The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-13
STATE NEWS.

Wheat from the WeSt-Peanuts
o,d Cotton Seed from the South
D,Io;gh's local cotton receipts this
.,aSnn are 10, 765 bales, against SAP
last season.
Tho State Guard encampment fund
fei 400 was all used this year as a re-
UorG made shows.
r Tne new trou ser factory in Raleigh
B, 70 begin operations November Is,
nd its output will be $50 pairs daily.
Lfferson and Atlas Denton, bar
Looners of Raleigh, have made an as
Eminent. The liabilities are about
g. 100.
The trial of ex Sheriff James Wilcox
If P~asuuotank. for the murder Of John
Prorhers resulted In Wilcox being
held without bail.
Inc HAYNES, a whiskey dis5iller at
Mt Airy. waylaid and shot Emmett
Atkins, who had given information to
the revenue officers. Atkins is fatally
hurt. Haynes escaped.
We learn that the d yelling house of
Mr. r bert Smith, near Black Jack,
Tas destroyed by fire Friday night.
He lost two buildings and had no in
s1rance. a y the Greenville Reflector.
The Raleigh Superior court gave a
verdict for 81 800 in the case OF z w.
HAYNES against the Raleigh Electric
company for so, 900 damages for kill
inc o Haynes son, who touched a
live wire.
The Park Fair of Elizabeth City had
3 fat boy at its exhibition last week
who is A native of CurriCuck county.
He IL only eleven years old and yet he
weighs $50 pounds. He Is so fat that
he can't walk around.
The Directors of the Citizens, Ma
tiOnal Bank of Raleigh have elected
Cashier Joseph @. Brown President,
to succeed the late VIM. j. Hawkins.
Henry LltchfOrd, who has formerly
been teller, becomes cashier,
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius will
20 to sea in a few days with an equip
mpnt Of high explosives for, and, if
possible. destroy three dangerous dere-
Iicts which have been reported off the
New Jersey coast and several off Cape
HatCeras.
The man the Standard spoke of as
having been killed in a runaway near
Enochville, is said to have been mur
dered. We are unable to hear the
IIut SBtIN Jul SOb "OAO uC0O0y hAShO
to the above effect, says the Concord
Standard.
At Bull0cks. in Granville county,
Lucy Allen. a negro girl II years old,
was murdered by a negro boy, Vena
bic Brown. Her body was buried
without any investigation. Yesterday
the coroner exhumed the body. EvI
dence of a brutal murder was plain,
SAYS the Winston Sentinel.
Mr.. Henry B ackmau, of Croft's this
county, was going TO the gin with a
bale of cotton TO. day. His ten year old
son James E.ackm an was riding on
the bale A wheel of the wagon ran
into a rut, the boy was thrown off and
his neck was broken. causing instant
death, says the Charlotte News.
Nv Bernie Journal: Mr.. r. W.
Nixon, of Jacksonville, died somewhat
suddenly Saturday morning Of heart
dis asa. He was a highly respected
lawyer, and was, a few years ago, a
member of the New Berne bar-a part
ner IN the law firm of Nixon, SIM
mons & Manly. Mr.. Nixon was 55
years Of age.
Windsor Ledger: Mr.. Abner L
Pfi1Chard, living in Casbie Neck, had
the misfortune to lose his gin house,
gris5 mill, peanut picker and eight
bales OF cotton by fire Thursday night
last. There had been no work done
sIaca the day before the night of the
fire his last mill day. Loss about
1920; no insurance. Supposed to be
Of Iucendary origin.
H-ndersonville Times: While out
hunting near Mr.. Nichols place on
French Broad, Tuesday, Henry
SAWYER was accidentally killed by
Barney Rhodes, both colored. Sawzier's
gun got out Of fix, and Rhodes was as
sistIng him co repair it 1t accidentally
discharged and the contents struck
him in the neck, from the effects of
which he died IN about an hour.
Mr.. NJ. II Sultan met with a very
serious accident Saturday night while
the steamer Trent, which he recently
Purchased, was unloading. 1t being
dark, he accidentally ellinto the hold,
a fall of eight feet, breaking his collar
bone and receiving a severe scalp
wound on the back OF his head. He
was unconscious for two hours after he
fell, says the New Berne Journal.
A few days ago a white youth about
- years Of age, near Cary, named
Naynor, started out hunting and went
INTO 4 Curnip patch. HIS dog scared up
a rabbit, and he jumped up on a stump
to see which way it went. In doing so
the stock of his gun struck the stump
and discharged. The load took effect
II his bowels and killed him He was
buried Sunday at his home near Cary.
Charlotte News: Mr.. Webb s. Alex
ander, an old resident of Charlotte.
dIed at his home yesterday afternoon
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