Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-12-11
AN ASSORTED LOT.
State News, GenraI News and Current
Comment.

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The police of Mexico City ar
f actively at work on Of the bigges
: kidnapping cases that they hav
: ever had. It is evident that TO
at least two months an organized
gang of kidnappers have beef
operated in that city. Forty-nint
children, twenty two boys ane
and twenty-seven girls, have beer
stolen form their homes. What
is to be done with them or who
might be taking them away and by
what means is not known. The
age ofthe children varies between
2 and 12 years.
| W: M. Widenhouse died last
Tuesday afternoon about 8 O'Clock
at his home at Gecrgeville after
an illness of only two days. He
was taken Sunday with an acute
attack of neuralgia Of the bowels,
and was unable to he present at
the meeting MonGay of the board
of county commissioners, of which
he was a member. No relief could
be afforded him, and he suffered
greatly until his death.-Concord
Times.
State Auditor Dixon has an.
nounced the completion of the
pension list, and the old veterans
will receive State pensions as fol-
lows: First class pensioners $72 ;
second class, $50; fourth class,
$25; widows, $25, These war
rents will be in the hands of the
clerks of tie various courts on
Saturday, December 18th, for dis
tribution.
The Progressive Farmer gives
good advice. Referring to the ne
cessity of some farmers to sell cot
ton to pay their debts. that paper
says: "There are other debt-pay.
ing farm products besides cotton Z;
let US produce more of them and
depend less on cotton as our sole
reliance for money"
Tie burning need of the hour
is a brand of religion that will
cause those to pay their debts
who can but won't 't,-Raleigh
Enterprise.
| Senator Foraker, of Ohio, has
announced himself q candidate
for the presidential nomination.
The sixtieth session of the Uni
ted States Congress convened in
Washington Monday at noon. The
session was a short one and was
CONSUMED in formalities.
Monday President Roosevelt
reiterated his intention not to
again be a candidate for the presi.
dency. Wise man. 7
| The jury in the case of Mrs
Annie Bradley, who has been on
trial for her life for shooting and
killing former Senator Arthur
Brown, of Utah, after he refused
to marry her, returned verdict
Of not guilty At Z minutes to II
O'Clock Tuesday morning. The
jury took two ballots. The
first stood eleven to 1 in favor o1
acquittal. The second was unani
nous for acquittal. The juror
who voted against acquittal OF
the first ballot was julius A
Priggs, bookkeeper, and the old
est msmber. When the verdic
was announced a great cheer went
up in the court room, wome1
being particularly enthusiastic
Mrs. Bradley was hurried from
the court house to an automobil
and taken quickly to the home O
Mrs. Hays one of her friends
Washington dispatch.
, Miss Aileen Cabaniss Kendall
} Of Shelby, was run over and xii
: led by an Elizabeth street car a
t the corner of East avenue an,
Myers streets Monday night, an,
Mrs. Cabaniss, of this city, wa
painfully hurt. Mr.. Cabaniss
= who was accompanying his wifi
r and niece, escaped serious hurt b
3 the merest chance. The acciden
| is one of the most distressing tina
: ever happened in Charlotte
/ Miss Kendall had just arrived il
c the city from Raleigh, where sh
o had been student at the Baptis
s University for women during tn
r fall, and was on her way hom
: to Shelby. For several week
1 past she had been in ill healt
u and was returning home in orde
q to recuperate. A niece of Nj