Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-05-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Matters Of Interest Gathered and Condens'
ed for the Readers Of This Paper.

er Gov. B B Conner. His
majority probably will be
more than 10000. Conner
failed to show the strength
his friends expected in the
rural counties.
Washington. May H. A
merican Consul Silliman still
is imprisoned at Saltillo, acs
cording to a later dispatch
from the Brazilian Minister
in Mexico City who reported
to the State Department that
he has made the strongest
representations possible for
the release Of the American.
Mr.. Silliman's clerk, Mr.,
Marchani, has been set at lib-
erty and left for Vera Cruz.
Washington, May 11.-De~
tails Of the killing Of G B
Hoadly, American, and G r
Williams, British, by Mexi-
cans at Ell Favor mine near
Guadalajara, were given in a
disl atch from the British
Vice Consul at Guadalajara
transmitted to the State De>
partment today. The des-
patch said that Hoadley and
Williams we're stabbed to
death and horribly mutilated
by enraged Mexicans, after
the foreign staff in charge of
the Ell Favor mines had en-
deavored to search native la>
borers to trace silver bars sto-
len from the mines.
Washington. May IL
Ending years of bitter legal
fighting, the Supreme Court
today set aside the sentence
imposed by the District Of
Columbia Supreme Court up
on Samuel Gompers, Frank
Morris, and John Mitchell
for alleged contempt Of court
in 1907, for violating injunc>
tons against alleged boycott>
ing of the Bucks Stove and
Range Company. In 1911
the Supreme Court set aside
sentences against Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison be-
canss ,ney had been prosecu~
led under criminal instead
Of civil statutes. The next
day new proceedings we're in
stituted, but that injunction
trouble and the sentences
then imposed we're upset to-
day, finally closing the cases.
Nashville, Tenn, May II.
Matters of vital interest to
the Baptist denomination
will come before the South
ern Baptists Convention
which will open its annual
session in Nashville Wednes-
day. The convention sermon
will be delivered by George
w Mcdaniel Of Richmond,
Va. Baptist here believe
that DR.. Lansing Burrows Of
Augusta, Ga, will be elected
president Of the convention.
DR.. Burrows has been secre-
tary for 80 years.
Winston-Salem, May H.
William Smith, a blacksmith
was shot in the leg at Glenn
mons, II miles west Of this
city, this afternoon about 2
o'clock by Joe Tise. Will
lam Jones, who was in the
shop at the time, was the in
tended victim Of the shot, &C
cording TO messages sent to
the sheriff here tonight. I'm
mediately afterTise fired up>
on Jones, the ball striking
Smith,, Jones picked up a
heavy mallet and struck Use
over the head, inficting a
wound that is expected to
prove fatal Immediately after
the difficulty Jones fled and
has not yet been Appended.
Washington, May Miss
Eleanor Randolph Wilson,
youngest daughter of Presi-
dent and Mrs, Wilson, to-
night became the bride Of
William Gibbs McAdoo, Sec>
rotary Of the Treasury, in
the historic blue room Of the
White House. Less than one
hundred persons, and but
few officials, heard the low
toned voice Of Rev. Sylvester
W. Beach Of the First Press
byterian church of Princeton
as he said the marriage ceres
mony.
jacksonville, May 7.-Gen>
eral Bennett H Young of
Louisville late today was re-
elected commander in chief
of the United Confederate