The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-03-22
PRICE 5 CENTS.
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
PERSONS AND THINGS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CAROLINA


Interesting Items Gathered From The
SentineFs Exchanges, and Boiled Down
for It's Busy Readers.
The Game, Fish and Oyster Fair at
Few Berne was a fine success.
North Carolina asks the general
government for five public buildings
to cost s625, 700.
The friends of local option in Raj
eish, Goldsboro, Statesville and other
places are preparing for the contest in
June.
The plague of meningitis is playing
sad havoc with the children on the Ca
tawba river in the vicinity of the Tri-
ans le and Denver in Lincoln county.
Hon. S. E. Williams, of Lexington,
n, c., and Rev. j. l.. Murphy, of
Maiden, will deliversthe addresses be-
fore the Philomathean and Nevin So
cieties of Catawba College, at Newton,
at the annual commencement in May.
A fire at HilIsboro last Friday de-
stroyed about dozen buildings, all
of wood. Only one bat,room was
spared. The loss is roughly estimated
at $4,000, with only 5000 insurance.
The buildings were-old, and were on
the Courthouse square. :.
The daily papers Of the stale last
week received news from Boston by
cable to Europe, thence by another
cable back to New York and from
there by the regular lines here. The
wires between New York and Boston
were all down.
Our tewnsman, John Berry Wat
son, is manufacturing large quanti-
ty of brooms and shipping them to
towns all through the South. He al
so manufactures hair, sea grass, cotton
and shuck mattresses. 1t is first class
work.-Sa,isbury Herald.
From an editorial in the Danville
Register it appears that there are lead
ing citizens of Norfolk who are in
favor of moving their town into North
Carolina-that is, to get the State
line SO changed as to have Norfolk
and Portsmouth part of North Car
olina.
Mrs Philip Kale, of Catarba town
| ship, presented her husband one day
last week three babies, two boys and
one girl. They were snall but per-
fectly developed and apparently
healthy. At last account both the
mother and all the children were do
ing well.-Ne1ctom Enterprise.
The Wadesboro Brown Stone Quar-
ry is on a boom. The company is now
filling an order for the Maryland
State House at Annapolis, which
requires solid blocks Of brown" Stone
1Ox14 feet and 10 inches thick, and
weighing about IA tons each. Special
cars have been improvised fer the
transportation of these blocks. Each
block is worth about $500.
Mrs. James Tingen attempted sui.
eide at Durham last week. Her mai
den name was Hattie Jordan, and
some weeks ago she eloped with James
Tingen, young man of South Bos-
ton, where they went. Tingen desert
ed her. She returned to the house OF
her father at Durham, and refused tc
speak word about the affair save
that she was married. Last Thursday
it became plain that her mind was af.
fected, and she was watched. She took
laudanum night or 50 ago, eludine
her watcher. She was delirious after
the effects of the laudanum had passed
away, and made most terrible threat:
against Tingen. She became rational
and told the true story of her elope
ment with Tingen. They left the Sal
vation Army one night, her parent:
opposing the match. She wanted tC
turn back, but Tingen, with revolver
at her head, tolt her If she tried to es
cape he would kill her. Finally Tin
gen left and never returned. The wo
man is only nineteen years old and il
pretty. Tingen is only twenty years
old Last September while in custod,
of the police at Durham he shot him
self in an attempt to commit suicide t.
evade punishment. The ball entered
his neck, and il was thought death wa
certain. The bullet was never extrac
ted No tidings Of ringen con be dis
covered.
THE MAIDEN RETIRES.