The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-04-19
NEWS.

Whsat from the West-Peanuta
and Oottonse from the South
The Salisbury World says that fruit
- Rowan was but slightly damaged by
the recent frost.
7 S. Martin, a leaf tobacco dealer at
Winston, has made an assignment. His
assets and liabilitied are estimated at
5000.
Jesse Puryesr, a negro boy at Win
ston. shot a three year old .colored
child while playing with a pistol. The
wound is pronounced fatal.
The n~eighborhood OF Lick Skillet in
Davidson county, had a big mad dog
scare last week. One dog supposed TO
be mad bit twenty six other dogs. The
n~eighborhood turned out and killed all
Of these .-Winston Journal.
Lewis Waddell, colored, Of Cleveland
township, the oldest man in Rowan
county, died Sunday and was buried
Yesterday. He was one hundred and
seven years old, having been born in
1871. HIS grandson, Hodge Knox and
wife, of this city, were up to attend the
funersl-Salisbury Sun.
An examination of applicants for adj
mission into the Naval Academy at
Annapolis. will be held in Goldsboro,
n. O., april %. 1898, by the following
committee: DIR r H. Lewis, Klushee,
N. @ DR.. E E Smith, Goldsboro, N.
O., and Joseph Kinsey, President of
Kinsey Seminary, Wilson, N. O.
One Of the volunteers who left Lin
coin county with the first company to
fight for the South in the late war pro
poses to go as q private with the first
Company leaving Lincoln county to
fight the Spaniard5. His name in none
other than Capt. Jack Rhinehart-a
brave, valiant man and soldier.-Shel,
by Star.
Winston, N. O., April 13.-At loon
today, William Linsay, a colored to
bacco factory hand, aged nineteen
years, was killed by a train while at
tempting to walk cross a railroad
trestle. He was caught by a box car
and dragged several feet. He was ter
ribly maDgled, The engine was behind
two cars coming into town, and the en-
gineer and iremen were unable to see
the negro while on the trestle.-Post.
w. W. McEwen's house narrowly es
capped being destI Dyed by fire one night
last week. He did not come in till
about IL o'clock, and his wife was in
bed asleep. When he came in the house
he found the sides of the mantel piece
all in a big blaza. He Immediately
called for help and by timely use of
water The house was saved. A few
minutes more and the fire would have
been beyond control. Wilkesboro
Chronicle.
G. W. Staley, who lived near Staley,
in Randolph county, committed suicide
last Tuesday by taking morphine. He
had tried to kill himself with lauda-
mum, it seems, and failed. He took a
bottle of morphine from a store in Sta
ley while the clerk was out and, meet
ing the clerk at the door. said, charge
me with SO CENTS" at the same time
refusing to tell what he had taken and
threatening violence if searched. He
went home and by the time a party
following reached his house he had
nearly eaten up the morphine from the
effects of which he died next morning.
He leaves a wife and five children
PIttsboro Citizen.
At me O'Clock Tuesday morning fire
broke out in the principal business
block of ChomasviIle, destroying every
store in the block. The fire originated
in the storage room of D. T.. Lambeth
Sons. 1t is thought the store was
robbed and then fired to conceal the
deed. The total loss is between Sc. 600
and s., 600 as follows: D. T. Lambeth
& Sons, s. 900, insurance, 81, 500; D A.
Long beef market, 5000, no insurance;
7. @, Bray, barber, $50, no insurance;
W. B RounEaVille, grocer, $500, insur
ance 5000; J. W. Cecil, store room,
$500, no insurance, J. N. Morris 6 Son,
dry goods merchants, occupying the
large brick building at the cornor of
the Lambeth block had their goods
damaged to the amount of s., 900, in
surance 81, SOCK.
Aejor Clement Dowd breathed his
last this morning at eight minutes to
O'Clock, at his residence on North
Iryon street, says the Charlotte Oh
server Of the 18Th. He was born three
miles from Carthage, Moore county,
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