The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-08-24
STATE NEWS.

LIE IGCpuUllCdIl OCdCS COIIHCAI-
ton meets in Charlotte Wednes-
day.
Driven insaue by religious ma
MIA, Geo. A. Cox, So years old,
dashed into a passing freight al
Rose Hill Wednesday and ended
his life. A wife and two chill
dren survive.
The board of alderman of Fay
etteville has awarded a contract |
to the Atlantic Bitulithic Co., of
Richmond, Va, to pave the en-
tire business section Of the city
with bitulithic at cost of $780,
600.
Mrs. E. T. Ingle, of Albemarle,
gave her 7-months old infant a
dose of morphine by mistake last
Tuesday night, intending to give
caIomel, and in spite of all the
efforts to save it the child died a
few hours later.
DR.. Thomas P. Harrison, pro-
fessor of English at Davidson
College, has accepted the chair of
English at the A. and M. College
at Raleigh, made vacant by the
promotion of DR.. D. H. Hill to
) the presidency of the college.
Two women and three children
were burned to death at the
no me of Mr.. Wofford Tweed, a
farmer living near Marshall, on
the night of the 10th when the
home was destroyed by fire. The
! fire is thought to have been of in
a cendiary origin.
William Alton Christenberry,
a farmer % years old, committed
i suicide Tuesday night at the
home of w. F. Thorne, near Tar,
boro, by swallowing an ounce OF
v iodine and shooting himself. Nc
e reason other than dependency
was assigned for the deed.
k The reunion of North Caroline
g Confederate veterans held a
n Winston-Salem last week is sale
to have been the most success
full reunion ever held in theState
e More than 1000 old soldiers
1t marched Thursday in the larges
procession the veterans have haC
, since the war.
a Mr.. J.D. Murphy, of Asheville
IS has been appointed by Gov. Glen
Is as judge of the fifteenth judicia
district, succeeding the lat
ID Judge Fred Moore. The appoint
r ment is effective at once an
&c holds until January LIST, subjec
I'd to the action of the Democrat
V, judicial convention to be hel
S, later.
n. The efforts of ex-Senatc
y Marion Butler and other Repul
licans to induce Judge Jeter {
Pritchard, of Asheville, to al
er cept the Republican nominate
w for Governor, are without avail
e. Judge Pritchard says he is sati
er fed with his present positiC
m and could not Oxford to become
r. candidate.
" Logan Jones, of Edgecoml
county, stated in drunken rag
o. on the night of the 18th that
o would wipe out his entire famil
and upon attempting to NAL
us good the threat was shot dow
by his 15-year-old son.
was also attacked with an axe
,d another child. Jones died i
III stantly from the shot wound al
i1 the boy was placed in Jail
t nn Tardoro Thursday.
ad. Last Thursday morning
ent Fayetteville a country nor
n a hitched behind @. K. NimrocA
On store on Hay street becar
adj frightened and dashed throuI
md the store, leavingthe wagon OIL
,ell sid the door, then across t
BIB. street and into the window,
ght W. Prior & Sons, jewelel
by smashing every piece of gls
Der and chinaware in the window
ore Guiding some valuable har
full painted china of Miss Florer
ere Hall. The horse ran two mi
or and became entangled in a ba
rec wire fence, fracturing his ski
, I've Charlie Radcliffe, colored, W
IS W shot and killed Luther Washi1
i9o ton, colored, in Wilmington thu
bic years ago, was arrested in Phi
'illS delphia Monday and will
'lO,i brought to Wilmington for tr
T1nl as soon as the necessary pap'
m VIC are secured. Washington's m
we der is said to have been W
coldblooded. Radcliffe was
rested at the instance of
D sweetheart, who said that
was wanted in this State for
we'd murder of a white man, and R
con cliffe admitted, it is said, t
1ool he shot and killed a white m
hv at Plymouth last Christmas
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