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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1888
Page
2
The fragment shows masthead style from The Enterprise with editor name F Crutchfield and publication office address. Fee noted as one dollar yearly and second class mail statement. No clear event or local actions beyond publication details.
A 1888 High Point report traces political attacks on Senator Blackburn, a fatal 1897 West India mail wreck near Blackshear with 17 dead, Rowan County feuds and corruption calls, a Durham detective exposing Local Option crimes, and a New York blizzard toll including a murder in Gaston County.
At Ebenezer colored Methodist church in Wilmington a man named Fisher was mobbed by the congregation after his wife’s death three weeks earlier and his recent remarriage. Threats were made and only prompt aid saved them, stirring a sensational scene among the Black community.
Lydia Staples a young mulatto girl who had faced theft charges shot herself near Reidsville on the 15th. The incident ends her troubled case and police investigations proceed.
The story catalogs sheep pests in Delaware County New York and a sinking well wall in Hickory Mountain township. It reports a Ga Calhoun wind storm with damaged churches and livestock, snow in Sherman and Gainesville Texas, and political tariff debates in Washington.
The International Council of Women opens March 25 in Washington with about 2000 attendees from multiple movements. Helen M Gougar chairs the railroad committee while Susan B Anthony and Rachel Foster assist, as clerks and volunteers staff extensive outreach. The event marks the 40th anniversary of the first woman suffrage convention and expands beyond political rights to cultural and social reform fields.
A Greensboro advertisement argues for a cash only system replacing credit ledgers. It claims credit causes profit loss, favors bad debt, and raises prices for producers. The piece touts cash pricing and lists sleeping car service routes with Pullman sleepers and contact points for rates.
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