The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-13
NC. STATE NEWS
A Digest of Everything Worth
Knowing About Old North
State Folks and Things

In a drunken quarrel at Gastonis last
week. one Richard Fisher, white, about
30 years old, was shot and killed by
Effie Robinson. an alleged woman OF
notorious character. - The bullet was
intended for one Wallace, who escaped
but was later arrested
The people of Durham have voted
bond issue of $655. 900 for the purpose
of erecting several new school buildings
in that city. In the special bond cleo
ton called for this purpose, 'S9l votes
out of possible 1882 were cast for the
bonds, and bat Al against them.
Declared unfit to serve the travelling
public. the New Central hotel at Ham
let and the Hotel AAberdeens at Ahers
deem must go out of business on or be-
fore March LIST, by order of the State
Board of Health. unless sanitary condl-
tions are Immediately improved.
Just as she was passing the show
window of Durham garage, the vul-
canizing tank of the garage exploded
and showered Miss Nell Brock, high
school girl of that city, with fragments
of broken glass. The girl was thrown
to the pavement by the force of the
explosion. and her left arm was terri
bly mangled so that it will probably have
to be amputated
When she jumped from an automobile
which has stalled on the tracks of the
Seaboard at Weldon last Tuesday a Mrs.
Scott of Roanoke Rapids was run into
by a freight train and sustained serious
INJURIES one of her legs being cut off.
The engineer of the train failed to see
the woman in time to avert the accl-
dent.
Just because a COW got on the railroad
track and permitted a train to run in
to her, the engine and tender were de-
rallied and considerably damaged, the en-
gineer was thrown to the ground and
painfully injured, and the offending COW
was killed The accident occurred this
week on the Southern railroad neal
Asheville.
Lieut.. William G.. Rymer, a native Of
this State who mysteriously disappear
ed from camp at Columbus, Ga. January
9th. has not yet been located. Rymel
is a married man, said to be of steady
habits. six feet tall, slender, dark brown
eyes. appears to be 80 years of age
and of military carriage. No reason Ii
assigned for his disappearance, and rel
atiyes believe that he has met with fou
play.
I-Incomplete reports from various sec
tions of the State indicate that the drlV'
for Syrian-Armenian relief is going OF
: successfully everywhere. Cumberland
county. with an allotment OF 9O orphans
, reports that the quota has been doubled
and that it may be trebled by the en'
of the drive; Macon county has NOR
than reached its goal; Hoke Tyrrel
, Beaufort and Forsyth counties hav
- oversubscribed; and Wake county is vir
tually over the top.
4 An accident fued between the Mu
e and LeFevers families in Burke coun
ties, the matter in dispute being tn
boundary line separating the propert
of the two families, has just take
another bloody toll. AS a result of
: fight between the two factions, Lenoi
Null is dead. Andrew LeFevers, iterall
cut to pieces with an axe, is expecte
to die. and three others are horribly II
iiircd. 1t is said that the Mulls ha
been drinking before the battle too
place.
20 On last Tuesday 1852 new cases {
: Influenza we're reported to the Stat
# Board of Health from 42 North Carol
- ma counties. with 90 cases of pneumon
\ and 27 deaths from influenza -pneumo1
ia. While this report indicates a sligl
decrease in the number of new cases
= Influenza. there is a distinct upwal
= trend in the number of pneumonia cas-
is and the death rate. About 80 per Ger
X of the cases of pneumonia following l
IL fluenza result fatally. Health autho
tiles see no slackening as yet in the i
no fluenza epidemic which is sweeping ov
the State.