The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-23

The COW furnishes five gallons of milk
and two pounds of butter per day.
Mr. Phillip Sewers, the largest land
owner in Rowan county and n OF
the largest in North Carolina. cele-
brated his 87th birthday at his SPLEEN
did farm near Spencer.
Ed Sheriff., a negro, wanted at New
ton on a charge of assult1ng MI. W.
w. Trott of that place with q deadly
Weapon, was arrested in winston
Salem last Thursday by Policemen
Cofer and put in the city Jail await
ing his removal today by an aficer
from Newton.
Rev. j. w. Wheeler of Charlotte.
suffered a slight stroke of paralysis
last Friday and his condition is re-
garded quite serious. Rev. Mr..
Wheeler is about Is years old and is
one of the best beloved of the aged
ministers of the Western Carolina
Conference.
Mr.. Samuel Wittkowsky, one of Char
lotte's Oldest and best known citizens
died suddenly in that city Tuesday
afternoon. Mr.. Wittkowsky was born
in Prussia but came to this country
when Is years of age. He a been
living in Charlotte many years where
he accumulated a big fortune. His
estate is estimated to be easily $780,
900.
Mr.. J. P. Aston one of Halifax
county's most prominent citizens was
burned to death in his home near
Littleton about four o'clock last
Thursday. He was about As years of
age He was a bachelor and lived all
along in a small house, about one
quarter of a mile from town. He had
been drinking much of late and was
under the influence of Whiskey.
Charter B Plyler of Union coua-
ty who was to pay the death penalty
in the electric chair i nthe State
prison Friday, gets a Communication
to life Imprisonment from Governor
Kitchen as a result of pleas made for
him Tuesday by Rev. J. w. Little,
Solicitor Stack and Attorneys Adams
Parker and Williams of Monroe.
Lila Wood. colofed, who for more
than a century has lived on the Ram
sey and Brawley places in the vi
cinity of Shepherds of Iredell county.
passed away Monday, after an illness
of only a few days. Men who are old
and bent with. age say that aunt
Lila" was an old woman when they
were boys, and from their family re-
cords and recollections, aunt Lila"
was in her 115th year when she died.
Out of employment and dishearten-
ed because of separation from his wife
and four children, Hebert w. Cum
mings, jr., of Kinston, N. c., Friday
committed suicide by gas poisning
in a boarding house in Baltimore. As
he did so there was a letter in the
postofice for him from his father urg-
ing him to effect a reconciliation with
his wife and accept a position in the
elder Cummings store in Kinston.
Mr.. B A. Baber has receiy.l
temperament to the Shelby post
office. He has held the Office n
term and given entire satisfaction to
his patrons. His reappointment is in
line with Pi esident's wish n she
Of the Republican execu-
CO1LII1ItLIC nL1CA 11CL 1dOI- 1o1i a.
Greensboro, for all postmasters to
and served only n i.
term
At the age of 1O7 years, II months
and Is days, Henry Parminter, proba-
bly, the Oldest white mar in North
Carolina. died last week at the home
of his grand daughter, Mrs. H. M.
Skies, on Fourteenth street, Char
lotte. Mr.. Parminter was born on
March 80, 1903. The death, certificate
gives the place of his birth as North
Carolina. He came to Charlotte from
W~adesboro, where he had lived for
generations.
A wholesale jail delivery was eff
fected in the city of Washington Fri
day night sometime between II and
2 O'Clock, when eight colored prison
ers gained their l53erty. Some of the
prisoners managed to get possession
of a small piece of wire and picked
the lock to one Of the cells, and then
climbed to the'toD of the cells and by
means Of al iron SPOON picked a hole
in the a wall of the Jail, thus MAX
ing good their escape.
TheSoutnern's New York and New
Orleans limited, No. SO, a into a
-sWiIGa engine one mile from tie de-
pot ~aturday morning, crushing the
pilot Of the locomotive and badly dam
aging the switch engine, but no one
was injured. The train was, delayed
.tWo ho4Is. 1t being necessary to send
to Charlotte for an engine to take the
train on it's journey. The mishap is
said to have been due to the mistake
of an operator in the signal tower,
who switched the train onto the
wrong track.
Friday morning the body of a col
ored women was discovered in an
~unoceupied house a short distance
back Of Main street in the town
of Louisburg. Upon investigation
it was found to be Jennie Davis
the wife of Furney Davis, and that
death was caused by a gunshot wound
in her side. where there was a hole