The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-04-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Local option elections were
held in 240 cities and towns
throughout Illinois Tuesday, the
"wets" makings gains.
A dispatch Of the 7th from
Dover, Eng, states that terrif-
ic explosion occurred that morn
ing on the British steamer earn
roma off Dungenness, wrecking
the women's quarters, killing one
child and injuring a number of
women and children.
The Committee on Agriculture
of the House of Representative
introduced abillTuesday prohibit
ing gambling in cotton futures,
the main provisions being the
prohibition of the use of tele-
graph, telephone, wireless tele-
graph andsthe mails.
The franking privilege was
extended to former President
Roosevelt by the terms of a bill
passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives Wednesday. The meas
ure was general in terms and ex-
tended the franking privilege
to all eX-Presidents or their wild
ows during their lives.
A mob composed entirely of
negroes overpowered a consta-
BILE near Keo, Ark, on the 4th
and seized his two prisoners.
both negroes, one woman. and
shot them to death, afterwards
stringing them up. The victims
were charged with killing the
husband of the woman and the
wife of the man.
Louise Ambrodine, who had
the distinction of weighing 1874
pounds for every inch of her
height, died in New York Thurs
day night. She was 4 feet 4inches
by 4 feet 4 inches, weighed 700
pounds, was "a years old. and
was we'll known as a profession
al fat woman. A derrick was
used to lower the body from her
apartment, the stairway being
too narrow for it's passage.
The Imperial Window Glass
Co., corporation Of West Vir-
ginia birth, a year old, and 1G
officials and directors were indict-
ed by a special Federal grand ju-
ny at Pittsburg, Pa, Thursday
on 3 counts conspiracy in the re-
straint of the hand blown win.
dow glass trade in the United
States, engagement in illega
combination, and attempt tt
llio.opoliZe Interstate trade.
The military court of inquiry
which during the past year has
been investigating the shooting
up of Brownsville, Tex, on thu
night of August 1914, 1906, find
that the evidence clearly sustain
the charge that the shooting wa
done by soldiers of the Twenty
fifth Infantry, colored. Accordin.
to the terms of the act creatin,
the board of inquiry, it's finding
are final and cannot be revise
by anyone.
The climax promised in tn
Pittsburg pa graft exposure
came Wednesday with the pre-
sentiment by the grand jury of
lengthy report in which it re
commended the Indictment {
Frank N. Hoffstot, president {
the Pressed Steel Car Co. an
one of the most prominent bus
ness men Of the country. 1t
charged that Hoffstot paid a s.
lect councilmall2:JJ22, 800 as a bril-
to secure the passage of an orc
nance naming 3 banks in whic
HOtfstot was interested as offci
repositories of the city's million
Rev. A. G.. Shuler, pastor
the Western Heights Bapti
church of Atlanta, has resign
and will accept call to Ne
bern because two deacons Of
church advertised that tn
would put on a prize fight in t
pulpit of the church before s,
vice. The prize fight was I
put on and the deacons admit
that they advertised the eve
simply to draw a crowd. I
minister maintains that the pr
fight idea was not in keep
with a church and that it v
dishonest to make the fake
nouncement.
Indictments for graft seen
be the order of the day in Pi
burg, Pa, and the grand i
Thursday returned a bill of