The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-04-11
STATE NEWS.

uCSudy 1OI 'lO,oOo |
street improvement carried by a
large majority.
While working in sewer ditch
in Greensboro Thursday two ne
groes lost their lives by the cav
ing in upon them of several tons
Of dirt
NearYanceyyille Wednesday as
the result of an alteration John
Richmond shot and killed his
brother. He was placed in Jail
at Yanceyville.
A gentleman who is supposed
to know predicts that in 12l
months trains will be running
through Whiteville from Bladen-
boro to Southport on the poposed
new road.
Among the cases disposed Of
by the Supreme Court last week
were the following from Robe
son county: State rs. Mcdonald,
new trial; State VS.. Clifton, new
trial.
The other day near Connolly
Springs Mrs. Alfred Berry, al
wife of only few months, was
burned to death while she and
her husband were burning off a
new ground.
Dick Campbell, 81 years old,
with a wife and 4 children, was
fatally shot at Lenoir Monday
night by Willard Baker, "a years
old, whiskey and cards being the
cause of the trouble. From Camp
BELLS dying statement it appears
to have been cold-blooded MUIR
der. Baker is in Jail.
| A. w. Aman, former sheriff of
Sampson county, serving 4 years
in the State penitentiary for en-
bezzlement of $4,000 county
funds while sheriff, was pardon
ed Monday by Governor Kitchin
on account of a diseased left leg
that will have to be amputated.
| He was sentenced at the October,
1905, term of Sampson court.
i A Wake county jury returned
a verdict of not guilty Wednes-
day in the case OF W. M. Depree,
tried on the charge Of having
caused the death of George Muir
ply, a convict Of Rowan county,
. while, as guard in the State
penitentiary. he attempted to
carry out an order to put Muir
ply in a dark cell for drunken
, ness. The jury believed that
the convict died from excitement
and not from the effects of a
blow from Depree.
Washington correspondence,
, 9Th, Charlotte Observer: Senator
: Simmons won the greatest victory
: of his congressional career today
. when he secured the adoption by
;. the Senate committee on com
p merce of an amendment to thu
D rivers and harbors bill, authoriz
: ing the Secretary of War to pur
i chase for the United States ant
to widen and deepen to twelv.
feet the Albemarle and Chesa
e peake or the Dismal Swamp ca
s nal, leading from Albemarl
= sound to Norfolk.
a Baxter Shemwell, whose sen
= tence or 5 months in Jail fo
u drawing his pistols and compel
u ing a Southern Ry. conductor
ia stop a through train for him a
81 Lexington was committed b
rs Governor Kitchin to 5 days
e. Jail and a fine of $500. Wake
2e out of Guilford county Jail a fire
u man last Wednesday. Shemwe
N says, and mis- statement was SUI
al ported by the statement of a fe
IS. low passenger, that the statemel
Of that he threatened a conduct'
ist on March 81 and made him ste
cd at Lexington is false.
W. The University Of North Car
1is lima defeated Washington an
ey Lee University in a debate
he Greensboro Thursday night, tn
err being the second between tt
lot two institutions, Washington a,
led Lee winning the first in 100
ent Cardinals representatives we
he w. R. Edmond and H. E. STAG
re- On the same night at Chap
ing Hill F. N. Cox and c.. E. Mel
vas tosh, Of the University of Nor
an Carolina, triumphed in debs
over representatives of the U,
70 versity of Georgia in the 1:
80 ~ debate between these institution
ury The people of the Arratt s.