superintendent Of the
street force. fought a duel on the
street at Chattanooga, Tenn. ThOma:
died two FOurs after the encounter
his body riddled with bullets. Godsay
/ may recover.
Monday, February IA.
| Enamel hardware material got intC
| a sore in her hand, AMI Kiss Mar!
Corner. of Marietta. Pa. has a bac
case of blood poisoning.
Thomas H. Dodge, a philanthrOpis
and inventor of the cylinder printing
press. died 1t his home at Worcester
Mass, aged eighty-seven years.
NJ F. Woodrow. a Rhodes schola
! from Kentucky. won the Vinerian Law
scholarship at Oxford university. Len
! don The scholarship is among tn
more important of those open to com
| petition.
Atlantic City, n. J., will hold an in
ternational flying machine meet durin!
lime according To DlanS of GaOro,
! Homans. a New Yorker. who is backet
J by big hotel men of the resort H0
mans has started to raise 100000 I,
! be awarded fer prizes.