Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-05-27

Ing expert advice on forest pres.
ervation. The other sections
provide for a national forest COM
mission.
The next annual convention of
the American Bankers Associa-
ton will be held in Denver during
the week beginning September
9th. The date was decided upon
by Frederick G. Farrsworth,
of New York, secretary of the as
s%oc1ation, after a conference Sat-
urday with officers of the Denver
Convention League.
Fourteen young people who
went to Pilgrim, four miles from
Lexington, Friday to attend the
closing exercises of the school at
that place, we're poisoned by the
cake which they had in a lunch.
Physicians from Lexington were
summoned and by strenuous efforts
serious results we're prevented.
The home of ex-Congressman
Spencer Blackburn, was recently
sold under mortgage in Green's
boro and was bid in by Mr.. Black
burn for S7,4OO.
The case OF John Jones, colored,
charged with man-slaughter, his
victim being Gus Hutchinson.
colored, was put on trial Friday
morning at Statesville. It was
given to the jury Saturday after.
noon and they brought in a YER.
dict of mot guilty" This YER
dict was very satisfactory to the
general public,
The Aberdeen and Rockfsh
Railway is to be pushed on to
Fayetteville at an early date,
it is said by people who are in a
position to know. It is now at
Hope Mills, about eight miles
from Fayetteville.
The Supreme court has heard
the last of the arguments for this
term and will adjourn next Satur-
day. 1t has had an unusually
busy term, the dockets having
been very full. There we're a
number of railroad and corpora
ton cases disposed of.
Last week the saw. mill, boiler
and engine rooms of the White
vile Lumber Company's plant at
Whiteville were burned. The loss
is about 500, 900 with only a par
tial insurance. Nearly 200 men
are out of employment as a
result of the fire.
An exciting runaway occurred
at Statesville Thursday when one
of G.. E. French's horses ran away
and in attempting to stop the
horse M. E. Ramsay was run over
and his right leg broken just above
the ankle.
Jones II. West, a carpenter Of
Asheville, who was bitten by a
mad dog about six weeks ago, died
Wednesday of hydrophobia. Ashe-
vile, for the last few months, 1t
is said. has been overrun with dogs,
and recently the police have been
killing all suspicious ones.
While stealing a ride on a south
bound freight a negro named
Weeks, from Asheville, was in
stantly killed on a long trestle
south of Hendersonville. It Is
supposed he was riding between
the cars and fell through to the
track.
The freight steamer, George
Weems, bound from GEORGETOWN,
S. c., and loaded with cotton, was
destroyed by fire last week off
Frying Pan Shoals, near Whining
ton. The crew of 20 mon we're
taken off by a passing ship.
The congressional convention
for the second district met at
klnston Thursday. Hon. Claude
Kitchin was unanimously nomi-
mated for Congress, and the dele
gates to the state convention in
structed to vote for Bryan.
The forty-eighth annual session
of the General Assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian church,
met in Greensboro Thursday. Rev.
W. w. Moore, of Richmond,
Va,, was elected Moderator. Ali
the reports show that the church
hoo had n