The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-17
RESCUE OF A CHILD
Annie HoI mes Narrow Es-
cape Fro m Drowning.
Some Of The Strikers at Wayne Agricultural
Works Return. A. BarWick Graded
School Principal.
Especial to News and observer.)


Goldsboro, N. c., July 16.-The Wayne
Agricultural Works have resumed opera
lions and everything is moving on
smoothly again. Some of the men who
went out are back at work. 1t is thought
an agreement to work on CLASSIFIED
basis or plan will be adopted, which Will
prove more satisfactory to all parties.
One of the men who went out called my
attention to two errors in the published
account of the strike. to-wit: 20 cents
per 100 pounds and an average OF 81
cents per day The first was typo
graphical error as / wrote % cents ana
not % cents: the other was the fault Oh
my informant This gentleman says the
average should have been about $l25 per
day.
Little Annie Holmes, daughter or Mr..
Walter Holmes had q narrow escape from
drowning in the waters of the Big Ditcn
on Sunday She. with number OF other
little children were playing on the wal
nut street bridge of this waterway, When
plank slipped precipitating little Annie
into the water. The cries OF the little
one and her companions brought MT.
Jere Harris to the scene, who, Catching
a glimpse of the dear little one floating
down the stream plunged in and saved
the child. There was general rejoicing
over the rescue of little Annie, who soon
vent running home as If nothing had
happened Annie is only about years
old but she has had a series OF narrow
escapes. Not a great while since she
was rescued from a horrible death by
burning it will be remembered when her
papa's house was burning, after Annie
had gotten out she returned 10 the
house, in her sleepy condition, and was
found under the bed, the fiery tongues OF
the flames fast leaping her way. Again,
while en- route home not long while ago,
the horse behind which she was riding
ran away, the child being the only oc-
cupant of the vehicle in the animals
wild rush to his stables in this city.
Hers, after all, must be charmed life;
or is it but the protecting arms of her
guardian angel that are flung round
about her?
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees
held last evening, Mr.. A. ]. Barwick, OF
the Kinston graded schools, was elected
principal of the Goldsboro graded school,
10 fill the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of Prof. Coker
We extend a cordial welcome to Prof
Barwick and trust his coming will be
helpful. both to himself and the school.
| omitted in today's issue to speak of
the Childrens' day exercises held at the
Holiness church Sunday night. The
spacious edifice was crowded to it's ut
most capacity, almost, and the exercises
in which a hundred children took part,
were of character to be helpful and in
teresting. One gentleman, in speaking OF
these remarked there was perfect order
and not an error chargeable to single
participant.
| regret to learn that Mr.. j. A. Toler
is confined with fever
Capt. and Mrs. T. w. Slocumb are So
journing at Saluda, breathing the fresh,
invigorating air to be found there at an
altitude of some / 200 feet above the sea.
r. C. Freeman says, that Bill Harri-
son says that his tenant, in letter,
says that it is quite dusty on his farm
near Stantonsburg, and that notwith
standing the clouds have opened and the
floods have descended, there has been
there but one day this summer when il
was too wet to pillow. Thus we are per-
mitted to wade to this haven of dry land
where all must be blissful indeed. But
speak IL gently LOT tneFe 100 the colI
has ears.
Charlie Hopkins, a mulatto, who sport:
long black. curly hair, has gotten int
trouble and into Jail by fooling with the
pocket book of his half brother, Joe Hop
kns. The matter, in (Which $1S in shore
huff cash was involved, came up before
the court of Justice Jno. H. Hill this
morning, who, after hearing the evidence
in default of bail, committed Charlie
Hopkins to jail.
CITY Clerk and Justice w. H. Collins