The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-07-31
STATE NEWS.

The campaign was opened last We'd
/. nesday by the speech Of Hon. Cy Wat
son, the Democratic candidate forGOv-
ernOr at Wentworth, Rockinham Co.
Mrs. July Ann Whitehurst, Of
Bethel, wife of w. w. Whitehurst, died
at the residence of her mother, Mrs.
Charity Davenport, last Saturday night
with typhoid fever. She was buried
here Sunday.
At her home four miles from Bethel,
on Sunday, July 10Th, 1896, and twenty
minutes past one O'Clock p. M, Mrs.
w. F. Manning died with that much
dreaded disease typhoid fever, aged
fOrty-nine years, six months and ten
days.
On the plantation of Mr.. j. w. Allen,
three miles from Greenville, Willis
Johnson, a colored man living on the
place, was handling gun when it ac-
cidently went off, the load striking o
cOlored woman named Adline Barnes,
in the face killing her She lived about
five minutes.
Mrs Margaret Foster, wife of Rev. H.
s. Bradshaw pastor in the Presbyterian
Church in Hillsboro, died at the
manse, Friday, 2.30 p. M, July 18th.
Her sickness was of brief duration, and
her sudden death came with a great
shock and spread gloom and sorrow
throughout the entire community.
Said Revenue Officer Thos. H.
Vanderford to a reporter recently:
There is less illicit work going on un-
der the supervision of the Revenue De-
partment this year than ever before"
Mr.. Vanderford travels all over North
Barolina and his work gives him all
understanding of conditions such as
no other man in N forth Carolina has.
Work at the Rudisill gold mine near
Charlotte is to be resumed by COM
pany of Northern capitalists. This
means a revival in the gold mining
business of that section that will be felt
through all the chain of smaller mines.
The Rudisill has produced millions in
gold and contains millions more. The
work of pumping the water out of the
shaft and tunnels will require about
three months.
Died in Plymouth, N. c. Saturday,
July IS, 1896, after lingering illness
of more than two months, MIR. Thomas
Stuart Armistead, in the 50Uh year of
: his age. He was born in Plymouth, N.
G., March 3rd, 1S43-the only descend
ant of DR.. Robert and Marietta Blount
Armstead. DR.. Armistead, his father,
is we'll remembered as prominent
physician of Plymouth, N. c., and very
honorably and conspicuously identified
with his ante bellum history.
Prof. Gus Reich, of Salem, more
familiarly known as the wizard of the
Blue Ridge, is professional timer and
a good mechanic. He made the me-
tallic case in which the Siamese twins
were entombed, and also assisted in
preparing the bodies for burial He
tells the High Point Enterprise that
they were very neatly and appropriately
clothed, with gloves securely placed
upon each of their hands that could not
have been easily removed, but to the
surprise and atonishmentofall present,
when the case was uncapped, which
for some purpose had become matter
of necessity, glove from one of their
hands had been removed and was lying
near by. AS yet no one has been sble
to solve the mystery.
Miss Mollie Bishop, aged Is, daughter
of William Bishop, who lives near
Green Hill, was shot and desperately
wounded Wednesday afternoon by the
accidental discharge of pistol in the
hands of her 11-yearold brother.
rattlesnake had just been killed ip
road in front of the house. and q
of small boys were engaged jA
at it with pistol, the your
ing on. She asked her
her the pistol and l
was in the actn6