The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-02-22
HAPPENINGS IN OLD NORTH CAROLINA

, dustrial News: Revenue Officers Har-
kins and Hendricks destroyed a sixty
lfive.gallon Illicit distillsry and 700
Gallons of beer near Stoneville last
night. While the officers were put
ting the moonshine plant out OF bust
ness they were fired upon from am
bush with shotguns, but no damage
: was DONE, The "revanuers" returned
, the fire with their rifles and put the
blockaders to fight.
Greenville Reflector: Henry VIII
I kins, a colored man who lives on the
t land of Mr. ]. c. Taylor. near Bethel
> was in Greenville today. While in
!. Munford's store he told Mr.. R. S. May,
one of the clerks, that he was 63
years old, had been married twice,
and was the father of Ga children, 60
of whom are living The old man
may have been stretching, but If his
story is true his is about the largest
family on record for latter day times.
Wilkesboro special to News and OBJ
server: 1t is learned that Ellis Bare,
who lived in Ashe county, while on
his way from this place Wednesday
with a loaded wagon and team, lost
his footing on what is known as the
D "Jumping.Off Pace" on the Blue
D Ridge, and with his wagon and team
2 was precipitated down the awful pre-
y cipice, a distance of several hundred
So feet. The precipice is solid rock,
almost perpendicular, and in places
= 500 feet high. Bare and his team
i were torn to fragments.
High Point Times: Jim Smith. the
. negro who shot Joe Jordan, also a
negro. in Lee Flakes dance hall last
Thursday night will have to answer
II to charge Of murder. as Jordan
a died early Sunday morning. Before
o his demise Jordan again made state
e ment in which he said he had giver
Il Smith no provocation for the shoot
ing. but that Smith had done 1t de
g liberately and not accidentally as has
J. been claimed. Judging by Jordan:
= ante-mortem statement II was cold
e blooded murder.
e Lenoir special to News and Obser
YER: This afternoon A. H. Boyd
ESQ.,. who was for twelve years sher
'e if of Caldwell county. shot himself
ii in the stomach with his shot gun ant
er died about two O'Clock. The TRACED!
le occurred in the hall at his home. Be
O. fore he died he stated that the shoot
K ing was accidentally. but previous Il
e. this time he had made three Of fOu
re attempts at suicide. usually by takini
n. an overdose Of some opiate. Mr.. Boy,
e. left wife and four children. Inter
as ment will be in LenOir Sunday o
in Monday.
III Salisbury special to CharlOtt
III Chronicle: This morning Jack SecE
az Ter. a white man aged about 30. wa
- found dead in his room at Chin
TO Grove. The condition Of his body r.
ill to the conclusion that he had bee
er dead for several days. Sechler was
or man of somewhat peculiar habits an
no lived in a little shed-room adjoinin
OF another building. He was somewha
en- Of a recluse. Neighbors had ne
we seen him for sometime, and IL is SUI
lly Dosed that, feeling unwell he jui
OF went into his little room and Ia
down and died.
'is Winston Sentinel: Constable Ma
ecu tin arrested William Clapp and Ad
"u Mccormack, of Greensboro. In tn
'he city about II O'Clock last night The
were found at the home Of a Mr.
'hu Wilson, in North Winston. Clapp
'sO wife came here from Greensboro ye
terday afternoon and reported to Il
' officers that her husband had skipp'
ILL., with the Mccormack woman. TT
"runaways'' we're given a hearing b
the fore Justice Besssnt this mornir
re- who bound them over to the supe
les Tor court in bonds Of $50 each.
the default Of which they we're sent
sed Jail.
lre o..
&c, Wadesboro special TO Chariot
~. News: Late Saturday evening Nj
aw Corrie Byrd. who lives in Llssyil
:. township. and VINO had been
49,. Wadesb0ro on business and was
turning. at a point on the stanba
Ferry road. and about one-half nj
u'n from the Lilesville road when b.
ana Is negro. said to be named PattersC
ior seized the horse at the point Of
usl' pistol and made known his int
ing lions. Miss Bryd screamed and J
efs' Sam Lindsey came TO her resc
Ihuo Patterson ran of and has not J
40 been captured. Miss Bryd is a tea
10 or and belongs to one Of the b
l'ai' families in this county. Excitem'
10" is hfgh in that neighbOrhood and Y
npe- b. to the negro II he is caught
,ng, Charlotte Observer: VIII Slit,
ruh. Young negro who shot 70 death
Pierce. colored. In Providence tn
ship Saturday. was brought to q
oh. lotte and cast into .nison last MS
f, . This was In pursuance Of ord
Ca. given by Coroner W. A. Gresh
,,,,,, who went out to the seem uf