Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-12-06
GENERAL MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Big Events Reduced to Little Paragraphs
for the Readers Ct Til; Paper.

AC Oulttu oUdCVS 10 AI0p~
ing in readiness at Manila
an exp-ditionary force OF
fro T. 500 to 9. 500 soldiers for
immediate dispatch to China
for the purpose of protecting
foreigners aid to keep open
the railroad communication
between Peking and the sea.
Declaring that his cons
science had tormented him
tor years because of postoffice
rnbberies he committed in
Virginia, his native State,
when a young man, Samuel
Marcellus Smith, aged e. and
a resident of Lexington, KY,
surrendered to officers last
Wednesday. He was locked
up for examination.
Wharton Barker, a retired
banker of Philadelphia,
sprung a sensation ON inter
State commerce last week
when he alleged that a New
York financier told him in
1904 that the financial inter-
ests would support Theodore
Roosevelt for President be-
cause the latter had made
a bargain" with them ION the
railroad question:"
I1andcuffed and tied with
a rope, s. T. B. Walker, a ne
gro, who was being taken
from Augusta to Washington,
Ga, to be hanged last We'd
uesday morning, escaE ed from
Sheriff BobC and two deputies
at Barnett, Ga, last Tuesi
night. A ~ropth ago Walker
was pIac5d in the hands OF a
mob on the way to a suitable
lynching place but escaped, a
hundred bullets failing to
bring him to the earth Ne
had shot and killed Oh 'rles
S. Hollenshead, a white mer~
chant.
-Four bows were found gull
ty of murder in the first de-
gree in Chicago last week an !
sentenced to death and two
others were sentenced to Ute
imprisonment for the mu: de
of a truck farmer on the ut
skirts of Chicago a mol tn
ago. AL the boys are under
2l. The fNo sentenced to lie
imprisonment ats 49,.
Fire ea3ly Manday swept the
plant of he United States TX
press Chmpany at jersey CITY,
N. J Stabies and other tn;ld-
lngs occupying, nearly full city
block ware bhrned, two hundred
wag3ns aud aut mobile trucks
were destroyed aud 800 horses
persisted. Two framen we're Sc
riously injured before the tlaze
was under control at 4:45 O'Clock
The l-ss probably will reach
$4,000
The peoples nomination of Is
new cardinals of the Roman
Cathoilc church has been rstltl7d
Three of the cordials are Amerl>
cans, and this country. until now
. missionary land for this church,
has been raised to the same level
of ether. Catholic countries, being
no longer consider I'D a field mere
ly for tha, Rpropagation of the
Catholic docsrinos.
John p Rockefeller resigned
Monday as p%.sident and director
of2tha Standard Oh Company of
New Jersey. John D. Archibald
was elee ed president in MI.
Rockfeller's place.
Both houses If the Sisty-second
congress convened at mon MOI
day. Practically every member
of each house was in his sass.
The galleries were crowded and
hundreds of people w're unable
to gain admission. The expected
speech of Represent tive Littleton
of New York. regarding the Steele
Trust question was she sensaelon'
al Incident featursng tho openll e
day Of congress.
&
The'sru}e FIR silence' was su-
spended for the fist time at the
fedora prison in Atlanta, while
the iris ,uers wore gathered for
their Thanksgiving dinner.
Warden Meyers n,.cuucement
caused the hall to ring with
che RS. The warden said the
prisoners wo1ld be- permanent II