The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-09-19
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings In North Carolina an,
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the successor of Tanner as Commits
| sioner Of Pensions.
Another negro lynched for attempt
ed rape on a young white girl last
Monday, at Bluefeld, Va.
The Cronin murder trial at Chicago
moves slowly on. A jury had not
been obtained yesterday.
Geo. w. Bell, a butcher, was shot
and killed at Asheville last Monday
by John Berry, former employee.
The jury in the case of C. C. Gard
ner, on trial for murder in Wayne
county, has returned a verdict of
guilty. ,-
| Joe Gather, j. NJ Summers and
VIM. L. Sumpter have been appoint
ed storekeepers and guagers for this
(5th) district.
Ex-Commissioner Tanners friends
are still asserting that he will be ap-
| pointed recorder of deeds in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Rev. J. w. Blincoe, one of the most
prominent ministers of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, died
in Ashland, Va, Monday.
A destructivefir fire occurred in Louis
vile Sunday night, causing a loss of
81 100000; number of firemen
were killed by. falling walls.
Grubb is the name of the man who
is looming up as a Republican candi-
date for Governor of New Jersey.
The Republicans all go for Grub.
A little blind girl named Rosa FL
| lis, fell from a window of the Deaf
and Dumb and the Blind Asylum at
| Raleigh, Sunday, and was killed.
A conference of the wing of the
Republican party of Virginia op-
posed to Malone is calling to meet
| in Richmond on the first Of October.
E. G. Haywood, formerly of Raj
eigh, was this week appointed chief
of the judiciary division of the First
Comptroller's Office at Washington.
He is Rad.
Robert S. Terrill, of Massachusetts,,
a negro, has been appointed a chief
of division in the fourth auditors
office by Secretary Window. He has
white ladies under him.
The Governor yesterday committed
to life Imprisonment the death SEN
tence of Henry Winford, convicted
of burglary in Rowan county and
sentenced 10 be hanged October 25th.
The stockholders and directors of
the Atlantic & North Carolina rail-
road, in their meeting at Morehead
last week, elected Mr. W. S. Chadwick,
of Beaufort, President, F. A. Roberts,
Secretary and Treasurer, and e. G..
Clark, Attorney.
The Raleigh papers have suggested
to the Fair authorities to arrange
with the intercollegiate Football
Association to play a series of games
during Fair week within their enclo-
sure. A capital suggestion and
would certainly attract great num-
bers.
A Mormon emigrant train was
wrecked Sunday near Lynchburg, Va.
Two cars. filed with emigrants, plung-
ed into Il swollen stream, one turn
/ ing completely over, and the other
resting in perpendicular position a
number of the migrants were injur
ed, but strange to say, no one was
killed.
| Considerable excitement prevails at
Callers, sixty miles north of Mont
gomery, Ala, over a threatened col
lision of races The trouble grows
out of the discovery of an incendi-
airy letter, written by a negro, which
revealed plot against the whites
and urging the negroes to insurrec-
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at the bottom of the trouble, is being
sought for, and if caught will be
| hung.
Reports that the negroes in New
ton county, Miss, in the neighbour
hood of Decatur, were arming and
organizing have disturbed the whites
of that vicinity to such degree that
they are arming themselves, and
merchants have been unable to sup
| ply the demand for Winchesters
The whites declare that they want no
| trouble, but will be prepared for any
emergency. The negroes acknowl-
edge they have been organizing po-
litically, but deny that they intend
any disturbance.
The popular Cresus of Spain has
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de Urquijo. His executors have paid
into the Spanish treasury succession
duties amounting to SOC, 900 on his
fortune, which exceeded G5, 1000, OOO
This was gained in fifty years. The
owner had begun life as Basque
| village lad and died Senator, gran
dee and ex-mayor of Madrid. He
left 91SO,OOO in requests to chart
ties in his native province, many of
which he founded himself, and &c.,
900 for masses for himself.
One day last week in Rutherford, a
Mr.. Hunt had little misunderstand-
ing with a negro by the name of
Shade, and that night Hunt went to
the house occupied by Shade, pulled
out his pistol and commenced shoot
ing at Shade. Shade didut like SO
one-sided an affair, so he grasped his
gun and attempted fire, but his gun
wouldn't go off, SO he reversed ends
with the gun and crushed Hunts
skull, from which he died Sunday
night. Shade was shot at five times
and hit only once-in the thigh.
Willard Jones, a druggist of Clay
ton, Ind, fatally stabbed the Rev.
Mr. Smith, of the Baptist church OF
that town. Smith had been abusing
the druggists of the town from the
pulpit, and yesterday he and Jones