The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-19
FIGHTS AND HAIR.PULLINdS,
Some of the Unpleasant Things the
Papers Tell Us OF.

Some of the Unpleasant Things the
Papers Tell Us OF.
Two thirteen-year.old boys, Charlie
Fletcher and Charlie Novel;, fought
with knives IN Asheville last week.
NOVEL; was seriously wounded, an ar
terry being severed and now the
Fletcher boy is in the lookup.
During the holidays party ofthree
man went to the house Of a widow
! :atiy ame ! alrs Sara. Barker, in
! Union Grove, Ircdell county, ID
! bombarded the residence with roc s.
They then fred into the house and left.
One of the shots struck the widows
son, Abe, in the bowels, producing a
wound from which death resulted
few days .er. The guilty parties
have not "a eoen appreaended.
A Sc, GUS afray occurred yesterday
afternoon at the Charlotte C .tc /
Mills between two operatives, B 1tc-
Bird ana John Perdy, In the ..lssr-
cation Perdy vas stabbed in the back
with kniie in the hands of Bird
The wound was lust under the left
| shoulder blade, and was three inches
deep. DR.. Robert Gibbon was called
to attend the patient and dressed his
!! wound. DIR. Robert Gibbon was call
ed to attend tie patient and dreS>ed
his wound. d. Gi1bon Gays that the
stab is a very serious one. bur the
chances are that Perdy will recover.
,ird made his escape.-Ch Chark'tte
Chronicle.
Douglas Seller, ahc> Revels, (c1l.}
was arrested on sunda night hy i
tiicer Flowers IN cha.,e of al tag
his wife. Fro, what We car Ell
Sellers was ST .iciou u his vie. , Il
returning nom on 3cI lay a.o.t Z
about O'Clock he : .5t III
doc, to his aife's room and ac .,saea-
Ing his wife in the meek Just :oove the
collar bone and near ne jugGiar vein.
Dr.. N,cNeal probed : the 3aT but
was lnab bie u find Thu i,tr there
seen hope 3f she omaas -e.oyery.
Tle Noo,.d IS & ser. IFS one q ID cam
near 5ei, : fatai-1oyetteeiRo O5sc.-o
q.
Two sc'looi @irls, Misses White anu
Crayson, IF Castor, rejoicing in "sweet
sixteen" ard wealth of curls and
love, ha6 q quarrci about young
man which each cla,med rs her idea
Of owe and perfect n. From wora
to piows and hair r'.lling the rams;
tio1 was easy and tie two bean on
the top OF steep hill to fight They
grabbed aad tell, then they began
rolling down the hill with accelerate d
motion, aoiiiDg each other By the
hair and body. Then the school
teacher, Warlick, separated the com
batants at the base of the hill. Soon
| the tall and golden-haired Miss White
| gave her rival kick with her dainty
foot, which struck the short Mis-.
Grayson in the shoulder. Thus ended
the combat of these heroines over .
sweetheart in CASTOR county.-Shetbs
2 | aurora.
At Statesville, last Saturday night
about ten O'Clock, as Mr.. J. Lam
precht Was going home, he passed Col
Y. Ike aId Two Negro, Dave ant
, am hamaour. Inc negroes we,
E cursipg ard abusinr the Colonel a.
: terrible rate, whereupon Mr.. Lam
f precht stepped up and told them +
desist. The negroes then set upol
Mr.. Lamprecht and attacked him il
a savage n1a lner with knives. slashini
and stabbi I'm very seriously befor
he could make his escape. lie ha
since b, en- confined to his bed. tt
9 negroes we're arrested and put ir Al
and Monday night about II o'o cl
: party IF negroes estimated a. II
/, hundred, surrounded the Jail. The
Il shouted and fired off pistols and sal
: that they had come there to guar
5 their friends, as they had heard the
9 were to be lynched. Everything ha
g since quieted down.
We are informed that youn
Il 4 white man by the name Of John Dir
= kins went to negro cabin in Yadkj
: county, last Friday night, while a .'ie'
;. t:5le" was going on and attempted t
!. I'm the thing according to his ow
} taste The negro protested and OF
= dered him out. Flo refused to go an
u u was forcibly elected by ne negrs. :;
: then went home and ct his yc ogr
u brother, Amos and after Armin L
- selves witn pis ols, tley returl'ad ~
70 the intention Of clean ag s1s =
J ranch. Amos entered e hetra, g.
- being determined to avcnge .;.ssl4 :
y the indignities offered his brl ;her, i
} drew his pistol AID shot the negro, th
- shot taking effect in lis forehead an
!. giancing upv ard All off fror. his for
- heaf snd ;nfictin: q seal woun'
~ - and knocking him own. Al i5usuail
u the ease "a such Instance. the le;
failed to penetrate substance hard,
q than itsel.. The negro immediate
:. -. arose an se;zine an axe, proceeded
. 90 the carving for TIE occasion in
+ handsome style. He began by near
severing an arm from Amos ar
- sticking she axe in lis breast to t.
" eye, and finished b. literally cuttil
80 john to pieces. The doctors ha
y some hopes Of saving Amos, but thil
~ that Johns wounds are mortal.
!, much for mixing up with negroes
=, DgUie Times.
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