30-Foot Whale at
Morehead City
At Morehead City Tuesday afternoon while Colonel Tate and
son and Mr. Hardee of Tennessee were out in Captain Charlie Bennett’s launch trolling
for mackerel, a large whale arose about 20 feet astern of the boat at the time
they were near the sea buoy at the inlet, about two miles from Morehead City.
Captain Bennett says the whale was the species known as the fishing whale and
was probably following a school of mackerel. From what the party could see of
the whale the monster was fully 30 feet long. They thought the boat had just
passed over the whale before it came to the surface. The whale coming up so
near the boat gave the occupants some fright, but after it was over they were
glad to have had the unusual experience of seeing the monster.
Man Takes His
Step-Daughter
John W. Rollins of Mecklenburg County near the Union line
ran away Monday night with his step-daughter, a young married woman. When he
left he was driving a light sorrel mare mule, about 7 years old, attached to a
top buggy. The mule and buggy belonged to the Sikes Company of Monroe, and they
want them. Rollins is about 45 years of age, dark complexioned with black hair
and mostache, and has a blue scar over his left eye. He weighs about 175
pounds.
Young Man Shot and
Killed
Ben Hunter, a white man of about 26 years old, was shot and
killed and his companion, Walter Stack, was shot in the arm. The shooting is
said to have been done by three brothers, Gus, Will and Winfred Belk, who had a
long-standing quarrel with both Hunter and Stack. The dead man got into trouble
last year by eloping with his wife’s sister. The pair came back shortly
afterward, and Hunter was living with his wife again.
An Ugly Picture
Aquilla Powell, the young son of the Halifax murderer now
serving a 30 years’ sentence in the State prison, is losing ground rapidly, and
the hope that he would recover from the pistol wound the day after he inflicted
it with suicidal purposes, at Durham, has been entirely given up. He may have a
chance in a thousand.
The young man has been one of the worst of boys, though he
is about 27 years of age now He has recently brooded deeply over his life, but
has been allowed to talk but little since he shot himself.
LATER—Powell died Monday night. The young fellow had never
really rallied but grew steadily worse, his liver having been pierced by the
bullet.
Buckwheat in North
Carolina
That buckwheat, one of the staple crops of the north and
west, can be grown successfully and with profit in some sections of North
Carolina has been abundantly demonstrated this year by the experiment of W.T.
Simpson, one of the settlers at the Castle Haynes colony, just above
Wilmington. So far as known here, this is the first successful attempt ever
made in the State to raise buckwheat, and farmers generally will be interested
in the experiment of Mr. Simpson.
Fire at Saluda
The business portion of Saluda was visited by a $10,000 to
$15,000 fire Tuesday night. There is no insurance and much damage done to the
goods saved.
Railroad for Yancey
County
A railroad will be built from Boonford to Cane River, a
distance of 19 miles from the C.C.&O., into the heart of Yancey County. An
election will be held on September15 to decide whether bonds to the amount of
$100,000 will be loaned the Black Mountain Railway Company until the completion
of the road within 12 months.
Vanderbilt Settles
Out of Court
Formal entries were made in the superior court, Asheville,
on non-suits in the two cases brought by Dr. C.A. Schenck against George W.
Vanderbilt. The suits followed the dismissal of Dr. Schenck from the position
of forester for the Biltmore estate.
One was for about $8,000 alleged to be due on back salary
and for some $2,000 in addition, said to be due on an open account. The second
suit had to do with some insurance policies. These were settled out of the
court, but the terms are not public.
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