Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-28
STEVE JACOBS CAPTURED.
The Crime for hich lie Was Sentenced
Various News Notes from North
FuraIfua.
rsreclal ,elegram % the Dlspstca.


DurlGH. n. C.. December 27.-Steve
Jacobs. the Croaian Indian outlaw and
murderer, who escaped some months ago
from the Robson county jail. WAS re-
capturtd Christmas evening IN the Scuiiie-
town section Of Robson county bv party
of Young men from NaXt0n. jacobsls under
sentence If death for firing into house
and killing Alrs. carp. q white woman
AGAINST whose son he had q CIudgc. lie
and another prisoner escaped from jail 10y
aftarking and severely wouudug the son
OF the laiior and another boy who Was IA
the ia with BIN. Jacobs was terror IN
hccomWuuityIn which ne lived. and hiSre-
uuucarancc on the scorc Of ms exploits
time after time proves him 20 bc rs bold "a
ne was dangerous he was the head OF a
gang which had he not been capturt Il and
convicted. would doubtless have followed
IN the foot~tepsOi the Henry Perry IOWerY
gang. the noted dcspcradoos who twenty
wears ago ovcrrun the same section, COM
uniting murders and pcrpetratng daring
robhencs. Jacobs and several Of his fol-
lowers We're sons Of the Lowcry gang.
Last night at GO dsboro' some person
throw q -ky-rocket from the balcony Of the
hotel TO the ground u front 1t exploited
among some hOys, hurting two seriously
little son of I. J. hagc. 81. aud COLI
ored boy named William Manuel. The lat
ter, il is thought, is fatally wounded III the
face.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
II Is learned that there was an accident
on the North Carolina railway this morn
ing near burlington. 4 freight tram was
dornicd on an emhankment and there was
q lad wreck one man Is reported killed.
II ia reported that the Norfolk ana Caro-
Ina raiirold-brIdge near Iarboro' - giving
trouble. After the cross-tie, and iron were
placed on The bridge tncy caused II 20 sae.
News has been received of the death at
Kings Mountain of Rev. Joseph Wheeler,
who for over thirty wears he'd been an
# neraut Methodist minister. For the past
two vcara he had been al Fayetteville, but
i'm con sequence of declining health was su-
pcranuuated by the las: sess.OnOf the Con-
tcrcuce.
The police Of Salisbury are in search of
james Henderson, who is wanted Tor the
murder of another negro named DopGias
Holt. They QuarTellcl about some whiskey
AT festival, and Henderson deliberately
shot Holt.
Rev. George ". Duke has taken charge
OF the Baptist church at Nashville.
Thieves and inccndaues have been
causing the people OF Iron station much
alarm. John LontZ (colored) IS IN Jall,
charged with being one Of tholncendlarles.
VERY BLUE.
The Republican officials are very blue rs
10 tho effect the new order Of the COmmis-
eioner OF Internal Revenue with regard 20
the prodD 81 whiskry distillcries. The
p8rtys chances are poor IN North Carolina
any way Du. this order has made them
worse The charge is made That It Is the
intention Of Tire Government 60 drive the
southern distlllcrs out of business. and
that tins is done in Che interest OF the great
whisboy ring of Kentucky.
The newspapers have lost so heavily by
reason of the credit system that several of
them announce that with the new year
they VIII bc.in the cash plan.
There is the beginning of movement III
TINS S;a,e for the separation of the white
and colored people on the trains. There
is now no dividing line On the trains or IN
the stations
The acreage seeded in wheat and oats IN
the Piedmont section is larger this season
than last
1heHctroes at Statosyille were very dis
ORDERLY on Christmas dav. For three hours
they filed the punlic square. q howhng,
cufsing fighting mob. It's said that there
was never before such an orgy IA the state,
and that L showed how wild the negro IS
under a thin garment Of civilization.