The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-01-26
North State News.

Rev. N. L. Glenn, colored, pastor
of the new uhdenominatlonal church
at Winston, recently erected en- East
Ninth street, was arrested this after
noon on the charge of carrying a cor
cealed weapon and threatening t0
shoot Dock Brewer, a young white
man. The colored parson was seem
at the police station and questioned
about the charges against him. He
admitted that he carried a pistol Oc-
casionally, and said that he drew it ON
Brewer, but lid 1T to snake the white
man stop throwing rocks at a little ne
gro boy. The officers say that Glenn
ran like a Turk when he saw the Pc
licemen coming after him. Tho
preacher went to the Office of a coloFed
lawyer, where the pistol was found
The planning mills Of the Tai River
Lumber Company, at Tarboro, to-
gether with all the machinery, with q
quantity of dressed and undressed
lumber, were destroyed by fire about 5
o'clock Sunday morning, sentailing a
loss of several thousand dollars. The
building was a mass Of flames when
the fireman first discovered the hre.
nothing could be done except to saEe
the other part of the mill from de-
struction. This is the second loss by
fire the mill has sustained recently
Friday evening Francis Everidge and
George Cummings were arrested by
Sheriff G. T. White for the shooting OF
Mr.. Lee Ball, at his home. in Yadk1n
county, Thursday night, and they, with
| Wesley Gregory and John Cummings
were given a preliminary trial before
Squire A. G. Myers Saturday morning.
All four were sent to jail. Gregory nd
mits doing the shooting but claims that
be aimed at the ground, with no 1nten-
ton of wounding Mr.. Ball. When last
heard from the condition. Of Mr.. Bali
continued favorable. At
A special received at; Elizabeth City
Tuesday night from Fairfield; Hyde
county, reports the death Of Les Gibbs.
an FISHERMAN, and his three negro as
sistants by drowning Saturday while
attempting to cross Pamlico sound IN
yawl. Capt. Robert Cox, a resident O.
Fairfield, we'll known in that city, was
a member of the party and saved his
life only by dauntless courage ana
good luck.
Clifton Green, a young mill hand who
had been employed at. the Elizabetm
Mills in Charlotte, died Monday night
| shortly after midnight at the PresDy-
terrain Hospital in that city. He had
been aiken there only a few hours be-
fore. suffering with pneumonia. The
body was taken in charge by J. NJ
Harry & Co. The young man was only
20 years old. ~ ~
J.. L. Fountain, a prosperous mer-'
chant of Frankland, Pitt county, lost
his stables by fire Friday night. Two
valuable mules, four milk cows and a
calf persisted in the flames and a guam
tity of feed was burned. This is sup
posed to have been the act of an incen-.
diary. 9stH
With the January number DR.. John
Spencer Bassett announces that he
will retire from the editors11D OF the
Atlantic Quarterly. This position he
has held since tie establishment OF
the journal III January, 1902.
German Burns, the gamkeeper who
was accidentally shot in the eye by
George Gould on his game ~preserVer
near High Point, returned home Wed.
nesday, accompanied by a bride %
whom he was married a few days ago
Mrs. Burns was Miss. Henrietta -
Pierce, a nurse in the New York Eye
q Lar lnnrmaFy. SHS was III dteCu0
anee On Burns while he was under
treatment, which involved the removal
cf the injured eye. The discharge OF
the patient, the resignation OF the
nurse, and the wedding occurred the
same day.
Fire Friday night destroyed q lot
Of property IN Hamlet, AID at ones
time it looked as If the whole tcWH
would be destroyed.
The Charlotte Poultry Show opened
Wednesday under auspices that arc
more promising by far than anything
Of it's kind that has, SO far, been u
dertaken in that city. Mr.. H.. F.
Schwab, a man who is OF well-reeos-
nized ability and authority, will serve
as Judge. He is known all over the
| country, and his presence will mean
much to the poultry producers in North
Carolina, as well as in MecklenhurG
county. So far there a~re<1,200 entries
with a fine representation from i've
States, viz: the two Carolinas, Vr-
J g;nia. Tennessee and Georgia