The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-16

age from Governor Blease, point
ing out the cases Of one man hold
ing two offices.
A close corporation has been
organized at Cripple Creek, Col,
by six young women. five Of whom
are from prominent Boston fam
lies, to lease one of the mines on
Bull Hill. Miss Mary Collins. Of
Cripple Greek, will be superinten-
dent and general, manager and
will have complete charge Of the
which will begin Monday.
Her partners are Miss Pooters,
daughter of a Boston publisher;
Miss McNarry, daughter of for
mer Congressman McNarry, Of
Massachusetts,, and Miss Fling
worth, Miss Sullivan and Miss
Sattery, all of Boston.
Thomas B. Riley, formerly an
employe of the Interstate Com
marce Commission must serve six
months in the penitentiary at
Blackwell's Island for furnish
ing interesting "sugar trust
material to the magazines. He was
found guilty by a jury in the
United States circuit court last
week of causing to be published
without authority a letter from
Attorney General W1ckersham to
United States District Attorney
Wise, with reference to the pros
ecution of the American Sugar
Refining Company. Within half
an hour he was on his way to
serve his sentence.
Richard Hill, leader of the
"Church of Christ" commonly
known as the "Hedrickite"
branch of the Mormon Church,
died at his home at independence
Mo, last week. As leader of the
sect Hill was guard-in-chief of
the famous Temple Lot" there,
which was set apart more than
rs years ago by Joseph Smith, orr
ginal prophet and founder of the
Mormon Church as the site of a
future great temple of the Lord.
The Temple "lot" passed into
Gentle hands from which it was
again obtained by the sub-sect.
Hill succeeded Hedrick. He was
born in Gloucester, England in
1927.
Figures compiled from the Inn
perial German census show there
are forty seven cities in the
empire having a population
in excess of 100000 and from
an interesting comparison with
the statistics of the 18th census of
the United States which shows so
cities with this population. Ber-
lin, Germany's largest city, with
out it's suburbs has 2,O64,153 or
half million more people tbalphila
delphia. 1t is exceeded in popula-
ton by Chicago by $4,000. Com
pared with New York, Berlin has
not half so many people. With it's
suburbs which are intended to be
included in greater Berlin it has
Labout 100000 which would make
it more than a million less than
York.
John Leahy, an eccentric her
NIT, is dead at his home in Lake
vile, Long Island. More than 70
years of age, he died on his 5000
acre estate adjoining Deepdale,
the home of w. K. Vanderbilt,
Jr. Leahy came to this country
from Ireland, when a boy, and
shrewdly purchased with his early
earnings extensive plots Of land
in suburban Long Island. Ten
years ago, he sold a part Of his
holdings for $350,O0O, and put the
money into gilt-edged securities,
the value Of which has more than
trebled since that time. The man,
could neither read nor write. and
was not able to sign h, a-ne.
He signed hundreds Of deeds and
legal documents every year with
his marks. Several sons will in
hefit his property.
Unless relieved, two million
people in China will die of starva-
ton. This is a calamity predict
ed by American Consul-General
Wilder, at Shanghai, in a cable
gram from him last Friday by
the American National Red Cross
Society. The Consult General ap-
peals for quick assistance for the
suffering people, and says that a
half-million dollars is, needed i'm
mediately. There will be no crops
-l e AaA Mo- nnd