The news & observer., 1905-08-08

to the sheriff's inquiry as to why the
devil he hadn't arrested the fellow.
the faithful and slandered officer eX-
planned that he was at Sunday school
and knew nothing Of it, and the re-
port that he was seen running through
the bushes away from the scene of
havoc had no further basis than the
tact that he was late for Sunday school
and might nave been running to get to
school in time, but he had never had
any intimation at that time of any dis
order
Carrie Nation Backwards.
The sheriff Immediately summoned
posse, and about fifty went In hot
pursuit of the runaway, hot as it was.
To this correspondent was assigned
the duty of going to the house and get
ting the facts of the case. They were:
The siX-room residence of Thomas M.
Medlin, formerly a quiet, industrious
citizen, was pretty badly damaged.
Nearly all the window lights and mucn
of the plastering of the second floor
had been smashed, while furniture in
teh house was promiScuouSly broken
to pieces. On the lower floor in addi-
ton to window panes broken, the en-
tire sash to some OF them had been
broken out None of the children had
Doon IOucneu ana MIS-. MeullIl, WHO
had been hit on the head with a jug,
was not very much damaged, as she
was sitting on the piazza with nap
kin tied about her head enjoying her
snuff and telling the neighborS all
about it. Mr. Medlin, it appeared from
her recital, was not on jag at all, but
had only drank two drinks from the
bottom of a jug, which had had pro-
hibition whiskey in 1t to the brim, but
| Il mot cd l,I+
some one else before Mr.. Medlin began
meding with the fiery fluid. No
sooner had the only two drinks began
to operate than Mr.. Medlin apparently
lost his equipoise. lie did not seem to
be mad with anybody in particular,
said the lady but he seemed to want
another drink, awful
He would turn the jug up to his
mouth, and while she knowed there
was nothing in it, each time he would
get nader and madder and burst out
a new window light or smash
another piece Of furniture, or crash
through another section of plaster.
Mrs. Medlin said she thought he was
mad with the jug, from the fact that
he seemed to get madder every time he
| turned it up to his mouth and found
it was empty, and she was praying for
| him to smash it, really thinking that
| that was what he was trying to DO,
| instead of being so mean as to break
up the furniture and the windows.
| When the Jug finally crashed itself IN
| 20 a thousand pieces and he took up
| cheer to complete his work of de-
| molition, she realized that the man
| was bent on pure mischief and gave
! the alarm, He never teched me with
! the jug" she explained. "As / was
standing in the door hollering he was
on the ground OUTSIDE busting out th@
| window lights and sash there with
| cheer, and when he busted out that
! front one he jest thoWed the cheer
| Kind er kecrless-hke through the
| door, an tuck a run. but the cheer hit
me- and it wasn't no jug at all
The sheriff and posse failed to eaten
Mr.. Medlin, and if h has returned to
| his devastated and besplintered home
yet no such information had been
sent in to the sheriff's office this morn
| ing at II o'clock.
An "Anarchistic" Tale.
| Last night while quarrelling over
| game of craps at a house in Warner
| Vile, a negro suburb, Henry Martin
| shot Clarence Brimrnage through the
| thick of his left thigh, infiicting a
/ painful but not Il serious wound. The
disabled man is in the colored hospital.
| The disabler was arrested this morn
| Mig. and he together with the woman
| who kept the house, Anarchy Hopkins
| charged with keeping a disorderly
house, is in Jail awaiting trial.
During a severe electric and rain
| storm here yesterday afternOn, light
| ring killed valuable COW belnging
to Mr. John A. Hendrix. Near Gibson
Vile htrce COWS Of Mr. j. c.. Cobb were
| huddled together under a tree, and at
| a sharp crack of thunder they fell
dead in their tracks.
Mr. r. Percy Gray had an attack OF
| paralysis yesterday and is now in
critical condition.
| Deputy collector OF the port of New
Bern. John d. Grimsley, has been
here several days at the bedside of his
step-mother, Mrs. w. P. Grimsley,
who is very i'll and hardly expected to
survive the malady which afflicts her
Mr. L. M. Hodgin, who was caught
| between two cars two weeks ago while
coupling and smashed, but who was
! rot supposed tC have been seriously
injured, is now reported very ill from
inflammation Of the bowels at the
Greensboro hospital. Blood poison
ing is feared.
The Hadley PEBBLES Company are
building a new cotton mill at Siler
City and Mr. A. Y. Bond, of this city,
has been awarded the contract for put
ting a gravel roof on the buildings.
Industrial Items.
! The johnson Watson shoe factory
| here has installed a lot of new ma
chinery and enlarged the output
| having now n capacity of five hundred
| pairs of shoes daily.
Contractor Starr reports that the
work of completing the improvements
at the Greensboro Female College
building is progressing rapidly and
| that everything will be in readiness by
| the opening of the fall session.
&C. Hudson, who has large over
| all factory in Greensboro. recently op-
ened a branch factory at High Point
and last week established another at
Reidsville.