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

! It's panic stricken tenants flying half
clothed to the street. A barber shop
on the ground floor received the brunt
of the defamation and was completely
wrecked, fragments of barber chairs,
shaving mugs and p~lateglass being
picked up later at points more than q
| block away. Two Italians, who oc-
cupied an apartment directly yer the
barber shop, were thrown from this
eds and carried bodily through a four
inch partition. Both were seriously in
jured.
Two large street railway companies
of Washington, the Capital Traction
Company and the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company, distribut-
ed $1,275, 900 in dividends to their
stockholders during the year ended
December 81, 1910. The gross re-
ceipts of the two companies were
$4,622,259. Over 1000 persons were
injured on the two systems during the
year, the Capital Traction Company
being responsible for SIC accidents
and. the Washington Railway and
and Electric Company for 434. Five
persons were killed on the latter rail-
way and four on the Capital Traction
Company's lines.
One of the imposing funerals from
a national standpoint held in LeXing-
ton since the burial of Henry Clay,
half a century ago., was that Thursday
of Miss Mary Desha, one of the foun-
ders IF the Daughters OF ti.e Amer.
can Revolution, who died at Washing
ton last Sunday. Representatives of the
D. A. R. United Daughters of the Con-
fedecacy and Sons of the American
Revolution marched on foot behind
the hearse. Distinguished persons from
Washington, Kentucky. and adjoin-
ing states, attended. Miss Desha was
a granddaughter of Governor Desha,
of Kentucky, and was related to fam
GUS southern families.
Mrs. Mary Salzman. aged twenty
three, and Eliza Ellswick. her sister,
of Newport, KY, last week swore off
trying to commit suicide. Miss Ellis
wichs has attempted suicide seven
times and Mrs. Salzman three times.
Sometimes it has been the river and
sometimes poison. Mrs. Salzman is
just making her third recovery from
arsenic poisoning. Miss Ellswick's
record as given by herself is: At
tempts to die by drowning, two, by
carbolic acid, five. ST am going to
quit trying to commit suicide" said
Mrs. Salzman. Its take a pledge
IN that" suggested her sister, who is
nursing her. And then and there
they agreed to await death in the nat
ural way.
Those who have superstitions re-
garding the number Is will have no
cause for uneasiness over the assign
ments of new street numbers in the
downstown district of Chicago. The
"hoodoo" number has been avoided
by the city map department Notices
Of the new numbers that must be put
in place by April 1 on every building
between the river on the north and
west, the lake On the east and 18th.
street on the south were sent out re-
Gently and nowhere in the list could
a Is be found. Property owners had
warned Superintendent Riley Of the
protests that would follow the attach
ment of the unlucky omen. and as a
result the tremulous mes will find
their number are either IL or Is.
The operating revenues of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
railway for December, 1910, exceed the
million-dollar mark and increases are
noted in every department. The op-
Grating revenues for December we're
$1,064. SAB, 46, which is an increase of
STAG. 275.64 over December, 1910.
The annual report of the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, just issued, shows that
in 1910 the society put to death BOZ
900 small animals gathered from all
sources. OF this number 246. 900 were
cats. All were killed by gas. The so
ciety's ambulances responded to H.
900 calls during the year. !