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The New* and Observe** VOL. XXXYIII. NO. 134. SHEMWELL S STORY . THE SLAYER OF OR. PAYNE TESTIFIES IN HIS OWN BEHALF. HIS STORY REMAINED UNSHAKEN. Sherawell’s Appearance on the Stand is Much in his Favor— Testimony ol !Urs. Adderton, Sister-in-law ol the Late Dr. Payne—W hat Young Dr. Payne Told Adams— Countryman Teague Testifies—Shemwell’B Own Evidence was the Feuture ol the Day’s Proceedings. Special to the News ami Observer. Lexington, N. C., June 8. Mrs. Adderton, sister in law of Dr. Payne, deceased, and Baxter Shemwell were both put on the stand to day. Mrs. Adderton is an elderly lady, rather port ly, of dark complexieu, quiet gray eyes, silver hair, clear, composed voice and kindly presence. She was altogether calm during her testimony, leaving rather an impression of suppressed lament over the whole affair than of any bitterness to ward anybody. She lives on the same side a little up the street from the Paynes, in sight of their home. “After the first shooting,” said Mrs. Adderton, I saw Mr. Shemwell running across the street. At Dr. Payne’s office I saw hisson, Dr. Lee Payne, haveagim. Some little time afterward I was goiDg down to spend the day with my sister, Mrs. Dr. Payne, and as I was opening the door Mrs. Shemwell raised her hand and I went to her, and I took hold of the end of the lapel of Mr. Shemwell* coat and I insisted on his coming in. I said, ‘Mr. Shemwell come in the house, you seem to be in a rage.’ I said, ‘Think of your wife and child and many friends in the place.’ All the time he said, ‘Much obliged to you, Mrs. Adderton, 'bet i in tend to kill both the Paynes this day.’ I was inside my fence. Mr. Shemwell’a wife was doing her best to get him back up the street, but he kept looking in tently at the office.” Under cross-examinsriion by Batson, Mrs. Adderton said her cook was stand ing by her in the yard holding on to her dress and a man who was clearing the yard was leaning against the tree. Mr. Wbeeter. ferother<a-law,-aLo c .me by and tried tfs get Shemwell to go up the street Under Montgomery’s re-direct exami nation Mrs. Adderton s&id she s&w Mrs. Shemwell after the kilfeng. When she heard the two pistol shots she was in the back of her house and the aho»i went with tremendous noise and almost simul taneously. She went along up the street and would have been side by side wirh ‘ Laura,” as she called Mrs. Shemwell, had it not been for the crowd. Mrs. Shemwell stopped, and she saw Mr. Shemwell coming towards her. -She had had the kindliest feelingsin the wedd to the Shemwells up to that time. Cross-examined by Watson she was asked how much closer she was to the pistol in the second difficulty than she was in the early morning. She said she did not know. It seems that Mrs. Ad derton did not hear therepo?tof the .pis tols in the early morning. She did .not hear anything pass between Mrs. Shem well and her husband wheE the latter same up, but kept right on. X r. Tearae’s Testimoc y. A countryman named Teague, who said he*was a stranger in the town, tes tified before Mrs. Adderton, saying that he had heard Shemwell say that the Paynes had waylaid or “double teamed” on him with shot guns. That when Shemwell came out of the drug-store he said, “ Yesterday morning I was glad I did not kill young Dr. Payne (referring to the barber shop affray.) This morn ing I was sorrj I did not kill him.” Teague said he saw Shemwell take a pis tol out of his right hip pocket and some thing out of his left and was then right close to the Paynes; that the Paynes were walking up the street when Shemwell first drew hi* pistol; that he was an eye witness and was sixty or seventy-five yards from them. Under cross-examination he said he was following around first and just out of curiosity. He did not see young Dr. Payne have a pistol. Watson asked the witness had he not been in some court troubles, and cited them. Explanations of each were made by Teague and seemedplausiblefrom his standpoint. The State Kent*. its Case. At 11:35 Solicitor Holton, rising, said: “The State rests.” On this there wan a slight commotion. Mr. Watson called (sheriff Leonard to the stand, who said when Shemwell surrendered to him he did not remember his saying “I have ac complished what I had determined to do,” bat under cross examination of Montgomery said Shemwell might have said something else than “I am your prisoner” and he not heard it, as there was quite a crowd at the door. W. D. Smith Examined. W. D. Smith, a storekeeper, was called by Mr. Watson. He saw the morn ing row: saw Shemwell strike Dr. Payne with something like a newspaper pack age; could not see what Dr. Payne was doing; saw Shemwell shooting and re treating towards the street; Shemwell shot once and then three times in quick succession; then a pause of ten seconds, then four more shots between young Dr. Payne and Shemwell; old Dr. Payne bad in the meanwhile gotten behind a IPUJIBIUKO gg><DIHI<OxO>IL JEnn>WirTL<Q>lss a large tree in his yard; din not see old Dr° Payne have a pistol; saw top of Dr Payne’s head behind his gate-post and