The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-23

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vision OF the coroner, DR. w L Burns.
R,negro John Monroe was declared Co
have been killed the day before by an
other negro by the, name of Maj 1r
Barns. A negro woman by the name
OF Julia MCCollum was declared to be
an accessory to the act The place of
the tragedy was near Branchvllle, and
we understand was the result of q
quarrel about a woman.
Lumberton Robesonian: Capt J H
Morrison made an assignment Monday
evening, naming A. W. Mclean as
trustee. The exact amount Of liabili.
ties and assets art not yet known AS
nearly as can be appropriated the
liabilities r IS 600 To 81 900, with
nominal assets of about S1S 600. Should
the assets realize so per cent of their
face value they will mor than pay all
in~debtness. The low price of cotton
and inability to make collections forced
Capt. Morrison to the wall.
Sanford Express: Some of the far
mers in this section are holding their
cotton and borro wing money on it
from the Chatham, Moore and Harnett
Bank at 4 per cent. Mr.. Edwards now
has Msjor Scott's warehouse full of
cotton which is being held for better
prices -IlliciC distilling seems to be
houTishing in western Moore county.
A still was captured near S~pencerville
on Thursday and another one near
Why Not on Friday. The parties who
had been operating them escaped.
Mr.. Robert L. Abernethy, of Noun
tain Island, was in the city yesterday
on his wheel. Mr.. Abernethy's friends
have noticed recently that he is grow
ing a head of long hair. the locks even
now reaching to his shoulders. That is
nothing compared to what it is going
to be if he sticks to what he says.
Asked about his hair, yesterday, Mr..
A~bernethy said that it had not been
cut since Bryan was defeated, and"
he added, lit is never going to be cut
again until Hon. William Jennings
Bryan is elected President of these
United States" says the Charlotte Oh
server of 18Th.
Henderson Gold Lsat: Corn 'likker"
is constantly getting some body in
trouble n way or another, in or
around Henderson, here Of late. It
was only q week or two ago that the
revenue authorities seized seven bar
rells of whiskey at Cox's still, near
here, for some irregularitT and Sun
day night q barrel of pure stuff, un-
a~dulterated by association with re
venue stamps and and uncontaminated
by handling of revenue agents, was
captured here in town, near WOodlif's
saloon. J. T. Smith was bound over in
the sum of 5000, and z o. Woodllff
was required to give bond for $500.
Sylvia Sentinel: A condition of law
~lessness, almost approaching a reign
of terror, is said to exist on Upper
Scott's creek in this comfy. Outra
geous assaults on travellers along the
public road are said to have been com
mitted without any provocation what
ever. Private property has been
wantonly injured and destroyed. Some
arrests have been made and parties
bound to courts and warrants have
been issued for others who have not
yet been caught, and yet the outrages
continue. The air brakes on cars at
BalsRm have several times been inter
fered with and rubber hose cut.
Train crews are said to be in a con-
slant state of apprehension.
Raleigh Press-Visitor: Tom Burch,
the negro who was sentenced to fifteen
years imprisonment In the peniten-
tIsry for b~urglarizing the store of
Messrs Turner & Blrdsong, has es
capped. This fact did not leak out IN
til to day, though Burch made his
escape the latter part of last July. An
aged colored man who lives beyond the
plant Of the water works, preferred
charges against Burch before Mayor
Russ this afternoon and asked for a
warrant for his arrest. OF course the
Mayor did not take the darkey serious
ly, but when the old man expressed
himself positively about the matter, a
telephone message to the p~enitentiary
brought the news that Burch had es-
capped sometime ago.
Durham was the scene of two homi
Lcides Saturday morning about 8 O'Clock.
Henry Green went to the home of Sal
lie Lassiter, another negro in East
Durham, and from some freak of pas,
sion, brutally jsrked her ten year old