Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-15
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Happenings of Interest From All
Sections of North Carolina
Briefly Told

!, E. H. Gibson. insurance man OF
Kernersville, Guilford county, was
horribly and fatally injured Thurs.
day when his car was hit by q
Southern passenger train at the
Haw River grade crossing. Gibson
died before reaching a hospital at
Greensboro.
| Safes in the office of Ivey's De-
partmenst store, Charlotte, were
blown Sunday and robbed of cash and
stamps valued at $4,000, The rob-
bers made good their getaway, leav-
ing no clues that would lead to their
identity. Officers investigating the
robbery said that it was the work of
professional safecrackers.
Immediate reconstruction of the
burned portions of the state hospital
for the insane at Raleigh which was
destroyed by fire Saturday, has been
ordered. The portion Of the build
ing, the west wing, housed about 400
inmates, all of whom were removed
to safety. The loss is estimated at
about half million dollars.
C. T. Blakeney, cashier of the
Bank of Midland, at Midland, Union
county, was knocked unconscious, his
bank robbed and set on fire at ain
early hour Thursday morning. Mr..
Blakeney was lying a few feet from
the front door in an unconscious con-
dition. When citizens reached the
bank they found it ablaze on the in
side.
A family quarrel, said to have
been prompted by drunken father,
resulted in the death of Jim Hayes,
of Kannapolis, Saturday afternoon.
His daughter, Iva, aged 10, who fired
the fatal shot, was released on bond
in the sum of $1,000 after a jury,
summoned by Coroner Hartsell, had
heard three witnesses. The shooting
occurred at the Hayes home in Kan
napolis, and resulted from threats
said to have been made by Hayes,
who, it is said, had been drunk since
Thursday.
Davidson college is to get the In
come on 100000 for the establish
ment of the "William H. Williamson
Professorship," chair of nature, to
be selected by the college, under pro-
visions of the will of William H. Will
hanson, Sr., filed for probate Sat-
urday in the Office of the clerk of the
superior court of Melcklenburg coun-
ty. Mr.. Williamson, for many years
was a leading business man of Ra-
leigh and Charlotte and died several
days ago in Florida. The will dispos-
es of an estate valued at between
$800,000 and $1,000,000.
Western North Carolina Repub-
licans, according to an Asheville dis
pctch,m are discussing four men as
possible successors of Brownlow
Jackson, who was last week elected
chairman of the state Republican ex-
ecutive committee. The four men
being mentioned for the marshars
post are Frank Patton, of Morgan
ton, assistant United States district
attorney; Charles A. Jonas, of Lin
colnton; Charles E. Green, of Bakers
vile, and John Isenhour, former
sheriff of Catawba county, and Jim
Bailey, of Asheville, now deputy
| marshal.
As a result of row with his wife,
who accused him Of being intimate
! with another woman, Ed Honeycutt,
large land owner of Union county,
was shot and killed by his son, Will
Honeycutt, Monday night. 1t seems
that Honeycutt and his wife engaged
in a quarrel when Mrs. Honeycutt
made accusations against him. He
knocked her down and kicked her. it
is said. The dead man sent his Sec
ond son to ask Will Honeycutt, who
lived short distance from the house,
to come over. Will Honeycutt, in a
fit of anger, grabbed his shotgun and
ran to the home, of his father where
he emptied load of shot in his faith
; ers breast, death following instantly.
| Charles A. Cannon, of Concord
nominated last week by the Rupubli'
4 can state convention for the United
States senate, has declined the nomi
: nation. It is stated that Mr.. Cannon
was not consulted about the nomina
> tion and had received no intimatior
| that he would be named as the sena
I torial candidate. Marion Butler pro
: posed the nomination of the Concord
I mill man, and his name was favorabl.
. receivde by the convention. Friend
4 represented Mr.. Cannon as in n
r sense a candidate, but their belle
0 was that he would accept, if tn
nomination was unanimously tender
ed him. However, he does not seer
to enter the political arena in oppe