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GENERAL NEWS.
Col. Geo. W. Goethals sailed
Friday for Colon and on April
1st, will become Governor of the
Panama Canal.
Laurence Duke, nephew of
Jas. B. Duke, on trial at Seattle,
Washington, under a charge of
manslaughter, was Thursday ac
quitted. Young Duke, while
automobiling, ran over and killed
Henry N. Pharr 15th of October
last year. T .'"
The negroes of Greenville, S.
C, have formed a civic league.
Four arid one-half inches of
snow fell at Nashville, Tenn.,
Thursday night.
Pleading guilty the Western
Union Telegraph and the Ameri
can Telegraph and Telephone Co.
were fined $50,000 by the State
of Mississippi for violating the
anti-trust laws of the State.
Arthur White, a negro of Ashe
ville, is being held for trial upon
a charge of attempting to crimi
nally assault a white girl of less
than seven years.
An elephant belonging to a
show which has been exhibiting
in South Carolina recently es
caped from its keeper and ram
bled away. Citizens living near
Hartsville saw the animal in the
woods and forming a hunting
party gave chase. The elephant
was finally killed, one hundred
shots being fired into its body.
The manager of the shows to
whom the elephant belonged
stated that it was valued at
$6,000.
McAdoo is a widower with six
children and one grandchild; is
fifty-odd years of age, and Miss
Wilson is 24.
Because his brother's wife re
fused to elope with him, Steven
Francis of Newark, N. J., shot
the woman and himself.
After remaining under the Mis
souri Athletic Club walls for over
sixty hours, G. Burke was res
cued Thursday, but died within
two hours at a St. Louis hospital.
A fire in Milwaukee, Wis.,
Thursday destroyed the Windsor
Hotel, the Western Newspaper
Union and the Evening Wiscon
sin buildings with a loss of $350,
000. A strike of brewery workers in
Reading, Pa., last week threat
ened a beer famine in that city.
The son of the Duke of Bruns
wick at Berlin, at the age of one
day, was Thursday appointed
Colonel by the Kaiser, who visited
him.
Governor Dunn of Illinois last
week commuted the thirty-year
sentence of Charles Kinsley, in
order that he might marry.
By a vote of 35 to 34, the Sen
ate Thursday defeated the Ash
urst resolution to provide for
constitutional amendment ex
tending suffrage to women.
In the British House of Com
mons Thursday in an argument
over the Irish Home Rule bill.
Sir" Edward Carson called Mr.
Delvin a liar and for a time it
looked like a fight.
Senator Hoke Smith of Gee rgia
introduced a bill in the Senate
proposing the creation cf a
Federal motion picture commis
sion, under jurisdiction of the
United States Bureau of Educa
tion. Pictures that would tend
to corrupt morals or excite crime
would he placed under the ban.
Ninety-six thousand men are
out of work in New York City.
Snow and rain accompanied by
a biting cold wind swept over
Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas
Thursday.
A fellow in Pennsylvania was
indicted by a neighbor for enter
ing his garden and taking a head
of cabbage. The judge hearing
the case decided that a cabbage
is real estate and therefore the
defendant was not guilty of lar
ceny of personal property and
that the neighbor's remedy is to
enter a civil action contesting
title.
Marion Lee, a Kentucky negro,
was electrocuted in Richmond,
Va., Thursday for the murder of
Delaware Brown last July in a
fight over a crap game.
In the Illinois State hospital
for the insane the music treat
ment is to have an extended try
out. George Westinghouse, who re
cently died, it is said soon after
perfecting his invention of the
air brake and needing money to
market it asked Commodore
Vanderbilt to help him finance
the proposition. After demon
strating his invention to him, Mr.
Vanderbilt said to Mr. v Westing'
house, "Do you mean to tell me
that you can stop a train running
at full speed, by wind-just
wind?" To which question young
Westinghouse replied, "Yes, sir.
lean." Mr. Vanderbilt calling
his partner told him to put the
lunatic out and to not permit him
to come in again. ;
A Pennsylvania dispatch says
that Audrey Richardson sprained
his arm severely while visiting
his sweetheart. The dispatch
doesn't say how it happened.
A young German officer made
love to a fellow officer's wife. A
duel was ordered by a court of
honor and the husband killed.
The average man who has lived
to be 75 years of age has eaten
54 tons of solid food and 53 tons
of liquid, or about 1,300 times his
weight.
The will of Mrs. Mary J.fek
of Newark, N. J., recently pro
bated, directs that one dollar per
day beipaid to her daughter,
Mrs A. A. Chambers, of Arizona,
as long as she stays outside of
New Jersey.
A llama sent to Secretary of
State Bryan from Buenos Ayres
by the Mayor of that city, has
been refused admission to the
United States because it suffered
from sore eyes. The crew of the
steamer that brought the animal
over, named it "Grape Juice Bill."
Rev. C. M. Griffiths, pastor of
the Congregational church at
Portland, Ind., was waited upon
by his congregation and asked to
quit using tobacco, and in refus
ing to do so gave up his charge
and left the town.
Alleging that his wife had not
kissed him in fifteen years, J. E.
Orchard of Jersey City, N. J., is
asking for a divorce.
Benjamin Rosenblenth, a young
man of New York City, who has
a bad record for stealing, and
being adjudged by the courts as
a habitual criminal, was sen
tenced for life. His latest crime,
and the one for which he is ad
judged a habitual criminal, was
the theft of 16 cents.
Trying to win a wager of $5
that he could not eat ten loaves
of bread in three hours, Geo.
Williams, of Sharon, Pa., col
lapsed as he began to gnaw at
the eighth loaf.
Chas. A. Smith, an architect
of Denver, Colorado, says that
he has solved the problem of
raising the Titanic. Naval ex
perts declare the feat impossible.
