The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-02-17
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Seeking a knowledge of What Is
Going on.

Of Madison, secretary of the Y. NJ.
c. A, attempted to eject John w.
Cash, a Southern Railway fagman,
and was instantly killed.
John L. Sullivan, the former heavy
weight champion of the world, was
last Monday married to the sweet
heart of his school days, Miss Kath-
crime Hartnett, a wealthy real estate
holder.
j. +. Ong, a prominent contractor,
of Columbia, S. c., committed suicide
last Saturday at Augusta, GA.
At Long Beach, Cal, the strain of
supporting a 2OO-pound patient, who
had rolled off the operating table,
burst a blood vessel in DIR. William
Lawrence Woodruff's lungs, and the
surgeon died shortly ~afterward.
District Attorney Whitman asked
for and got a $4,000 appropriation
from the Board of Estimates of New
York to pursue the investigation into
the so-called "white-slave" traffic.
That a wealthy Chinaman. whose
headquarters are either in Chicago
or San Francisco, is at the head of an
extensive conspiracy to smuggle
opium into the United States, is the
belief of Federal officials whose in
vestigations eliminated last week in
seven arrests-four in Chicago, two
in Los Angeles and one in Ell Paso.
Eighty-eight letters to Andrew
Carnegie, asking him to buy an or
gan for the Cote Brilliante Presby-
terrain Chuch, Of st. Louis, Mo-, writ
ten in the last eight months, brought
a check for slips last week from
the philanthropist.
One person was killed, one ser
iously injured and Ii others more
or less hurt when passenger train No.
43 on the Rock Island railroad col
lided with a freight train at Fourche,
3S miles west of Little Rock last
Monday.
The enrolment of the North Caro-
lima College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts has now reached $50,
eighty new students having been
registered since the new year. This
record breaking registration has
been made possible by the compile
ton of the new dormitory. Another
gratifying feature of the enrolment
for this year is that there is a gain
Of 81 per cent in the number of agri-
cultural students.
Luminda Lotten, a negro woman.
aged 119 years. died at Donaldsville,
La, last Monda,i She was a native
of Virginia. Until a month ago she
was engaged in active labor.
Five hundred clerks employed in
the general offices in, Boston of the
Boston and Maine railroad have re-
ceived notice of a 10 per cent raise
in wages.
The Paltka, Fla, board of trade
will have an interesting celebration
upon the opening of the Putnam
county highway bridge, at Palatka
Fla, on the 22d.
Three thousand shirt waist work.
ers at Philadelphia, returned tc
work, after being on strike for sew
eral weeks.
Prof. M. M. Parks, president OF
the Georgia Normal and Industrial.
college, at Milledgeville, Ga, return.
ed last Monday morning from hi.
tour Of the world. after having en-
circled the globe in a trip that oc.
cupied nearly four months.
James K. Patterson, president Of
the Kentucky State university. ha.
announced to the committee of thu
State legislature that at his dealt
his fortune will to the college Of
which he has been the head for owe,
forty years. It amounts to somethins
like $250.000,
The announcement of Mrs. Marill;
M. Kicker, a lawyer and leader in tn,
~suffragette movement, that she is tt
be . candidate for the ~governorshiI
of Hampshire has created-a sen
/ satlon at Dover.
At Carrollton, Ca, in a duel will
pistols, 7. J. Johnson, a wealth,
planter, killed his son-in-law, Henri,
Camp. The duel followed the elope
ment of Camp with Johnson 18
year-old daughter.
Nicholas Timmes, OF Shamakln
Pa, died last week, and in his 5Hil
he left $4,000 to Miss Anna Viii
liams for nursing him during his i'll
ness.
ACCOIO11k W duf1CSS 4IOA SuuACu
upa, Mexico, Indians in that ~vicinit,
are in an ugly mood, and an up
rising is thought not improbable. Col
onists report a number of cattl
driven away by the Indians.
A report from Bay Minette, Bald
win county, received at Mobile, Ala
Tuesday states every prisoner con
fined in the Jail at that place ha,
made their escape about midnigh
Monday, except one man, John EskeN
who stated that he had no desire t
leave the place.
After several conferences at tn
White House last Monday. Wade E
Ellis of Ohio resigned his position a
assistant to the attorney general i
the department of justice to accep
the Craftsmanship of the Republics
executive committee of Ohio and t
assume charge of the Ohio campaig
this fall.
At Chicago Monday Henry Beck
err established a new record for 10
yards on roller skates, doing the dis
lance in 10 second and clipping l.
of a second off the old mark.
The Gettysburg Battlefield Monu
ment Commission, which met in Rich
mond last week fixed on the desig
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