--14 freight cars, two of which were loaded with coal and one with tobacco, were burned on the Winston-Salem Southbound yards Sunday night at 12 o’clock. --Fire of undermined origin, discovered Sunday morning, swept through and completely destroyed Watts dormitory at Davidson College, with a total loss of approximately $45,000.
--Moses Levy, a Durham merchant, was placed under arrest on a charge of attempted arson growing out of a fire which occurred at his story one night last week. He was released under $2,000 bond.
--Mrs. Fred T. Collins and her infant child are in serious condition at a Smithfield hospital as a result of injuries received when an automobile driven by Rev. Fred Collins, the husband and father, was struck by an Atlantic Coast Line shifting engine at a crossing.
--1,600 peach trees were bought the other day by J.A. Triplett for planting on Caje’s Mountain near Lenoir. This is just the beginning of a large peach orchard and is the first orchard of any commercial size to be planted on Caje’s Mountain.
--Six white men were injured at Haw River when a 50-foot span bridge being built across Haw River collapsed while they were at work upon it. The men were precipitated a distance of about 15 feet among the wreckage into about three feet of water.
--Charlie and W.P. Eaton, cousins by blood and brothers-in-law, of Charlotte faced Judge Williams in court to answer charges of assault with deadly weapons, to wit, a pistol and a knife. The two men quarreled because one was too friendly with the other’s wife.
--The condition of Mrs. Mary C. Daniels of Goldsboro, mother of Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, and of Judge Frank A. Daniels, was reported as very critical this week. Her physician thought there was little hope for Mrs. Daniels’ recovery because of her advanced years and ?? sickness. She is 87 years of age.
--The funeral of Thomas Elbert Sanderson, 11, victim of an automobile accident at Dunn school about three miles from Kinston, Thursday afternoon, was held Friday. The boy was fatally injured when struck by a car driven by William Waters, a youth. A young woman, Waters’ sister, was in the car with him.
--The Cartex Underwear Company is the name of a new corporation which is establishing a large knitting mill in Reidsville. The company was organized under the laws of Delaware on February 12th. It has an authorized capital stock of $500,000 and a paid capital of $150,000. William L. Pannill, now of Reidsville, is treasurer.
--Senator F.M. Simmons is steadily regaining at his home in New Bern his strength after the attack of grippe which he suffered six weeks ago, according to his physician, Dr. J.F. Patterson. The Senator had been able to leave his room and walk about the house for several days, but Friday he was strong enough to take a short ride out in the country.
--Fonz Buchanan was lodged in the Mitchell County jail at Bakersville, where his brother, Grady Buchanan, has been held for the past two weeks, and both are charged with being implicated in the alleged killing and cremating of the body of B.L. Hearsell, wealthy New York clubman, who disappeared in the Pigeon Roost section near the Tennessee line in March 1921.
--Ralph D. Debruler, manager of the Broadway Theatre at Charlotte, was convicted of violating the State child labor law, and Claude Lee, manager of the Imperial Theatre, was acquitted of a similar charge when their cases were heard before Judge Wade H. Williams in Recorder’s court. Both men were charged with employing boys under 16 years of age in their moving picture houses.
--Police and city officials of Raleigh concluded a fruitless and exhaustive search of more than a week for the body of an infant alleged to have been seen in a sewer in the Southeastern section of the city. The entire sewerage system of the city was searched from the point where the body was said to have been seen to the outlet of the drainage system. The body was alleged to have been seen Tuesday, February 26th.
--Viola Morgan of High Point is plaintiff in a $25,000 suit against the city of High Point, coming up in Guilford Superior Court. She is asking damages for the death of her little boy, who fell off a bridge over a small stream in High Point in June, 1920, and was drowned, contending that the city was negligent in not having a railing on the bridge. She was with the boy when he was drowned.
---Nearly 3,000 people greeted William Jennings Bryan in Tarboro Friday night when he spoke in the interest of the Tarboro Kiwanis educational fund. The Commoner was met in Rocky Mount by a large body of Tarboro Kiwanians who were guests at a luncheon given to Mr. Bryan and his party by the Kiwanians of Rocky Mount. The party was then escorted to Tarboro over the new hard-surface road by a convoy of about 20 cars.
