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Sunday, August 19, 2018

News From Across N.C. Begins with 30-Foot Whale at Morehead City, 1910

“News of the North State,” from the Eastern Carolina News, Kenansville, N.C., August 17, 1910.

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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