The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-06-10

i Ildli StoncS as large as men eggs
are reported to have fallen in
Warren county.
! ]. H. Watson, of Graham, has
been appointed oil spector for the
Fifth Congressional district.
i 1t has been given out that a
new cotton mill will be erected at
Albemarle in the near future.
| A monument to the memory of
Capt. Otway Burns will be I'M
yelled in Yancey county, July 5th.
| The Scout says that Mr.. U. L.
Alspaugh has added 80 looms to
his cotton mill near Taylorsville.
/ The Icemorlee Cotton Mills
Co., of Monroe, has increased its
authorized capital from SI5o,oo
to 5000, 900.
| Tom Brumley, of Mecklenburg
county, shot and killed an eagle
a few days ago that measured
liz feet from tip to tip.
| About $50 feet of the dam of
the Little River Power Company,
near Troy. has been washed
away, causing a loss Of $4,000.
The Tomlinson Chair Com
pany, OF High Point, is erecting
a $50, 900 addition to the present
building which, when complete,
! will make this plant the largest
| in the South of its kind.
Winston Republican: A fishing
party at ]. Fl. Smiths farm, near
E. A. Conrad's Ferry, on the
Yadkin River, recently caught in
! two days 81 carp fish weighing
from 7 to I6 pounds each.
Work is to be resumed in the
near future in Davidson county's
gold and silver mines. one Of
these is the Silver Hill Mine,
. from which, it is said, was taken
the first native silver mined ii ne
United States, this being in 1888.
Policeman N. B. Williams, Of
Winston, has been bound over
, to the Superior Court under a
bond Of $1,000. for shooting and
killing w. w. Freeman, a negro.
who he was endeavoring to arrest,
when the two became engaged
in fight.
II is said that the Pages, own.
ers Of the Aberdeen & Asheborc
) road, will build a railroad from
Mt. Gilead to Rockingham, pro.
vided the citizens of Rockingham
cooperate with them, and also a
line from Rockingham to Kol-
, lock, S. G.
True bills Of indictment have
been made by the Federal Court
at Raleigh against ]. X. carraway,
teller OF the First National Bank
: of Newbern, charging embezzle.
. ment of $4,000 from the bank,
and against c. /. Stevens and j.
+. Taylor as accessories.
, Wilkesboro Chronicle: Dave
: Handy, of Goshen, was showing
, a large fowl on the street her,
last Friday that he had killed
during the freshet. He called il
, a waldoon. 1t looked something
{ like the wild goose and its feath
. ers are said to be valued at SIS
: Major w. II. Warrington, o
"bull yearling fame has lost hi
/ srit for 81, 900 at Greensboro. Hi
' sued ex-Sherif Jordan and Con
stable Jeffries for alleged false i'm
D prisonment. The jury was on
!, but ten minutes, when il returne,
a verdict in favor Of the defend
ants.
Rev. Baylus Cade, a wei
' known Baptist preacher in cleve
{ land county, has invented type
: setting machine which he claim
will solve the problem for countr.
weeklies, it being modelled afte
6 the linotype, doing the SAM
7 work, and costing only $500. HI
{ has had several offers for it.
:. w. T. Whitfield, for more thai
|, 40 years agent Of The Southern
Express Company, at Weldon
died in Richmond, Va, Saturday
:, He was 81 years old, and tn
f oldest living Odd Fellow in tn
a United States, being born on tn
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