The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-14

tuesday evening by Policeman Flynn.
Hart lived here for a while, and Mr..
Flynn, who knew him has been on the
lookout to arrest him since the reward
was offered, says the Washington
Gazette.
Monroe Journal: Monday, Hugh,
the eight-year-old son of William
Broom, went into the Monroe Cotton
Mills where his father was at work.
By some mean his right arm was
caught in the machinery of the lapper
room and terribly torn from above the
elbow to the wrist. Both bones were
broken and the first finger mashed into
a pulp.
Deputy Sheriff Walker, of Person,
came over last evening with Maggie
Pinnix, a demented colored woman,
who was being carried to the Colds
boro asylum. While in the Durham
guard house last night she tore up her
clothing, and plating the strips. wove
them around the bars of the cell; she
said size was making a carpet, says the
Durham Sun.
The Winston Sentinel's correspond
ent at Elkin sends this item: Mr.. A.
T. Spainhour, one of the proprietors,
was painfully hurt Monday at the
Elkin Lumber Mills. His clothing was
caught in the set screw of the planning
machine and of his pant legs was
torn off and a hole cut into the leg to
the bone. 1t is a miracle that he es-
capped as he did.
Walton Gardner, a Durham young
man, the son of S. T. Gardner, has in
vented a combination pad lock that is
novel and works well. 1t is of solid
brass and has a combination arranged
in a new way. The combination is very
simple and yet admits of sixteen
changes of combination. No one can
unlock the lock without knowing the
combination, says the Durham Globe.
Burlington News: On last Friday
night a burglar entered the house Of
Mr.. Hatch, who has lately moved ear
Aurora from Raleigh, and took his
pants from a chair, in which were
nearly $50. MI. Hatch awoke as the
man was going out and gave chase. On
being pursued the burglar dropped the
pants which he had rided, and held on
to the money, making good his escape.
Sam Kramer returned yesterday
from GOldsboro where he has been tied
up for two days by the high water and
washouts on the railroads. He says it
is distressing to see the damage done
to crops on the low grounds around
GoldsbOro. There are several washouts
on the W. & W. road, and also on the
Wilson short cut. One of the bridges
sank four feet just after a train had
passed over 1T, Gays the Durham Sun.
Lumber river is now nearly up to
the high water mark of 1867 and it is
thought by many that but for the
deepening of the channel by the gov
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Water is running owe the q road
for about 300 yards and canoes are
being conveyed across. The dams of
quite a number of water mills in the
county are reported broke and bridges
carried away, says the Lumberton
R~obesonian.
Winston Sentinel: Junius Page,
aged IA years, was killed on Saturday
afternoon, near Dalton, by a falling
tree. His body was not found until
Sunday morning about ten o'clock.
Young Page was out alone sqirTel hunt
ing and discovered a squirrel in a hole.
He cut the tree down, and as it fell the
trunk jumped and pinned him to the
ground where he remained yer night.
He is not supposed to have lived long
after the tree caught him.
While one of the street sprinkling
carts was standing at the plugOn Sixth
and Tryon streets this morning, q little
son of Mr.. Pat Palmer attempted to
climb on one of the wheels. AS he did
so, the horses started, the little fellow
was thrown to the street, and one of
the wheels of the heavy machine passed
over him. The flesh on n leg from
the thigh down, was badly crushed and
~lacerated, and one of his hands was in
jured, says the Charlotte News.
The Philadelphia Record of the 2nd
instant has the following item about a
well known North Carolinian: Henry
J. Faison, of the village of Faison, N.
O., has obtained a writ of nabeas cor
pus from Justice Barrett, of the SUI
preme court, for the production of his
4 year-old son, Raymond, who is now
in the custody of his mother, Estelle
L. Faison, at No. ia West 104th street.
The husband says his wife deserted
him and is not a proper person to have
charge of her son.
II. G. Pennel tells us of the most
wonderful specimen of a chicken that
we have heard of. 1t is at Mr.. John
Gathers and was Matched out last
week. The little chick has four dis
Jinct feet, and almost two bodies. The
second body which is attached to the
main body by something like a tube,
lacks a head and neck in being COM
plete. The chick is alive and doing
well, and walks around just like any
other chick would, says the Wilkes
borO Chronicle.
The Murphy Scout says that NJ. W.
Sandlin, who some months ago had a
difference with a Charles Hill, of Clay
county, shot at Hill and killed Hills
son, died in the jail at Murphy Monday
of typhoid fever. After the killing