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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1891
Page
6
A long civic and social roundup notes Fayetteville death of Mrs. Frank W. Thornton and Laurinburg death of Capt. L. W. McLaurin. Grants and pardons concern Robert Smith. James Howell gathers cotton. local rail and bank news update progress on projects.
In Greenville Mississippi Ed Dillard, jailed for stealing an overcoat, died when the town jail was set ablaze by a nearby resident at midnight. The fire consumed the gasoline magazine and the entire prison, leaving only charred remains.
A New York physician and hospital director reports P. P. P. effective in several cases and a Savannah railway superintendent cured after a wreck. The ad claims P. P. P. cleanses the blood for syphilis, skin diseases, old sores, scrofula, and other illnesses, with many certificates of success.
A organized band of twenty black men with two white leaders operated across parts of Rowan and neighboring counties. They paid 14 cents a pound for cotton in whiskey and used secret signs. G. W. Revel was jailed. Vasco Goodnight remains at large amid public outcry for conviction.
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