The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-09-07
STATE NEWS.
Interesting Items Gathered in the Ola
North State.

North State.
Raleigh's new hotel will be open by
Christmas.
G w and Z NJ Wall are putting in
a new roller mill at Wallburg.
There are 1O7 bonded brandy distil-
leries in the Estate of Wilkes"
Gov. Carr has paid visit to the
Waldensian colony at Valdese, N. Q.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Linviile improvement Company.
john Meadows, alias John Stokes,
wanted in Rockingham county for
felony, has been arrested in Ddnville
Va.
Mr. F S Starrette, late of Durham,
will begin the publication of d weekly
paper, called the News, at Chapel
Hill.
The Kernersville News estimates
that the damage to property in that
place by the recent cyclone will reach
49, 900.
In Bladen county, few days ago,
Mrs. Estelle Melvin KILLED deer with
some lightwood knots. The dogs had
''cornered" it.
Presiding Elder Scroggs has APP
| pointed Mr. W w Flowers, of Taylors-
vile, to one of the Duke scholarships
| al Trinity College
"Judge" John Gambell, at one time
! Clerk of the Superior Court of Allie
| ghany county, died at his home near
| Sparta on Aug. 10Th.
Deaths: DR. J A Audrey, of Pineville,
aged Al; j G Cooper, of Oxford, aged
Il: L A Young, of Southern Pines; Col
Eli Wishart, of Lumberton.
The bulletin of the State board of
health says it is estimated that one
thousand deaths per year occur in
North Carolina from typhoid fever
There is man, a well-to-do citizen
living within the city limits of Char
lotte, who is the father of even thirty
children, sixteen of whom are liy-
ing.
John w Wilson, who died at Ashe-
vile, was the first tailor to come to
ASheville, and likewise was the first
to bring d sewing machine across the
Blue Ridge.
The revenue officers made a raid
down on Hunting Creek, Wilkes coun-
ty, several days ago, and captured
about $50 gallons of whiskey, near the
county line. 1t was found in an ole
field.
The Burlington News says: 1t is
rumored that our mills will soon re
sumo business again. We trust the
l
, shipments of 'plaids indicates tina
, such is true.
Col Eugene Harrell, of Raleigh, de
. nounced Editor Roscower, of TIL
Headlight, in GOldSboro yesterday
| Harrell was about to be arrested on
U peace warrant, but his train left be
fore it was served.
. The Washington correspondent O
. the Richmond Times says that Sena
D tor Ransom has promised Congress
e man Swanson, of the Fifth district c
Virginia, to make few speeches i
his district this fall,
Mr. J r Kirksey, of Dysartsvillt
dealer in fine and RAJ e minerals is on
of the largest shippers of native mir
eral in the State. For the year lSs
it is said that he sent out over 900
e pounds of monaZite alone.
:. Mr.. J. B. Wilkinson, proprietor {
s Cleveland Springs, is forming a stoc
r company to purchase and manag
Cleveland Springs, the capital stoc
J. TO be not less than 800, eco, with til
h privilege of increasing same to 5000
% 600.
+ The Hygenic Ice Plate Factory,
n Raleigh, was totally destroyed by fiji
as 10 o'clock on the night of Augu:
le 10Th 1t was owned by Henry Dyer
ued at $4,000. 1t was insured fC
$4,000.
8 The Department of Agriculture h;
letter from Mr., j. II. Gilmer,
a Guilford, member of the Board {
r. Agriculture. Mr.. Gilmer says that
f. will this season put up some l n
n dozen cans of peaches and tomatoes
- his own growing.
I The Methodist church at Lauril
# burg was laid in ashes recent
y The fire was discovered about , o'clOcl
I burning in the belfry, and it is b
N lieved that an incendiary did I'll
work, as there are no buildings in I'll
vicinity from which it could hay
caught.
ot w. J. Poythress who up to sho
time ago, was an agent of the SING
Manufacturing Co., at Concord, n.
was tried in tire Criminal court +;
is Charlotte last week, convicted, an
4. sentenced to four years on the chat
,e gang for embezzling money of til
= said company.
% The Raleigh Chronicle gives I'll
is following account of very serious a
,s cident in GoldsborO: A son of Nj
if Will Hunter was riding Il bicyc
r along the street and man in a sulk
a was driving rapidly in the opposite
#, rection, both looking at the trair
8 when they collided; the bicycle WI
!, smashed all to pieces, and young Hun
!, ter was run over by the horse an
n sulky. He was terribly injured hi
a breast torn open and his leg broker
p His injuries are thought to be fata
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