The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-08-26
NORTH STATE NEWS.
Crisp Tar Heel Happenings From Cherokee

to Currituck.
| Owing to the financial stringency. all
| the Durham tobacco warehouses have
temporarily closed.
The most flattering report OF the
| crops continue to come in. There nave
not been better crop prospects in many
| years. except possibly In 1880.
| SO great has been the demand for
! glass Jars, I'm which TO put up the large
| crop of fruit this year, that our mer-
| chants have found 1t almost impossible
| TO keep sufficient number OF them In
| stock.
| The Progressive Farmer declares that
| farmers In Wake county have lived this
| summer only on vegetables. doing with
out meat and using salt as the only
| article to be purchased.
| In view of the hard times the Raleigh
streer railway company has reduced rates
| so that two fares are given for five
cents instead of a single fare as here
tofore.
At Wilmington. Saturday. a disrep-
| utable coored woman named Susan
! Cooper, was shot and killed by color
ed sailor named Charles Saxon. who is
| now In Jail.
There were 40 North Carolinians at
| Chicago on the 18th. which was set a
| Fart as North Carolina's day" and they
were greatly disappointed that there was
| 10 observance of the occasion whatever.
Alexander Barnhardt stabbed and kill
| ed Martin Misenheimer near Mt. Pleas
ant, Cabarruss county. Saturday about
a woman. All were colored. The MUIR
derer was caught and jailed.
| William Graham, a colored butcher Of
1rtI "a u
| He first drank pint OF whiskey. the /.
| took Is bromo cafine pills. and on top of
that bottle of laudsnum. He began
suiciding at 10 a. m. and at o'clock the
| job was finished.
News Is received that Sapphire
| Corrundum Company is operating on
an extensive scale iii Jackson county.
working 135 hands constantly. The cor
| ruDdum is very valuable, generally
selling for ten cents per pound.
| Mr.. Waddington, of Alamance, who's,
| ann was broken recently by being hit
| by a COW tossed from the track by an
| engine, is going to sue the Seaboard Air
| Line for 5000. He says the cow when
| she regained consciousness and when he
| lad not, dragged him down to the creek
| and nearly drowned him.
| Rowan Superior Court convened at
| Salisbury Monday morning with Judge
| Whitaker on the bench. There are
| nineteen prisoners In Jail for trial. Two OF
| these for murder. Charles Armstrong,
| charged with murder Of Maggie Murphy
and Ed Hynes for the murder Of Hymn
| Henderson.
Miss Pantha Elmore, aged II, of Cleve-
| land courty, was dragged TO death by
| a runaway mule while returning home
from singing Saturday evening. Her
| older brother, who accompanied her,
was thrown out Of the cart and badly
| injured.
The body Of Jas. Long, son OF VIM.
Long. OF Huntsville was found dead in
| the road near Turner's mill last We'd
nesday with two bullet holes through
| his head. 1t is thought that he com
| mitted suicide. He had gotten into some
| revenue difficulty and officers were on
| his track at the time he was killed, He
had been fleeing from the officers for a
! day or two.
There were three escapes at the peni-
Tertiary farm near Tillery Monday. Two
| We're recaptured that night about u
O'clock and one succeeded in crossing the
| river into Northamton and has not yet
| been captured.-A convict escaped from
the State farm near Weldon a few days
ago and was shot at and followed TO the
river, but could not be traced any fur
Their. Tuesday his body was found
floating I'm the river at the Catalonia
farm and was taken IN and buried.
Rev. Chcs. NJ. Cook died at his late
residence in Edgecombe county. on Sat
urday the 18th inst, aged s. Yeas. The
funeral services were held from Bethel
church In Halifax county conducted 10y
Rev. Mr.. McCullen, and his remains were
inferred at that place, he having years
ago selected the place for his burial. Mr..
Cook had a stroke Of paralysis about five
years ago from which he never recovered.
| He had been for many years local
Methodist preacher and had done much
| good.