Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-12-13
GENERAL MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Big Events Reduced to Little Paragraphs
tor the Readers Of This Paper.

Local option as q political is
sue IN Georgia received another
setback in the gubernatorial pri-
mary in that state last Thursday
in the defeat of Judge R. B. Rus
sell, the local option candidate
Returns from all counties in tht
state indicate the election of ex-
Gov. Joseph M. Brown, over hit
next closest opponent, Pope
Brown. former state treasurer
by a good majority.
A famine which threatens to
claim m ore lives than the one in
1891, wien death numbered 800,-
600, is gripping Russia. In Ufa
hundreds have been subsiIting for
months on &C rms. In Ssmara
the people are eating dogs and
shrubs aud &C )res are dying OF
starvation. The crop shortage
estimate ir 80 100000 tors. The
officials have prohibited the Or
gauizstion # private relief socie-
ties fearing political uprislnga.
In many places the local press
has been forbidden to raise funds
for the sufferers.
Oscar W. Underwood of Aiaba-
ma. majority leader Of she house,
was endorsed a candidate for the
democratic presidential nomi-
nation by the Alabama de,e-
CATION in Congress at a meeting
held last Thursday. Upon hearing
of the affair he issued the foil 2w-
ing statement: II am not candi-
date for the presidential nomina-
tion and l am not going to be, !"
said Mr.. Underwood. Il appre-
ciate the honor of such endorse.
ment particularly from my COL
leagues, with whom I have work
cd and who have kLLwn me for
years.
The United States battleship
Maine, which sank beneath the
waters of the Havana harbor in,
February, 1898. a. the result of
an explosion, was blown up from
thu outside. This was announced
Friday by the naval board which
has been examining the wreck.
The findings confirms the report
of the original Investigators who
made q superficial examination
of the wreck shortly after the dis
sster.
In order to counteract the in
fuence Of the saloon, the Ham.
monassett Bible class Of the
Episcopal church in the little
village of K'llingworth Conn,
has dec ded to give dances in the
basement of the church on tatur.
day nights, the first taking place
last Saturday night.
Six men were killed and five
injured last Wednesday in q triple
wreck of two freights and a fast
express train on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Devils Bend. neal
Manor, Pa. One freight train
became stalled and q second crash.
ed into it. B sfore warning could
BE- given, the express train, car.
rying nothing but express business
west bound, smashed into the
freight wreckage. There were
20 horses being transported west
on the express train and all were
killed. Their value is estimated
at $4,000 to 100000.
The Federal Treasury will be
1900 richer because Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, has de-
cidsd that he could not accep,
pay for being a United States
Senator and q Governor at the
same time. Senator Smith was
elected July ~ and his salary
from the government started a,
that date. He chose the Stat,
of Georgia's money, however, ant
turned back about $1,000 salar,
to which he was entitled as Sena
tor.
The world has received it's las
poem from the hand of Jane
Whitcomb Riley. Mr.. Riley wa
asked lately by friends to write
poem in the form of Christina
message to thu public. He sadl.
sho~k his head and exposed
withert d right hand. The pa