The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-09

Sheriff McCracken, of Lincoln, with
the assistance of the sheriff of Casey
county, Kentucky, will lead a posse of
officers in the searth for Mrs. Amanda
Harrison, also known as Mrs Gill
more, who is charged in a warrant
with being n of the ghouls who at
tempted to rob the grave of George B.
Stufley last Monday night. 1t is be-
lieved she is with relatives who reside
in an almost inaccessible part of
Casey county. ~
Horror, followed by what threat
ed to become a serious panic, was
the~result of an accident last week in
the Census Bureau, at Washington,
when the scalp of Miss Alice ".
Houghton was completely torn from
her head by a whirling shaft of steel
connected with an electric tabulating
machine. She was removed to a hos
pital where over 200 stitches were re-
CURED to replace her scalp.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer and
successor to the late John Alexander
Dowie at Zion City, is confident that
at the April election he will regain the
power wTested from him by the "inde-
pendents" a year ago. In addressing
a meeting of his followers in Zion
Tabernacle last week he renewed his
declaration of "a against tobacco
users, and said he would appoint a
vigilance committee of prominent cit
liens to horsewhip on sight any user
of tobacco.
Miss Nellie Raymond, of Knoxville,
Tenn, was accidentally shot at Rog-
uncle at RogersviIle, she was seated
on a block of wood near the house
watching a friend, John Sizemore, dis
play his craftsmanship, he shooting
at blocks of wood hurled in the air.
While trying to get aim, he lost con-
troll of the gun and a charge from the
shot gun entered the left side of the
girls head. Death was instantaneous.
She was 18 years of age and the
daughter of Mrs. Margaret Raymond,
of Knoxville.
Mr.. A. J.. Lormon, a popular old far
mer, living on r. +. d. No. 7, out from
Dalton, Ga. on February 2, celebrated
his 82rd birthday, and he can boast of
the fact that during his entire life he
has never taken medicine in any form.
Mr.. Lormon is an unusually robust and
healthy specimen of manhood, and in
spite of his advanced age he is able
to do the work of a young nan He
attributes his longevity and excellent
health to his steadfast determination
to shun physic in any form.
Following the lead of Atlanta, the
city council of Macon has put a Ii
cense on the social clubs of the city,
taxing each one $500 pei annum and
imposing riged restrictions. Chief
among these is that each of the clubs
must give the chief of police keys to
every door opening into their estab-
lishment, and must also have a list of
the members publicly exposed. There
are now about Is clubs in Macon and
because of a likely large increase in
the number the council decided to
exact a license of each one.
When Harry Simpson, an actor
staggered into the town hall police
station in Chicago a few days ago,
with blood streaming down his face
and gasped out that he had been rob-
bed of $3.50. 600 in bills, there was a
wild scurry to rout out the reserves
and summon detectives. Then more
attention was paid to Simpson, and he
added that the $3.50. 900 in bills was
stage money he had been using at a
performance. "But it was such good
stage money I hate to lose it." he
added. What the footpads said when
they discovered that the money wasn't
real is not known.
A bomb placed on the doorstep of a
tenement at 401 East 83rd street, New
York exploded at 1 o'clock Thursday
morning and shook the f1vestory build
ing to it's foundations, sending