State News Briefs Reflect Wide Ranging North Carolina Happenings
The item haul covers murder charges in Johnston, railroad station upgrades at Sanford, land sales in North Wilkesboro, a large hog and potato reports, thefts and burglaries in multiple towns, weather and crop notes, criminal cases, church updates, and a mix of local incidents across Ashe Alleghany Forsyth and surrounding counties.
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Lenoir
W. E Stafford
Johnston County
Smithfield
Henry Albright
Alamance
North Wilkesboro
W. J. O Iver
Statesville
Kinston
Goldsboro
Cape Fear
Yadkin Valley
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Sanford
Iredell County
Iredell Superior Court
Sherif Teague
Forsyth County
Kinston Free Press
Mesera
Mark & Beo
Simon Graff
Large cigar factory destroyed by fire in Puiapetonia
Fire at Marios Morales’s factory on Pine street in Puiapetonia caused an estimated loss of 100000. Morales, president of the American Cuban societies in San Francisco, is linked to the blaze as owner and leader of the plant.
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Puiapetonia
Marios Morales
Pine Street
Vuban Societies
San Francisco
United
Marshal Long
Kentucky
Senate
Atlanta
Rilroad
Gov. Northen
R K_ Reeves
Richmond and
Danville Company
Weiss & Goldstein
Greenville
Miss
Yazoo Delta
Juri
Coopersville
Porter
Melvin
Charley Chambers
Duel to Death in Land Dispute Near Grexx WNC
Grexx WNC reports a fatal pistol duel over disputed land. Doc Smith and Rouer Dughter killed each other after Smith ordered Slaughter to halt cutting the land. Smith’s brother attacked Slaughter, then both died in the exchange. Inquest underway. Occurred about nine miles from town.
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Grexx
WNC
Ohio's Election Yields McKinley Lead in Most Counties
With all but two counties counted, Governor McKinley leads by about 8 187 votes as the official total nears. Only Pike County shows a Democratic gain of 121 votes. Attorney General Richards rules the constitutional amendment failed needing a majority of all General Assembly votes to pass.
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Cotvumsus
McKinley
Pike
Richards
General Assembly
Woman Convicted In District Court For Whiskey Dealing
Mary L. Cooper of Franklin County received a $100 fine and one month in jail after conviction for illicit whiskey dealing. Dan Talley, a white man, was arrested in Pittsylvania County and jailed at Cratham on a charge of attempting a criminal assault on Mrs Beverly L Atkins.
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Danville
United States District Court
Mary L. Cooper
Franklin County
Dan Talley
Pittsylvania County
Cratham
Beverly L. Atkins
Tragic double murder at Abilene wedding scene
In Abilene Texas tragedy erupts near Douglasville when Trinidad Romer, a wealthy Mexican suitor, kills Nathan Sorowski after being promised marriage to Julius Larinski’s daughter. Romer later marries Larinski’s daughter and boasts of the murder at the wedding feast before his wife attacks him with a butcher knife.
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Abilene
Texas
Douglasville
Trinidad Romer
Julius Larinski
Romer
Larinski
Suttor
Nathan Sorowski
Sorowski
Lerinski
Mrs. Romer
Tragic double murder ends with self-inflicted fatal shot
A bride enraged by perceived betrayal plunges a knife into her throat and dies. Her husband shoots himself after also dying from a shotgun blast. The crazed Larinski blames Trinidad Romer for the tragedy and a mysterious man Sorowski returns claiming he was hired for a cattle deal in Eddy New Mexico, then goes to Douglasville.
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Larinski
Trinidad R
Sorowski
Romer
Eddy
N. M
Douglasville
Roanoke Riot Case Ends in Acquittal for Page
Edward Page was acquitted in Roanoke Virginia on a felony lynching charge involving Thomas Smith from the September 20 incident. He had boasted of tying the rope but testimony placed him at his home at the time. J Frank Steppard and W S Boone face trial tomorrow. Chief Terry and Sgt Griffin are accessories before the fact awaiting proceedings while Boone is out of town.
