The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-08-29
STATE NEWS.
Fresh News Items from Cherokee to
Curriluck.


Curriiuck.
Tarboro's tobacco market will open
September 4th
Elk Senator Jarvis spoke at Morgan
ton Monday in the interest of~tree
coinage.
1t is thought that Charlotte's new
census, now being taken, will give her
Is, 900 or 1000 Inhabitants.
Greensboro fireman propose to COM
pete for the ST. 900 championship belt
at the Atlanta Exposition.
The annual meeting of the A. 81 n.
G. Railroad stockholders is advertised
for Thursday, September Goth. It
will be held at Morehead.
The Standard Oil Company will
make Wilmington distributing
centre for the States of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina and Georgia.
1t is thought quite probable that
the Greensboro cooperative cotton
mills will soon be started. This will
give that town three mills in prospect.
It is stated that several farmers
from Nebraska will make their homes
in North Carolina, and that many
Others are likely to follow their exam
pie.
DR.. w. j. HI. Durham, one of the
few original citizens of Durham, and
one of its best known citizens, died
Saturday morning at the age OF 81
years.
There is war among the Whining
ton ice dealers. The Star says one
consumer succeeded in buying 200
pounds of the frozen fluid at 20 cents
per hundred.
A 51-pound nugget was found Fri
day at the Ingram mine, in Stanly
county. 1t is next to the largest ever
found in this State. The largest was
found IN Cabarrus and weighed thirty
six pounds.
Hattie Outlaw, colored, of Newborn,
killed her two little children, age
three and eight years, girl and boy,
respectively, Saturday, by administer
ing dose of StTychnine by mistake
for quinine.
Twelve thousand of the bulletins OF
the State Board of Agriculture are
being mailed to farmers every month.
This is in addition to the thousands
of bulletins sent out by the State-Ex-
pertinent Station.
The State Bureau of Labor Stats
tics is devoting considerable attention
to the milling industry. Mr.. Wombie
is now visiting the mills along the
Seabord Airline, and will soon make
aareport OF their condition.
DR.. S. B. Watson, of Mecklenburg
county, the oldest practitioner in the
State, died Saturday, in the Goth
year of his age. He had practiced
medicine 81 years. He was the father
of Mrs. d. G. Maxwell, of Charlotte.
The sub-alliances Of the Farmers
Alliance are adopting resolutions en-
dorsing the course of the Alliance in
condemming the extension of the lease
of the North Carolina railway. Pop
ulists are seeking to make political
capital out CT this matter.
The News has information to the
effect that Charlotte will haYe one of
the best amateur base ball teams in
the State next season. a number of
well-to do rooters are going to raise
subscription of $500 and they expect
to carry the team through the season.
Jim Earle, colored, was shot Satur-
day night by Arthur w. Nelson,
night watchman at tie Battery Park
Hotel, Asheville. Earl, it is dllege ed,
was stealing flowers from beds near
the hotel and when commanded to
surrender took a rifle from his car
rage and was about to shoot when
Nelson fired. Earl will probably
recover.
The Biblical Recorder has received
from one of the North Carolina Bap-
tist missionaries in China the mission
ary's history of the May and June
riots in China. 1t refers at length to
Consul-General Jernigan, ana com
meDds him in the highest terms for
his efforts to protect the American
missions when the rioters attempted
so wipe out the foreigners. The Re
cOrdcr will print a portion of the his
tory in its next issue.