The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-25
GENERAL NEWS,

AtN#e~ UNNMt.E LEf.r
Bank clerks, employed in private
banks in N. j., who began a strike four
months ago, have won a victory, Sc
curing their demands for a 52-hour
working week and Is per cent, wage
increase.
A relative of Governor Dix of New
York who is suing George H. Hughes,
vice president of the oilcloth trust;
for 500, 900 for breach of promise OF
marriage. The suit was brought in
New York. Miss Douglas is SO while
Mr.. Hughes is 80.
Gertrude Gaynor, aged % years,
daughter of Mayor Gaynor of New
York, and William Seward Webb, Jrr
a son of a New York millionaire,
eloped in Wilmington, Del, and were
married in the First Presbyterian
church by the Rev. j. R. Stonecifer.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to attend the celebration o.
the fiftieth anniversary of the oridi-
nation to the priesthood of Cardinal
Gibbons, and the twenty-f1fth ami
versary of his elevation to the <cardi-
nalate, in Baltimore the first week III
June.
A proposition to establish a summe
White House on Lake M~innetOnka,
Minnesota, nea Minneapolis, is re
ceived with favor by President Taft
Representative Nye Of Minnesota told
Mr.. Taft he would introduce in con-
gress a bill appropriating money fol
a summer home there.
Oklahoma City was selected for the
next meeting place of the Southern
Baptist convention last week, the con
vention to be held the second week III
May, 1912. DR.. z. T. Cody of Green
vile, s.. c., was appointed to preach
the convention sermon with Rev. A.
w. Boone of Memphis as alternate.
Heavy curtailment in cotton cloth
production is again in progress al
Falls River. Seven mills have closed
until May 70, the beginning of the 5t
per cent, decrease in output. This
weeks curtailment in Fall Rive.
amounted to 10000 pieces of fine
and print goods. The curtailment
will be 10000 pieces weekly.
Following an illness which had
seized him several months ago,
Thomas O'Connor, for the past forty
years chief of the New Orleans fire
department, fired a bullet into his
brain at his home late Saturday, dy-
ing a few minutes later. He was q
years old. There were no witnesses
to shooting.
A resolution calling on Federal au-
Lthorities either to remove the statue
Of Robert e. Lee from the Hall OF
Fame at Washington or abandon the
hall was unanimously adopted at the
concluding session. Friday of the
th~irty-seventh annual encampment OF
the Indiana Department, Grand Army
of the Republic.
Theodore Roosevelt has asked the
Progressive Republican League of Ne
DTasAa not to put him in nomination
for President next year, and in ado.
ton to saying that he will be very
much EMBARRASSED if his request Ii
unheeded he calls upon his friends t.
discourage and prevent any sucL
move
An aversion to the comment of Ne
old neighbors and the fact that she
would make her future home in Flor
ida caused. Mrs. Emma A. Pyle, ageu
81, Of Normal, ILL.,, to wait until sn>
reached Atlanta to be married to DR..
Henry Wilcox, aged Is of H~utchinson
Kan. The ce1emony was perfOrme
at a hotel in Atlanta Saturday afteI
noon when the two men by appoint
ment about a year ago.
An ultimatum is served on the sen
ate by democratic house leaders that
there must be a vote in the senate
this session on the Canadian reciplo
city, farmers fee list bill, and lie
V4sed wool tariff. Provided tina these
terms are met, the house will agree
60 recess from July 1 to October /.
otherwise the senate will be held il
continuous session throughout the
dogdays by the house refusing to ad-
journ.
Ill health and dependency because
OF stock market losses are believe
to have led Colonel Henry o, Seixas,
Southerner; fnancier and director III
several widely-known corporations
to hre a bullet into his brain in Cen
tral park Friday. A balance shee,
showing steady losses in the stool
market was found in the coat poke,
OF Colonel Seixas. According to hi;
broker, the Colonel had been on the
wrong side of the market for some
time, although his recent losses hac
not been heavy.
In addressing the members of the
American Free Trade League at then
annual meeting and dinner Saturda,
night, Louis R. Enrich of New York,
president of the league, declared that
a turning point had been reached il
the annals of the American people
when a President elected by the
party which has stubbornly defended
a policy of commercial blockade ha,
negotiated a liberal trade agreement
with Canada and had the boIdness t.
proclaim the fact that he had pro-
posed to Canadian commissioners
absolute freedom of trade.
Negroes Heroic Act Deserving Car.