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Roanoke
Edward Page
Thomas Smmith
Smith
J. Frank Steppard
W.S Boone
Terry
Griffin
Boone
Roanoke Quarantines Southwest Virginia Towns Over Smallpox
Roanoke Virginia Nov 15 the city Board of Health quarantines Roanoke and several Southwest Virginia towns Saltville Wytheville and Pulaski where small pox is reported and requires incoming trains from the Southwest to be examined by physicians before entry Vaccination will begin immediately with two physicians assigned to each ward Officials say there is no need for alarm though a Saltville case labeled as measles may mislead the line spread possibility along the N and W rail.
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Roanoke
Roanoke Board of Health
Virginia
Saltville
Wytheville
Pulaski
Norfolk and Western
Bank of England Trouble Rumors Surface About Finances
London reports claim the Bank of England faces rumors of bad finandering connected to its South American and Mexican dealings and irregular securities substitutions. Directors met at length with no resignations, while the exact loss remains unconfirmed though not expected to exceed £20,000.
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London
Bank of England
Daily Telegraph
May
Fatal Feud Ends in Double Death at Mount Pinion
In Moust Pixton Alabama a mill dispute turns deadly as Sheriff Hewett arrests Alex Smith at the mill. Joel and Ambrose Smith die, Hewett is wounded, and Massey and others report the gunfire starting the fatal clash. The elder Smith is killed by a shot from Hewett and Joe Smith is shot by Massey. Hewett survives.
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Moust
Alex Smith
Hewett
Tom Massey
Smith
Joe Smith
Massey
Murderer hunt after sheriff killed in ambush
A Henry County sheriff J M Breedlove was shot and killed by a Black man named Coleman in an ambush near Nashville Tennessee. Bloodhounds were carried from Paris Tennessee to aid the chase.
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J. M. Breedlove
Murder of Sheriff Breedlove Sparks Manhunt in Henry County
A sheriff in Henry County was killed yesterday afternoon. Eanes Joleman is suspected after Coleman was seen riding the sheriff’s horse northward. Bloodhounds and mounted squads scour the county. A reward is being sought from the governor and a lynching threat looms if caught.
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Breedlove
Eanes Joleman
Coleman
Henry County
Thurber Whyland Company Goes Into Individual Assignment
Francis B. Thurber head of the Thurber Whyland Company made an individual assignment to Boudinot Keith with no preferences. Justice Andrews appointed Andrew Kirk of Newark and Thomas Reid of Newark as receivers, bonds set at 100000 each. The company owes about 800000, including 500000 in commercial paper, and conducts about 122000 in weekly business.
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New York
Francis B. Thurber
Thurber, Whyland Company
Boudinot Keith
Justice Andrews
Andrew Kirk
Newark
N. J
Thomas Reid
Disappearance Sparks Church Scandal in Baltimore
Baltimore church leader Rev Charles M Bragg and church organist Miss Ianthe Phelps vanished leaving letters saying they will not return. Bragg, 43, led Calvary Methodist Church since 1892 and previously ran a West Virginia newspaper. Phelps, 17, is the daughter of Richard Phelps. The missing man’s wife grieves as a sealed note on his desk hints at ruin and death.
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Baltimore
Charles M Bragg
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Ianthe Phelps
Bragg
West Virginia
Calvary Church
Ronceverte
W. Va
Miss Phelps
Richard Pheps
Spanish police hunt anarchists after theater outrage
Barcelona authorities rounded up the president and several trade society members along with chief engineers and mechanics on suspicion of involvement in the Leciuma theater bombing. Searches uncovered cartridges dynamite and grapeshot believed to be stock for bombs in Paris also reports from London note coal price rises and pending wage talks as miners demand no wage cuts.
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Lceum
Paris
Senate
Challemel la Cour
Loxpun
Samuel Woods
Ince
Lancashire
Woods
Lancashire Miners” Federation
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain
London
Lora Roseberry
LoxDun
Edward Grey
Foreign Office
Mekong
Battambang
Mece
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