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

Mrs.. Carrie NaIlOu, SALOON
smasher, is reported sinking
rapidly. Her death is said to be
imminent. She suffers from a ner-
vous collaps of two weeks ago.
A bill providing a fine of seven
ty-fve dollars for any grown-up
who tells a child there is NJ Santa
Claus has been prepared by Sen
ator Robinson, of the Kansas leg
islature.
A large heavy sign device was
blown from the top of a building
by a high wind upon a crowd OF
shoppers at Tenth and Market
steets Philadelphia Monday af-
ternoon. Killed a man, a woman
and injured a hlf a dozen others.
The body of a young woman,
strangled to death, in the opinion
of the police, was found in a room
on the second floor of the Bryant
hotel in Sixth evenue, New York,
Sunday night. Up to a late hour
investigation had developed no
clue to her identify or that of the
supposed murderer.
Exports valued at $1,864,49l,-
ga and imports valued at ST.
62,924,251 are shown to be the
total trade of the United States
for the year 1910 =, according to
figures compiled by the bureau of
statistics. Both show a marked in
crease over 1909 figures, which
were ST. 28, 198,645 and $1,475,-
$40, 724 respectively.
Twenty natives were drowned
in a tidal wave that accompanied
a volcanic outbreak on Mount
Taal, Manila Monday. All towns
within a radius of 20 miles were
damaged by a shower of mud and
stones. Eruptions continue. Natives
have abandoned their village
homes and sought refuge in sur
rounding hills.
Wood from a tree planted by
John Quincy Adams is to be used
in making the gavel with which
President John M. Parker will
preside at the meetings of the
Southern Commercial Congress in
Atlanta on March 8, 9 and 10.
This gavel will contain pieces of
wood from the sixteen southern
state represented at the congress.
New York is down to it's last
fifty billion gallons of water and
if the drought which has exist
ed since last May continues for
three months more, Ather Knick
erbocker will have to take a dry
shave in the morning and drink
his bltters neat. If the weather
were suitable a man might wade
across Croton Lake reservoir to-
day and never wet his Shirtfront.
Wearing the low-cut shoes and
an ankle dress, and without any
stockings, was the plight a young
lady passenger on the night Tex
as and Pacific train from New
Orleans found herself in recent
ly, when she awakened from her
night s sleep in the berth, and she
arrived in Shreveport wearing a
pair of mems socks, loaned her
by a fellow passenger, who was
carrying more than one pair.
After a chase Of more than two
weeks, and in which two detec-
tives were employed, A. S. Lane,
a wealthy Chicago contractor,
Sunday discovered his young
wife registered at a hotel in Char
lesion, S. c., as the wife of D.
Monroe, aged 60 with whom she
is alleged to have eloped. Mon
roe was an employee in Lane
firm and it is said had recently
been paid $4,000 by the concern
for work done.
One Of the most striking sights
of the recent cotton season in
Americas, Ga, was a single load
of forty bales, aggregating 22,O1O
pounds, which was hauled into
town a distance Of 4 miles from
the plantation of Captain M. B.
Council Il was the largest load
ever hauled ON one wagon in Geor-
gia and was pulled to Americas
in thirty minutes by a gasoline
traction engine used for blowing
the fields Of the Council farm.
A convention of retail mer-
chants from all the southern
states will be held in Nashville,
Tenn. Feb. %. March ]. 2 and