The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-14

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nameSof Warren in Alexander county
y Elk by cutting an artery in his leg
with a knife. They were quarrelling
abcp~Ien dollars that one claimed of the
othFf. and me rows resulted as 80 We
stated.
Salisbury WatchmGn: Joe McCooper,
a one legged negro, who was sent to the
p~enitentiary for several years from Char
lotte last spring, has escaped and is in
this reighborhood. He has been seen
several times and off GERS Pool and Bar
ringer came very near taking him in the
other day.
Near A~ulander, BERTHE county, on the
night of the 4th, a terrible murder oc-
Cured. Mr.. Neb. Atkins and his mother
both had their brains knocked out in their
own house. The house was robbed and
fred. One member Of the family fed to
a neighbours and help came in time to save
the house.
Greensboro Workman Engineer Mat.
johnson, Of the Jonesville and Nash
vile Rrilroad, formerly of the Cape Fear
& Yadkin Valley Railroad, was killed in
a collision some days since, and lis re-
mains passed this place to-day on the way
to Fayette, i lie, the old h me of the de-
ceased, for interment.
Durham Globe: A white man named
Willie Crabtree, charged with stealing
forty dollars from Capt. Jim May, was
arrested to-day. He had t~wenty-nine
dollars of the money with him, and ad-
mitted that he had spent some of it. His
defence is that Capt. May gave him the
money to keep for him.
Willard Kerley, a young man about 10
years of age, and a son of S. G.. Kerley of
Johns River, became derange1 on Tues
day night and was COY fined in the Western
Asylum at Morganton. About six weeks
ago his ia her, for the first time obsel we'd
indications Of mental unsoundness in the
boY,-Salis6uTy Banner.
Roxboro Courier Our farmers we learn
are about through cutting tobacco, and the
opinion generally is this crop is the finest
ever raised in Person county. We
learn that w. H. Jones and K. G. Gun
ingham, both colored, will start a paper
in Roxboro in a few weeks, for the ben
eft of the colored people.
Durham San Charlie Henry, conduc-
tor on the D. & N. freight, happened tc
a very painful accident this morning. He
was standing in the car as the train was
passing through a pine thicket near AK
ms Cross Roads, a few miles below Ben
cham, when a rock was thrown into the
car striking him on the back of the heard
TIE Newton band, which has une,
qualIed reputation in North Carolina fol
its fine music and military bearing, ha;
been engaged to furnish music for the
State Fair, week after next. We predict
that our boys will make the Capitol city
proud of their choice before they are
there many hours, says the Newton En-
terprise.
Red Springs Scottish Chief: On last
Saturday, neal Wilkesville, on the line Of
the w. V. & W. Railway, we saw a pine
tree fifteen feet in circumference tina
would probably make a stick of timber
24x24 inches, so feet long. There
are fourteen prisoners in the Lumbertor
jail, awaiting the action of next week.
Superior Court.
High Point Enterprise: Mr.. J. R
Morris, a farmer living FIVE miles from
here, in the neighborhood Of Zion church
at the beginning of the season, boughr
four acres Of land, for which he paic
5000. He put two acres of it in tobacco
and from the crop has already realized
1912, and has FIVE barns yet to sell, which
will bring him 500.
Murphy Scout: Gen. Edward No
Grady, Of Charleston, S. G., attorney fo
the Cherokee Iron and Marble company
while here exhibited a 81 ecimen of thu
black marble taken from their I: operty
which is only three miles from Murphy
that was highly polished, and pronounced
by experts to be ahead Of everything ye
found in this county.
Gertrude, the little daughter Of Mr.. "
H. Herring, late of this place, who nov
lives with her mother at Laurinburg
Richmond county, had a narrow escape
a few days ago, from death by burning
She and other children were playing wit
fire when her clothing wa ignited an,
very nearly all burned off her, says tn
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