The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-12-21
GENERAL NEWS.

The Controller of the Currency has
issued a call for statement of the
condition of all National banks Of the
United States at the close Of business
on Tuesday, December 5.
Local option as political issue In
Georgia received another setback IN
the guebrnatorial primary in that state
Thursday in the defeat of Judge r. b.
Russell the local option candidate.
Senator OVerman introduced bill
last week to require the Secretary Of
War to furnish congress with a list OF
all persons who lost cotton by fire dur
ing the civil war. It is Senator Over
mans purpose to ascertain the names
Of all those who lost their cotton at the
hands of the Union army.
An appeal from the Persian people
to the Congress of the United States
for aid and sympathy In their contrO-
versy with Russia, threatening their
independence, was read in the house
of representatives Thursday. It ask
ed aid consistent with Persia's dignity
and independence.
Declaring that the adoption by the
Federal government OF practical re-
clamation-by-drainage policy would
change 10000 900 acres OF now unused
wet lands into $1,000, 100000 worth OF
enormously fertile and highly prOduc-
tive farm lands, reduce the cost of liv-
ing to every family in the United
States, and almost double the agricul-
tural commerce of the country, Hon.
Hunter G. Leake, of New Orleans, in
an address last Thursday urged the
National Irrigation Congress to ask the
Federal Government to adopt drain
age policy that in it's scope will ignore
State lines and in the barrier hereto
fore imposed by States Rights.
The issue of bonds by the Federal
overnment to over the cost of improve
ment of rivers and harbors was urged
before the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress in Washington last
Thursday. If the government declin-
I'd to make such an issue or If congress
should be slow to appropriate money
for the improvements, the issue of
bonds by the State was advocated by
by many of the speakers. Mayor Gay
nor of New York, Governor Hadley Of
Missouri, Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston
and Roy Miller of Corpus Christi, Tex,
we're among those who favored the
bond issue plan.
A Jury in the corporation court at
Greenville, S. c., Friday convicted Sam
Pruett, 14-year-old white lad, of the
murder of Frank Hahan, fellow oper-
ative in cotton mill, and gave him
eight years Imprisonment. Pruett is a
slight, frail boy in knee trousers
Hahan was the same age Pruett
stealthily secured his fathers revolver
and awaited Mahan's coming, shooting
him down without word because Ma
han had nagsed him the day before.
The general business of the country
as reflected in banking operations was
quite satisfactory during the year
ending October 81 last, according to
the annual report of Lawrence o. Muir
ray, comptroller of the currency, sub
mttted to congress last week. Mr.
ray records a steady growth in the
volume Of business and the establish
ment OF some high records in this con-
nection. He points out, however, that
while augmenting some of the import
ant elements OF banking during the
year business did not reach the aver
age of increase for the past ten years.
Two negroes and one young negress
were burned to death by mob Of
white land tenants, who object to the
occupancy Of land by colored people,
near Savannah, Tenn, one day last
week, according to reports received IN
Memphis, Tenn. The lynching is said
t. have occurred ten miles from Cliff
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