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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1913
Page
4
Founded in 1594 by present owners and publishers G M and R P Beasley. Published every Tuesday. Annual price set at 81.00. Located at The Journal Building near Tetterson and Beasley Street. Telephone number listed as 13.
The Journal reports little passed legislation while a sharp debate over initiative and referendum raged. Justice's resolution inviting Wilson Bryan and LaFollette to speak drew mixed votes. senate rejection stalled progress. Vice President-elect Marshall urged fairness in tariffs, warning favors erode morals and invite corruption.
South Norwalk Connecticut January 25 a blooded racing greyhound named Meteor owned by Lucian Gray ran to death during a six mile chase alongside a New Haven Railroad locomotive. Gray watched from the Boston express to Stamford as Meteor kept pace then toppled near Darien. A crowd found the dog dead. a preacher quipped to courting parishioners afterward about bait.
Cornelius Lucas, a Cumberland County murderer who disrupted court proceedings and pleaded guilty to second degree murder as sane, drew a 30 year state prison sentence. His brother Alex Lucas, convicted as an accomplice for aiding escape, received one year. The item ends with a moral about wealth and debt.
Winston January 25. Gordon Shutt a wealthy Davidson county farmer 6 years old and unmarried attempted multiple self harm acts after being restrained by his niece Miss Mabel Conrad. He slashed his throat with a knife and later tried to stab himself with a hat pin and choke himself. He was persuaded to bed but repeatedly sought more means to end his life claiming the will he wrote Thursday and denying a love affair drove his mania.
A 200 foot wide torrent roars through the Beulah levee crevasse south of Vicksburg Mississippi. The flood swallows lowlands and crops on fertile plantations. About 1,000 square miles of land face inundation as 1,500 workers including 400 convicts battle to hold the breach. Maj. J A Woodruff oversees the effort and will confer with Col Townsend of the Mississippi River Commission.
A Raleigh visit by Samuel L. Rogers of Franklin promotes his bid for Collector of Internal Revenue while Walter Murphy of Rowan backs H O Osborne of Greensboro for Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Solicitor W. C. Hammer of Aster reportedly stopped in briefly. Lenoir News reports 14 year old Charlie Baker drowned near Mortimer Caldwell County after slipping into a pond during play.
Property for sale within thirty days includes a home on two acres near Monroe with gas lighting, wells, barn and outbuildings, three street fronts, and adjacent business lots. Also offered are eighteen miscellaneous lots, a 140 acre farm near Secrest Short Cut with timber and cultivable land, tenant houses, meadows, and building sites suitable for subdivision. See map in book 44 Register of Deeds.
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