The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-04


A reward of $3.50 is offered for Jas.
per thompson (colored,) who was i'm.
plcated In n murder of Jailer Mead
Jail.
Charlotte News: Mr.. Max Kritz
oied this morning at 2 o'clock after an
illness of two weeks, of typhoid fever.
he was % years of age and a native of
Germany.
The net earnings of the Seaboard
Air Line for the month of October
were $115, 600. This is an increase of
$7O,OUO over September last, says the
Charlotte News.
Rockingham Rocket: We are sorry
to learn of the death of Mrs, w. A.
Allen, sister of Mrs. Steele, of this
place, at her home in Wadesboro last
Sunday morning.
Mr.. Geo. Beck, of Conrad Hill town
ship, brought three large wild turkey
gobblers to town Monday evening.
which he killed at one shot, says the
Lexington Dispatch.
Salisbury's Chief of Police went bird
hunting and killed a fox. Our Chief
has gone bird hunting and killed a
coon. What's the difference, any way 2
asks the Concord Standard.
The condition of Miss Stevenson, the
daughter of the Vice President, who
has been so severely ill, at Asheville,
continues to improve, and hopes are
now had of her ultimate recovery.
Mr.. Julius Earnhardt, a grocery
merchant at Salisbury, has made an
assignment. Mr.. r Lee Wright was
~ non1 oG n ~nooSrro, TLo 1SoH;1S&Soo
are estimated at 50, 300; assets about
So 600.
Bishop Wilson presides yer the
Western North Carolina conference
that meets at ~Statesville, and Bishop
Haygood presides over the North
Carolina conference that meets at Dur
ham next week.
Raleigh Visitor: Mr.. James M.
TOwles died at his home on East Lane
street this morning after a long and
lingering illness. Mr.. Towles was very
well known and numbers his friends
0y the hundred.
We are sorry to say that Mrs. Mark
Setter, while going from the Opera
house Saturday night, stepped into a
ditch and broke one of her legs, which
is causing her great pain, says the
HICKORY Mercury.
Rutherford Democrat: P~earson's of
fetal majority over Crawford in this
district Is POI. Linney's mai Drity
over Bower in the Eighth is 3,476
5huford 8 majority over Henderson in
the Seventh is 2, 247.
Mr.. T. II. Griffin, n of our oldest
and most respected citizens, had the
misfortune to fall out of his back
porch and break his thigh. We trust
ne will soon be out again, says the
Rocky Mount Argonaut.
VIM Henry Crockett, a colored
man about 25 years of age, employed
in an uptown barroOm, was acct
dentally drowned at the steamer dock
foot of Craven street Monday morning,
says the New Berne Journal.
We are sorry to learn that the dwell
ing house of Mr.. AzaIiah Graves, lear
l. DcusG Hill, was entirely destroyed by
fire on Saturday night, together with
all it's conten ts. The fire was acci
dental, says the Caswell News.
Three men are in jail at Danbury
charged with shooting Deputy Revenue
Collector Lewis during a raid last
August. During this raid, which was
made in Stokes county, there was a
desperate fight with the mOonshlners.
Newton Enterprises: Off of one and
one-balf acres of Clark's creek bottoms
Mr. D. P. Yount has just gathered
1921 bushels of corn The land was
measured and the corn weighed. This
is a yield of seventy five bushels per
acre.
Court convenes here Dec. 10th, 1t
will be a two weeks term. The only
criminal case of any Importance is that
of the two Stogners, for the killing of
a negro policeman at Keyser about six
years ago, says the Carthage Free
Press.
Mr.. A. T. McSallun of Old Hundred,
N. c., brought in a crazy negro Sat
urday night and handed him I'VE to
the sheriff. The negro had threatened
to set fire to Mr. McCailumn's house
that night, says the Laurinburg Elk
change.
Mr.. J. Fl. Baker planted Is acres in
cotton in Sharon township. When
cotton went down to five cents he
picked his family up and came to town
and got work in a factory, leaving the
cotton in the fields, says the Charlotte
Observer.
One of the splendid bay mares of
John E McEwen died last Saturday
from collie. It is a loss of from 800 to
$3.50 upon Mr.. McEwen. The two
bays made one of the best teams the
country affords, says the Wilkesboro
Chronicle.
The dwelling of Mr.. E. s. BalIenger,
of Havelock, burned Tuesday. The
fire caught from a defective fue. Not
only was the house but all the con,
tents-the clothing of the inmates as
well as the furniture, says the New
Berne Journal.
Policeman Miller arrested Frank
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