Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-02-09
STATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest Gathered from the East
ora Waters to the Western HilIs.

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of Mecklenburg court which con.
venes MONDAY, the 18th, promiset
es to be interesting and it would
surprising if it should wade
through what is mapped out.
The docket includes six murder
CASES the defendants being Will
and Henry Hartis, Felix Wett.
holm, Mike Murphy, Ed Cox. all
white, and Cobb Withers, color.
ed.
The State Agricultural Depart
ment issues lts first oil bulletin
with a preface by Manlius Orr,
assistant chemist The bulletin
il interesting because it was pre-
pared by State OIL Chemist Will
liam A Syme three days before
his death. The bulletin contains
his picture and tributs to him,
prepared by Commissioner Gra-
ham.
Smallpox has been discovered
among the colored tenants on the
plantation Of Mrs. M. J. Wallace
near Sardis station, Meckienburg
County, aud it develops that the
mslady has been raging in ore
family, for a month without de-.
lection on the part Of the laid
owners and within a hundred feat
of Mrs. Wallace's residence.
Tom Browning is in jail and
Charles Young in Lincoln hospi.
tal, in Durham, as the result of
q fight Thursday afternoon in
which Browning, = white man,
stuck 4 pitchfork into the negro's
eve and destroyed it. The men
dispassd over the trivial matter
of half days work aud Brown
ing says the nsgro advanced upon
him with rock. The white man
threw the fork hard into the face
Of tho negro and in drawing it out
she eye was almost removed from
the .ocket. TIE negro cried and
prayed pitiously as he was being
taken TO the hospital. After a
,hssa all over town, Browning q
y = sster of criminal tendency
aud Of some record, was caught.
The High Point Enterprise is
in receipt of a dispatch from New
York City which states that Mrs.
Mary Brokaw was last Wednesday
granted a separation from her
W. Gould Brokaw, and
alimony in the sum of SIS 900 a
year by the Supreme Court at
Mineols. L.. I. A newspaper re-
porter tried to get in communica
zion with Mr.. Brokaw at Fair
view LODGE" at High Point, but
was told by one of the attendants
that both Mr.. BIokaw and his
private secretary, Mr. Byford,
were absent for a few days. It
was stated that Mr.. Byford was
in New York City, but it could
not be learned where Mr.. Brokaw
was 1t was also stated that no
one at "Falrvlew Lodge" could
give any information relative to
Mr.. Brokaw $ attitude on she de-
cis;on of tha court or what his in
tentions were as to taking all ap-
peal.
Henry E. Fries returned Thurs
day from New York where he at
tended meeting of the Southern
Educational Board, Of which be
is member. Mr. Fries has pre-
pared report which hs will sub.
NIT at once to the financial board
of Salem Academy and College of
Winston-Salem, relative to the
$75, 900 endowment of the college
by the Rockefeller fund of the
General Education Board, in ad.
ditiou to a SIS, 900 gift from An.
drew Carnegie. The Rockefeller
fluid appropriation is conditioned
upon $225,000 being raised out
side. Mr.. Fries states that Mr
Oarnegie's gift and donations
from others have brought the
matter to a status where only
about $50, 900 remains to be rails
ed for the college, in order to 90
cure a total of 100000 perman
ent endowment fund.