Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-05
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
A Gallant Tar Heel In the Philippines A
Sensational Case Approaching Trial a
Presbyterian Church About Completed
Hanged for Assnssinating n Policeman
"A Singular Scene at Revival Brief
Stories of Interest Gathered Hero and
There.

mington company which supplied water
to that city nearly two years ago began
to bore an artesian we'll, though as
sured by State Geologist Holmes that
water would not be found. The well is
now at u depth of over 1900 feet. Six
weeks ago Il drill broke and work was
not resumed until last week. Clarence
l.. Parker who had the contract TO bore
the well. now comes to the front with
suit for $4,000 damages and for 81 500
on contract. He claims that his con-
tract is completed and. further. that
the water company has taken possess
sion of and wrongfully used his prop
erty, and not only refused to allow him
to remove it. but has with threats of
personal violence elected himself and
his employees from it's premises.
A GALLANT TAR HEEL
Ellison l.. Gilmer, who for n year has
been In the Philippines as a captain in
the Thirty-first Regiment, United
states Volunteers, gets a majority. He
vas TWO years ago a captain in the
Second North Carolina Regiment
United States Volunteers. He is the
officer who saved the transport Man
tense during u typhoon on the voyage
to Manila. RE is the son of the late
Col. John l.. Gilner, of Greensboro.
who was judge and u Confederate
Congressman.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
Interviews with leading men in the
state. including the Labor Commits
sioncr Superintendent of Public In
struotion and his lately elected success
sor. coiiese ana school presidents. etc,
snow that the sentiment is nearly
unanimous that u mild law providing
Tor compulsory education must be
enacted. Sentiment is getting very
strong in this direction in North Caro-
lima.
y SENSATIONAL. CASE.
September 10 there Will be another
trial OF very Sensational case at
Warsaw. The hearing was begun last
saturday. but was continued until the
date named. George IL. Butler brother
of Senator Marion Butler, ex-Con-
gresham John Il. Fowler and sixteen
other Popuiists, all Of Sampson county
are charged with criminal libel of Jno.
ID. Kerr. H. b. Chestnut and other
Democrats. also of Sampson. Butler
Is All cx-State Senator and was
major In the First North Carolina
Regiment, United States Volunteers, in
cuba during the war OF 1898. Butler
as editor. is charged with writing the
libel. charging Democrats with stealing
votes. The other Populists Endorsed the
article. Sampson county is so strongly
Populistlc that suit was brought in
Dublin county.
CHURCH COMPLETED
The handsome Presbyterian Church
here is about completed. 1t will be
dedicated the last of this month. A
memorial window Is being made for it
by Tiifnay of New York, and is in
Phuters. 1t is being put in by his
granddaughter, Mrs. Sam Inman, of
New York.
HANGED FOR MURDER.
William Edwards, a condemned muir
derer. WAS yesterday taken to Salisbury
To hx. .f.aI
rather assassination, of Policeman
Kerns at Concord. Edwards has been
in Jail at Lexington for safc-keeping.
He was hanged yesterday. The execu-
ton was private. Edwards confessed
and expressed penitence for his crime.
He ambushed Kcrns one night and shot
him as he was passing out of the gate
OF his home.
SCENE At a REVIVAL.
For singular reason n revival near
Durham was abruptly ended yesterday.
w. T.. Massey some months ago mar
,rleG young woman of Durham, and
few minutes after the marriage she
was seized by some of her relatives and
their friends ana forcibly taken from
him and has been since a prisoner
Massey was at the revival. Her par
ents took her there. She attempted to
go TO her husband, but was by force
prevented. This was during the meet
Ing at the church, and the sensational
scene so annoyed the minister that he
said the meeting would end If there
was any more trouble. Saturday it was
openly stated that the friends of the
husband would by force take the wife
and restore her to her husband. The
church and the people are divided into
two factions by reason of the trouble
~ law suit is also in progress to give
the husband possession OF his Wife
who was taken from him in the very
church in which the ceremony had been
performed.
BREVITIES.
1t is asserted quite positively that
Frank l. Osborne. of Charlotte. eX-At-
torney General and ex-Statc Senator,
Will not be an aspirant for Buffers
seat in the United States Senate, but
for Pritchards seat, which will become
vacant two years hence.
The Clarence Barker Memorial Free
Hospital ut Biltmore, George Wander
bits estate. near Asheville. will be for
mally opened tomorrow. 1t is his per-
sonal gift and he also gives $4,000 to-
ward its endowment. A dispensary is
connected with it.
IS the outcome of an old feud James
Lunsford killed his cousin, Bud"
Lunsford. in Madison county The
murderer escaped, but Tom Randall.
an accessory has been captured and
Jailed
ne pant OF the Hitter LUMBER Com
pany, at Pinola, N c., was burned Sat
urday last. Loss $4,000 with no in
Joseph sepps. the 16-year-old negro
VINO outraged the 5-year- old white girl
in Rockingham county. has been placed
IN Greensboro Jail for safe-keeping
me negro was captured Thursday and
feeling is so high that if left in Rock
ingham lynching would result.
The Sueff Piano Company. of Balti-
more, has made $4,000 purchase of
mountain ash in Western North Caro-