Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-04-08
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A JOB LOT OF ODDS and ENDS.
General News, State News and Comments
3, on Various Subjects.

A horrible slghG was Deneld IN
Winston-Salem Tuesday when, at
the crossing near the depot, the
body of a man, Henry Jones, of
Mt. Airy, was discovered badly
mangled. Jones had been in town
for several days and had been
drinking steadily. Although ev-
cry attention was given him at
once, he died.
A bulldog, tied in the yard of
Gus Hall at Chapel Hill, came
very neal causing the death of Mr..
Halls mother and his three-year-
old child. The child crawled to
where the dog was tied and the
animal, becoming enragsd, grab
bed it in the face. The grand
mother went to the rescue and was
also severely bitten. After a hard
fight the dog was finally beaten
off and then only after affecting
severe wounds ON both the lady
and the child.
A Wilson, N. O., dispatch says,
Sam Roberts and Turner Bailey,
both young white men, were killed
about eight miles west Of that
place last Tuesday. Bailey and
Roberts were both under the infu-
ence of whiskey and had started to
walk the railroad, to their home,
when they met a train and, being
too drunk to avoid it, were run
down and killed.
While under the influence OF
whiskey, G. W. Riggs was killed
at Pine-Town on the Norfolk and
Southern railway. He had beer
in town drinking and told several
parties that it was his intention
to hobo to Elizabeth City. Short
lly afterwards he was found in g
dying condition.
Grover Blake and Orsel Rey.
holds, of Anderson, Ind, are in jail
for the murder of B1ake's mother
The two men had been drinking
heavily and Blake, with his com
panion, went home to get money
from his mother. Upon her re.
fusal to comply with his request
he procured a hammer and, steal.
ing up behind her, struck her in
the head. While searching fol
money, his companion finished
the fendish work by striking two
more blows upon the head of the
old mother.
Possessing hypnotic powers ano
using them in his practice is the
case of a High Point physician il
the person of Dr.. VIM. 9. Jones
Last week when a young man cut
two toes off and was laid Oh the
operating table for attention, DR.
Jones proceeded to hypnotise the
young man, which he did success
fully and on account of which nc
pain was experienced by the pa
tient. No one in the room coulC
wake the fellow up except the doc
tor, who dispenses the spell.
The town of Lynn, 6 miles from
Bainbridgs, Co., was completely
destroyed by a cyclone early Tues
day morning. Two persons were
killed, Jim Wright, colored, and 6
child of Mayor Lyles. A number
of others were injured. Every
dwelling, tenant house, barn anc
store house were destroyed, and
all the contents ruined. One lit
tie child was blown out into the
woods. The track of the cyclone
was 400 yards wide and two miles
long.
Chas. H. Campbell. formerly
superintendent. of the Charlotte
Water Works, committed suicide,
in New York, last week. Mr..
Campbell had been respondent fol
some time owing to the lax con-
ditions of his profession of engi'
neering. He was a native of Ma
con, ia.
While picking up a hairpin from
under a machine, Mrs. Wheeler,
an employee of the Beaumont Cot
tonMills at Spartanburg,S. Sc, had
her hair caught in the betting and
the entire scalp was torn off. The
injured woman was carried to a
hospital and is in a serious condi-
ton.
OK. Ninochs of Cumberland, in
company with two ladies, placed