Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-20
DID NOT COME.
WHY p0cKERY FAILED TO KEEP HIS
APPOINTMENT.
Sad Accident Thrown from Carriage and
Killed--A Republican Squirt
Suicide.
Npoc,a, telegram to tho Dlspaich.l

Especial telegram to tho Dlspstch.l
RALEIGH, n. c., September 19.-Yes-
terIay Colonel Dockery had on appoint
ment in Joint canvass with Judge fowle
at Hickory. but was not present. Rumor
is current here to-day that Dockery mar
rowly escaped drowning yesterday, and
that this caused him to fail TO meet
Fowle. He attempted TO cross swollen
stream, it is said.
John l.. Holmes, native OF Whining
ton and Appointment man, was killed yes
terday by being thrown from a carriage
in Folk county. The horses ran away
with the carriage in which were Holmes
and his daughter. Holmes was Instant
" killed, but bis daughter was only
slightly hurt. Holmes was sixty-iive
years old, and had for seven years re-
sided i'll Polk county.
A maddog was shot here on the street
ty-day, and was not killed until some
| twenty shots had been fired.
The Republicans are very hard at work
at their headquarters to-day. They are
sending out all kinds Of literature, and
seem TO he making regular sport.
The weather was brighter to-day and
! tonight there are signs OF the end OF the
! long spell Of bad weather
As much cotton came into-day as had
been received during the entire week
/ previous.
The cotton grades very low. Esti-
mates from 100 correspondents in this
| State and South Carolina put the damage
done in the past eighteen days at % per
cent. In other words, the crop Is to-
day only three quarters Of what 1t was
when September came in. Some replies
/ show 80 per cent. loss.
/ There was a very tragic occurrence a
mile from this city this afternoon. As
q passenger train was running at high
/ speed on its way to Goldsboro' the en-
| ginoer saw negro woman standing
within a few feet Of the track but ont
| Of all danger. When the train WAS
/ within ten feet Of her the woman sprang
right in front of the engine, and
| in an instant was crushed to death.
| Her chest was crushed and her legsnear-
! " cut of. The scene of the accident
was on a high embankment in the midst
of farm worked by conyicts, and the
latter as well many other persons
were witnesses of the suicide. The
/ engineer was almost overcome by
| the shock, but made report
of the particulars. The woman's body
was brought to the depot here, and at
] least 1000 person looked at 1t. The
/ strangest thing is that up to this hour no
one has recognized the woman, although
/ It WAS at first claimed that her name was
Harriet Bobbit. She was Of middle age
aud plainly dressed.
A special telegram from Grand Repro
sentative G. e. Edwards, who is attend
inc the Sovereign Grand Lodge Of Odd
/ Fellows. IN session at Los Angeles, Cal.
states that last evening Charles NJ. Bus
/ bee. of this city, was elected deputy
grand sire, which is next to the highest
/ Office in the Gift Of that great order
This election greatly gratifies the order
/ in North Carolina, for Busbeo has for
/ twenty years been q prominent Odd
/ Fellow. and has held every Office in the
gift Of the Grand Lodge OF this state.
/ It is stated that some of the fever TO-
/ fugees who went to HeLdersonvllle scat
tered themselves through the adjacent
/ country and that several were or are
sick. 1t does not appear that there IS
any such alarm in that section as news
paper reports have led people to believe.
A case Of fever is reported at Burgaw,
in Pender county. The patient, whose
| name is Anderson, came from jackson
Vile, and is now reported to be cOnva-
( lescent 1t would appear that the case
was not discovered until Monday. Ii Is
a wonder that the discovery did not
/ create a stampede in that section.
In the Elat-river section OF Granville
county, rs John Harris and his little son
we're riding on wagon on top OF load
OF wood, the boy, whose age was five
wears, fell of. The wheels passed over
him and he was instantly crushed to
/ death.
The statement has been made that
! Adjutant-G General Johnstone Jones, OF
Asheyille, had come out us Ihird-party
man. 1t was an error, and was due to
/ a mistake OF the types, II now appears.
IN Chowan county Benjamin Calling,
I being tired of life, struck II match and
/ touched Oft his pistol and a quantity of
powder. A ball from the pistol passed
entirely through his body, causing IN
slant death.
The loss of the crops along some
eighty miles of the Cape Fear river is es-
+ timated to be two thirds Of the whole.
/ This appears to be a careful calculation.
+ The river has fallen twenty-eight feet at
Fayetteville, but is yet twenty feet
/ above low water mark.
The loss in the lowlands along the
! Yadbin river has been heavy. The esti-
/ mate is made thaton all the large streams
/ fully half the lowland crops are an abso-
/ lutte loss.
Thirty Cherokee Indians have been
secured to play the "ball game, as it
/ is called, at the State Fair In 1872
these Indians played the game here at
fair in the presence Of ten thousand
| people.
The Durham Tobacco Exposition is to
he held in Parrish's large new tobacco
warehouse.
At Princeton. Johnston county, Ste
phcn Howell killed William Lane by
striking repeated blows on his head
with a club. Both parties are white.
/ Howell first attacked one Bridgers, when
/ Lane interfered and Bridgers escaped.
Howell at once turned upon Lane and
crushed his skull, striking him several
heavy blows rs be lay unconscious
Howell has fled. The murder occurred
III bar-room, though all the parties
were sober. Lane Is resident OF
Wayne county.
CRARLOITE
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