The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-02
STATE NEWS.

ME CEOdEGI 4-AAANAAS IA
county declare their determination not
to vote for Russell.
The National Fish Commission re-
leased 45O, 600 young shad fry IN Pas
Q1otank river recently.
It may be that CIR two regiments
Of the State Guard will eccamp at
Wright8viIle this year.
DR.. R Il. Speight, OF Tcrboro, will
be a candate for the Congressional
nomination to succeed Woodland.
s. P. Clark, a prominent cisizen Of
Wilson, died Wednesday, after q lin
gering illness Of several months.
". E. Hyams, the new secretary OF
the Republican State Committee, is q
brother-in law Of Senator Prilchard.
Senator Butter is to make the annual
address at the All of July celebration
at GdiIford Battle Ground this year.
Two g rapists, Gus Thompson
and Flank McRae have been sentenced
il R3besoa county to hang June 10
Lee Morrow, Republican member of
the lower House OF the Legislature from
Ircdell, says be viii lot vote Ter Rus
sell.
The Sunday School of the Baptist
Tabernacle, Raleigh, will rake at least
1000 pupils to Norfolk on It's annual ex
cursion.
A tarnery at Gastonia vas burned
las; week. Loss about 81. 600; no in
suranee The origin of the fi-e is IN
known.
The estate Of the late ex Governor
Holt is equally divided between his five
children. Mrs. Holt gets the home at
HGw River.
About 500 acres of Ianj, near Greens
boro, has been sold to a syndicate
which proposes to locate a colony Of
Australian farmers.
LAST week a fash of lightning struck
q tree in the yard Of Jss E. Bryan, at
Moncure, and instantly killed two of
his children and badly shocked two
others.
The commissioners of Burke county
have let contracts for 40 new iron
bridges across the Catawba and Johns
rivers, near Morganson, says the HEX
DRY Mercury.
The Fayetteville Observer notes the
fact that DR.. H. W. Lilly, Of that town,
who is a capitalist, a manufacturer and
a bank president, is an uncOmpromis
ing silver man.
The Supreme court has decided that
Dowden, the negro who murdered En,
gineer Dodd on his engine in Weldon,
must hang Gov. Carr has not fixed
the day Of execution.
Wright Medlin, g painter Of Dur,
ham, while walking on the D & n.
track, Saturday, night, was struck BY
q train and instantly killed. He was
frigh5fuily mutiIated.
The Charlotte Observer Gays: The
Court Of Claims has rec mmended to
Congress the pay ment Of letter carrier
claims as follows: Raleigh, 81, O94 rs,
Wilmington. 81 $50 G5.
Senator Butler has succeeded in get
ting through the Senate E bill provid
ing $125. 600 for a p~ostufice building in
Durham. He hopes to havcit pass the
House a. the next session.
4 negro living on the Stacker farm
out a few miles from this place, ecci
dentally shot himself in the foot FIJI
day night while carelees}y handling a
pistol So! s the Laurinburg Exchange.
Smjthfald Herald: Reports from
ell sections OF the county say that
crops are looking well. The farmers
are all well up with their work and are
looking forward to bouniful harvests.
Fred. Moore, 6 aagman on a freight
train on the W. N. Q. railroad, was
killed Saturday near Round Knob. No
one saw the accident. Moore was q
native of S~tatesvilEo and was about
% years old.
fayetteville Observer: One thou
sand carloads Of iron piping from Ala
oama Is being hauled north by the a.
C.L This, ten years ago would have
seemed as ridiculous Is carrying coal
to Newcastle.
Ihree prisoners escaped from Wayne
county jail last Thursday night. There
was no evidence of how they got out.
Inc sheriff thinks that duplicate keys
must have been fixed up by an expert
On the outside.
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