The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-01
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Continued fr IN First Paeea

! special election for February 18th ana
| Mai. w. n. Fleming (Pop.) elected
| I.urias Green dies in Durham.-Gen
| Rufus Barringer, Of Charlotte, dles
| in his 73rd year. He left $500 TO the
| Charlotte Library and $500 to his old
| military company.-]ohn Robinson re
| signs as Commissioners OF ASricul-
| turr.- Rev r. L. Faucette dies at OK
ford. MIR. Duncan Cromartie, eN-Con-
gresham. dies i'm Biaden county. aged
/ 76.-.ludge Bynum's residence burned
at Newborn. .Ino. i. Arlington cleo
ted sheriff Of Nash county.
Snow over six inches deep
Senator Brown. Of Yadkin, on a jag,
and the Senate discusses a resolution
in connection with the said iag.-The
Stanly county jail destroyed by fire
A. j. LYMAN, of Asheville, arrested on
the charge of appropriating $4,000
said to have been misappropriated.~
Mr.. ". w Fuller becomes chief couu-
sci Of the American Tobacco Co, and
moves to New York. Judge Winston
resigns and goes to Durham to become
n member of the law firm OF Fuller,
Winston and Fuller.-W. J. Peele be
fore the committee ON Education re-
rough who defend themselves vigor-
ously.-.A. w. Graham appointed Judge
TO succeed Mr.. Winston.
| Legislature passes new election law
The temperance bill defeated in the
Senate.-Prof. Wilbur Ormond, of the
Burlington Academy, dies in Greene
county.-The public printing is award
ed to Stewart Bros, though Edwards
d Broughtons bid is $500 lower-The
Legislature adiourns in honor of the
death of Fred Douglass, though it had
previously refused to adjourn in honor
of Lee and Washington.-Baxt
Shemwel shoots and kills DIR. PAYNE,
ST., at Lexington, as the result of a
quarrel with DR.. Payne. Jr.- Plum
Levi. the negro barber made famous
by Bill Nye. dies in Asheville.-T4egis-
lature adopts Lusks pack of lies to try
to evade the effect of the Douglass
adiournment-Mr Mrs. Annie j. Merri-
mon. wife of Ex-Judge James II. Mer-
rimon died in her seth year Mai. w.
\. Guthrie and j. X. Smith, both Fu-
sionists, engage in fistcuff.-Shem-
wells defence foreshadowed in a spe-
cial TO the News and Observer 1t was
the defence he made when he was ac-
Quilted Avery Butler escapes from
the penitentiary Senator Franck,
| Of Onslow, dies, and his body was car
ried by Senate committee to Onslow
for burial.
APRIL. Work ON a $4,000 spinning
! and knitting mill at Weldon and Il
100000 spinning and weaving mill at
Roanoke Rapids commence. Com
pany organized to erect Il 100000 cot
ton factory 1T Salient. 4. Iender-
SON committed suicide at Rocky
/ Mount.-Contest 4letween Democratic
and Fusion clerks Jf the Circuit CriIni-
nal court for I;uncombe decided in ia
vor of the Democrat by the county
commissioners new life saving
station contracted for al Cove Bank.
\. G.. Marriage of Mr.. Albert Korne-
gay and Miss Emma Hall at Colds
boro. Interstate telephone and tele-
graph company organized at Dur
ham.-Test case of the assignment Iaw
argued before Supreme Court.
lightweight farmers from Ohio set
tied at Chadbourn, \. 1--Isev. Nathan
4. Seagle, of Asheyilie. married to
Miss Emma Louise Fraser, OF New
/ ork.JHdge John Gray Bynum fined
for contempt of court al Hickory by
Judge Undertakes Sentence of Bill
Mcdaniel, sentenced TO he hung at
Asheyille April 18th. cosnmuted to life
iJnprisonment.-So Southport Leader un-
siertakes tosrajse a fund to purchase n
gift for the cruiser Raleigh.-New
cotton factory at Thomasyille. Super
lorCourt Clerk Skies, of Granville
county, morried 10 Mrs Norfioct Hum
fer.-0ver $4,000 worth Of monazite
mined in Cleveland county during the
YEAR Marriage of w ID. Lynch. Of
OAford. and Miss Alice Kingsbuiy, Of
Wilmington Jas " iIcox, the Repnb-
lican politician Who killed Demo
, cratic registrar in Pasquotank county
because he would not show him his
books, found guilty Of murder in the
. second degree Rev. w. g. 1yree, Of
Durham. married 10 Miss LOWE Cur
| rim, of oxford. HilIsboEo shuttle
factory burned. Durham pastors
form Il Ministers Association.-En
gineer and fireman killed in train
wreck near Asheyille.-A seyen-pound
Nugget of gold found in Staniy county.
Meeting Of State Democratic Execu-
tive comlnitt0c-t' University SIMMER
! E.FtOOl ope41t-3 di Iii pei Iiiif.~~Fotfd3ii-
ship Croatan wrecked off Cape Hat
feras. Blackwell Durham Tobacco
toae pany required to pay tax in Dur
habi county on 100000. Vance me-
portal window atSaleIn Female Acade-
n3y Capt. Hamilton Sheppard, Col
l"ctor Of Internal Revenue at Lynch
burg, Va. a native OF North Carolina,
dies Eoiored synod Of North Caro-
lima decides 10 iHiiid an industrial
school ~ wilkes ,oro N"w building
contracted for II the Oxford Orphan
Asylum \ $4,000 fire 81 Charlotte.
Lieut.. WILKES. of Charlotte Naval ic-
serves, court martialed7 Lehigh beai
Trinity by Il score of TO 0.S. Ohio
II ilson elected Railroad Commissioner.
Thu discovery Of the passage OF the
assignment law. preventing all mort
cages for supplies. calit~es consterna-
ton -Four negro poiiccraen appoint
ed in Wilmington. The tax ON doctors
is denounced ny the North Carolina
Medical journal. Capt kitchin and
others bring Law suit to get the man