Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1913-09-24
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While sitting on the end of q
cross-tie on the west side of the
north.bound Southern Railway
main line track in North Char.
lotte Friday night, Lewis Smarr,
q negro employed ct the coal
chute, was struck and instantly
killed by a northbound psssenge,
train running as second No. 50.
! Washington Gardner of Albion,
Mich, Friday was elected oom-
mander-in.chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic at the final
business session of the forty
seventh annual enosmpment held
at Chattanooga, Tenn. Detroit
earlier in the day was selected as
the meeting place for the 1914
enoampment. A general exodus
of veterans and delegates attend
ing sessions of allied organisa-
tions began Friday night. In
bidding their hosts aud hostesses
farewell veterans and visitors pre-
dicted closer relationship be.
tween North and South as q re.
suit of the cncampment.
The fourth of the five alleged
murder cases on Guilford Superior
Court docket when last week q
term began was disposed of FRI.
day when Ed. Clawson plead
guilty of murder in the second
degree and was sentenced t, 25
years in the States prison.
Clawson was charged with the
killing Of Jim Jeffreys, another
Negro, whom he cut at the throat
with razor causing Jeffreys to,
bleed to death in q few minutes.
The affair occurred in q disrepu-
table Negro quarter of Greensboro
several weeks ago. Clawson's
sentence makes a total of 76 years
imprisonment for four defendants
who pleaded guilty to murder or
msnslaughter last week.
Judge Charles Cooke in Wake
Superior Court Friday afternoon
suspended the four-months Jail
sentepoe imposed some months
ago against J. J. Holland, the
Seaboard Air Line sectionmaster
for killing Van Stewart for per.
sistent indecent exposure of his
person close to the Holland home
at Millbrook. Over 800 people
petitioned for the suspension of
the judgment and Annie Stewart,
mother of the Negro killed, wrote
the Judge from Petersburg, Va,
that she understood the provoca.
tion under which her son was shot
and ioined in asking mercv for
Holland.
News of . distressing death in
Alexander county last week reach
ed here. Some time ago a daugh.
ter of Mrs. Cornelia Holder of
Gwaltney township, Alexander
county, became deranged and IN.
manageable. In struggle with
her mother with q table fork,
sticking the fork in her mothers
knee. The wound made by the
fork became infected and gradual
ly grew worse until Mrs. Holder
died as q result of the injury.
The young woman who unknow.
ingly abused and injured her
mother has been sent to the State
hospital for the insane at Morgan.
ton.
John Shelton Williams, assis.
tant secretary of the treasury,
Friday informed a North Caro-.
lima delegation that the depart
ment would be extremely liberal
in responding to applications fol
money by Southern banks to move
the cotton crop. If the $50, ,000,'
600 already set aside for this pur'
pose is not sufficient. more gov
ernment funds will be deposited
; Moreover, the time for repayment
will be extended. This assuranc,
was given by Mr.. Williams t
Representatives Stedman ant
Doughton, who called at tn
treasury department, aooompani
L. HoLL.