The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-01

was just behind the horse was very
badly stunned.
Hon. Walter q. Page, the brilliant
young North Carolinian and editor OF
the Atlantic Monthly, delivered the
annual address at Greensboro Female
College, May goth.
The General Assembly Of the South
ern Presbyterian Church ia in session
at Charlotte. 1t will close May Both.
Rev. G.. 7. Goetchins, Of Rome, Ga,
was elected Moderator
The Carthage railroad now running
from Cameron to C~urriesviIle, Moore
county, will be extended from Garth
age to Island Ford, on Deep River, a
distance Of twelve miles.
The family Of Joseph Null in Tran
-sylvania county, was poisoned Sunday
by drinking milk. Mrs. Null and her
eldest daughter died soon after, says
the Durham Sun.
One hundred and sixty five cases
civil and criminals are docketed for
the May term at Federal court now in
session at Raleigh. / twill continue in
session two weeks.
Eliza White, ,colored, shot her hus.
band, at their house near Bunn's still,
Thursday evening, says the Fayette-
vile Observer. Some think the shoot
inc wes not accidental
John Roberts, aged 10, attempted
suicide Tuesday by taking laudnum.
Cause: disappointment in love. His
act was discovered before the drug got
in its deadly work and he was saved.
Mr.. Edward Crane, an architect of
Washington City, and Miss Nellie
Baldwin, of Yadkin county, will be
married at the home of the brides
father, Rev. NJ. Baldwin, June Cd.
The 10 cases against the Cumnock
Coal company, each for $40, 600 dam
ages, instituted by relatives Of the
miners who persisted in the explosion,
of December 1895, have been compro-
missed.
Rumor has it that the mutilated
body Of Mr.. William Davis a dealer in
logs and lumber was found in q mill
pond in Yancey county. Mr.. Davis
was said to be a quiet and sober man
and some think there was foul play.
Elk Sheriff NELL McPhaul, of Column
bus bounty, died last Saturday at
VineIand, aged GO years. He was q
very popular man having held four
successive terms as Sheriff Of Colum-
bus county.
The Greensboro Normal and Indus
trial School had q very successful com.
mencement. Col J. g. Carr delivered
q fine address on Dorothea Dix, and
Walter 81. Pages eloquent speech on
''The Forgotten Man" has been highly
praised.
Lincolton Journal: Mrs. Dunn, Of
Mt. Holly, mother Of Miss Ada Dunn,
postmistress at that place, a few days
days ago stopped to dip meal from q
barrel, her feet slipped and she fell
across the edge of the barrel, breaking
one of her ribs.
A white man named Afford, induced
one Ben Fields, a negro, to give a cap
sule to Fred Keel (white), who lives
near Conetoe. The capsule contained
five grains of strychnine, and Keel died
in two hours. Afford and Fields have
been imprisoned.
The World says a dog was killed
near the Vance mills at Salisbury,
Saturday morning, that displayed all
the symptoms of hydrophobia, max
ing six dogs killed in the community
within three days., all believed to be
possessed of rabies.
The Durham grand jury is making
things lively, says the Winston Re-
publican. Two persons are indicted
for libel and four indictments are
brought against e. g. Lineberry for
e-mbezzlement and grand larceny,
Lineberry, however, has gone.
A big wave of Mckinley prosperity
must have struck Durham. At any
rate the cutters there got to running
molasses the other day. But some
people will not give Mckinley credit
for anything, and the Sun says it wai
simply because q barrel head bursted.
The wife of r. L. Edwards, a negro
minister of Concord, has disappeared
rather mysteriousIy. Edwards was
said to be very cruel and brutal to hel
and some think she has been foully
dealt with. Edwards reputation amone
those Of his own color is not very