--18-year-old Richard Earnest Tomlinson and Miss Edna Eatman, both from near Wilson, have found to their sorrow that the course of true love has many curious turns and twists—in fact it has placed them in the custody of Sheriff O.A. Glover within two short days after the tying of the nuptial knot in Dillon, S.C.—where no questions are asked and no divorces are granted. The couple were married without parental consent.
--Mack Lippford, Gastonia jitney driver, was held without bond by the coroner’s jury for further investigation into the death of Mamia Turner Carrigan, who it is believed died of poisoned whiskey sold her by Lippford. When members of the family found the Carrigan girl dead, she appeared to have died in great agony, her clothing being torn and there being evidence that she probably died in convulsion. [An earlier story spelled her last name as Corrigan.]
--The announcement of a gift of $65,000 to Shaw University from the General Education Board to be used in renovating the old medical building and equipping it for an up-to-date science building was made in chapel Monday by Dr. J.L. Peacock, president of the institution. When the work is completed, Dr. Peacock said, Shaw University will have as fine a science department as any institution of its size in the State. Plans for the renovation were drawn by Architect H.P.S. Keller of Raleigh.
--George W. Chambers of Matthews, who was shot Wednesday by Doe Kluttz, to rob the United States mails, died at a local hospital. Mr. Chambers, a well-to-do farmer of the Matthews section, had been carrying the rural mails in his locality for 18 years. According to an account of the shooting which he gave before his death, he was met on the old Punta Road by Doe Kluttz, who asked him for some stamps and then shot him.
--J.F. Ray and B. Toler, white, were fatally injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by Atlantic Coast Line train No. 83 at Renert near Rocky Mount. Ray, who was a telegraph operator in the employment of the Coast Line at Rennert, was killed instantly, while Toler, who is said to have been an elderly man and father of W.J. Toler, another Coast Line operator, died shortly after the members of the crew from the train which struck his machine reached him.
--Upon the advice of his physician, D. Rich of Winston-Salem has resigned as treasurer and member of the board of directors of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco company, effective March 15. Mr. Rich has been associated with the company for about 38 years. Recently, he and Mrs. Rich subscribed $125,000 toward the erection of a $400,000 plant for the First Baptist church. No announcement has been made as to who will succeed Mr. Rich as treasurer of the great manufacturing concern.
--Carelessness will cost a Wilson jeweler $500. A few days ago a lady entered the jeweler’s shop and left a diamond which she desired to be remounted. The stone was placed in a ring box and placed aside. Shortly after Zeb Covington, a former Wilson barber but now of Fayetteville, entered the store and after selling his watch asked for and was given a box in which he stated he desired to mail a ring. The salesman knew nothing about the diamond transaction, picked up the box containing the precious stone, and gave it to the barber, who has disappeared.
--Ed Warren, a discharged soldier, was shot and instantly killed in Fayetteville by is father-in-law for nonsupport of the farmer’s wife.
--Joel Levy, a Croatan Indian and alleged bootlegger, is held in Fayetteville charged with the killing of a prohibition officer who was guarding a quantity of liquor in the woods nearby.
--John W. Judge, master printer and business man of Fayetteville died at his home on Gillespie street. Mr. Judge’s death was the result of an illness of a week’s duration, which was the culmination of two years of ill health.
--An open fireplace, unprotected by a fender, was the cause of the death of 7-year-old Evelyn Dawson, an Ayden child whose dress was ignited while she stood too close to the blaze.
--Max Wagger, Randleman merchant, shot himself through the heart Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Wagger had been in ill health for a number of years and this is thought to have been the cause of the suicide. Mr. Wagger called his brother, J.D. Wagger of Asheboro, over the telephone shortly before 2 o’clock. “I am going away,” he said. “I want you to be a father to my children.”
--Walter Akers, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Akers, the former chief engineer of maintenance and construction for the Southern Railroad lines east, died in Charlotte of rabies, the result of being bitten by a mad dog which ran amuck on February 6 and bit five persons. None of the others has developed the disease, it is stated.
From page 5 of the Elizabeth City Independent, March 2, 1923
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