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

Chicago's budget for 1911, as pre-
pared by the council committee on
finance, amounts to $~49,440,000. OF
this amount, $13, 500, 900 will go to the
board of education.
A ~life-size bronze bust of John d.
Rockefeller has been placed on the
mantel above the fireplace in the south
wall of Hutchinson hall, at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Rear Admiral Charles Stillman
Sperry u. S. N, retired, who COM
manded the Atlantic fleet on the last
leg of it's round-the-world trip. died
suddenly last week at Garfield hospit-
al in Washington of pneumonia.
That it is not safe to "cussP now
that women are eligible as jurors was
the lesson learend a few days ago by
Ned Crane, of Wenatchee, Wash.y found
guilty by a jury of wOmen of having
used profape language and fined 81
and costs. The charge was brought
by a woman
The Atlanta Journal says the Iarg-
est check that has come to the may
or's desk since he went into office was
signed by him Wednesday morning.
1t was for public school teachers
salaries for the month of January,
and the amount was $33 ,603.58.
Miss Victoria Kuschura. aged LOG
years, died at the residence of her
niece in Duluth, Mimi, last week, re-
tanning clear mental faculties to the
last. She was born in Poland in 1904.
She was the oldest citizen of Duluth
and is believed to have been the old
est spinister in the United States.
Every death and every birth in a
small town causes approximately 800
extra telephone calls, according to fig
ures issued in Columbia, Mo-, by a
telephone company. The calls result
ing from births are more trouble, says
the report because these are limited
to women and the conversation oc-
cupies much more time than in tel
ling of a death.
Jessie Seals and Miss Tassie Seals,
both of Campbell, Ala, we're married
last week by Justice of the Peace
Kean. 1t deVelopes that Seals had
eloped with his brothers daughter
and the justice had married uncle
and niece. The marriage in the state
of Mississippi is illegal and a felony.
Both Seals and the young woman are
from a prominent Alabama family.
Henry P. Brown, Jr., son of Henry
p. Brown, the WeiI-known constitu-
al lawyer of Philadelphia, and a third
year student in the University of
Pennsylvania Medical school last
week volunteered and allowed nearly
a qLa t of blood to be transfused to a
MIDI Gagged Italian woman, whose
husband at the last moment refused
to s@bmit himself to the operation
The committee Of the Cleveland
Monument association in charge of
the fund for the memorial to the late
president, Grover Cleveland, is MAX
ing every effort to have the necessary
$lOO. 900 subscribed by March 10, Mr..
Cleveland's birthday. Less than
$25, 900 now remains to be collected
subscriptions having been received
for SIS, $50.
Judge Robert S. Lovett, president
OF the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cifc railroads, has announced that
the executive committees of those
companies had voted to expend $75,-
100000 in double tracking the Harri-
man system from the Missouri River
to the Pacific, Ocean. The expendi-
ture of this sum in these improve
ments will extend through the next
five years.
Lieut.. John Rodgers was lifted 400
feet from the deck of the cruiser
Pennsylvania last week by man-raising
kites at Barbara, CALIFORNIA. The
war ship was steam twelve knots
against an eigh-knot breeze at the time
and Rodgers, suspended from the kite
cable 100 feet astern made observa-
tons and camera views for Is minutes.
He signalled the result of his observa-
ton to the officers on the ship.