TAB HEEL TOPICS.
liWhM Throughout North Caro
lina Ml la Brief.
Bony Hensley, Asheville, who waa
converted at the Ch s pasan-Alexander
meetings and afterward* became a
prominent figure, in religious circles,
wai arrested last week at Indlaaepo
lls on the charge of white slavery, fol
lowing hie elopement from Asheville
with Pauline Flynn, an 18-year-old
school girt. Haneley, who had keen
convicted of sailing liquor, was in
structed to attend the Tabernacle by
tbs police judge, lie professed relig
ion, and for a time after the revival
closed, led an exemplary life, secur
ing a position and working regularly.
A few weeks ago, he commenced to
falter in his work, and shortly after
wards dopod with Pealine Flynn, a
school girl, leaving a wife nod two
children behind him. His arrest at
Indianapolis followed advices sent out
by the Asheville police officials.
A liquor fight In Baltimore paved
the way for an interview which has
caused special meetings of Wilming
ton commercial organisations. J. B.
Hill, a former Wilmingtonian. gave
oat an Interview to a Baltimboro af
ternoon paper in which It was stated
that Wllralagtoo had bean ruined by
prohibition, that 1,600 residences are
vacant and that 600 offices are not oc
cupied. The Chamber of Commerce,
the Rotary Chib, Mayor P. Q. Moon
and others at once fired back tele
grams refuting the statements.
The rivalry la Wilkes between the
friends of ss-Congressman Hackstt
and Mr. T. B. Finley, promisee to be
come acute before the June primary.
At a meeting of Democrats of Wilkes,
held about two week* ago, Mr. Hack
ed waa endorsed for the Democratic
congressional nomination in the sev
enth district. Mr. Finley’s candidacy
had been announced about the same
time, and last week a meeting of Dem
ocrats endorsed Mr. Finlay.
The widow of Deputy Collector of
Internal Revenue K. A. Mofflt, who
was killed in a raid in Daceaabcr,
1896, is to receive one year's salary
<61,400) from the government, saya
the Asheboro Courier. The bill has
not yet passed Congress but is ox
peeted to paaa. Mr. Mofflt was a
Randolph county nun.
The capital stock of tho National
Festival Chorea of America, which
la to build the big auditorium at
Black Mountain, is increased from
$260,0*0 to $600,000 and tho name
changed to. the National Music Fes
tival of America- The EUiott eom
vaajr at Hickory has the eoatreeU to
build the auditorium, which it ia ex
pected to finish by August.
Aa unusual sentence was imposed
by Judge Frank Garter in Superior
Court at Gastonia last week, on
Georgs Patteraoo, the young white
man convicted of killing hi* friend
and companion, Russell Harwell, in
January. Patterson was taxed with
the costa, required to pay all Bar
well's hospital and funeral expenses
and was placed under a $800 bend as
a guarantee that he would pay one
half of his weekly wages to Harwell's
mother for a period of seven years.
Hie bond also requires him to appear
in court periodically and show that he
haa conducted himself in a proper
manner and haa been steadily employ
ed. Patteraoo is only about 20 years
old. Tbs killing of Harwell occurred
while he, Putts non and several others
were on a spree. He Is a mill operat
ivs and is a native of Cleveland coun
ty
late Thursday Frank Gillespie, a
white man residiag in Statesville, be
same violently insane and attacked
his mother, Mrs. Beard. He seised
the aged lady’s wrists ia Me *-~u
began a torturous frictieu, rub
bing the wrists together. His mother
oould net persuade the Insane area to
desist and aa she waa alone with him.
■o« KNuieo aloud Tor help sometime
tafoso two neighbors isa to tag aid.
Tta neighbors tawovor eeuM not fres
Mn. Board from tar era's toitmuoa
taU, and ft was aecesoery to socoro
• poUeeoma wta ftood tta suffering
womb. Mr*. Board was not eeri
o«ly hoH, tat tar aoa’s caaoclms tar
tars tad almost prostrated tar. Mr.
Gtftaapta tad winced algae of Insanity
tafort, tat tad acver before threat
amod' violence. Ho >• now lodged ,1a
jail, and will protabiy la Ur ta re
hospital for tta iaaaan
Lioat. Jaoksoa Christian, grandson
of Oon. Stonowall Jackson, is with
tta Americas expedition (a M.xieo as
* Uwlmst in e cavalry company,
M years ago Llont. Christian's flhis
trioos graadfsthor entered Mexico aa
s liaoUaaat la tta Aawrieea army.
As a result of a raw- about the lo
cation of a school house, in Haywood
rauaty, the building was burned} ami
aa a farther result two citterns are in
JoH
A Meek company is being formed
at Hickory to taka ever and hverpor
ato tta Blowiag Bock Hotel at Blew
iag Beck, tta company to hare a capi
tal steak of fttJMO.
