Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-05-05
General News Matters


! Items otlatsrest 10 our Reafars Gaihared
and Condensed foT Quick Assimilation.
Ex Governor, T. j Jarvis is
seriously i'll at his home in Green
Vile, N. c.. having been conined
to his home since last Monday Z.
He is suffering from .catarrh Of
the stomach.
Great preparasions are being
made fer the coming session of
the State Medical Society. This
year tho meeting will be held in
Greensboro, Tuesday. Wednesday
and Thursday, June l5-17. As
usnsl the State Health Officers
Association will hold its meeting
Oh the day preceding the regular
meeting of the society Monday,
the 14th. From eli ipdicatlors,
and according to reperts of the
various committees nov at work,
the meeting will doubtless be a
record breaker In point,of interest,
attendance and the quality of the
program. Many new features Of
interest to physloians and health
officers are being provided.
Norfolk. Va, May 1-secretary
of the Navy, Josephus Daniels,
after . conference With Rear
Admiral Beatty, commanding the
Norfolk Navy Yard, this afternoon
announced that the interned Ger.
man auxiliary cruisers Kronprinz
Wilhelm and Eitel Friendrich
would remain at the Norfolk Navy
Yard until the close of the Euro.
pean war.
Ed Walker aud jeff Dorsett of
Greensboro, Negroes, who we're
convicted for the murder OF John
Swain on January Goth. have been
sentenced to death on June 11th.
Both Negroes plead not guilty and
said that should they 30 electro.
cuted it would be the execution
of innocent men.
New York, May lac Tanzer,
the young mislia.s~ .she aued
James W. Osborne for $50, 600 for
alleged breach of promise to
marry, and later withdrew her
suit, saying Mr.. Osborne was not
the man who courted her under
the name of Oliver Osborne,
changed her testimony again to.
day and u ,der oath identified
James w. Osborne as her admirer,
Oliver Osborn Miss Tanzer's
renewed Identification came while
she WAS under crossexa mination
by Assistant United States Dis =
triot Attorney Wood. She was
on the stand 40 q defense witness
in the trial of Frank D. Saff ord ,
former clerk in the Kensington
Hotel in PIainfield. N. j., for
perjury in connection With the
breach of promise case.
Raleigh, May l.-Rspresenta. ia
tive J. G. M Vann of Monroe.
member of the legislative com :
mittes that has just filed it's re .
port with Governor Craig on the
Investigation of the Alternately.
Carter contempt case, remained
over in Raleigh today to round
mp the business of the investiga.
tion in the matter of mailing out
the pay warrants for the 15O and
more witnesses who appeared be.
fore the committee to testify
While the figures have not been
totsled up yet, it ls understood
that the investigation has cost the
State about 81, 500, more than
$1,000 having been required &c
pay the per diem and mileage Of
the witnssses The Corporation
Commission mailed out today &c
the 1900 and more corporations
III every part or the State, the
official blanks on which they are
required to, during the month ol
| May, make report as to capita
stock, surplus, dividends, earn.
ings and other features of theil
buslness as q basis on which the
com mission will assess their 1915
taxes.