The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-12

IIIdLA WHO was drunk In the guard
house. When the man got sober the
next day he was Telea- ed, ana IN the
afternoon, while the little boys were
firing crackers, the drunken man put
a dynamite cartridge under Mr.. Tate's
Office, and when it exploded Mr.. Tate
was seriously injured and died on the
same night.
Friday afternoon, Capt. GaorgA
Welsh, conductor on the Carolina
Central road, was shot at by a drunken
white passenger and barely escaped
unhurt. The man was drunk and
disOrde rly on the train. Capt. Welsh
and another gentleman put him off,
when he drew his pistol and fired
twice at them. The balls graZed Capt.
Welsh's head. His a~ssallant, the Char
lotte Chronicle says, was arrested and
taken to Monroe and jailed.
Winston Sentinel: A citizen Of
Martinsville, V, brought the news to
Winston today Of the failure at that
place Saturday of Mr.. J, 7. Read,
dealer in general merchandise, Mr.. r,
A. HaymOre was made trustee, while
the preferred creditors are Messrs. J
H. Matthews and W. r. Matthews and
w. r. Num-. The same gentleman
says that Evangelist Fife began his
meeting IN Martlnsville yesterday. He
preached twice to large cOngregatins.
A sensation has been created this
week at the Catawba gold mine, by
the abduction of Mrs. Hattie Brown.
1t appears that a prominent young
man living near this place is connected
with the affair, taking an active part
either IN his Own Interest or acting as
agent for some friend Mr.. Redfr)w,
the step father of the stolen lady, is
greatly enTaged against the perpe-
TRAITORS and is looking up the law and
evidence to prosecute the k~idnappers.
Winston Sentinel: 1t is semi off
cially stated the effort TO organize Il
strong stock company to manufacture
Cigarets in opposition to the American
Tobacco Company has been crowned
with success and a charter will be
asked for within the next few days.
The company, it is said, is composed of
capitalists In the tobacco market of
Virginia and North Carolina. 1t is
also stated that some Of WinstOn's
capitalists will be interested IN the
enterprise.
StanIy New8: Died on last Thursday
night, near Silver. Ferdinan Foreman,
of paralysis. Mr.. Foreman is a we'll
known citizen of Stanley, and was
about so years Of age. - It is with
sorrow that we chronicle the death Of
our esteemed friend, Mr.. NJ. A Under
wood. He was a well known friend to
many of the people of this ami Of other
counties. While an edit0rh he held rank
with the best Of the State. He died III
Montgomery county, OF consumption,
last Saturday.
4 remarkable case of restitution and
suffering has just been reported IN the
western portion of Halifax county. OF
a family of ten persons only four are
able to do work of any kind. The
mother has been an invalid for four
teen years, the eldest daughter is deaf,
dumb and idiotic besides being bed
ridden. Three other children are deaf,
dumb and idiOtic, and only the three
younger are able to do any work. The
father works a small farm with one
OK, and made nothing this year. Steps
have been taken tOglVe them necessary
relief.
New Berne Journal: Geo. Best col
Ored, who lives one and a half miles
from Dover Station, was brought to
the city last night unier suspicion of
having murdered his wife by poison,
which from the symptoms is supposed
to have been Rough on Rats" and is
thought to have been mixed with the
flour used in cooking Mondays dinner,
from which meal Best abSented himself,
and after partaking of which his family
consisting of his wife Rachel and two
children, were taken violently Ill, the
wife dying Tuesday night and the
eldest child still being Ill II critical con-
ditiOn.
Greenville Reflector: On Monday
night of last week two barns on the
farm of Mr.. G.. F. Evans, four miles
above town, were set On fire and
burned to the ground. The barns we're
filed with corn and p~rOvender, and all
was lost. Mr.. Evans has been living
in Greenville the last two months and
was surprised when information of the
burning reached him, not knowing that
he had an enemy. The burning very
much excited the community in which
it occurred. Suspicion rested upon
some cOlOred men living on the planta-
ton, but no warrants were taken out
for their arrest. Wednesday night
another barn on the same farm, con
tanning the crop housed by a cOlOred
tenant, was set on fire and burned
down
Another horrible wreck occurred on
the Murphy branch of the Western
North Carolina Railroad Tuesday.
While a freight train was making It's
way to Murphy, the engine became
detached on d heavy grade about forty
miles south of AsheviIle. The mOmen-
tum it gained in flying down the noun
tain grades soon caused it to become
unmanageable, and the engineer sat in
his cab utterly powerless to do any
thing. He reversed tie steam, and
put on the brakes, which locked the
great drivers and made them motion
less, but still the massive weight of
the engine made it slide down the iron
track with a velocity seldom ever