The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

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the county home in Vance county a
few days ago after having been vacci-
mated. She applied the leaves of
jamestown Gimpson) weed to her arm,
which caused blood poison, resuItipg
in death.
The State board Of elections met in
Raleigh Monday to organizs. Section
8 OF the law says: THAT the State
board Of elections shall meet in the city
of Raleigh on the first Monday in May,
1899, and organize by electing one Of
their number chairman and another
secretary" The following comprise
the board. w. B. Pollard, of Forsyth;
Cicero 81. Johnson (Pop). of Sampson;
W. g. Lamb, of Martin; R D. Gilmer,
of Haywood ]. D. McNeill, of Cum
berland; Walter n. Neal, of Scotland /;
J. A. Franks Rsp) }, of Swain. Mr..
Neal was made Chairman.
The Asheville Citizen says the Madi.
SON county bond matter, which was
before the last Legislature, has been
taken into the courts by Geo. II
Snathers, receiver Of the Western
Carolina Bank. Summons has been
issued against the former commission
ers of Madison county, the former
sheriff and his bondsmeD, the present
treasurer and the present commission,
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ty to the suit. The suit is to enforce
the payment Of interest due and un.
paid to date or the county's bonds, the
amount being about s.. 800
Oxford, N. O., May The demurrer
in the Gattis-Kilgo Islander case was
sustained this afternoon and appeal
was taken to the Supreme court.
Argument was only finished to day. 1t
will be remembered that defendants
demurred to being sued jointly and
claimed that they could onl y be sued
separately. That was the only point
ruled on. The case will hardly come
up for a hearing on it's merits before a
jury earlier than the January term Of
court. Mr.. Grttis and his son were
present at the hearing, the defendants
appearing by counsel.
A dispatch from Greenville, May ID,
says: Alorzo Brown, colored, escaped
from Jail Sunday morning. At the
last term of the Superior Court he was
convicted OF criminal assault, and vas
under sentence of death, the date of
execution being June Oh. With other
prisoners, Brown had been given the
liberty of the Jail corridor on Sunday,
and his companions helped him TO cut
hole through the outer brick wall
and escape. When the jailer went at
night to lock the prisoners in their cells
the condemned man was gone. The
other prisoners all being short term
men, none of them attempted to
escape.
Raleigh Correspondence Charlotte
Observer; 5th: This afternoon Robert
Gliding wac found dead in a oom at
the house of his aunt, with a pistol
wound through his head. He went to
his room yesterday afternoon, and, al
though he did not make his appearance
this morning, nothing was thought of
it, as he was errRtic in his habits Some
person on the premises heard the re
port of a pistol about $3.50 yesterday,
but strange to say said nothing about
it. Calling was a great sufferer from
neuralgia and was scarcely ever with
out a headache. Although treated for
is, he was never able to get any per
manent relief.
R sleigh Post, ID: Judge Purnell,
accompanied by 9putyMarshalBrown,
has returned from NeWbern, where
the former last week held court. Ole
prisoner was sent to the penitentiary
to serve fifteen months for perjury.
His name is John Fisher, and in a pen
sion case he sWore that a Woman's hus
band was dead and that he saw him
Hardly had he finished speak
ing when the husband, reported az
dead, walked into the court room,
whereupon Judge Pdrnell sent the wit
ness who swore he saw him buried to
prison for fifteen months for perjury.
Col. ODDS correspondence; 9Th: A
private telegram this morning gave
the news of the capture in Pitt county
the man who murdered young Tur-
mage week before last in the store of
his uncle, which was then robbed and
burned. It will be recalled that the
uncle went to the fire and stumbled
over the nephew's body, the throat
been cut.--4sh: The execu-