Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-01-24
Domestic

More thar twenty-five thousand Ma.
tional GuardSmen now on the MeXi
can border have been designated by
Major General Funston for return
home and muster out of the federal
service, under the order issued by the
war department. All these organiZa-
tons will be started homeward as
soon as transportation facilities car
be provided.
A New York dispatch says that the
American commission for relief of Bel
GUM is preparing for at least another
years work and the necessity of rails,
ing approximately $3.50, 600, 900 more
will be discussed by the commission in
New York.
The departure of $4,000 troops now
OF the border will leave between As
600 and $4,000 men of the Guard still
in the federal service doing border
patrol.
Crops alone in 1916 were worth
more than crops and animal products
combined in any years in the history
of the United States prior to 1912.
A Wellton, Ariz., dispatch announces
that Lieut.. Col, Harry G. Bishop and
Lieut.. W. A. Robertson, missing army
aviators, exhausted from walking
four days in the wilds of Sonora,
Mex, without food or water, were
found more than thirty-two miles to
the south of the border by a civilian
searching party from Wellton.
A posse of ten men which left Ok
mulgee, Okla, in search of alleged
bank robbers, returned with the dead
bodies of Oscar Poe, Will Hart and
Harry Hart. The men killed were en-
gagged in a battle with the posse eigh-
teen miles southwest of Okmulgee.
The chief of police Of Okmulgee was
the only member of the posse to re
ceive an injury, and he was but slight
ly wounded in the hand.
The faintest sound becomes so pro-
nounced by the aid of an improvement
on the sound amplifer perfected by
R. B.. Abbott, instructor of physics at
the University of California, that the
fall of a feather makes a noise like a
wrestler striking the mat.
New York bankers are e~ndeavoring
to float another $3.50, 900, 900 loan for
Great Britain in this country. This
is the third fotation, including the
Anglo-French, of British loans made
in the United States since the out
break Of the European war.
Fifty persons were seriously hurt,
ten probably fatally, when half the
population of the little town Of Har-
ford, Pa, was trapped by fire in the
Odd Fellows hall, a frame structure,
during a wedding reception and dance.
An oil lamp fell and exploded and
soon the entire floor was blazing.
Bills reinforcing Tennessee's prohi-
bition laws by prohibiting lockers and
making it unlawful for any person to
have intoxicating liquor for sale in
his possession were sent to Governor
Rye by the legislature, and will be-
come effective just as soon as the
governor dlnHeS HIS signature.
Crop production for the year 1916
was comparatively low and did not
reach anything like record figures, ex-
cept in a few minor instances, but the
high prices sent the total values up.
Employers in all parts of the state
of West Virginia were much concerned
when it became known that Senator
NJ. V. Cooley (Rep.) had introduced
a measure in the legislature providing
for an eight-hour day in all branches
of industry and business except farm
ing, with the privilege given the en-
ployed to work three hours overtime
at time and one-half.