The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-18
LATEST NEWS NOTES.


Else whers.
Robt. b. Crow, of Raleigh, died in
Asheboro Tuesday.
The widow of the late President
Tyler died in Richmond, Va, last
Thursday.
Slight earthquake shocks were
felt in South Carolina and California
last week
Rey.C. S. Farris hls accepted the
chair of languages in High Point Fee
male College.
Gov. Lowry, of Miss, will prosecute
Sullivan and Kilrain for engaging in
a fight in his State.
Kilrain has gone to Canada and
has photographed his wife to send him
So, 900 to Toronto. E'e%
Col. L. C. Jones, Sup't of the Caro-
limo Central railroad, died in Will
mington last Friday. =
Ex-Congressman Horr, of Mich,
says the president insulted him by
appointing him consul to Valparaiso.
The Richmond, and Danyille rail-.
road has nearly completed laying
new steel rails from Raleigh to Selma.
Roht Hancock has been made col
lectOr of Customs for the district of
Pamlico, with headquarters at New
bern.
VIM. Wellington was hanged in
Charlotte last Thursday for the MUIR,
der of a policeman at Monroe last
/ year.
Martin Love, a negro, raped a
young white girl near Tunnel Hill,
Ga. He was hanged by mob the
same day. Il
D. Reid Upchurch, for many years
deputy clerk of the Superior court at
Raleigh, died at the insane asylum
last Friday.
Mr.. C. A, Webb, who recently grad,
uated from the University of North
Carolina, has been elected to a college
chair in Tennessee.
Burke, one of the suspected princi-
pals in the assassination of DR.. Gro
min, of Chicago, will be extradited.
He is now in Canada.
A.. j. Morrill,, of Onslow county,
died at his home very suddenly, in
his seventy-frst year. He was man
of prominence in the county.
Bill Hester alias Bill Greenshaw,
negro, is under arrest at Norfolk, Va,
charged with a murder committed at
High Point three months ago.
Prof. Ralph Graves, who while in
sane, attempted to commit suicide,
died at the asylum in Raleigh last
week. He was buried at Chapel Hill.
A member of the Reidsville military
company shot negro barber who
attempted ia 'scarve" him with a ra-
zor at Goldsboro. Wound not fatal.
The representatives of the Weldon
Fair Association have offered to give
one days gate receipts at the next
fair towards the fund for building
soldiers home.
DR.. ]. H. Monroe, of Durham, has
been elected principal of the Medical
School at Davidson College in place
of DR.. Barringer, who goes to the
University of Virginia.
Hon. John Nichols, ex-Congress-
man from the Raleigh district, has
been appointed Chief of the Mails and
Files Division in the treasury depart
ment at Washington. The office pays
about 81, 800 year.
The Raleigh Methodist Episcopal
District Conference will be held in Ok
ford Thursday, July 25th. Rev. j.
III. Gordon, of Raleigh, will preach
the opening sermon Thursday at IL
A. NJ. Bishop A. Wv .lson is expec-
ted to be present and preside.
Swan Bures, a negro charged with
the murder of young white man
named Whitehurst, was lynched at
Luka, Miss, by mob of 100 men,
who forced the jailer to give up his
keys and took Bures a short distance
away and hanged him to a tree.
E. C. Jordan, we'll known through
out the United States as the proprie-
tor of the Jordan White Sulphur
Springs. was bitten in the hand by a
pet squirrel two months ago and
set in. His arm was
amputated Friday, and he died Mon
day.
A movement is on foot, backed by
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railroad Company, to build road
from Fayetteville to Albemarle. This
line would open up one of the finest
timbered sections of the State, and
there is good prospect of the road
being built.
The entire State is being billed for
the grand firemen's tournament
which is to be held in Raleigh August
the 18th and 14th. There will be en-
CINE conte SITS, reel-racing, and horse
hose-carriage racing, with other at
The railroad rates will be
lower than ever before.
Mellow the murderer af Capt. Daw-
son, of Charleston, S. c., has been at
to renew his intimacy with
the Swiss maid, and Mrs. Dawson had |
to ask the protection of the police.
The feeling against Mellow is grow
itg-to be SO intense that unless he |
mends ways, it is believed he will be
to leave Charleston.
The Foot-Washing Baptists had
time of it in Mecklenburg county.
The whole congregation went down
to a creek, and the ancient rite OF
the feet was performed. The
brethren and sisters washed each
others feet in the stream, and there
was singing and praying while thi
went on. This congregation wa
four years ago, and is now