Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-06-16
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The Summer Forestry Confer
ence at Montreal, N. c., July 6
9 it is said. promises to be the
most interesting aud largely at
tended meeting vet held under the
management of the North Caro-
lima Forestry Association. Speci'
al railroad rates Of three cents
per mile for the round trip to
Black Moantain. Two miles fr9 m
Montreal, will be IN effect July
1st, 2ad, 6ih aad 7sh, good for
seventeen days. Regular tourist
rates are In IF .cs from June 1st
to October B1ss. Ths program is
more than usually i'll tsrestlrg. J
=. Holmes. of Chap5l Hill. N c.,
is secretarv.trea.ur
Ladford, an outlax and one of
the most badly wanted men in
western North Carolina, was shot
and the doctors SAY fatally wonnd.
cd Friday by D.puty Sheriff Reg
gle Ray of Pensacola. L4dford
had given Ray q three-mlle chase
that morning ending as Unica
Gaddy's. Lsdford had Win
chester and resisted arrest. He
YVES among some Of his friends.
Ray was alone. He fred but one
shot, which took effect in the hip
coming out she bowels. Ledford
wss wanted for assault, highway
robt cry. burglary, forgery and
larceny, in all about 10 cases.
Strychnine in excessive doses
sometimes acts as an emetlc
through the medium of irritation,
although it does not have true
emetic property, according to
medical men. To that fact Will
McKsel owes his life. According
to story which reached Klnston
Sunday, McKeel and Others paid
a visit to jack Hill, who lives near
the line between Greene AID
Wayne Counties Hills smoke
house had been robbed so fre-
quently that he put a large
amount of strychnine in link Of
sausage and left it in a handy
place with other meat. I'm
some kind of hungry McKeel is
said to have told his host.
Whereupon the party repaired to
the smokehouse and got sausage
for q meal. The meal was over
before Hill recollected the poison
ed sausage. McKeel had got the
link with the strychnine. He es-
capped death because Of the unusual
amount of the drug that Hill had
put into the link. McKeel has
recovered before a doctor could
be summoned.
At Victory Cotton Mill, two
miles of Fayeteville, Sunday Eu-
gene Biggs, aged IA. was killed in
an autemobiIe.rallroad accident.
A. W. Davis was driving his au-
t t,mobile up the hill to the A. G.
L. crossing when be saw the noon
train from the south bearing down
on him. He suddenly turned his
car to prevent running on the
track, it struck the tender of the
engine sideways and Biggs, who
was standing on the running board
of she auto, was jammed against
the epglne, bis hip broken and he
was otherwise maj G ed. He was
put into a Pullman and brought
t j. town to the hospital, where he
died shortly afterwards. A cor
ouer's Inquest was held, the ver.
dict of which was that Briggs came
to his death as result of the care.
lessness of the automobile driver.
J. Elmwood Cox of High Point,
republican candidate for governor
in 1905, says he will not te q can.
didste in 1915. Hs stated that
everybody along the route of his
recent northern trip we're in favor
of Wilson and against Bryan.
1t being impossible to issus in.
vltatlons to all. Speaker Ciark's
secretary extends an invitation TO
all Missourisns to the wedding of
his daughter, Miss Genevleve
Clark and James M. Thompson,
which will take place June Both.
Zoro Davis, age 18, white, while
peddling peaches to the Carolina
special was struck by train No. 8
at Saluda Monday and instantly