The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

left a rumder of their tools lying about
the place. When Che bank was opened
yesterday morning. the clerks discovered
about four feet Of wall removed, and
brick, mortar, etc, scattered around.
The vault contained $4,000, which was
found undisturbed. The attempted rob-
berry was By experts, and caused a great
sensation in the place.
TOWN PAINTED BLACK.
READIHG, Pa, March 4.-Last night
some miscreants in the town of Wess-
nersville, in the northern part of this
county, armed with huge pots of harness
oil and lampblack, began at the upper end
OF the town, and this morning each front
door had been completely covered with a
coat of the mixture so thick that all the
former besuties-donned at the time of
the oil boom two years sgo-were hidden
from sight. A vigilance committee has
been appointed, and it in turn has en-
plOyed a detective to apprehend the per-
petrators of trick.
This is the first time that any town in
this county has been painted black.
WITH $4,000 TO 500 900 IN CASH.
LOUISVILLE, March 4-Willism H. Pope,
teller of the Louisville City National Bank,
a trusted employee, a man of seeming
good habits, and a freqlenter of the best
social circles of this city, is gone.
His absence at the bank yesterday at
first excited Nd suspicion, as it was sup
posed he was at his sick SISTERS bedside
or in the country, detained by the adod.
When no word was received at 1890
o'clock, President James, Spirtlifr, Vice
President James F. Leroch, and asher
W. S. Parker became suspicious. They
opened the vault, and a hasty examina-
ton showed that somewhere between
$4,000 and 100000 was missing, all in
large bills. Bulky gold and silver coin
and s call bills were left intact. 1t will
require careful examination to state the
entire amount that Pope took with him.
A DUN GIRL WHO HAD GREAT NERVE MEETS
CRISIS TRUE SOUTHERN STYLE.
CHARLOTTE, N. O., March At is
learned here to, night that a negro burglar
and desperate was killed in Sampson
county early yesterday morning by Miss
Alice Kinney, a handsome young woman
Of 10. Miss Kinney lives on a farm with
her mother, and the two are the only ones
who sleep in the big farmhouse. About
3 o'clock yesterday morning Miss Kinney
was awakened by a noise of somebody
moving about the adjoining room. She
guessed at once that there was a burglar
in the house, and for a moment did not
know what to do, but she quickly col
lected herself and drew from under her
pillow a big se]f-acting revolver and hid
it under the bed covering. Then she
heard footsteps approach her room, and
she closed her eyes and pretended to be
asleep. The door opened, and in walked
a man, holding in one hand a shaded
light and in the other a revolver. His
face was heavily masked. Approaching
the bed he gazed at the girl, and, appar-
emily sure that she was asleep, turned to-
ward the bureau, which stood directly in
front of the bed. Miss Kinney arose in
bed quietly, and aiming carefully at the
burglars head fred, but missed him. He
turned toward her with his revolver
raised, and she fred again. This time the
bullet struck him in the breast and passed
through his heart, killing him almost n
stantly. His name was Sam Kerns.