The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-16
STATE NEWS.

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Newbern raised $685. last year
8. Jovner's con rot his foot caught in
n wagon wheel aud tore his leg Off al
his knee and broke his 'hign bone.
letter from the State University
saws that the number of students dis
missed for gambling and hazing was
IL.
Cards are out {. r i,,e marriage oi hir.
III. S. Icdbelry to Mss l.!nIna K Gas
ter. dauglitcr Of .;r. -. y, ,;astcg', in
Fayette. lille, January Ezra.
A four and hoifytai- Oil colored
Girl was odra"d t. death in Whining
ton on Sunday afternoon.
Near Ease 1b 20, Nash cohat1, Jim
The Hillsboro Recorder understands
that a fertilizer factory is to be estab-
lished at Hillsboro by the Alliance, all
reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Tt is probable that the Polk Miller
and Lee Wheat combination willsvisit
many of the North Carolina towns and
give part of the receipts to the Vance
monument fund.
The large tobacco firms, w. w Wood
&, Co. of Winston, and Key &c Co, of
Statesville, have consolidated and will
do business at Statesville, Mr.. Wood
having moved to that town.
The new Piney Woods hotel at South
ern Pines will be formally opened on
the 22nd. and visitors will go to Pine
hurst to see Mr.. Tufts new town and
ride on his electric railway
Mrs. J. Z. Strong, wife of the editor
of the Charlotte Democrat, died on
Monday. She was a woman of fine
mental endowment and assisted her
husband in his editorial work.
Rev. Thos IL. Sutton, pastor OF Mar
ket Street NJ. =, church, Wilmington.
is to he married i'll Fayetteville. Jan
uary end, o Miss MARY Jane Lalr!.,
daughter of Mr.. Jas. II. Lamb.
Prof. Geo. b. Hanna, of the l.. S.
Survey office in Charlotte, has gone TO
Arkansas, where he will be married TO
Miss Nola Alexander, sister of DR..
Chas. L. Alexander, of Charlotte, says
the News.
The Greenville Reflector says there
is now not bar room in Pamlico
county. The only one there was closed
up at the incoming of the year. The
proprietor said he did not sell enough
TO take out a new license.
Mt. Airy aldermen imposed tax of
SO per year on all milk sellers. This
was for the benefit of the dairymen;
but other folks who sold milk in small
quantities raised such n row about it
that the ordinance was rescinded.
A peculiar suit was compromised in
Asheyille. Carter 81 Craig sued "A col
ored divine for fee. He tried to make
payment by offering to baptize Mr.. Car
ter, but the Citizen says his offer was
declined, first because of the season,
and second, because he was not of that
denomination.
4 special from Marion TO the Ashe-
vile Citizen says: Mrs. S. j. Kanipe
widow lady of Old Fort, was on her
way to Henrietta to secure work in the
cotton factory for her children. She
had gotten off the train Friday with
grown daughter and another daugh-
ter about ten years old. They were in
a hack, and as the driver attempted to
cross the railroad track the hack was
crushed by backing box car, instantly
killing the grown daughter, Miss Mag
gle. and so injuring Mrs. Kanipe that
she died within two hours. The little
girl was not hurt
A special to Charlotte Observer says:
Mr.. f. NJ. Williams, editor of the
Newton Enterprise, met with a very
painful and serious accident yester-
day evening. He was riding behind a
young horse that had just been har-
messed for the first time, trying the
horse with view to purchasing, when
it became unmanageable, and while
running the buggy wheel struck a tree
which threw Mr.. Williams against a
fence, dislocating his arm at the shout
der joint. His physician thinks he is
not otherwise injured.