The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-01
WINSTON WELL POLlCED
GREAT PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR
THE TOBACCO FAIR.
Or. Wilcox Recovering from Fever. Revenue
Collections. Tried for Murder, New
Warehouses. BIockader ! rested.

Winston. n. c., Aug. 31.-(Spccall -,,
This wears tobacco crop in the Piedmont
Section promises to be Zine, and the LEAF
exhibits mt the annual fair to be held the
FIRST week in NovCmhrc are expected
10 he full and of the choicest selections.
The planters are required = pay no en-
trance fee. and, besides, are offered lib
cral money-prcmiums. The Winston
manufacturers. who had such exceeding
unidue displays of their goods last year
are determined to out-do their former
efforts. Manufacturers Of tobacco from
other cities and makers and dealers III
tobacco machinery aud supplies Will Ike
wise be we'll represented and contest
with the home people for the h0nors. Ar
rangementS are being made for full as
sentiments of meritOriouS auxiliary atti@c-
tions. including Il Midway, races, gor-
gcouS street paradeS, theatrical perform
anccS and the like Ample accOmmoda-
tions will he provided for the thousands
OF visitors. This will be unqucStiOnahty
the greatest fair of any kind in North
Carolina this year. All persons inter
ested in the tobacco industry throughout
the United States are invited to attend
and will be well repaid for the journey
and expense incurred.
Republican State Chairman HOlton, af-
ter spending a few days at home, return
cd to Raleigh yesterday. When asked
what his executive committee would do
at the meeting to be held i'll Raleigh to-
morrow, he replied that it was called to
discuss political matters in general.
Winston's Democratic police force
were sworn in and went on duty at Il
o'clock this evening. The Republican
chief retired yesterday and went on an
excursion to Wilmington
DIR. ]. O. Wilcox, the candidate nom
mated by the Republican insurgents Tor
Congress, who has been dangerously i'll
with typhoid fever at his home in Ashe
county, is now able to sit up. 1t is
learned that he will begin Il canvass of
the district as soon as he RECEIVERS sufti-
GENTLY to travel.
Capt. j. G. Bessent, of Company c..
First North Carolina Regiment. now
stationed at Jacksonville, who has been
spending ten days at home here, will
leave tomorrow morning to resume his
duties with his company.
revenue collections at the Winston
office during August aggregated $105.-
S9670. More than three-fourths of this
amount was for tobacco stamps.
EX-District Attorney Il. Il. Glenn went
to Washington today to look after some
revenue matters with the department
Capt. Glenn is a fine political speaker
and he tells me that he expects to begin
active campaign work in week or two
Jim Taylor, a noted blockader OF
Stokes county, was arrested last Sunday
ut Snow Creek Primitive Baptist church
in that county. He was carried to Dan,
bury and jailed. Taylor has been figur-
ing in the Federal courts for several
years. It is said that he makes no at
tempt to deny the business in which he
is engaged.
a white man named Casey was ar
raigned in Wilkes count today for muir
der. While intoxicated few months
ago he shot and killed one of his friends
Large additions are being built to cacl
one of Winston's four tobacco ware
houses. This is being done not only t.
furnish ample facilities for the exhibits
during the fair, but also to meet tho
increasing business.