The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-10

O0So A[OH4 0allsOury and Poust mI1gt
serve W years in the p-enitentiarS
VI course he will be put at book.
Holland English charged with killino
MS VIE, was taken from the Mitchell
county jan at Bakersville, on the
morning or the 1st and hanged. II Is
alo tnat 200 men took part in the
Stewart. Republican POSTMASTER
at Daisy, Forsyth county. refused to
turn the Office over to the new az
polntee, Mrs. Edith N. Shafer 4
telegram from Washington, however
settled it.
Stanly News: The dwelling and
meat house of Mrs. Donev Swarin@en
who lives near Porter's, in this county
we're consumed by fire SATURDAY. night
IL Is thought to be the work of an
incendiary.
Mr.. Waylean Rollins, the Durham
Pollceman, who has been on trial for
smoothing and killing q man, who re-
slsCed arrest, was acquitted by the
jury They gave a verdict not guilty.
OF any crime at all.
WilkesborO Chronicle: William
Mcneil, son of G.. w. Mcneil. of Reedv
Branch this county. left in company
With Bynum Triplett for Washington
City, last Monday to get q patent on
his perpetual motion.
Capt. John Igelstroem returned to
he city last night. He says he will
go TO Berlin. Germany, in the fall to
contest in q Eve thousand-dollar fenc
ing match on September 14th, says the
tho Winston Oon%irol
The postof1ce at Oxford's Ford, Ca,
tawba county, was broken into Friday
night and some five or six dollars and
some stamps were stolen. A tramp
who passed through during the even
ing is thought to be the thief.
One Dickinson was shot and killed
by One Benton in Wilson county Sat-
urday. The parties had a difficulty
about some cor Benton was accom-
panied by his three brothers at the
time of the killing, AL escaped.
Henderson Ledger: Died, in Dutch
vile township, on the 21st of March,
Mrs. Mary Jane Fleming. She was
the daughter of the late Beverly Elem
ing and was about 20 years of age.
Paralysis was the cause of death.
Welearned from Mr.. J. M. Tapacott,
who was in town last Saturday, that,
notwithstanding the severity of the
late cold snap, tobacco plants were not
KILLED where beds we're canvassed, but
that cabbage plants in the same beds
were killed
Last Saturday afternoon a telegram
was received here by the Q. F. 6 Y. V.
officials stating that a receiver had
been appointed for that company. The
information was a perfect surprise to
everybody, officials of the road as well,
says the Winston Sentinel
Prof. III. B. Tilden. of Greensboro,
and an English mining engineer spent
last week We learn that the English
man said that iron ore here is as fine as
he ever saw, as fine as any i'm England,
says the Danbury Reporter.
Chatham now steps to the front with
a curiosity in the shape of an old mule
Mr.. Henry Fike, of Hickory Mountain
township, owns a mule that Is thirty
years old, and still works as we'll as
any other mule and seems still in its
youth, says the Chatham Record.
The steamer Trent which has been
off about two weeks for repairs will be
overhauled thoroughly and both ma
chinery aud hull left in good order for
the truck season and other work She
will resume her usual run in about 80
days, says the New Berne Journal.
High Point Enterprise: The child
of Mr.. Will Wicher died suddenly last
Thursday. Last July he fell down and
stuck a knife in his head. He ap-
parently recovered from this, but on
Thursday morning he complained of a
pain in the head and lived only seven
hours.
At Grover, Cleveland county, re-
Gently, while the closing exercises of a
public school were in progress, the
lower part of the building caught fire.
A panic was narrowly averted. Quite
a number of persons were injured by
jumping from the windows, but none
seriously.
Lexington Dispatch: There is some
talk of getting Evangelist Pearson to
hold a series of meetings at an early
date. - 1t is understood that joint
stock company is being rapidly formed
by the citizens of Lexington looking to
the putting in of an electric light plant
there al an early day.
Many of the citizens of the city are
heartily in favor of organizing a Doth
of May Club, for the purpose of insur-
ing a celebration of that historic day
each year. 1t would be a good idea
and would do a great deal toward per
petuating the memory of a fact that is
dear to all Mecklenburgers, says the
Charlotte News.
The frequent barn burnings in the
western part of this county have caused
a number of the citizens in that section
to raise enough money to buy two
blood hounds, which arrived from
Pennsylvania a few days ago, and will
be used in detecting the incendiarles
lien thnz hI1rn annEher barn. saws