The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-03-30
GENERAL NEWS


Al gross revenue Of sos 100000 for
the year 1910 is shown ii the annual
reporr III the American Telephone &
Telegraph Go,
a mail sack said to have contained
$4,000 in money. en- route from a
Tampa bank TO 9 bank at TaTpon
Springs. is alleged to have been
taken from q train between the two
points last week
Calls for six or seven thousand re-
Icruits to- bring the infantry regiments
OF the army mobiIized In Texas and
California up to full strength have
been sent by the War Department TO.
all the army recruiting stations In the
country.
Rear Admiral Charles p. Vreeland,
In command OF the second division of
the Atlantic feet, has been detailed
TO represent the navy at the corona
ton of King George ". Admiral
Dewey declined the appointment be-
cause OF the length Of the tourney
It was announced in Baltimore last
week that the Seaboard Air Line
Railway is about to expend $z.000s-
900 for new eQuipemnt and supplies.
Bids will be asked for Is locomotives,
/. 200 freight cars and Is 900 tons of
lsteel rails for delivery without de-
lay, it was added, to meet the re-
Quirements Of the rapid growth of
traffic in the South.
For two hours Friday night six
masked men held st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern passenger
train. No. 104, at a standstiM on the
prairie about six miles south of COfey-
Vile kan, while they blew open q
safe in the express car. They escap-
ed In two automobiles, carrying with
them money and valuables which, 1t
is believed VIII amount to $4,000.
After October LIST il will be unlawful
to have q common drinking cup" in
any park, public building. factory,
theater. school, railroad station or
ferry house in New York city. A re-
gulation adopted by the board OF
health as an additional section to the
sanitary code rates the.common drink
ing cup as a public nuisance and pre-;
scribes penalties to prevent its use.
According to testimony given DUR
ing ia trial in the circuit court at
Jeffersonville, Ind, Friday a bulldog
ate SOS worth of chickens while riding
as a chance fellow passenger with the
fowls in an express wagon. This de-
veloped in a suit brought against the
United States Express Company by
John H. O'NeilI. O,Nei1 is a chicken
fancier and alleged in his petition
that the dog killed a hen worth $50,
three other valued at SIS each and
two fowls worth $3.50 apiece.
Sixty members of the American
Society Of Civil Engineers arrived in
New Orleans last weekzon the steam
er Heredia, from Colon, Panama,
where they wentaat the suggestion Of
President Taft to inspect the work
done ON the Panama canal. Other
members Of the party returned direct
to New York from Colon. It was an
nounced that the representatives of
the society who made the trip are
unanimous in the approval of the
work which has been done by Colonel
EGoethals, and they confidently believe
the canal will be ready for service in
1913.
swap cauQy lot cans. mat 1s the
latest improved method in Augusta
for getting rid of the filth of the city,
and the method is daily proving more
valuable. In the fifth ward, where
cans heretofore have been considera-
bly, more plentiful than candy Health
inspector, w. T. Elliott is trying out
the experiment. He offers to each
child of the ward one stick of candy
for every can of whatever size or
kind, age being no bar, and the re-
suits are startling. MIR. Elliott per-
sonally is furnishing the bribe and
Ed Toole, a street car conductor, fur
nishes the back yard where they r
deposited