The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-11-28
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

of every 500 taxes paid in the
South white men pay $91.5O.
MRS. j. B. Robbitt, wife of DIR.
Robbitt, died at DR.. Robbitt's resi-
dence in Raleigh.
Nearly all of the city of Lynn,
Mass, was burned Tuesday. The loss
is ten million dollars.
1t is announced that Col: w. L.
Blackwell will go into the leaf tobac-
co business, and will buy on the Dur
ham market.
The Orphan Asylum cotton fac
tory is a certainty. Work on the
buildings will be- commenced March
LIST and completed by July LIST.
The next annual meeting of the
Association of City Superintendents
will be held in Raleigh. Exercises be-
gin Dec. 26, 1889. On Saturday,
Dec. %, the public meeting of the
Education Club will be held.
"A land company has bought JEFF
ferson Davis wild lands in Arkansas.
With the money that he will get
therefor he will be able to pay of a
$40, 900 debt that has been hanging
heavily on his old age.
William Fore, who killed Amos
Lunsford, on August "a, at camp
meeting, had his trial last week in
Asheville, and on Sunday evening the
Jury returned the verdict, 'Guilty of
murder"
"A bill is to be introduced in the
next Congress for a constitutional
amendment providing for the cleo
ton of postmasters, collectors OF in
ternal revenue and other federal Off
GERS. The bill will be introduced by
Congressman r. p. Flower, of New
York.
Robert Bland, who had made an
assault on Miss Annie Gee, was taken
from the jail of Prince George county
Va, Saturday, and lynched by a mob
of about forty men, The jailer was a
colored man, and refused to the last
to surrender the keys.
"A train robbery of extraordinary
boldness was accomplished in Choc-
taw Nation, Indian Territory. The
Missouri, Kansas and Texas express
train, north bound for st. Louis. was
held up on Pryor creek. near Perry
station, and the express car robbed
of about $4,000.
"A Reidsville special of Thursday
to the Danville Register says: The
ANALYSIS of the stomach of D. E. Nor
ris, deceased, reached here yesterday.
1t is definitely known that it shows
no trace of poison. The circumstance
will go a long ways towards estab-
fishing the innocence of Mrs. Norris.
1t is conceded on all sides that when
the evidence against her is closely
sifted, there is but little in it, and
but few think that there is a posi-
bility of conviction. The analysis
was made by Prof. Mitchell, of David
son College, and is said to have been
very thorough and complete. Her
counsel will make an application in a
day or SO to some judge of the Supe
rior Court for a writ OF habeas cor.
pus, when, it is confidently thought
she will be released on small bail.
| "A horrible murder has just come
to light in Chatham county. Mr.
John A. Horton lived in Chatham
where the counties of Wake, Chatham
and Durham join. Friday night one
week ago Mr.. Horton disappeared
very mysteriously. Hisabsence made
his neighbors apprehensive and they
instituted a-search, keeping it up un
til late Saturday morning when Mr.
Walter Edwards found his body
buried in a, tobacco barn. Mr.. Ed
wards was attracted by pile o
trash and removing it found the
earth newly loosened, and digging
down about one foot found one o
Mr.. Horizons hands. 1t appears
that he was killed in bed while
asleep, his body rolled off on shed
and was then carried in a wheelbar
row to the barn where it was buried
The affair was made known in Dur
ham on Saturday and the police o
that place at once took the matter
in hand. They worked quickly ant
effectively and on Saturday nigh
they arrested the murderer, a mar
named Davis in Danville, Va, wht
confessed the. crime, Davis had beer
working for Horton and killed hin
for his property.