^MBpcMTilUoklngtamram^,
• hdldlag OMd oaasad a total tora id
•boat *20.MO, partially oo toted by ia
I »ur*oce.
| Gao. W. Watts, tha Durham mil
I Uoaolre. pay* yaarly kt actaal texts
! to Stated county, and city tha sum of
>27,71*0.96.
A Jury in Guilford Superior court
last wash gave a verdict against tko
Norfolk A Weal* id Railway for
*1,000 in favor, of E. W. McNairy,
pruminont T. F. A. officer and travel
lag salesman, because ho was put oil
scar Wslant Cove last September
when bo offered hie mileage on the
train.
Firs at Rockingham ilaetroyod the
McDonald hotel and did other dam
age Wednesday.
Stanly county men are father-in
law and aon*in*law to oach other.
Each married a daughter of the other
without violating the law.
i*et V. Moody, oeputy clerk of the
Superior court for Mecklenburg coun
ty for the past 16 years, committed
suicide Friday evening at 7 o'clock
by ehootteg himself through the head.
Ill health Is given as the causa for the
rath act. Ha leaves a widow, who
was Mlaa Mary Torrence, of Greene*
boro; and an agod father. Mr. Moody
was a capable and pop alar man, a na
tive of Raleigh and 42 years old. . ■
Sheriff Lewis, of Robeson county,
telegraphed the State Department of
Insurance Saturday that ha had ar
rested and Mod at Lumbertoa one
Edgar B. Smith, who has been for a
long while much wanted by the de
partment on the charge of arson. A
true bill for burning hia store at Dub*
lla, Bladen county, was procured
against Smith tn 1911 and he fed the
county while the investigation was
pending.
The Norwegian steamer Otteretad
has arrived at Wilmington to taka on
a cargo of cotton at the Champion
Compress. This to the frit steamer
to come to Wilmington for e cotton
cargo sines Christmas. Tha tmusual
war conditions make steamers unus
ually hard to chatter. Much interest
attaches to the coming of the Otter
stad.
Sheriff R. E. Lewie and Deputy A.
H. Prevatt ai Roheaon county ware
called to the Omits section Friday
beesase of an epidemic of burglaries
that have been oaaunitted theca te
conUy. They carried tbsir blood
huuad along and ha trailed a tramp
to bis bivouac in the woods The of
Beers wart satisfied, however, that the
hobo had nothing to do with the rob
beries.
Governor Craig Saturday commis
sioned the Scotland Nock chief of po
Ueo to arrest a Gypsy Und In Peters
burg. Va.. bellevsd to bs the persons
who loft Scotland Nock a few days
ago with a child so much resembling
Jimmy Glass, of Greeley, Penn., kid
napped last year. Petersburg officers
telephoned Governor Craig that the
Gypsies, camped in that city, had no
child, but the Scotland Nsck officer
dedaaae that a flaxen-haired boy of
Bva was With this band of wanderers
whan they left North Carolina live
days ago. . Several North Carolina
towns report the presence of this
child.
Chief of Police' H. H. Kedfearn of
Lusibarton was found guilty of curs
ing cm the public highway and lined
less costa, by Recorder Britt Sat
urday. Hf, trial, eae of the hardest
fought since the Dumbarton record
«r'» court was established, ended Sat
urday night, after two days sad one
night aeaaiona. Chief Kedfenm waa
alleged to have cuzuad Prof. J. P.
Lov*. Hia counsel has filed notice of
appaaL
A raft with lfiOOJOOO fast of tab
or, the biggest aver oa WilgUngtoo
waters, arrived there Sunday, bG«g
towed down the Northeast river, from
Bnnoerosan'a Bridge, by three tug
beats.
Hoauot u to hove a now national
bank. Tho boot Institution will bo
known no tho Pint Nations] bank of
BamM. Tho officers will bo E. N.
Hhoadaa, president; E. P. Powell, rico
prsaidont, and Noak H. Jonette, cask
tor.
A. 0. Bieaad, a prominent attorney
oad former mayor of Wilmington, has
»»*°w«ood his candidacy for Superior
eoort jadgo, opposing Judge W. P.
Btoey, who wot appointed to nil a va
eaney until tho Juno primary.
Poor man and a woman wort car
ried from Plymouth to Torhoro Setur
doy aad lodged In jail for safe keep
In* M a aspects of tho horrlblt and
brutal crime committed la Washing
ton county whore George Bowse aad
bia daughter wore attacked by mid
night prowlers and fearfully batten.
Fred Folia, negro, woo arretted at
tho homo of a kiaaaum In Carr towa*
•hip, five miles oast of Durham, Sat
ordoy oa a charge of criminally as
malting J*-yoar-c4d l>ai»| Wsbtter, a
white girl. Tho attack on tho girl
wan made two weeks ago and niaso
that time the other* have been
memUug tot Miss Webster', aasail
ant. Falla la said to have confessed
to tho sheriff oad his moo Immedlato
ty after ho woo token aad added that
ho know H meant tho oloetric chair..
Bo declared that ho meant no ham
and chokod tho girt whoa aha aosmod
ditHMiaod to aouad aa alarm.
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