The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-03-02
GENERAL NEWS.

1t is claimed that the damage to
strawberries and other crops in some
places in louisiana as a result of the
cold weather of the past few days
will reach half a million dollars. On
one farm 5000 bushels of radishes
and large fields of beets and lettuce
were destroyed.
Robert Jones and John Weary, ne
groes. charged with the murder or
white men, were taken from the war
renton Ca, Jail by a mob at mid
night Saturday night and lynched. Inc
negroes we're strung up to the limp OF
a tree on the outskirts of the town
and their bodies riddled with bullets.
That twenty-five per cent of the
students attending the Louisiana State
University have the "hookworm was
established by an examination made
Saturday by the experts of the Rock
Teller HookWorm Commission. The
examination was conducted by DR..
S. J. Hyde.
Ouannah Parker, chief of the Com
anche Indians, latest of the great In
dian braves who spread terror among
white settlers of the Southwest, died
at his home at the foot of the Wichita
mountains, near Lawton, Okla, at
1905 o'clock Thursday afternoon
from a severe attack of rheumatism
which effected the heart.
Mrs. Gus Joseph, postmistress at
Fuller. a coal camp nea Kansas City,
Mo-, was held up by two highway
men Saturday night and robbed of
$4,000 which she had just received by
express. The money al to have been
used to pay off employees of the Sheri-
dan Coal Company. Two other pack
ages containing $4,000 each were
not found by the robbers.
The death of Gen. William B. Cabell
at Dallas, Tex, on Wednesday last
leaves only about half a dozen gener-
al officers of the Confederate army
still alive. Among them are Gems. S.
B. Buckner, Kentucky; I. G. Walker,
South Carolina; Clement A. Evans,
Georgia; Marcus J. Wright, Tennes-
see and T. T. Muniford, Virginia.
The first considerable furry of snow
in San Francisco in fifteen years gave
the youngsters of the city a chance
0uAudy d1I01 AOOA " play 4O4 q ~"
minutes at snow-balling. The heights
around San Francisco remained white
for half an hour. Street cars were tar
gets for the heavy b~ombardment and
several passengers were cut by flying
glass. Fresno also reports a light snow
the second in thirty years.
Mrs. Maldwin Drummond, formerly
Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago,
wasrobbed of a fortune in jewels last
Sunday night aboard a transatlantic
liner. Diamonds, pearls and ear gems
to the value of approximately $780,
900 disappeared mysteriously from her
on the steamship Amerika of
Observation-Disclosures line some time
between $50 o'clock Sunday evening
and $50 o'clock Saturday morning.
Zach MeGhee, Washington Cores
pondent of The Nashville T~ennessean
and The Columbia State, died in
Washington, D.. c., last Thursday of
anemia after an illness of six weeks.
He was a magazine contributor and
the author of one book, 'The Dark
Corner" disclosing the life of the
backwoods people of the South. He
was 80 years old and was once assis-
superintendent OF eQucaClOn Tor
the State of South Carolina.
About twelve miles from SWANS
borO, Ga. in a lonely and isolated spot
in a one-time graveyard lies the body
of a revolutionary soldier, Ephraim
Harrington, who served in a North
Carolina regiment and afterwards
moved to Georgia. The exact spot of
this grave is knowns only to a few
tho - Itizens, the marker hav-
ing Iono ago decayed. The Daughters
T "tiOn who live in SWANS
bOrO will undertake to have this grave
marked before it is ! ate.
Brooklyn Bridge broke it's record
as a scene of daredevil exploits Fri
day. A suicide Or professional bridge
jumper never tAIlIIed lie tnIO1g .OI
promenadeTs more than did the
appearance of a dashing young blonde
on the great thoToughfaIe late in the
She was attire ed in the new
haIem EEi t TIC Il It If the millions
of New York women publicly to VEN
the nev affentatiOn of mems
which. has stirred continental
to riot. It nearly came to that
on the bridge Friday.