The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1910-03-31
GENERAL NEWS.
Gathered Here and There and Put in
Condensed Form.

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The census cotton report shows
the 1909 crop to be 1O,363, 24O bales.
An aged woman at Winston-Salem
committed suicide by cutting her
throat with pen-knife last week.
The automobile that run down and
killed a man in Charlotte recently
carried license tag number "1313."
Danville. Va, will vote on the
liquor question April 28th. The
town voted dry two years ago by As
majority.
The outlook for trucking in East
ern North Carolina is very good so
far. Strawberry shipments will be-
gin about April Goth.
Col. J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of
State, has presented the Soldiers
Home at Raleigh with chair and
portrait of his father.
Morehead, the Republican Con-
gresham from the Fifth North
| Carolina district, announces that he
will not be a candidate for re-elec-
ton this year.
The entire business district with
the exception of one store, of Lilies
vile, N c., was destroyed by fire
Saturday evening. The loss will be
around 100000.
The first note of Democratic VIC
tory this fall comes from Massachu-
sets where a Democrat has been
elected to Congress in district here
tofore considered hopelessly Repub-
an.-Charlotte News.
The Democrats have elected four
members to the new House commit
tee on rules as follows: Champ
Clark, of Missouri; Underwood, of
Alabama; Fitzgerald, of New York,
and Dixon, Of Indiana.
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma,
has been exhonerated of the charge
Of misrepresentation and mismanage-
.nent Of State funds, in report filed
in the Legislature by a committee
composed of five Democrats and two
Republicans Exchange.
The Chatham Record says the wife
Of Mr.. Geo. Brewer, Of Gear Creek
township, Chatham county. was
STOPPING over the fireplace to blow
up the fire, when she had a fit, fell
into the fire and was so badly burned
that she died next ay.-Durham
Sun.
The plant of the Shore Manufac-
turing Company at Rocky Mount,
manufacturers of mattresses, was
burned Wednesday morning. The
loss is about $4,000, with $500 in
surance. P. G.. Shore was the prin-
ciple owner of the property.-Dur-
ham Sun.
J. H. Bethea, of Dillon, S. c., kill
ed a conductor and porter and
wounded another man on a B. & @,
express train at Wilmington, DEL,
Wednesday of last week. Bethea
then held the police at bay for an
hour, but was finally killed. 1t was
a very sensational occurrence.
Eight months on the county roads
was the sentence Of the recorder for
Arthur Utts, young white man re-
Gently arrested at Danville, Va, and
brought to Winston on a warrant
charging him with abducting Mrs.
Maggie Branscombe, wife of a me-
chanic residing in Winston.
ham Cleaner.
Norfolk, Va, March 27.-General
w. P. Roberts, Of Gainesville, N. c.,
who bore the distinction of being the
youngest brigadier general in the
Confederate army, died here TO-DAY
as the result of a fractured hip sus-
tanned in fall at his home recently.
General Roberts, who was 60 years
old, commanded a brigade in the
Southern army when he was % years
old. The body will be sent to his
home in North Carolina for inter-
ment;
Mr.. Benjamin N. Duke, brother to
J. B. Duke, president of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company, has two hand
some houses under erection in North
Carolina. One, a fine old colonial
mansion of the best type,- is nearing
completion at Durham, his birth
place, and this he chooses to call
home. The other, an elaborate
bungalow, is being built to Toxawav
in the Sapphire country where Mr..
Duke, with his family, will spend
the summer. -Roxboro Courier.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO.
LUCAS COUNTY.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
| he is senior partner of the firm of F. J.