Declaring that she needs food
and clothing moie than she does
a tombstone, Mrs. Mary Tillman
of New York City is asking that
the will of her hi other, which
leaves her $800 of. his estate for
burial purposes, be broken. Mrs.
Tillman is 97 years old and unable
to work.
Because his mother left him to
mind the baby the ten-year-old ,
son of Mrs, Lawson Smith, of
Fish Springs, Tenn., hanged him
self to the limb of an apple tree
while the mother was out visit
ing. A Chicago bishop has said the
greatest scoundrels the country
has known have been college
bred men.
Mathias Constanto, a steel
worker at Hammond, . Ind., has
inherited a $7,000,000 estate.
The first thing Constanto did was
to hire five close friends at $5,000
per year each to help him spend
his money.
Five hundred cases of ptomaine
poison resulted from a waffle sup
per given by the Presbyterians
of Donora, Pa.
A bill providing a penitentiary
sentence for every man convicted
of eloping with a girl whose
parents object to the marriage
was passed by the lower branch
of the Kentucky Legislature last
week.
Secretary Bryan celebrated his
54th birthday Thursday.
Gov. Walsh of Massachusetts
has declined to sanction a pro
posal to increase his salary from
$8,000 to $12,000.
In 1908 during an election in
Louisiana, E. A. O'Sullivan and
Paul Felix and others disagreed
about the voting methods and as
a result, Felix and his friends
held O'Sullivan and cut off his
beard and now O'Sullivan is ask
ing the Supreme Court of the
United States to give him dam
ages in the sum of $60,000 for the
loss of his beard.
Sidney, Ohio, suffered a fire
loss of $250,000 Thursday.
Because a school teacher at
Cologne chastised her child, the
mother in abusing the teacher
called her a "suffragette," and
was fined for slander.
The Ford Motor Co. of Detroit,
Michigan, completed more than
1,000 automobiles per day for the
24 working days in February.
During the month 25,621 were
built and shipped. '
M. K. Vogan of Grove City,
Pa., predicting that he would be
dead within 24 hours recently
went to the cemetery and selected
a place for the burial of his body.
Within ten minutes after he
walked out of the cemetery he
dropped dead from heart failure.
For his legal help in the fight
made by the State of New York
to return Harry K. Thaw to
Matt ea wan, W. T. Jerome receiv
ed a fee of $25,000.
Postmaster General Burleson
has signed an order providing
that the sender of a parcel post
package on which postage at the
fourth class, or parcel post rate,
is fully paid, may place a com
munication in an envelope pre
paid at the first class, or letter
rate, and attach it to the parcel,
the envelope addressed to cor
respond with the address on the
parcel.
Fire supposed to have been j
caused by an explosion of gaso
line in a garage at Anderson, S
C, the past week, destroyed the
garage and caused a loss of
$8,000.
With an appropriation from the
government of $47,000 for a pel
lagra hospital at Spartanburg, S.
C, the institution is assured.
The promoters have other funds
which will make the total $75,000.
and the hospital will be estab
lished it is thought before June.
All that is left of Kelley's
Army that started out 1,800
strong on a march to Washington
from California, is fifteen of the
leaders who are in California jails.
Hans Schmidt, the slayer of
Anna Aumuller, who was to have
been executed Monday, was
granted a stay of execution by
his attorneys filing a notice of
appeal.
An anonymous gift of $50,000
was made last week to the Board
of Foreign Missions of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. It is for
the care of retired missionaries.
A powder plant at Alton, 111.,
exploded one night the past week,
shaking the surrounding terri
tory for 50 miles. Henry Miller,
a night watchman, was killed.
Through a court decision, eight
children of Mrs. Camillo Mon
roux Prados of New Orleans, who
have grown up as being consid
ered negroes, and being regis
tered so, are declared to be white.
Alleging that it's the dominant
factor in a combination alleged
to control the output of, anthra
cite from Pennsylvania fields it
touches, Attorney General Mc
Reynolds has brought suit against
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.
A lone bandit robbed the ex
press car on a Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe train last week secur
ing about $20,000. After rob
bing the car, the bandit tied the
messenger up in a sack where he
was found by trainmen.
One day last week one hundred
and forty-nine Mexican mutineers
were executed it Jojulta. They
were lined up in squads of one
dozen men each against a stone
wall and shot.
A Texas woman gives to the
cause of God, all the eggs laid by
her hens on Sunday.
Ohio will spend $7,000,000 for
good roads during the coming
year.
Three hundred and forty-five
miles of road built by the Federal
government through the Yellow
stone Parkccst $1,035,000.
Notice of Application for
Pardon.
Notice is hereby given that applica
tion will be made forthwith to the Gov
ernor of North Carolina for the pardon
of James Ware, convicted of an assault
with a deadly weapon on Cora Belle
Ware, on September 2d, 1913, and sen
tenced by the Trial Justice of Scotland
County Criminal Court for a term of
twelve months on the roads of Rich
mond county.
cox: & DUNN,
12-2t Attorneys for Petitioner.
Will
O
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i ne i rmmons o:
ie Carolinas
are the achievements in educational, agricultural and
commercial progress that will astonish even native
Carolinians, will make every State in the South bestir
itself and
pen the Eyes
of the Entire Nation
You know what your own locality is doing, but how much do
you know about the combined efforts of all the Carolina counties
and how these united efforts will, in turn, boom business in your
town and county?
Employer, employee or parent whichever you are you need
to know these important facts, for the agricultural and business
opportunities and the educational advantages of North and South
Carolina today are greater than ever in the history of the two
States. What's more, they are rapidly growing bigger and better.
. There is much to be proud of in the Carolinas. The whole
significant story is told in the article
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