The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-24
srATE NEWS.

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Western North Carolina, died last
week, aged SO years.
jim Booker, colored, who killed
Mahala White, was hanged in the jail
yard 10 r leigh last week. H con.
tessed his guilt.
W inston, N. c., Jan. I'm W.
Nolf 4et & Co., have purchased a ten
thousand dollar site here for the cree
rion OF tbe biggest tobacco warehouse
the South.
Gen. Brooke, commanding ct Ha
vaua, reports to the War Department
the death OF Private Q. 81. E lbank,
Company I, First North Carolina In
fantry, of typhoid fever.
In Wake Superior Court, Willard
Moore, a white convict, was convicted
Friday evening Of numbering Guard
Shaw. The jury decided it was muir
der il the first degree and on Saturday,
Moore rlcaIvsd the death senteTce.
It has been found that while the
name of James q. Young is on the
corner stone of the Institution for the
White Bind, it is not on the corner
stone of the Institution for Negro Deaf
Mu5es an Brnd.
Rev. N. M. Watson, of Greenville,
N. O., will be the business manager of
the R4telgn Christian Advocate, the
new Methodist paper which ia to b.
published IN RReigh after February 1
Jr. 7 n. ly6y IS editor.
Wilmington Star: Referring TO
rucking p~rospects, DR.. Porter said
hat the strawberry vines are looking
especially we'll for the season and that
there ls every Indication that by far
ne largest crop yet produced IN EAaC
ern Carolina will be that Of the coming
sorIng, DR.. Porter is Z OF the most
extensive and best Informed truckers
In this section.
Oxford, N. @, Jan, Is Summons
vas Issued today from the Superior
Court of Granville county, in a suit
Drought BY R3v. 7. j. Gattis against
R5v. DR. J. Q. Kllgo, President of
trinity College, B N. Duke, ". 81
Brauson and w. R O1ell. The action
is brought to recover damagest for sian
der, and is the outgrowth Of the recent
unpleasant controversy between Dr..
Kilgo aud Judge Clark.
Mr.. William RItus Tucker, only son
OF the late Maj. RItus s Tucker, OF
Raleigh died January 17lh, Of con
sumption, at his nome IN r AIeigh, eyed
35. He was a graduate OF the Univer
s1Jy OF North Carolina and was a direc
TOR OF several of the railroads ccmpos
ing the 5eaboard Air Line. He was
also a large owner of stock in the At
flaUGic & North Carolina Railroad.
Though tor eight years or more he had
been an invalid, yet he kept at work
until the very last.
James B. Pace, a leading business
man of Richmond, came here to see
superintendent Day regarding the
renting If the p~enitentiary farms on
che Roanoke river and utilizing all the
available force of the convicts in rails
ing sugar beets and making sugar
there. He proposes to put up a $50 900
plant there. This information was
gained from a member Of the gegisla,
tive committee on the penitentlarg'
Col. O.d's correspondence, 2lst.
Wilson, N. O., Jan. 16 Turner Bat
tie, a negro man, Was shot three times
thIs morning by IL. G. Ward, who
keeps a restaurant on Tarboro street.
Battle had been employed as waiter in
this restaurant, but was discharged
this morning for some bad conduct,
and this SO enraged MIN That he began
so curse and threaten Mr.. Ward,
whereupon ne (Ward) drew his pistol
and shot him three times, each bail
taking ef5ct, and it Is thought the
wounds wall prove fatal. Ward sur
rendered him selt
A Washington, D. Q, dispatch to a
Virginia paper says: The Court OF
Claims to day made a favorable report
on the Claim Of Thomas Bullock, of
Cumberland county, N. O., for proper
ty taken by Union troops during the
civil war after reducing the amount
from about 500 to $457. In all these
claims such items as poultry are
stricken out as no provision is made for
payment for such property. The tax.
log Of i6 is a depreciation. The num-
Der of claims, however, for turkeys,
chickens, etc, taken would indicate