Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-03-08
State levs ItW
News Concentrated 10 These vho Want to
Know Abeut hsRs Affairs

. News Concentrated 10 These vhs Want to
Knew Abeut hsaS Affairs
? Aanie Belle Thomas, Who it is
q alleged seok snail quantity OF
4 Latter from the apartment of
= Sarah Pratt, IN Charlotte, was
, shot Sunday afternoon by the lat.
\ ter and died almost imnsdisssly.
Both Negroes. The Pratt woman
vas arrested and 10 charged with
l murder.
In spelling sontsss given the
sixth and seventh grades of the
Hickory graded schools the aver.
age in the sixth grade was g. :
per cent. and III sns seventh grade
a.4. In the seventh grade only
one pupil made below Is on the
test. Fifty words. soms of them
difficult. were gwen the Oh hiidssn.
and IL made 100 per cent, not
missing single v ord. This beats
basket ball.
| During . fight Sunday between
Robert Lane of Morgsnten and
John Tate Eplsy. the full psrtion.
lars of which cannot bs learned,
he eight yesr-old son of Lane is
g aid to have fatally stabbed Eplsy,
The affair happened in the yard
of Epley, who lives Ia the South
Mountains out from Glen Alpine.
aud Eplsy vas carried by physi.
clan to Longs sanatoriam as
statssvills Sunday night. Il 10
faid Laas was visiting in the
Ii nsighDorhood and the available
reports, Or rather the story Of tho
by and his father. are that Eplsy
had knocked Lane against the
fenoe and was beating him whsn
the boy got ost his knife and wsnt +
to his fathers aid and plunged
the knife into EpIsy's side. Sew
+ral bruises on Lanes fass bear
Q it the story, and he was probably Z
sitting the worst of it. Lane ssys
that th y were sitting in the yasA
'slklng in Q friend y way whoa
EPleY sprsug on him unawarss,
Gplsy's side of the story can't be
learned, and may never bs, % il
ia said he has no hope of rssovsry.
Harrison Cook, . confederate
soldier, lost his life in . mica mine
III No. 10 Township, Cleveland
county, Saturday afternoon while
working 30 or Is feet below the
surface of the ground. He was in
the mine alone whom the earth
:aved in and caught him leaning
over his pi. K handle which pune
tured his bowels. John Randall,
on whose laid the mins was being
worked, was nearby when the
~arth csved and, hearing . runb.
ling soand, hurried down TO and
Mr.. Cook completely covered up.
Neighbors were called and his hsdy
was uncovered but life was extinct.
Carl Freddy, aged 81. ,oversssr
Of the spinning and spooling room
of the White Oak Cotton Mills,
was killed in Greensboro at noen
Monday by second hand whom
he had discharged. His slayer
was Monroe Johnson, aged q, ssn
of J. O. Johnson of Glsnesvsn
Johnson fred bullet from Q Re-
volver into the abdomen. Of Prsa.
dy and the latter lived but 0 fsw
minutes. The tragedy occurred
in the mill, whore johnson said
he returned to attempt TO got his
old job back. johnson 10 andsR
arYept.
J. B. Woodell. aged s., was
held up by some unknown party
Saturday night, near the ball park
at Sanford, while on his way
home Upon being told to hola
up his hands he did so but thought
sone one just fooling him. sss-
ing his assailant in earnest, hs
began to make an alarm, whore
upon he was shot through the
lower part of his body. Both ks.
Woodell and hie aassilant ran !.
Mr.. Woodsll made his way to the
residence of J. w. stouts from
which place he was carried 10
Osntral Carolina Hospital, whsrs
he died Sunday night. Thsrs 10
no clue to the assailant. It being
dark at this place, Mr.. Woodell
was unable to give . description
of She man. A revard v;lt h. ~