July 30, 1891—Two negroes, Aleck Banks and Jim Exum, got into an altercation here Monday night and soon came to blows. During the scrimmage Banks threw a brick at Exum, which struck him in the face and broke his cheek bone. Exum lay as one dead for a while, but finally came to life again.
On Sunday last, Henry Walston, white, killed William T. Baker, also white, near Enfield. It seems that Baker was whipping Walston’s son, when Walston engaged in the fight. He had a gun in his hand at the time, but instead of shooting Baker, hit him over the head with it, both hammers sinking into the head through the skull. Baker, it is said, attacked Walston with a knife.
Miss Ammie Powers is visiting friends in Goldsboro.
Miss Kate Ousby of Halifax is visiting the family of Mr. B.F. Gary.
Misses Annie and Kate Cohen of Enfield are visiting Miss Mabel Zollicoffer.
Miss Kate Gary, who has been visiting relatives in Jarratts, Va., has returned home.
Miss Bettie Badger of Raleigh, who has been visiting Mrs. W.H. Day, returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. J.A. Musgrove and Mrs. A.B. Pierce left for Littleton Monday where they will spend several weeks.
Mrs. J.T. Evans, who has been visiting relatives in the neighborhood of Tillery, returned home Tuesday.
Miss Willie Norwood, who has been visiting Miss Mary Pierce for the past three weeks, left for her home in Warrenton last Saturday.
Miss Addie Thorne of Bethel and the Misses Bardett of Mississippi, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Clark, returned home Saturday.
A horrible crime was committed last Thursday about 18 miles from here, near Margarettsville. Two negroes, Jack Jordan and Dred Francis, make an assault on Mrs. Amanda Lewis, white, in broad daylight, in presence of her husband, who was prevented from resistance by weakness superinduced by a long attack of sickness and by threats of the demons. The negroes were arrested and remanded to jail for trial. Dred Francis had been but a short time before discharged from the Virginia penitentiary. They are now in Halifax jail.
From the front page of The Roanoke News, “A Newspaper for the People,” Weldon, N.C., Thursday, July 31, 1924
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