Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-01-10
GENERAL MATTERS OF INTEREST.
Big Events Reduced to Little Paragraphs
for the Readers Of This Paper.


The big plant of the Gibbs Ma
) ohinery Company and several ad'
joining structures at Columbia
S. c., were destroyed by fire Fri.
day, causing q loss of more tina,
$250,00
General Francis Tillon Mich
oils. a former governor of Louisi
ana, and a Brigadier General Of
the Confederate Army, dice
Thursday night, aged eighty
He was credited with putting an
end to the Louisiana lottery,
Nichols was the frat governor
of the state after the reconstrac-
tion, serving two terms.
New Mexico, the 47th state to
enter the union, ceased to be q
territory at .S5 Saturday when
the president signed the state
hood proclamation.
G.. II. McComhs, of New YORK.
manager of the Woodrow Wilson
campaign there, arrived in
Washington Sunday to advance
the interest of his candidate,
"Mr. Wilson will be nominated
on the first bsllot," Mr.. McCombs
| declared
The republican government is
assuming strong position and
now considers that China's future
is entirely IN Its hands. The
+ leaders believe the country al
most unanlmously favors the
republican movem.n Mt. President
Sun Vat Seu's cabinet it regard
ed as a strong one. Presldent
Sun says his main desire now is
for peace and prompt recognition
of the Chinese republic by for
slgn powers.
Jack Johnson. worlds heavy
weight champion, and Jim Flynn,
Pueblo fireman, met Saturday
to sigh an agreement to contest
the big title.
After serving eight years of a
fifteen year sentence George
Sheets, of Toledo, o., was pal
doned on the condition that he
marry his brothers widow and
take care of her seven children.
Sheets was sentenced to serve If
teen years as a chicken thief but
the board of pardons declds sd that
chicken stealing was q mania
with him. Why he should have
to marry bis brothers. widow is
not stated.
Mrs. J. n. Smith, of Central,
8. c., who was taken to q Green
Vile, hospital Saturday night
from her home town, where she
received injuries, when a buggy
in " hich she was driving collided
with Southern Railway freight
train, died early Sunday morn
ing.
When the steamship America,
which sailed Saturday to Ham
burg, reaches point about one
hours distance from the mouth
of the river Elbe she will be
stopped and q hydro.aeroplane
will be launched from a boom .
Hugh Robins On will be aboard
the machiue. After circling the
ship he will fly to the mouth of
the Elbe and continue sixty
miles up the Elbe to Hamburg
carrying United States mail.
Permission to stop the America
had to be obtained from Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock because
the America carries mail.
Judaon Harmon, of Ohio, was
the guest of honor at dinner Of
the Lotus Club at New York Sat-
urday night and IN his address
took the recent visit of the Wes.
tern Governors to New York and
obher easternscities as the basil
of argument for wiping out all
sectional lines. He urged thaa
it would be good thing for the
eastern governors to return tht
visit.
| The Progressive Democrat,
League of Ohio came into being
at Columbus, OHIO, Wednesda,
at conference of Democrats O
nearly every county in the state
Many of the conferees had entered
the gathering with the avowed in
tentlon of declaring against tn
residential candidacy of Gov
Judson Harmon, hut the execu
tlve's name was mentioLed onl,
indirectly and the organization
satisfied itse,f with the adoption
of resolutions urging the member
| t, work against the choice of an,
delegate to either State or nation
al convention who had no
proved hims IF a tried and tru
Democrat.
| nf fresf Ren Gift IN Snlleh,.rv