Items of Interest
Gathered from all Over the State
A petition is being circulated in Rowan county for the
pardon of James Howell, who was sent up for three years for house burning.
Asheville was connected by long-distance telephone with all
the large northern and western cities. The line was completed Tuesday.
Salisbury sold its $75,000 of bonds for $107.40.
Vanderbilt’s Jersey bull from Biltmore near Asheville, took
first prize at the Buffalo Exposition.
A British company has purchased the High Hill copper mine
and works on an extensive scale.
Dirt has been broken for the Salisbury Electric Street Car
Line. It will run from Salisbury to Spencer.
Engineer Ennis of Seaboard Air Line was seriously hurt near
Kittrel last week by the breaking of a driver rod on his engine.
One of the principal buildings of the New Bern Fair
Association was burned Friday. Sparks from a knitting mill set it on fire.
A young white boy, Riddick Hester of Goldsboro, while
attempting to jump on a freight train Wednesday, had both his legs cut off and
died Sunday.
An unnatural mother in Buncombe has been proceeded against
at law for bargaining to give her 12-year-old daughter as a wife. The girl is
in the Children’s Home, the Register of Deeds having very properly refused to
grant license for the marriage.
It is found that John Potter, a white man, much feared in
Brunswick county as a desperado, is the person who shot policeman Chadwick at
Wilmington. He confesses and says he made up his mind he would not be arrested
and for that reason shot Chadwick.
Mr. J.J. Hoover, who lives at Pine Grove near Wildwood on
the farm of Mr. B.B. Mallison, a few days ago killed two rattlesnakes that were
of unusual size and age. The larger of the snakes measured 7 ½ feet in length
and carried 40 buttons on his rattler. The second snake measured 6 ½ feet in
length and had 36 buttons. Each button represents one year in the age of a
rattlesnake.
S.H. Loftin, the Kingston banker who went into bankruptcy
some time ago, will pay every cent of his indebtedness. His liabilities amount
to $125,000, and his nominal assets are $160,000. He pays his creditors half in
cash and gives his note for the balance. He advanced a large sum to the Great
Eastern Railway, and as the capital could not be secured for its completion,
his money is locked up in that.
The Columbus News
tells of Mr. D.P. High’s pear orchard covering less than one acre. He has
already picked 100 bushels and there are 500 bushels hanging on the trees.
Col. Benehan Cameron, who was elected vice president of the
National Farmer’s Congress, is one of the leading farmers of this state. His
model farm is not far from Durham.
Governor Aycock Tuesday issued the order for the execution
of Drew Vaughan, the date being set for November 11th. He is from
Hertford county and was convicted of murder.
Dr. W.M. Blanchard of Perquimans county has been elected to
take the chair of Chemistry in De Pau University. He was educated at
Randolph-Macon and Johns Hopkins.
Judge A.W. Graham, who for several years has had charge of
the Big Blue Wing copper mines in Granville county, has leased the mines to
John T. Williams, a well-known capitalist of New York.
Mr. Savery of Winston-Salem last year refused to be
vaccinated and was put in prison, for which he sued the Mayor and Chief of
Police for damages. The jury very quickly decided against him.
Crenshaw, the Mecklenburg man who shot and killed a negro in
his watermelon patch, was found guilty of manslaughter. He was sentenced last
week to six months in jail. The case was appealed.
Governor Aycock last week offered an additional reward of
$200 for James Lowery, the negro who assassinated Chief of Police Jones of
Selby. This makes $400 the State has offered for the capture of the negro.
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