Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-01-21
LATE NEWS MATTERS
Items Of GenaraI Interest Gathered and
Condensed for our Readers.

Items Of GensraI Interest Gathered an
| Condensed for our Readers.
! Southern passenger train No
Is on the A. T. & o road wa
wrecked within 800 yards of .th'
i station at Davidson Sunday nigh
and Firemsn Avery H. Wilson O.
Charlotte wss killed and Enginee,
Jonah E. Ourlee, also Of Charlotte
was go fearfully scalded tina
doubt is entertained of his recov
cry.
Saving of millions of dollars
Low lost annually by cottor
farmers and small manufacturer
is the object of bill which Rep
resentative Lever of South Caro-
lima, chairman of the House com
misteee on agriculture introduced
Monday. The measure would ap'
propriate $4,000 to be used by
the Secretary of Agriculture il
determining the relative spinning
| values CT the different grades OF
cotton as already standardized by
| law, and for demonstrating the
! results of this work to producers
and consumers of cotton.
"Co. operation amo,.g farmers
instead of competition. that the
farmer may receive the whole of
the consumers dollar for his
product instead of 35 TO 45 per
cent, a. now is the case" is the
aim of q bill introduced Saturday
by Senator Borah to create an
agricultural capital" or clearing
house to be run by farmers under
government charter or subsidy
The bill would furnish machinery
for scientific marketing and
Standardization of farm producers
irrespective of government con-
troll. 1t created quite a stir in
the Senate, Senator Borah ex
planning later that he had not
written the measure, but had in.
troduced it at the request of E H
Restig, 6 farmer Of Opportunity,
Wash.
Charles and Samuel Lawson,
aged 20 and II years, Saturday
were placed under arrest at Mt.
Airy, N. O., following coroner's
inquiry into the death of their
father. William LAWSON, farmer
whose body was discovered Friday
in a shallow grave in q field near
his home. 1t developed at the
inquest that Lawson disappeared
from his residence near Mt. Airy
shortly before Christmas. Ex-
animation of his exhumed body
showed that he had been shot
through tie heart. County off
cials claim that Eawson's sons
have confessed to killing their
father, alleging that they acted in
defense of their mother, who N
Lawson WAS abusing. Hillard
Jessup, q relative of Lawson, is
held in connection with Lawson's
death.
Fire early Saturday morning
destroyed the two principal build,
ings of Oak Ridge Institute and
the Methodist Protestant church
on an adjoining lot, making loss
of more than $4,000. The two
burned buildings contained the
Offices, recitation r)oms, library,
society halls and chapel. One was
a large frame structure and tn
other was of brick. The church
was a frame building. Nothing
is left of the three buildings but
parts of the bare walls of tae
brick structure and the founda-
tions of the frame ones. Despite
the great damage and the loss of
class rooms and Offices, the work
of the institution will go forward
without any interruption. When
the news was first received here it
was believed impossible for the
institution to continue work, but
the undaunted faculty immediate.
ly announced that class work
would be resumed Monday, and
will be carried forward until the
>loao of Tho <opu,