The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1910-05-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, May 10.

TUESDAY, way w.
WESLEYAN Female college at Macon.
Ga. has been ordered closed. prob
ably for the term, by the president,
DR.. Ainsworth, because Of an outbreak
Of typhoid fever.
Despondent. it is believed. on &C
count of i'll health. Peter Eller. sixty
Two wears old. a Civil War veteran
whose home was in Roanoke. Va. shot
and killed himself at the home Of his
son-in-law. Acting Detective Harry
Tucker. in Philadelphia
Missing since May 8. the body OF
Edward Darragh. thirty-two years OF
age. was found floating in the Chris
tiana river at Wilmington. Del From
the appearance of the body 1t had
probably been in the water about touI
DAYS No foul play Is suspected.
Wednesday, May II.
The nomination of Thomas ]. Alcott
10 be United States marshal for the
district of New Jersey was sent to the
senate Tuesday.
While Chief of Police Ernest Hahn.
Of Mount Oliver. near Pittsburg. Pa.
was guarding the homes of the Dor
ough, burglars entered his home and
carried off a gold watch. silverware
and diamond rings that were secreted
in a china closet -
Dependency over being Tilted caus.
ed Charles Shuey, aged twenty-five, to
commit suicide at his home in Harris
burg, Pa Shuey was engaged to marry
a girl but she chose another man.
He cut her portrait from frame, and
placing ii beside him took chloroform.
Thursday, May IL.
A bronze tablet was unveiled at
Market and Lake streets, in Chicago
the site of the old "Wigwam" where
Abraham Lincoln was nominated for
president in 1860.
An unconditional pardon granted to
William Roberts, aged twenty-eight
arrived too late at Moundsville, w
Va When his counsel arrived at the
prison with the pardon Roberts was
dead of tuberculosis.
George Barton. negro. aged thirty.
three years was killed while he slept
In barn two miles from Utica n. Y.
and Joseph Shultz white man of the
same age is being hunted for by the
sheriff in the belief that he COMMITTED
the murder
Friday. May IS.
Captain Charles Schroeder. assist
ant chief engineer on the Merrimac II
her battle with the Monitor. died al
Portsmouth Va. aged seventy-four
years
A children's crusade to strengthen
tbs Sunday schools of the nation was
Philadelphia. before the Northern Bap
fist convention at Chicago.
Charles Watson Meade. formerly
city editor of the New York Tribune
died at the home of his mother. Mrs
Philip n Meade. at Yonkers n Y.
after an illness of several months
That the United States will receive
100000 immigrants during the fiscal
year ending June 80 is the prediction
OF the Washington officials During
April 1925 arrived. making a tota
Of 801.22 thus far this year. The las,
million immigrant year was in 1907
Saturday, May "a.
Former President Loubet of France
while walking across the Point Neuf
in Paris, was knocked down by an au
tomobile. He was only slightly bruised
Marie. daughter of G. D. Seldom, Of
Erie Pa, will be married in June t.
Captain f. K ". Bruce, son of the
| late General Sir Henry Bruce, of Lon
don.
A horse was stolen from the farm
of Frank Hughes. of King of Prussia
near Norrist0wn. Pa, while a Wagon
and fifty chickens were taken from
George Boyd. a neighbor.
Miss Mary Hartman, daughter OF
the late F, H. Hartman, and Charles
Cary Rumsey. the young Buffalo, N. Y.
sculptor. will likely be welded on June
l in the little Episcopal church in
which the simple ceremonies at the
burial of her father were held.
Monday, May 16.
An automobile gun detachment from
the Northwestern Military academy
| will make a test run from Cincinnati
to Dallas. Tex.
While burglar was shot dead anG
a policeman probably fatally injured
| confederates made off with $500 loo
| at San Francisco.
When Arthur Gunter, of Eastonville
| Ala. approached his wife to persuad,
her to return home. the woman open
ed fire with rife, killing her hus
| band
George Klinger. Of Guava, Columbi.
county, Pa, in nest on his farm
found two young owls. unable to fly
but weighing about three and a hal
pounds, with two half devoured rab
| bits