The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-08-05

The prohibitionists Of Richmond claim
that they will poll more votes in Virginia
than the peoples party. Rev. Sam Jones
VIII be invited TO make speeches for the
temperance ticket.
William VI. Rice went from Massachu-
setts 10 Texas in 1893. He has given the
city of Houston 100000 in cash, 500
in securities and 1900 acres of good Texas
farm land TO found a college.
The Peashorc brick and terra Gotta
works, Opporated by Augustus Reeve,
near Camden, \. J. caved in yesterday
morning. John Ross was caught in the
cave and was crushed to a ielly.
William b. Robbins, attorney and con
veyancer at 729 Walnut street, Philadel-
phia, disappeared yesterday, and it is
alleged that the total sum of discrepancies
in which he is involved aggregate $780,
900.
James A. Brock, a resident of Burnley,
Norfolk county, Va was killed by his wife
yesterday morning while asleep in bed.
The fired a bullet through his
brain, killing him almost instantly. She
has been arrested.
An unknown woman attempted to de-
stroy the residence of c.. d. Irwin, a
wealthy board of trade operator, yester-
n a q at l1ioorn hut uoc Frirht,poI u-o
before she could accomplish the fiendish
design. A large can of high explosives
was found near the house.
William a Bowley, one of the magis-
tratcs Of Snow Hill, Md, has of late been
causing the arrest Of a number of cOlored
people who are living together as man
and wife without a license to marry.
When brought before him he has fOrcibly
reminded them of their offense and given
them the choice of being married or TAX
ing punishment. The result has been
that colored preachers have been doing
quite a thriving business.
At Manchester, a suburb of Richmond,
the other day, the Rev. Moses Wilks,
pastor Of a cOlOred Baptist church, was
struck by lightning in the street, and in
stantly killed. The body was viewed by
the jury and was a shocking sight. The
fatal fluid seemed to have entered on the
left side of the head, burning his whis-
kers then through the chin, thence
down the chest, dreadfully burned
through the left arm, down the left side
into the left leg, thence to the earth.
Mr.. Charles J.. Madison, the father Of
Fanny Lillian Madison, for whose muir
der Thomas Judson Cluverius was hung
after one of the longest and most inter
esting trials in the history Of the state,
died at Richmond, Va, yesterday after a
brief illness. lie was SO years old, and a
quiet, good man, and held in high esteem.
His family has been %singularly unfOrtu,
nate. He lost a bright daughter just
budding into wOmarhood about a year
ago, and had a son drowned this summer.
At the reassembling Of the prohibition
convention at Greensboro, yesterday the
difference Of the previous day were set
tied and the following officers nominated
without feeling For governor, James
Mcpherson Templeton, Wake lIcuten-
ant governor, W. G. Gambler, Buncombe;
attorney. general, + J.. Proctor, Lumber
ton auditor, ID. b. Nelson, Buncombe ;
superintendent public instruction, Il c
Root, Guilford secretary of state, J. W.
Long, Randolph treasurer, J.. b. Bon
ncr, Arson.
Frederick Kayser, an aged, eccentric
andIwealthy miser, of Dayton, O, hanged
himself Yesterday as the result Of a quar-.
rel with his daughter. kayser, though
worth over a quarter Of a million dollars,
| dressed in rags and looked and acted like
a distressed mendicant. For the past
twenty-five years his daily avocation has
been the collection Of garbage and Stops,
which he fed to stock on his farm. His
daughter, a cultured girl, endeavOred TO
induce her father to clean up and discon-
tinue his slop gathering. This so in
censed the old man that he took his life.
Edward G. Parsons, a painter living
i'm Richmond, Va, has been arrested in
Baltimore on the charge Of criminally
a~ssaulting his own daughter. The girls
story is that the crime was committed
about three weeks ago, and that after &C.
complishing his object Parsons threaten
cd that if she informed on him he would
blow her brains out. She kept silent re-
garding the matter until Monday, when
her father began 10 smash up the furni-
ture in the house, and then she told her
mother OF the crime, charged her father
with il, and he confessed. Police Cap
tain Hull has gone TO Baltimore 10 bring
Parsons back 10 Richmond.
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