The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-12-07
GENERAL NEWS.

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Chief of Police P. E. Holcombe, OF
Greenville, s. c., was attacked Satur-
day night by an alleged negro thief
whom he was attempting to arrest, and
severely cut in the face The negro
turned and fed as the chief reached for
his revolver, which occupied a holster
underneath the officers overcoat. BY
the time the chief had gotten out his
revolver the negro was several yards
away but despite that the officer fired
twice at his assailant. Both bullets
went true to the mark, one piercing
the negro's arm and the other boring
hole through his heel. The negro
was later captured.
Representative and Mrs. Page and
Congressman Yates Webb arrived in
Washington Saturday from Panama,
where Messrs. Page and Webb made In
spection tour OF the, big ditch. Both
Congressmen are highly pleased with
the progress being made in the con-
struction of the canal.
The life savings of Jack Simpson of
Aitkin, MINI, amounting to $2.565, Sc
curely hidden from burglars, were re-
duced to pulp by hungry rats and MICE
and in q letter received by President
Taft Saturday he appealed for the re-
demption Of the pulverized fragments
by the Federal Treasury. !. His wealth,
accumulated to buy a farm, Simpson
explains, was placed In box and de-.
posted between the upstairs floor and
ceiling" No human being disturbed IT,
but when he took it from his hiding
place, he found it reduced to dust by
the ravages of rodents.
Senator, Simon Guggenheim of Colo
RADIO will not be a candidate for re-
election and will quite the senate upon
the expiration of his term, March 8,
1913. This announcement was made
last week through letter addressed to
Jesse F. Mcdonald, chairman of the
Colorado Republican State central
committee.
Three men, father and two sons,
were killed and three injured when a
boiler exploded in the McVeagh Lum-
Der company's plant at Reeder, Ark,
at noon Friday.
A carload of sugar cane and oranges
were given away at the land show in
Chicago Saturday in honor of the Lou
isiana day. ALI visitors were given a
badge, stamped with the words, LOU
isiana, the Sweetest State in the Land"
Over a score of passengers of Illinois
Central passenger train No. 101, were
painfully injured, several perhaps IA
tally, when spreading rails threw it
into a ditch s miles east of Paducah,
KY, Saturday afternoon. One life was
taken by the same train a short time
previously, when Simon Stevens, mine
boss at Central City, KY, threw him
self before the train as it passed
through the. town.
The seth anniversary of the organs
zation of the Southern Presbyterian
church in Augusta, Ga, was held at
the First Presbyterian church in that
city December 8 and 4. The Southern
Presbyterian church was organized in
August December 4, 80 years ago.
Yard engine firemen, switchmen and
all the other yard employees of the
Louisville and Nashville railway in
Montgomery have received an increase
in pay and shorter hours. Their in
crease will average 15 cents a day for
each man, and their hours are cut from
IL to TO-,
Light frosts fell over south Florida
Friday morning, doing slight damage
to tender vegetation. The benefits to
the citrus fruits, bringing color to
oranges and grapefruit, will offset any
damages to growing garden truck. Ice
was reported in some sections north of
Tampa.
With plea that there shall be no
decrease in the effective strength Of
the United States navy, George Won
L. Meyer, secretary of the navy, in his
annual report to Congress, declares
that while seeking peace and playing
part in the movement for general arbi-
tration the world must understand that
America sis prepared for war;