The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
STATE NEWS.

According W o hC" SAby 0~AESCGOEN
inst issued the population Of Charlotte
il IS. $50.
The First North Carolina Regiment
% to be mustered out within the next
few weeks.
f. J.. Williams, supervisor of schools
for 5urry comfy, died suddenly last
Wednesday.
Isaac 7, Avery has been appointed
Solicitor for the Criminal Court of
Burke county.
Smallpox continues to spread over
Eastern North Carolina. There are
six cases in Weldon.
DE-. Abbott, of the railroad commits
sion, will contest the constitutionality
OF the act ab~olishing it.
The smallpox in Mcdowell county
has been stamped out. There were six
deaths from the disease.
Private John B. Furles, Comany K,
First North Carolina Regiment, died
at Havana March All, of acute gan
creme.
Mr.. Ssjiro Tateisch. representing the
firm Of Mural Bros. & Co., of Japan,
is bny ing leaf tobacco on the Durham
market.
Judge Stevens has appointed Chas.
A. Webb Solicitor of Buncombe Grim
inaI Court. There will be a solicitor
for each county.
The Legislature passed a bill giving
Rowan county two additional commits
sioners. P. P. Meroney and w. A.
HOuck are the appointees.
The president will re-appoint Judge
ERart. The question Of his conirma
ton will, therefore, come up again at
the next session of Congress.
The bill to establish the textile school
in connection with the A. and NJ. Col
lege at Raleigh passed the House Of
the Legislature but failed in the Sen
ate.
Miss Ellen Marlborough, of Asheville,
snapped an ~"unloaded" pistol and shot
her sister, Mrs. Lula Galloway, who is
seriously injured but is expected to re
cover.
The hearing of the Injunction in the
Wilkes county bond case, which was
to have been before Judge Gof at Ashe
Vile this week, has been postponed
till April.
4 drunken man threw q stick Of
wood at ex Sheriff Jones, of Wake,
and broke the latter's leg so badly that
it is feared that smputation will be
necessary.
Mr.. ". F. Snider died quite suddenly
at his home in Charlotte Monday
night. He was born in Davie county
in 1881, but had lived in Charlotte
nearly all his life.
DR.. B. Brown, Of Hamlet, commit
ted suicide at the home Of his father
in law, g. j. Freeman, in Charlotte,
Wednesday morning. He shot him.
self in the head with a shot gnn.
DR.. Abbott, the Republican member
Of the railroad commission, will bring
suit to test the act which abolishes the
railroad commission. as his term
Of Office will not expire for four years.
The Western North Carolina Metho
dist Conference has punched the large
hotel at Bsssemer City, owned by Mr.
John a. Smith and will, it is under
stood, establish there an industrial
school for girls.
Monroe Johnston, q white convict
from Watauga, serving a 5 year SEN
Jence in the penitentiary for an assault
with intent to commit rape, has been
pardoned by the Governor. He had
served about two years Of his sen.
tence.
a terrific storm, almost a cyclone,
struck Salisbury Sunday morning, the
55h, between I and 2 o'clock. The
greater part of the roofing of the Sails,
bury Roller Mill was lifted off and a
quantity Of bricks from the walls of
the Central Hotel were blown off.
Mr.. Laban Wineberger and Mr.. A.
J.. MOB lde, of WataugR, were hunting
coons together. A dog upset Mr. Nc
Brides doubIe-barrel shot gun and
both barrels were discharged, the loads
taking effect in Mr.. Wineberger's
thigh. He Is painfully if not seriously
wounded.
Ole day this week a daughter OF
Charles Leonard, who lives near Lex
ington, discovered a bright object i'm
bsdded IN q clsybRnk by the roadside
IN the suburbs. She dug it out and