State News Chronicle of late 1800s Carolina items
Dream of the State Press drops of turpentine across east and rice grains from the north. Oxford to build a big modern hotel. Yadkin jail noted. a tramp killed by a train near Charlotte. Oxford funds YMCA. Grippe sickly country. Fayetteville farmers plan truck farming. Wilmington sinking fund near 100600. Various local notices on mills, fires, deaths, real estate, and political matters across North Carolina counties and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Yadkin County
Charlotte
Fayetteville
Wilmington
Winston
Gastonia
Dixie Cotton Mills
John Bethune A. Charlotte
Buford
A. Hales
E T. Cansler
Cumberland
Newton
Jesse Bost
Catawba
Durham
Stanly County
Yadkin Railroad Company
New York
Blowing Rock
Lenoir
Leuiburg
Bryant Wilder
Harris
McD. Williams
Spout Springs
Lumberton Robesonian
R. T. Covington
M. G. McKenzie
Red Springs
Robeson County
Rockingham
Mahala Lovins
Beaver Dam Church
Tast
Goldsboro
Mary Barfield
E. B. Herring
Grip
Sarah Freeman Joblin
James Joblin
Jesse Freeman
James Wood
Greensboro
Frank H. Wood
N. C
A. W. Thomas
Washington, N. C
Mayo
Samuel R. Fowle
Mount Airy
Surry County
N. D Howe
Westfield Township
Ohio
Greenville
M. L. Flynn
Pantego
Jones
Monroe
Edgecombe County
Fire, explosions and crimes hit towns across the South
A spate of fires and blasts strikes Columbus and Chester mills in Georgia and Ohio, with losses totalling hundreds of thousands. In Memphis a young society lady killed a friend over a love dispute. Across stations and towns from Breston to Meridian a string of disasters and crimes unfolds, including bank closures, train robberies, and a streetcar shooting in New Orleans as authorities probe the incidents and seek accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Millen
Chester
Memphis, Tenn
Arethusa
Breston
Cape Espartel
Straits of Gibraltar
Umpra
WashInnton
Schofield
Stanley
Department of Texas
Garza
Brimincham
Ala
Queen and Crescent
Meridian
Miss
Round House
Cumberland
Times
Beverly
W. Va
Court House
Briston
Tenn
Dr. Baker
Talton Gall
Wise County
Virginia
New York
Cyrus W. Field
Lamar, Mo
Missouri Pacific
Sheldon
New Haven
Conn
James Reynolds
Michael
James White
Massey
James Creem
Branford
Putnam, Conn
Thompson Station
New York and New England
William Cranska
Cranska
Ottawa
Ontario
Lake of the Woods
United States Canning Company
Pelee Isl and Bass
Lexington
Patrick McCarthy
Baltimore & Ohio
Harrisburg
North River
McCarthy
Our Treaties With France Progressing Paris Extradition Talks Begin
Negotiations with the United States on extradition are under way alongside commercial treaty discussions in Paris and Washington. United States Minister Reid will carry a draft extradition treaty when he sails to the United States to speed ratification. The commercial talks aim at a convention admitting French sugar and hides into the United States in exchange for American timber and other articles at French ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United States
Washington
Reid
Feud Ends in Goose Creek Killing near Bullskin Salt Works
Report from Somerset Kentucky of a long running feud erupting on Goose Creek when John Dezarm was shot by John Hensley as he rode away on a mule. Hensley used a needle gun, the ball killing Dezarm. Hensley surrendered at Manchester and is jailed along with two alleged accomplices, as local excitement grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina Smelting Company
New Jersey
North Carolina
Thomasville
Boylan Pack
Rocky Mount Argonaut
