The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-02

s ] Erwin, contended that he was
crazy, and ought to be sent to the
State Hospital. He has been trying to
commit suicide. says a special to the
Charlotte Observer.
A stranger was killed on the rail,
road track on the yard &C Monroe Mon
day night The head was severed en-
tirely from the body. O5heI than that
the man was killed by the tram his
death was a mystery. No M had
identified the corpse Tuesday night,
rays the Concord standard.
Asa Phelps, aged "a, a well known
farmer of BERTHE county. is dead The
deceased began life without a dollar
and with no education, and though he
never learned TO read or write, and al
ways made his K mark to all docu-
ments he sIg'.Pd. ma left an estate of
more than $50 QUO IN value.
Cherokee Scout: IL would be i'm.
possible for US TO mention the names
Of those of our citizens In the embrace
Of la grippe. EnCire families are down
with iT, and in some instances unable
to wait on themselves Our doctors
are kept busy day and night. Fortu
nately no cases have yet proved
serious.
Chas Fl. Blackburn was arrested last
Saturday night and confessed to set
ting fire to the Charlotte Observer
eff ;e January 81. He is 10 years old
aud was an employe of The Observer
job Office. He hacked the safe, trying
TO rob 1t, and failing % get into 1t,
poured beUzne on the floor and set fire
to 1t in order to conceal the attempt
upon the safe.
Rueban Barbee tried at Durham for
the killing of VIM Cole was found
not guilty" The trial lasted eight
days Saturday night a mass meeting.
largely attended by r1~sentative
cittz4Is, was held and the VERDICT of
the Iry in acquItting Btrbee was
severity denounced. A committee was
appointed to draft a bill to be sub
mitted to the legislature Co change de
tects in the method OF selecting jurors.
A case of cruelty to animals was
tried before a Greensboro magistrate.
The party indicted was charged with
kiCE ing q dog down stairs and break
ing one of the animals legs. The
Record says the dog was in court as q
"witnG 81, but before he vas examined
a fl a biz him and be got up and
scratched himself with the leg alleged
to have been broken. This was con
sidered evidence enough and the de-
fendant was discharged
at Heights, E~dgecombe county,
Thursday night a white man named
Lee shot and killed q negro named
Stephens 1t seems that Lees son mao,
1 the morning. struck his (Lee's)
mother for some cause, and this negro,
S epnens, appeared against young Lee
n the trial So young Lees father
went to Stephens house hat night,
called the latter out ana shot him Kill
ing him almost instantly. BoEh the
Lees are in al at TarOoro.
A correspondent of the Raleigh News
and Observer learns that q few nights
ago ONE one vent TO the home OF Mr..
r A Parker, in B9lvoIr township. Pitt
county, and posted a white cap note on
his gate, n note saying IN substance
that if ne (P4rkeT) did not leave the
nelghbOrhOUd In thirty days he would
be a dead man Unfortunately Mrs.
Parker was the Fl 81 TO discover the
note next morning. She was IN a deli
cate condition, and the threatening
noIe so alarmed her for the safety of
her husband that she was Frustrated.
ConvulsIons followed from which she
n ver recovered and during the day
she died.
Murder will out. At any rate it
seems so, for. though mystery con
fOunCed the police at every hand, when
they began to investigate the attempted
assassination of Horace GoJdson, fate
played against the villain and Will
Roper was sOon under arrest and now
peeps through the bars of the county
jail. Great credit Is due the eff ;ers
who worked up the case. but The Elk
change still incLlnes 20 the opinion that
he ia but one of a gang of dangerous
criminals. None of our citiz ems should
feel at ease until these fends are
hunted down aud placed behind the
bars of justice, says the Laurinburg
Exchange.
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