Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-02-09
GENERAL NEWS.

ed at sea, was reported Sunday by
wireless telegraph to the naval
photographic Office IN Washing
ton. The message in effect, was
that a merchantmen had passed a
green schooner, with black board
and white stern, with yellow
stripe, on fire at sea, in latitude
80. 25 north, longitude 70 40 west.
Her name in black letters, .ap-
peared to be George P. Phillips.
Delaware. Her boats were gone
and nobody was aboard.s A high
sea was running at the time. 1t
appears probable that the burned
schooner was the George F. Phil
lips of Seaford, DBL, which sailed
from Baltimore on January % for
Wilmington. N. c., in command
of Captain Gaskins. She carried
a crew of four. So far as report
ed the crew has not been picked
up or landed at any port.
Reports of a. government vic
tory at Santo Thomas Continue to
be received at Managua, Nicara-
qua. According to Official dis
patches from General Vasquez
every sixth man among the insur-
gents vas either killed or wound
ed Among the casualty list on
the government side are Captains
Parlnilli, killed, and Colonel
Miguel and Captain Navarro,
wounded. Navarro formerly was
Governor of Managua penitentiary
and it was he WAC executed oraers
for the fogging, shooting and tor
Suring of political prisoners .
General Mena was IN command of
the insurgents at the battle and
toward the close of the fight be
Was reinforced by Colonel Zsledoll
with 5000 man and this prevent.
cd the insurgents from being cut
off entirely. General Vasquez,
in his advices, says that he is
still pursuing.:the enemy
Mrs. O. II, P. Belmont has in.
vited the negro women of the
State ct Nav York to jim th4
Political Equality Club of which
she is president. Ultimatel. they
may form suffrage associations of
their own. but FIR the present as
many.as wish will bss.admitted to
the Political Equality Club. Fur
ty enrolled Sunday at meeting
addressed by Mrs. Belmont in a
West Side negro ,church. Mrs.
Belmont.rcame quickly to the
point. Il feel." she said, "that
unless this cause. means a freed
ON and equal rights to all women,
OF every race, of every creed, rich
or poor, it's doctrines are worthless
and it must fail"
A Federal tax en- the transact
ions carried on by the exchanges
of the country. is regarded by
Herbert Knox Smith,, commits
sioner of corporations, as Offering
in some measure a ''constitution-
al and Embellishments of regula-
ton" of:these bodies. But in a
report submitted to President
Taft Friday. MI. Smith lucknow.
lodged thatihe is somewhat at .
loss to determine exactly how ''to
eliminate the evil %andnretain the
good'':of the. future transactions
of the exchanges.
A trust mortgage for IS, 900, 900
given by the Interstate Power
Company=to the Carnegie Trust
Company Of New York, is being
recorded in..the.offce:o the clerk
of court at Anderson, S. G. It
is one of the" largest. mortgages,
in every sense Of the word, that
has ever been recorded. in Ande.-
son county so volumous that sever
al days will be required to spread
it upon the record books. It has
been known here for some time
that a.movementsswas on foot for
the development Of Middleton
Shoals androther epropeTty along |