Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-10-25
GENERAL MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Big Events Reduced TO Little Paragraphs
for the Readers Of This Paper.

The following fr~ m Macon, Ga
of Oct. 19.-Eugsne Ely, a vel
known aviator was fatally injure,
at the State fair grounds Thurs
day evening shortly after
O'Clock when his aeroplane refus.
cd to rise after 3 sensati onal di1
and plunged with him SO feet t,
the ground. In the presence O
nearly eight thousand peopl,
hs fell to the middle of the on.
closure of the mile track, almos,
clearing the machine by desper-
ate leap that he made when ht
realised his peril. His body wal
broken in a score of places and
he died eleven minutes after the
fatal fall. Just before the end
he regained CONSCIOUSNESS and
muttered: 81 lost ontrol-I
know l am going to die"
Michigan Baptists want Presi.
dent Taft to remove fr m office
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
because of his appearance ut the
brewers convention at Chicago.
The annual State convention
OF that denomination adopted a
resolution to that effect aud for
varded it to s. E. Nichol.on,
secretary Of the Anti.Salool
League, at Washington for pre-
ssntation to the President.
sesretary of Agriculture VIII
son, who reached Washington
Thursday from Chicago. denied
rumors adoat to the effect that
he had handed his resignation to
President Taft to take effe: t
November Is Or as soon thereafter
% suitable. "There is absolutely
no Justification for the rumor,"
he declared emphatically 81
have no thought of handing in
my resignation any time SOON"
The Democratic national com.
naittee has een called to meet in
Washington January 8 to fix the
time and place for the next
national Demo cratic convention.
Mrs. Taft, the wife of the
President. has leased a cottage at
Hot tlSpfings, Va aud will occu.
py it the last of this month.
When the President returns from
his Western tour, sb ut Novem-
bar 1st, he will join Mira. Taft at
Hot Springs for a rest.
Miss Gertrude Burk of Chicago,
largest woman in the world, is
twenty-five years of age, weighs
1926 pounds, stands five fest seven
inches, and &c me ef her measure.
ments are, arm, % inches, waist,
81; bust. rs. She wears number
44 shoes and number Z gloves {.
When she was born she weighed
fifteen pounds, and at eight
years Of age weighed 250. She
sits on two chairs placed facing
each other. Mics Burk goes
through door by turning de
ways, and it is a pretty hard
60 1eeze at that. Efforts have
been made ty showmen to get
Miss Burk to exhibit herself, but
che has never been tempted
Her parents left her an estate
and she does not need the money.
Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson
q Baptist church pastor, in Cam
brigs, was arrested Friday morn
ing 80 the result of a police in
vestigstion of the death by
poisoEing of Miss Avis Linnell. a
student at the NV England
o. nservatory of Music. Police
Judge Murray issued a warrant
Friday charging Richeson with
first degree murder.
A report received in San Fran
cisco by officials of the Southern
Pacific Railway Company from G
B. Brown, section foreman fol
the road at Naples, CAL, gave de-
tails of the discovery of 36 stick
of dynamite under the Cairta1
viaduot, 20 miles north of Sants
Barbara, several. hours befor,
President Taft's special trair
passed over the bridge. enroute tt
Los Angeles. The dynamite wa
found after the watchman engag
ed in q revolver battle with tw
men, who escaped.
William R. Hearst's announce