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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1913
Page
4
The Monroe Journal reports on a shooting incident involving a local officer, amid a century of coverage and farmer notes. The piece includes market chatter on tobacco, cotton, and cattle, highlighting crop choices, prices, and community plans ahead of early November work days.
Sunday gun battle near McBee Chesterfield County South Carolina leaves Sheriff Douglas and Deputy Abbott wounded while James Davis, an armed black desperado, dies in a burned house after a siege aided by his wife. King is mortally wounded. Davis’ wife eludes capture. King had been living in the area as a magistrate constable with a wife and children.
The Diegs sed Caminett case in San Francisco held that transporting a woman between states for immoral aims violated the law regardless of the woman’s character or knowledge of the trip. A Kansas federal judge recently split, saying the law applies only if the travel involves commercialized vice. The Supreme Court must resolve the conflict.
Monroe resident James A. Griffin testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured his back pain and night-time urination issues after trying them from English Drug Co. The ad claims strong community proof and urges readers to buy Doan's for 50 cents, with Foster Milburn Co. as U.S. agents in Buffalo.
In Beverly, Massachusetts, Mia Shaw becomes history’s first woman delegate to a state political convention. Daughter of Charles S. Bird, she won the Progressive primary vote from her ward, running on a platform tied to the Woman’s Progressive movement.
A Black man identified as WII Davis killed Tom Hodges and wounded Will Maxwell and Tom Rushing on the Rushing farm ten miles north of Franklin. Rushing died after the shooting while attempting to arrest Davis. Davis was captured by a posse and hanged to a tree.
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