The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-15
WISH TO WITNESS
GRANDSON s FATE
Aged Indians Ask Permission to
Be Present at His
Electrocution.
WRITE TO PRISON WARDEN
Sandlin, Wilmington Wife-Mur-
dercr, Is Lodged in Pcni-
tertiary.
WRITE TO PRISON WARDEN
Especial to rhe rimes-pispateh.l

Especial to The Timcs-Dispatch.l
Raleigh. n. c.. November l4.--warden
4. p Sales, OF the States prison, has
received an urgent request from the
grandparents of Ross French to lie
permitted to come to Raleigh and see
their grandson electrocuted November
"a when he is to pay this penalty
for the murder OF Miss Ethel Shuier,
IN Swain county. early in October
French Is a Cherokee Indian. and HE
grandparents, quite advanced In years.
are said TO be typical old-linc Indians.
They wrote Warden Sales that they
earnestly desired to sec their grand
son this last time and would apprc-
ciate permission TO do So French "a
only twenty-one years old and has a
wife and children, whom he is said
to have very much neglected In hi.
wild life that led up to his implica ton
IN ire murder that is TO cost him his
life.
Sheriff s. p. Cowan was here last
night from Wilmington to deliver to
the penitentiary l.. NJ. Sandlin, the
Wilmington white man who Is to die
IN the electric chair December s. for
wife murder. SandIIn shows remark
able self-possession in settling himself
IN the State death cell to await cleo
trocution He killed his wife juno
20 In the most coldblooded manner
In the dining room OF boarding
house she had opened 10 support her.
self and children. after leaving him
because of his cruel treatment and
neglect
Begins Prison Term.
hamond w. George. n Pennsylvania.
sentenced In Pasquotank county 10,
OBTAINING money under false pretenscs
vas committed to the State prison
.o-auy 10 serve three years. He repre-
seH'eo nlInseir to be recruiting officer
~, , the United States Army, and EN-
iistcd number of young men rc
During them to pay to him feos ,ho,
lie claimed to be required by tho GOV
eminent in admitting them to the arr,y
Service. my
Love and Union Association fIncor.
porated) Is the unique name of a MI,
tual benefit and educational orpapiy.
ton chartered by the Secretary of
state to-day, with principal office at
'hahepite' Bertfe county. 1t is n
negro organization and W. II Uo,
ators.
Wednesday of this week DIR. d ~
fiiii' president of the North Carolina
,olieGe OF Agriculture and Mechanic
arts VIII deliver nm address in Column
pus. o.. before American Association 81
: Agriculture and Mechanics. Commerce
and Experiment Stations on the need
iherc is for training as public speak
ers In technical schools. He takes the
GROUND mat so much of the technical
work Is done now for corporations
"herc the employment of giving OF
contracts is vested in groups Of mon
that the technical man who has the
training as speaker to present his
pIans or Views has a distinct advan-
taSe over the man who has not tho
training as speaker. Dr. Hill left
to-day for Columbus.
a charter was Issued TO day for the
watkins Lumber Company. EIlerbe.
y. Z. The capital is $4,000 authorized
and $1,000 subscribed; W. H. and F..
=. watkins principal lncorporators
Conditions Are Good.
Dr. Jordan, city physician for
! Raleigh, says that health conditions
here are the best they have been in a
ions while. He says the town could
/ scarcely expect any better conditions.
| mere were only three cases of scarlet
! fever and three OF diphtheria. In fact.
the percentage of contagious and in
fectuous diseases among children is
| down to a minimum.
| FIFTEEN appeals are docketed for
argument this week in the Supreme
/
! are: state VS.. Arlington, Joyncr vs.
Harris. Phifcr VS.. Commissioners, Re-
inning Company VS.. Construction Com
pany, Dover vs. Manufacturing Com
pany, Phifer VS.. Phifer, WeIman vs..
Horn, Cotton Company We. Wilson and
I, Town of Gastonia. Parish Stafford
. Company VS.. Cotton Mills, Mccall VS..
Sustain. II. j. Groves vs. Insurance
Company, II. l.. Groves VS.. Insurance
/ Company Commissioners VS.. Bank of
Gastonia, Watson. ex-partc.
| Social Features.
Two especially notable social
features that have been arranged in
connection with the annual session of
the North Carolina Literary and aIs-
torical Association here November 81
and IS are an informal reception by
the Raleigh Womans Club and q
formal and quite elaborate reception
by former President Il. W. Winston
and Mrs. Winston at their home on
Blount Street. The principal address
for the meeting will lbe by Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
on "Thc Constitution and Its Makers.'