The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
STATE NEWS.

Mr.. Thos. ]. Strickland died at his
home in Mingo on the 10TH instant,
aged Fl years.
The A. and M. College re opens this
week. Some of the students have
been here for ten days and others are
arriving on almost every train.
At his residence seven miles from
Raleigh, Mr.. Thomas Norwood, of
Wake county, died yesterday morning
of heart disease, aged 60 years. He
was one of the most highly respected
and best known farmers in the county.
At Mine Fork last week Constable
Stephen Deyton took a gun from one
of the women who was trying to shoot
some one, and set it down, putting his
hand on the muzzle, and the woman
kicked the lock, firing the gun and
shooting his finger off.
I Near Stanley Friday evening as two
Irish peddlers were crossing the rail-
road near Porter's Station, they were
struck by the train, almost instantly
killing their mule and broke their
wagon to pieces and very dangerously
injuring one of the men. The train was
in cut and could not be seen by the
men as they drove on the crossing.
Revenue Raider G. w. Means and
U. s. Marshal James Butler made
big raid into Polk county Wednesday
night and captured ans extensive
blockade plant in the Bud Denton
neighborhood, near Landrum. Three
men at the still, were bagged. They
were Joe Gibbs, white, and Henry
Whitside and Bud Carson, colored.
They were brought here. and jailed.
The still, cap and worm and 1900 gal
Ions of beer we're DESTROYED.
A special from Weldon says: Miss
Agnes McGee, one of Weldon's most
popular young ladies', made narrow
escape from death or serious injury
yesterday afternoon. She was driving
across the bridge over the bayou in
Mush Island, when her horse became
frightened and backed the buggy and
occupant over the bridge. Horse and
all went crashing to the bottom, dis
tance Of thirty feet, but strange to say,
Miss McGee was uninj njured. The horse
also escaped injury, but the buggy was
badly broken.
A telephone message to Raleigh
from Berry O'Kelley, the Methodist
colored merchant, said that colored
woman had been murdered at Cooks
Mill, in Houses Greek township.
Later he received letter from Robert
Horton, who lives in the neighborhood,
saying that Mehaly White, a colored
woman living near Cooks Mill, had
been murdered by negro named Jim
Booker, who also goes under the alias
of Jim Chavis. He added that the
body "was lying just where it fell"
AS soon as the murder was committed
Brooker ran off through the woods.
DR.. !. j. Mott, chairman of the Ma
tional Executive Committee of the
"Silver Party, says: "The gold stan
dard people are making desps =
fight for Mckinley in this State, y
they are going to put up a
campaign. 1t would be suicidl
the friends of silver who are in so
whelming majority in the State
divide their forces as to allow M
Kinley to secure the ELECTORAL vote o.
this State. The silver men see that
the gold standard men are calculating
on division Of the silver vote, and
they know that they must get together.
| believe that it will all be arranged in
the next few days, say witt w.
weeks. Mckinley will har ~
lowed to take off the elect
North Carolina.
There are living in
two old ladies, sistd
years, who NAL
They live alo1
planting and