gun barrel pointing at Shemwell, who was running from tree to tree across the street and calling for a guu. Under Long’s cross examination Smith said Dr. Payne’s tone when he called Shemwell was kindly. They appear d to be talking in a friendly way for five or six seconds before the striking. Insurance Agent Adams as a Witness. Mr. S. L. {Adams, insurance agent of Alamance, was called; he was in to see young Dr. Payne nearly two months after the killing and said that Dr. Payne said he was certainly going to hang Shemwell; said „.fce spoke of Dr. Buc hanan’s unprofessional .conduct and said he was either an infamous or contempti ble scoundrel; that Shemwell’s own kins people were coming to him with evidence against Shemwell; said he was not sleep ing much at nights, but was preparing the ease against Shemwell. Under cross-examination by Mont gomery, Adams said that Payne had said that this man had murdered his father, that Shemwell or Broderick had tried to displace his father as medical examiner. Adams had told Rev. T. A. Boone, a minister here, and an oki friend. Adams said he and the preacher were discussing the passage of Scripture, “Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord,” and had said to Boone that he was surprised that there should be such bitterness. ShemwcK on the Stand. Baxter Shamwell, age 37, came to the stand at 12:30. In the story of Shem well the important parts touching the two difficulties is as follows: That in the first difficulty he was called, on his way to business, by old Dr. Payne from his house, and waited for him at the gate. Old Dr. Pay no said he understood he had drawn a pistol on his son. Shem well replied that Payne had slapped his hand on feis pistol-pocket, and that he had done what he did simply to protect himself, and that it was settled. Then old Dr. Payne asked was he not armed now. He looked at him in amaxement, when Dr. Payne caught hold of his eoat say ing, *•l can whip you myself, sir.” Then he threw up to me,” said Shemwell, “about practicing free for my mother, and several things passed. I told him I wanted them to let me and my business alone. That they had continually bothered my brother in law wad rained his bus:ness by circulating reports that he kerr old medicines and substituted prescriptions. He immediately shook his fist if my face and said, ‘You area liar. ’ I had a cologne bottle in ,-uy hand., wrapped up in a paper. I immediately reached over and struck him in the faee. He immediately reached in his pocket, pulled out his pistol -and snapped. I reached for mine, ftLd akout the same time Mr. lied wine came up and caught hold of me. I saw Doc .or Lee Payne coining out with his pistol. This was about the<time that Mr. Red wine shoved me off the sidewalk. Then I don’t remember who fired first. I retreated, emptied my pistol and got be hind the tieed The reet ot this story, has been substantially told by other wifne sea, except that Shemwell denied that he had said to Mrs. Adderton that he would kill the Paynes before night, but said, “They have waylaid and tried to kill mo. ” Aft to the Second Shooting. As to the second shooting, Shemwell says that be said in his store after the trial that the whole thing was settled, and that it was understood between him and his wife that they would ride out to the farm in their carriage; that he left bis wife at the drug store because he did not care to drag her through the crowd of people. So he started Lome to get the carriage, telling her he was going across the street for a few moments, in order to keep her from knowing that he tnought the Paynes had gotten home and that they had been dis armed ; that he had two pistols, one of which was his wife’s that he was e rrying back, the other one -beir g that which he had emptied but had re loaded since; that he saw the Paynes some distance from their office, and tried to pass them, thinking that, once in their ®Jice, they would get guns acid again attack him; that just before reach ing them, Mr. Orotts accompanying, cred, “Shemwell's on you;” that young Payne drew his pistol and snapped it at him; that old Dr. Payne grabbed his arms and shoved him to tbe street; that he loosened himself, and having only young Dr. Payne In mind, got out both his pistols, and fired one or both at him; that the young doctor, in trying to reach around his father .to shoot him (Shem well), fell under him, and that old Dr. Payne fell on top of him. Shcmvrcll’is Story Remained UnAbakcn. This was the main impact of Shem well’s story, which was attacked by Long with cold, searching persistent analysis and force, but Shemwell stuck to his story from beginning to end without wavering a hair’s breadth. But in numerous instances on vital questions he answered “I do not recollect,” or “I can’t remember,” which of course caused what he said to seem weaker than if his memory had enabled him satisfactorily to answer the question put by the adroit cross examiner. Shemwell talked perfectly coolly, tip ped his chair backwards and forwards in a leisurely way, and when once he fell back over the step when his chair slipped he arose without a flutter. His appearance is all in his favor, his manner being unusually gentle and his face more winning than otherwise. Mr. Long went over a long list of scrapes in which Shemwell had been engaged and put them in for what they were worth, Shemwell giving an explanation of each representing plausibly his side. W. E. Christian. RALEIGH, N. C.. TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1895. GROVER’S NEW GIRL TINY NEW-COMER INTO TIIE HOUSEHOLD AT GRAY GABLES. NAME SAID TO BE “ELSA.” The Third Child to be Born Into the President’s Family, and All ol Them are Girls—“lt’s a Fine Baby,” Said the Family Physician—Mr. Cleve land’s Face Wears a Broad Smile ol Satisfaction Since the Happy Event. Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., July B.— Mrs. Cleveland was safely delivered of a daughter at 4:30 Sunday afternoon. Dr. Bryant reports that Mrs. Cleveland and the little one are resting quietly, and that everything is progressing finely. He will add nothing except that the new comer is a “fine little girl.” Telegraph boys have paid numerous visits to the house to-day bearing mes sages of congratulation to the President from all parts of the country. The child’s name will be “Elsa,” it is said. This is the third child to be born into the President’s family and all of them are girls. Ruth is four years old and Esther two. Only a passing glance could be obtained from the President this afternoon, bet that was sufficient to note an expression of satisfaction on the face oi the Chief Executive, although it was an open secret that a boy baby would not have been unwelcome. Mrs. Cleveland's mother, Mrs. Perrine, is ex pected to arrive from Buffalo this week. The new baby cannot claim the Title of being t real White House baby. Os the line of genuine White House babies little Esther Cleveland is the last. Hereto fore the good mothers of these parts, full of fine prophecy, instinct with a mother’s pride, declared with one voice that Mrs. Cleveland should not fail to reside at the White House through tbe present month. Fathers asserted that the President would in common prrde of hu man nature, incline to make the White House the theater of his third appear ance in the role of parent. They one and all insisted that Gray Gables was an impossibility at this interesting junc ture and that the new infant was mor ally secure of a White House start in life. All this argument and prophecy, based ov natinct, was, however, set at naught, and Gray Gabtes was, after all, made the center of July interest. In company with Joseph Jefferson and Charles B. Jefferson, Mr. Cleveland ; spent nearly all day trout fishing at East I Banchvieh, where Mr. Jefferson has a j private stream. The party left early in j the day and did not return uutil nearly six o’clock. j Ruth and Esther did not drive wrtfa their nurses to tbe village this noon as they have done almost every day since their arrival at Gray Gables, nor were : the horses sent to the postoffioe, but a j messenger was dispatched on foot | after the mail. The children remained ; at their play, often chattering as they i ran about the piazzas and lawn over the | little sister so recently introduced to | them. Both children seem delighted with the idea of having another little one in the household. Jail Delivery at Hendersonville. Special to the News and Observer. Asheville, N. 0., July 8. All the prisoners, three whites and two negsoes, in the county jail at Henderson escaped last night by breaking the cage locks and cutting through theceilingand plastering, crawling through a ventila tor and lowering themselves to the ground by the aid of blankets. Sheriff Grant telegraphed for blood hounds and ex pects the men will soon be recaptured. German at-HiMhbr.ru. Special to the News and Observer. Hillsboro, N. 0., July 8. There was a german here this evening given complimentary to Mbs Sadie Gra ham. of Washington, I). C., and Miss Webb, of Demopolis, Ala., in which forty couples participated. Quint Branch’s band, from Raleigh, furnished the music. Glover Appointed Traffic Manager. Norfolk, Va., July B.—The announce ment of the appointment of H. W. B. Glover as Traffic Manager of the Sea board Air-Line system, with headquar ters at Portsmouth, was made to day by Vice-President St. John. He will have supervision of the freight and passenger traffic of the entire line. Concord Graded Schools. The Concord graded schools were es tablished under a speejal act of the Leg islature of 1891, and were begun in the autumn of that year. Prof. E. P. Man gum, a son of the late Dr. A. W. Man gum, of the State University, was the first superintendent, and organized the schools. He resigned in 1892, and ac cepted a position in the graded schools of Asheville. They have been success fully conducted by the present superin tendent since 1892. New Graded Ncliool* Authorized. The last Legislature passed special acts, authorizing an extra tax levy for graded schools in the following towns: Clinton, Mt. Airy, Warrenton, Ruther fordton, Washington and Henderson ville. The act authorizing a special tax