The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-03-16

a special coffin had to be pro
Yided to accommodate the body
of w. M. Thomas, Of Selma, Aha,
who died at the Charity hospital
in New Orleans Friday. Thomas
weighed more than 500 pounds
and il required the combined
strength Of five hospital atten-
dants to carry the body to the
hearse.
Charles Crisp, son of former
Speaker Crisp, of the National
House of Representatives, Friday
receied a telegram from Champ
Clark, speaker-to-be Of the House,
offering him the place of House
parliamentarian and clerk to the
Speaker. Judge Crisp immediate
~ accepted the appointment and
was instructed to report in Wash
ngton on March 2I, for duty.
With his wrist tied to the tail OF
a wild horse the body Of a Pa
fpago Indian was found Friday by
a detachment of the First United
States cavalry at the edge of the
ella river, near Mesa, Ariz. In
order to secure the body it was
necessary to shoot the horse. lit is
believed the young Indian had
been condemned to die in this man
ner because of having violated
some law Of the tribe.
The Princeton committee, which
is raising a fund to provide a
Cleveland memorial to be used as
a part Of the new university build
ings, now has $95, 800 in its hands.
Only $4,000 is needed to complete
the 100000 fund by March 18,
the 18th anniversary of Mr.. Cleve-
lands birth. The greater part of
the money thus far subscribed has
has been in $5, $40 and $40 sub
scriptions.
Tuskegee Institute of Tuskegee,
Ala, will eventually benefit to
the extent Of several thousand dol
lars by the will of Emmett Dens-
more, a millionaire manufacturer
of New York, fled last week, In.
the surrogate office. To the in
stitute is directed to be igyen, af-
ter various life estates created by
the will have lapsed, all the testar
tors property or as much as the
law will allow to be given for such
purposes. The estimate is very
large,
With the view of finding for
Norfolk an inexhaustible water
supply from the Chowan river in.
the State Of North Carolina, that
city through her municipal finance
committee has secured from North
Carolina State Corporation Com
mission a charter for the Nor
foIk-Carolina Water Supply Com
pany," which is empowered to OBJ
tain water from the rivers and
steams in North Carolina and fur
nish the same not only to Norfolk
but to any other city in this or any
other state.
Makers of butter who accident
ally work more water into their
product than the law allows, will
after May / encounter the strong
arm of the law. Commissioner
Cabell of the internal revenue
bureau with the approval of Sec
rotary MacVeagh, having instruct
ed all his internal revenue collec-
tors to watch for such violations,
Water weighs heavily in a pound
of butter, but the law allows 16l
per cent. For several years the
Department Of Agriculture has
superintendent the packing of hum
.dreds of thousands Of pounds of
butter for the navy, where not
more than ID per cent moisture is
allowed. Commissioner Cabell
says that is sufficient that the law
can be obeyed without difficulty.
Powder magazines of the DuI
Point Nemours Powder Company.
containing hundreds of tons Of
powder and dynamite, ex-1
ploded at the plant of the company
/ mile northwest of Pleasant Prai-
RE, Wis, last week. E. S. Thomp-
foreman, is known to be dead.
Miss Alice Fitch Of Elgin, Ill
dropped dead of heart disease
caused by fright, SO people werel
injured; several hundred houses In
the place were blown completely
down or were SO badly damaged
as to be uninhabitable and build