Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-10-11
GENERAL MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Big Events Reduced to Little Paragraphs
tor the Readers Of This Paper,

The big dam of the Star mil
on Duncan creek IN. Chippews
Falls, Wis; went out Friday
The country is flooded in every di
rection. The Chippewa rivel
has risen eight feet overhowine
it's banks and water is running ir
tho streets as the result of ar
eighteen hour rain. There is 6
bad washout near Colfax and
landslides in cuts IN the vicinity
of Albertville have covered the
railroad track. At Wausau the
Wisconsin river rose to a height
of seven feet above normal.
The international missionary
union while in session in Wash.
ington, assessed resolutions pro-
! testing against the use of Ameri.
can oonsuls all over the world as
beer drummers. This protest
was occasioned by tbe order of
Secretary Knox seat to consuls
June 16, dlrecting them to recog-
nize the brewers union. Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson also
was criticised for accepting the
honorary presidency of the
brewers congress.
Escorted by more than one
hundred members of naval organi-
cations, including seven hundred
midshipmsn from Annapolis, the
body Of Rear Admiral Winfield
SCOTT Schlsy Thursday afternoon
was taken from his home in
Washington to St. Johns church
where the funeral services were
held and thence to Arlington
where it was committed to earth
with all the ceremony and dis.
play due his rank.
Poison from the handling of
money caused the death Friday,
at Waltham, Mass, of Geo. H.
Farnh am, treasurer of the WAL
than County Cooperative bank.
Mr.. Farnham scratched a pimple
behind his eac while counting
money. 1t developed into blood
poison and eventually Bright's
disease.
Secretary Meyer has announced
that the navy estimates for the
next year provides for two battle
ships Of the same size a. those in
the last appropriation. These
ships are of the super-Dread.
naught type and will be 27,OO0-
ton vessels. The estimates this
year will not exceed the appro-
priations for last year.
-Four inches of snow covered
Northern range of the Adiron-
daoks in New York Saturday
It is the heaviest precipitation,
t Ills time of tht year in ten years.
Two thousand inhabitants of
Black River Falls, Wisoor sin,
ar without food or shelter after
spending Saturday night on the
hills, watching the waters from
the hooe of Black River overrun
the town. The town continues
off from. the world. The mayor
sent out an appeal for assistance,
saying the people need food and
tents in which to live until homes
are rebuilt.
I Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 7.-At-
torneys for the McNamars broth
ers, charged with murder on nine
separate counts as result of the
Times disaster year ago, Satur-
day fled a6idavits in Judge Board
wells court upon which request is
made that the case be tried in
some other department. Of the su-
perior court. The filing of the
affidavite followed Judge Board
wells denial of a formal request
made by Attorneys Darrow and
Davis, of the defense, for change
of judges. It is generally con-
ceded by both sides that the case
will 90 to trial before Judge
Boardwell today and it is pre-
dioted that the jury will not be
completed before the first or Sec
| ond wsek in December and that
the trials will last for five or six
months.
It's Equal Don't Exist.
| NJ ona has ever made salve.