The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-08
NEWS ITEMS.
Items Picked Up Here and There and
Gathered From Our Exchanges.

Gently.
The Harris-Williams dry goods
business, OF Durham, is in the hands
of a receiver.
A negro man at Charlotte shot a
negro woman's head off and then
killed himself.
Asheville is to have ''home COM
ing week" to be held in the fall, prob
ably in September.
The U. S. Government deficit for
the year ending July 1st exceeded
receipts by $S9,S11,156
Tennessee is now numbered among
the prohibition States. The prohi-
bition law went into effect June
Both.
Gov. Kitchin has pardoned J. S.
Carpenter, who was convicted in Polk
county in 1909 Of assault and rob-
berry.
The first bale of the 1909 crop of
cotton sold at Dallas, Texas, on June
Both at $1.20 a pound. The bale
brought S425.
DIR. Jas. D. Bruner, Of the State
University, has accepted the presi-
dency Of the Chowan Baptist Insti-
tute at Murfreesboro.
Two young ladies at Washington,
n. c., used as effective weapons hat
pins against a negro assailant. He
was driven off in a hurry.
The leper, John Early, who has
been held at Washington, d. c., will
be permitted to visit New York for
observation and treatment.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to exclude ne
groes from employment as fireman
and trainmen in that State.
Miss Belinda McIver, the Is year
old daughter of the late Charles d.
McIver, Of Greensboro, died last
week, after short attack of appen-
dicitis.
The report Of the National Ginners'
Association issued June 29th gives
the cotton average as 1876. The
condition in North Carolina is II.
Acreage abandoned per cent.
4 white man by the name of E. A.
Darlington, of Durham, who was
divorced from his wife last year up
on complaint of non-support, is now
trying to remarry and the former
wife seems to be willing.
The trustees of the Baptist Orph-
anage held harmonious and very
enthusiastic meeting at Thomasville
last week. Judging from the re-
ports the Orphanage has had good
year. The present officers were re-
elected.
Judge w. A. White died at his
home in Warrenton June 30th.
Judge White held the office of Clerk
Of the Superior Court from 1868 to
1904 when he was forced to resign on
account of i'll health. He was one of
the best of men.
Gov. Kitchin has named the fol-
lowing persons as officers of the
Medical Staff. N. C. National Guard:
S. Westray Battle and P. j. Macon,
with the rank of ieutenant-colonel;
E. 3. Glenn, A. R. Winston, H. H.
Harriss, G.. S. Jordan and j. V. Nc
Quigon, with rank of major.
In the United States District Court
at Ashevile last week Judge New
man overruled motions made by
counsel for J. E. Dickerson, w. H.
Penland and Major W. E. Breese to
quash the indictment for conspiracy
to wreck the old First National Bank
of that city and set the cases for trial
July 26th.
From wounds inflicted by Sea-
board Air Line train near Thelma,
Della Peters died at Weldon July
1st. The woman was evidently
asleep on the track when the train
struck her, cutting off one foot and
smashing the other one so bad that
amputation was necessary. She died
before the operation was completed.
A suit has been filed in Mississippi
to bar the Standard Oil Company
and collect fines aggregating $11,-
600. coo. A news item sent out from
that State says: Under the Miss
issippi laws. as amended by the leg
islature ins1906, the State is entitled
to recover a statutory penalty OF
S.. 900 a day for each specific viola
lion Of the antitrust laws and the
penalties sought to be recovered IN
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