Geo L. Parker
Shelby Aurora
A. F. Whisnant
Goldsboro
Louis Whitfield
Holy Land
Davie County
Thomas F. Eaton
Cana
Samuel Tatum
Jerusalem
Mocksville
Granville County
Richmond & Danville
Durham & Northern
Atlantic & Danville
Quaker Bridge Road
Onslow County
Elizabeth City
Jesse Mercer
Townsend Ward
Ryland Chowan
Winston Sentinel
Shace Morris
Walkertown
The
State University
University Memorial
Neuse River Bridge
Releigh Chronicle
Department of Agriculture
Greensboro
Surry County
Brim
Washington Gazette
Perkins
J. D. Murphey
Greenville
P. P. Alston
St. Michael's Episcopal Shurch
Charlotte
C. C. Quinn
Lyman
Charlotte News
R. DeArmon
Mecklenburg
Mallard Creek Township
de Armon
Board of County Commissioners
Red Springs
J. A. Ginny
RF. de Vane
P. W. Griffith
State Fireman's Relief Association
Alamance Gleaner
F. L. Herbin
Altamahan
Somerset
Clay County
John Dezarm
John Hensley
Bullskin Salt Works
Goose Creek
Hensley
John Dezarim
Ile
Dezarm
Manchester
Dick Abner
Duel Between Two Girls Ends in Hair Pull Fight
A Cherokee Strip visitor recounts a North Texas settlement tale of two former friends who duel with pistols using blank cartridges. After walking ten paces, they fire to the last round, but drop their weapons and fight with hair pulling. They later turn on the instigating cowboy, then reconcile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkeboro
Ashe County
Emmett Long
Bob Phipps
Long
Phipps
Shelby Review
Lincoln Paper Mills
W. & R Tiddy
R. M. Oates
Charlotte
Finger
McIver
State Normal and Industrial School For
Greensboro
Alderman
Fisher Hill
Wilkes
Washington Gazette
Washington
Wilkes County
Greensboro Revenue Officers
Patterson
Walker
High Point Enterprise
Virginia
Charles Knapp
Bellevue Hospital
Tarboro Southerner
Shell Bank
Deebead
Charlotte Chronicle
W. E. Mellwane
Presbyterian Church
Alabama
W. E. Kerr
Beattie’s Ford Road
Congregational Methodist Church
Winston Sentinel
R.T. Joyce
W B. Shelton
Mt. At. Airy
Mt. Airy
Rockingham Spirit of the South
Beaver Dam Township
Daniel McDoald
Rockingham
W. D. Ussery
Ussery
Farmington
Salisbury
Atchman
Doud Bohannon
Homewell
Kansas
Cherokee Strip
Texas
No Man’s Land
Maters
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State News
Sampson County
Samuel Wilson
Wayne County
Wilson
Sam Matthews
Board of County Commissioners of
Mecklenburg County
Joe Lindy
Germanton
Raleigh Wall
Lamberton Jovesonian
B. W. Townsend & Co
Messrs. McNeill & McLean
Lumberton
Kinston Free Press
Plato Collins
W. E. Darden
Phi Society
Uiversity
Lenoir County
Graham's Township
Geo. Weeks
Rumple
John L. Brown
Presbyterian Home
Presbyterian
Clinton S. C
Clinton
Chatham Record
Cynthia Aston
Chatham
Raleigh Chronicle
Sam Jones
Lemon Springs
Moore County
Spivey
Martin County
Grizle
Dave Frailey
H. F. Walker
Edger Ransom
Huntersville
Charlotte Chronicle Weldon News
Virginia BE. M. Tilkehman
J. B Tilghman, Sr
J. N. Thompson
Davidson College
Pink Granite Company
Dunn's Mountain
Bryan E. Shear
Washington, D. C
F. B. Arendell
Herald
New Berne Journal
East Carolina, Fish, Oyster, Game and Industrial Association
Tarboro
J. J. Summerlin
South Person Street
D. W. Royster
State Guard
Southport
Norfolk, Western and Charleston
Brunswick County
Green Swamp
Page
Seversville
Cleveland
Aurora
John Mauney
Elizabeth
John Bailey
Portland
Oregon
Oregonian
Boise City
Idaho
Washincox
D.C
Mr. Livington
Senator Vance
Representative Prexler
Danvilre
Eugene Ferguson
F. J. Ferguson
Lank Jordan
Ferguson
New Orleans
Canal Street
France
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