Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-27
AN AWFUL CALAMITY
TIE BROCK FAMILY VICTIMS Of
TvphO-MAlARlAL FEVER.
,surlerer Dostick's Attempt to Escape
Foiicd-Baptiss Mission Convsnt'o" o.
Gotdsboro'-AIi About Third Party.
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Ramon, N. c.. August 26.-News come
from Duplin county today OF severe ca
lamity. Typho-malarial fever attacked
tho family of Horace Brock. He died
Saturday, one child died yesterday. to-day
his wife died, and tho five children re-
naming are at the point OF death.
Last night Ben Bostick (colored). the
murderer Of Jerome Currie, who Is In
Moore county Jail under sentence to be
hanged September S0th. secured me-
wrench. and chisel from negro woman
and fled the ahackels which fastened him
TO the floor.
HIS PLANS BETRAYYD.
He was about to leave the JAIL ana re-
lease the other prisoners, but young PR
soncr BETRAYED his plans. The informer
was promptly pardoned.
rRTsrLr SWIFT AWAY.
Early this morning three hundred feet
Of q .restle on the Raleigh and Augusta
Airline across the Little river near Aper-
deem, Moore county, was swept away.
Trains on the line arc delayed, as transfers
have TO be made at the break. which Is
about three hundred feet long.
Cape Fear river Is tonight thirty ieet
above low-wster mark, and rising rapidly
srMI-cTyTESSIAI.
State-Auditor sanderlin lief, to-day for
Shelby. where tomorrow there begins
two days celebration OF the seml-centen-
NAL OF the formation of Cleveland county.
The State Board of Public Charities met
here To-Day Reports made TO u Ivy Secre-
tary q. b. benson show that he mas otgail-
lied this summer local boards III sixty
eight counties.
sTATE CONVENTION CHANGED.
The Baptist State Board Of Missions met
here to-day and changed the place OF
meeting of the Baptist State Convention
from the tabernacle church at Raleigh to
Goldsboro'. This was done because that
church is not finished and 10y reason Of the
Southern Exposition and Its great crowds.
Next wear there will be celebrated here
the centennial Of the Baptist missionary
work in North Carolina.
The trustees Of the newly-created Color
cd State Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lcgc met here to-day aad received PROPOSE
tiOns from Durham, Winston, Wllnington,
Greensboro, and Raleigh as 20 location.
No decision was made. One will probably
be made TINS week.
eTRicKgS WITH pARALysIs.
News was received to-day that X. /.
Coyington, editor of the Red Springs
TurDer aud Scotist Chiif, has had IN attac X
Of paralysis. He is forty years OLD.
A special from Iarboro' says Allen Jor-
dan. u negro. after quarrel with Alexan-
der Hines (coloredl, shot at the latter but
missed him and hit two men-Drew Bui-
lock and James Best-killing the latter.
AGAINST THIRD PARTY.
l.. l.. Polk, the Alliance president, and
J. c. Scarborough. Labor Commissioner,
who have been reported as at va
rance. had long talk yesterday at
the State Alliance headquarters here.
They spoke Of the much-l alk0d-of
matter Of the election OF the presi-
dent Of the State Alliance and then spoke
of the third party. Scarborough declared
in the most positive terms that he was first
of all Democrat and an Alliance man
afterwards. and that lie would never go IN
the third party. Come what may, he as
serted that he would have nothing whatevor
TO do with it. 1t appears from the tenor OF
these assertions that the most strenuous
efforts are being made to boom" the
third party.
THINKS IT MAY DE- FORMED.
Logan Harris, one of the most active
Republicans here. was asked what bis
people thought OF tho third party. He
said that it would be formed. no believed,
and that it would capture the votes of the
negro Alliance men, who number above
20, 900, he asserts. aud would also capture
many white Republican votes. The white
Republicans would be only too happy TO
DO anything to defeat their old and
triumphant adversary. the grand old
Democratic party. The white Republi.
cans entering the new party would find
their associations more pleasant.
..
The large cartoon on the first page OF
this weeks Progressive Farmer is regarded
here as the strongest sort Of an endorse
ment Of the new party--the Peoples
party by that paper. Colonel Polk,
though no has some very earnest oppo-
nents inside the Alliance. yet has immense
strength within the order. as will be seen.
The newspapers declare that he favOrs the
new party. He will return here Tomorrow.