Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-29
STATESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY,
Negro Captured Who Committed Murder II
Years Ago. Danger Making Fires With Oil.

Negro Captured Who Committed Murder II
Years Ago. Danger Making Fires With Oil.
statesville Landmark. Jan 9l.s4.
! W. II. Boyd, of Salisbury, has
accepted a position at the Safe
aud Table factory and began work
this week. Mr.. Boyd is deaf and
dumb, but is a good workman.
} The Mountain Scout, Taylors-
vile, says that G.. W. Elder and
daughter visited at Mooresville
and in Rowan county last week.
Mr.. Elder, who is rs years old,
took his first ride Oh the train
Thursday.
They are complaining of express
rates at Greensboro (and almost
everywhere for that matter), and
the other day Mr.. Sadler, division
superintendent of the express COM
pany, was before a committee of
the Greensboro chamber of COM
merce. The Record says Mr.. Sad
ler declined to grant relief in any
of the complaints filed, but ex-
planned that the company was
doing all possible for Greensboro.
Certainly. The express company
is "doing" Greensboro just as it
is "doing" it's patrons everywhere
-gouging them to the limit and
beyond it.
M. L. Litaker, son of Mrs. G. G.
Litaker, of Barium Springs, and
Miss S J. Barnhardt, daughter of
Ephraim Barnhardt, were married
at 5 o'clock-Sunday afternoon at
the home of the brides father
near China Grove, Rev. B. S.
Brown officiating. Mr.. and Mrs.
Litaker returned to the groom's
home at Barium last night, where
they will live. Mr.. Litaker is the
youngest son of the late M. M.
Litaker, of Barium.
While starting fire with kero-
sene in an upstairs room at the
home of his parents Oh north Cen
ter street, Friday evening, Bon
ner Knox, young son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. M. Knox, had very ex-
citing experience. Bonner had
been sent to the room to kindle a
fire and, following a much-prac-
ticed but very danger-custom, he
saturated the kindling wood with
kerosene, and then set the can of
oil near by while he applied the
match. The can of oil was acci-
dentally turned over Oh the car
pet and being near the fire blaze
leaped out and ignited the oil. In
an instant the floor all round
Bonner was in flames. He scream
ed for help and his mother and
Miss Mills, who responded at
once, found him vainly trying to
extinguish the flames with his
feet. Water being convenient,
Mrs. Knox and Miss Mills sue
ceeded in extinguishing the flames
and little, damage resulted. It
seems almost miraculous, how
ever, that Bonner was not severely
burned.
Between 25 and 30 people were
present at the court house Satur-
day night IN response to the call
issued for the meeting by Prof. J.
H. Hill, president of the Iredell
county Anti-saloon League, and
J. A. Hartness, chairman of the
executive committee. The call
was issued to those favoring a
statutory law prohibiting the sale
and manufacture of Intoxicating
liquors in the State.
1t is stated that since the first
of the year the receipts from the
passenger traffic have fallen $4,-
600 below the average at Sails
bury, and this is only one indica
tion of the general falling off all
over the system. The receipts at
Statesville, however, from the 1st
to the 21st of January, are nearly
the same as last year.
! Sheriff Summers arrived Satur.
day night from Wheeling, W. Va.
with John Jones, colored, who
will probably be tried next week
for the killing of Gus Murchison,
colo1ed, in Statesville the night
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