Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-05
NORTH CAROLINA

under wreckage. ROBERT Buncn,
companion, is dangerously injured,
and is brought to Asheboro hos
pital. John Miller escaped with
minor bruises.
ACKNOWLEDGING negro men
and negro woman are held in Jail
without bond pending outcome Of in
juries to Mrs. J. C. Adams, her
daughter, Elizabeth, and Misses Ter
rell and Sarah Massey, members of
party of pedestrians, who We're run
down by speeding motor car.
CHARLOTTE Morri-
son arrives at home town for few
days rest and accepts invitation to
deliver address before meeting of
Erskine college, Due West, S. G.,
alumni here, which President r. G.
Grier, DID,, attends.
Y.-Compromise is reached
between opposing attorneys in legal
controversy involving $o00,000
growing out of will of Wesley His-
gins. Yaneey county banker, where
by Joe and Davis Higgins, nephew
and brother of deceased, and Meth
odist church institutions equally
share estate. Will had been lost,
but stenographer produced notes to
support claim church institutions
should receive all but $4,000.
RALEIGH.-'You can send me to
Jail or hang me, but I am not going
to pay over that money" is def
ance hurled by S. H. Scarboro, aged
eighty, Wake county farmer, at SUI
pSTior Court Judge Thomas H. Cal
vert, who had ordered Scarboro to
pay $3.50 to receiver of farm. Judge
declared prisoner in contempt of
court, then reconsfde~cd, and allowed
him liberty pending determination
Of decision.
RALETGH.-No action toward
libel against cargo of 2,218 cases of
whisky aboard British schooner
Kawasind, recently brought into
Wilmington harbor by coast guards
men after being pulled off reef, has
been taken, United States District
Attorney Tucker announces. Ship
may be escorted beyond three-mile
limit and released after repairs are
completed.
LEXINGTON. - John Roggins,
South Carolina negro, is caught after
thrilling chase by posse and is held
in Jail on charge of attempting to
murder and rob D. L. Owen, South
mont merchant. Owen is suffering
from wounds in face caused by load
OF birdshot. Negro is gravely wound
ed. pistol bullet having entered
forehead, passing around skull and
passing out behind ear. He will re-
GOV a..
CANTON.-T. C. Dobson, II,
widely known civil engineer, dies of
burns received two weeks previously
when attempting to kindle fire with
oil.
MURPHY.-"I am so thankful"
says Mrs. j. R. Dalton, in interview
commenting on action of Governor
Morrison in committing to life inn
prisonment sentence of death hang
ing over her son, Jerry Dalton, con.
victed of numbering sweetheart and
his rival.
MURPHY.-O. w. Anderson, so,
Is fatally injured when he falls into
machinery at Whiting sawmill.
ASHEvILLE-H. H. Page, wealthy
hotel owner, withdraws appeal
and begins serving three-month SEN
tence on changing after conviction
on charge Of operating disorderly
hotel.
RALEIGH. - Rosy picture of
states business prospects for 1924
is pictured in review of agricultural
and industrial conditions of state
In 1928 and forecast for 1924 by M:
L. Shipman, state commissioner Oh
labor.
ASHEVILLE.-1mp by nearly
New Year resolution to "be good,
Lawrence Weaver, one of two Ma
con county brothers who escaped
from officers when being taken from
Franklin to Raleigh to serve prison
sentence for larceny, surrenders to
officers here and asks to be sent to
Raleigh to serve four.year term. Vol
ley Weaver. his brother, recently was
arrested at Hendersonville, and is
serving similar term.
ASHEVILLE. Intense excite
ment is aroused at Robbinsvllle, In
Graham county, over brutal killing
of Arthur Smith, IS, who is believed
to be victim of rage of blockaders.
six persons are held in jail in con-
nection with crime, according to
word from Andrews, prisoners in
,rluding Mont Stewart, Smiths step
father Smiths mother testified at
Inquest Stewart had threatened life
Of youth.
STON.-Somebody made
mistake, and paint for new Lenolr
county courthouse is applied by
painters without question. Then
county authorities find their fine
new building is painted siclly yell
low instead of stone gray, and ind1-
cations point to considerable rumpus
over tragic happening.
HIGH PoINT.-James A. Hover
ION, 65, dies in local hospital of in
luries sustained in automobile acct
dent near here. Names of occu-
pants in machine collided with one
lriven by Howerton' S son, James, is,
we're not learned. Body Is sent TO
home at Winston-Salem.
GREENSBORO.-G. c. Hayes.
New York hotel after short illness
IF pneumonia.
CHARLOTTE.-William L. Tur-
her, 2S, well-known Mecklenburg
county man. dies at local hospital
of wounds caused by accidental dis
sharge of revolver he was handling.
KINGS MoUNTAIN.-John Stew
art, young white man, IS instantly
killed when struck by Southern
passenger train, his neck being
broken, when he walks from behind
rear OF freight train in front OF
speeding passenger train.
WINSTON. SALEM. - Louis A.
Mayhem, convicted after sensational
rial on charges of embezzlement
growing out of irregular stock
ieals, declares. as he leaves in CON-
nooxy IF officerS RI begin seven TO