The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-09
FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE.
Short Paragraphs Of State News That
Has Been Condensed For Busy
People Of the State.

appointed one of a committee of three
from the senate to act with similar
J committee of the house for the inaug-
| uration of Mr.. Wilson. This means
I! that Senator Overman will ride close
to the president in the great parade
up Pennsylvania avenue.
Raleigh. Kitchin author.
ICES exchange of courts between o. H.
Allen and Judge j. L. Webb, by which
Judge Allen holds Pitt county court
January Is, for two weeks, and Judge
Webb, Mecklenburg court, two weeks,
beginning January Is. Judge Allen is
from Kinston and Judge Webb from
Shelby.
Spencer.-A heavy wind storm rag
ing for several hours palyed havoc in
this section recently, unroofing barns
and houses, blowing down telephone
and telegraph poles, fences and out
buildings. The heaviest damage was
perhaps the blowing down of a large
coal chute tower in course of erection
for the Southern at Spencer.
New Bern.-A deed of trust from
the New Bern-Ghen Street Railway
Company of Richmond, Va, has been
filed in the Office of the register of
deeds of this county. The bonds:
which are in denominations of $1,000
each, are made payable in 1882. These
iVfv IN
number making the bonded indebted
ness of the street railway 100000.
Asheville-With one leg mashed al
most entirely loose from his body, and
his arm and shoulder badly crushed,
Walter Masser, a fagman on the
Southern railway, was brought to this
city from Waynesville, after being
run over by train at that city. Mes
ser's right leg had to be amputated
and his chances for recovery are very
slight.
Washington.-Amo the items in
the appropriation bill sent to the
house of representatives by Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh, is one for
$1,000 to pay the rental of temporary
headquarters for the Charlotte post
Office and for the accommodation of
government officials while the pres
ent building is being remodeled or
torn away. This amount is asked for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1914.
Greensboro-Plans have about been
completed for the beginning of a cam.
paign here to raise $4,000 for the
chamber of commerce, the money to
be used in fighting for better freight
rates and for exploiting the city in
various ways. The $4,000 pledges
are to be paid in yearly instalments,
the idea being to secure $4,000 for
the next three years and to devote
this sum yearly to the needs of the
organization and the city.
Salisbury.-A, committee from the
Rowan County Farmers Union met
with Senator Brown and Representa-.
tives Murphy and Carlton and formal.
ly presented them the resolutions
passed at the annual meeting of the
union at Barger's School House, in
the county, several days ago. The
laws especially were considered, that
Of an improved system of working the
county roads and a longer school term
with a moderate compulsory act.
Stanley.-A distressing accident &C.
Cured at the plant of the Stanley
Mfg. Co. when Mr.. Alonzo Turbyfill
fell to his death from scaffold on
which he and other workmen were re-
pairing broken shaft. The victim
and his fellow-workmen were hand
ling shaft on which pulley weigh
ing about 500 pounds was fastened
when the scaffold began to totter
overbalancing the three workmen and
falling. The pulley fell upon the life
less form of the deceased mangling
his body.
Kinston.-L. A. Hughes of LAGRANGE
is in the county Jail here, following
his arrest on a capias issued at the
request of Solicitor Shaw. Hughes
assaulted his father-in-law at La
Grange, and will have hearing be-
fore magistrate there for the charge
Sentence against him was suspended
in case at the May, 1911, term of
criminal court, and he was ordered to
pay the costs and appear before supe-
rior court each May to prove good be-
, havior.
Kinston.-The completion of the
: two new sidings, the finishing touches
on which were made recently, great
ly increases the yard facilities of the
Norfolk Southern at this point, CIV
ing Kinston one of the most commo-
dious yards on the system.
Washington. - larger appropria-
ton for the eradication of the cattle
tick in the Southern states than the
| $250,000 appropriated last year was
urged upon the senate committee on
agriculture by state veterinarians and
others from Louisiana, Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North Car
DINA, Arkansas and Mississippi.