for Rocky Mount was repealed. TIIE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL. Four Members ol the Faculty Arc in Europe, Thiee Are at Cornell, Two at The University ol North Carolina, and The Others Are at Other Schools. Spe ial to the News and Observer. Greensboro, N. C., July 8. Your correspondent visited the premi ses of the State Normal and Industrial School a few days ago. Important im provements are being made there. Large additions to both the brick buildings are in progress and will be ready for occu pancy when Dext year’s work begins, October 4th. From President Mclver, who remains at home this summer to supervise this work and to attend to his correspon dence, I received the following interest ing items in regard to the faculty’s sum mer movements Miss Kirkland, Miss Bingham, Miss Stone and Miss Lee will spend their vaca tion in Europe. Messrs. Claxton and Brown are mem bers of the faculty of the University Summer School at Chapel Hill. Miss Bryant is doing some special work in North Carolina Geology, Mr. Joyner, Miss Boddie and Mrs. Robertson are studying in their special lines at the Summer School at Cornell University. Miss Fort is doing special work in Arehitectual Art at Cincinnati. Miss Mclntyre is at Chautauqua, New York. Miss Mendenhall is spending the summer in Minneapolis. Dr. Gove is doing special work in medicine and Miss Crocker in elocution. Mr. Forney is assisting President Mc lver in his office work and is supervising the building. There will be two or three additions to the faculty next year. Otherwise the only important change will be the tem porary absence cr Miss Petty, who for the past two years, has had charge of the Chemistry and Physics. Miss Petty is a graduate of Guilford College and afterwards spent four years at Welhsley, graduating from that institution with the B. S. dagree. A Fellowship worth about six hundred dollars at Bryn Mawr College has been tendered Miss Petty and she will accept it and spend the next year doiDg advanced work in her special line. The Board of Directors granted her leave of absence for one year and her place will be supplied for the year by & competent teacher. ThefSalisbury Graded School**. Salisbury Graded Schools were j among feue first established in the Sta’e, and were organized under an net of the Legislature of 1877, allowing the taxes paid by the white race to be used for white schools, and the taxes paid by the negroes, for colored schools. Hon. W. T. Dortch, who was the author of the noted bill under which so many graded schools were established, got the idea of thk divfckra of taxes from the Salisbury Act. The Supreme Court declared the act unconstitutional, and many of the schools were compelled to suspend. The Salisbury schools were among the few that did not suspend. Prof. J. W. Wea therly was the organizer of these schools, and their-first Superintendent. Ho was succeeded, after a number of years effi cient sol vice by Prof. li. G. Kizer, who conducted the schools up to two years ago, when Prof. Harry L. Overman was elected superintendent. The course em braces nine grades, and extends from the alphabet to Latin, Algebra and a general high school course. Reidaville Graded Schools. The Reidsville graded schools were es tablished in 1887, and have been in suc cessful operation from that day to this. The white school population of the town is 688; per cent, of school population en rolled in the schools 64.5. Colored school population, 742; per cent, enrolled in schools, 38 76. Total number of pupils enrolled, white 321, colored 321, total 638. Average daily attendance, whit* 274, colored 221, total 495. Cost of tui tion (including all expenses) per pupil per week, 79c. It is very economically conducted, and is one of the best man aged schools in the State. Prof. Edwin S. Sheppe, former editor of the “South ern Educator,” is the efficient superin tendent At the end of its eighth year the school is on a solid basis, and is firmly entrenched in tbs affections of the people of Reidsville. Shelby Graded Schools. The Shelby graded schools were estab lished in 1891, and began operations in the autumn of that year. Prof. Charles J. Parker was elected superintendent, but resigned to take a position as princi pal of the Centennial graded school, Raleigh. He organized the schools how ever, and Prof. E. O. Wingo, a graduate of the University of Virginia, was elected superintendent. He soon resigned and the present superin ten dent Prof. Frank H. Curtis, then living in South Carolina*, w s elected to the superintendency, and has ever since successfully conducted the schools. The schools opened with 354 whites and 112 colored children; and with five white and two colored teach ers. It has steadily increased in atten dance and influence, and is on a fine foundation. The Newborn School. Newbern had an excellent era led school, under the Dortch Act, and the school was in successful operation until 1885 Since that timea school has been conducted with the money appro; riated to rhe white children of the city, aided by the interest on an endowment fund left the schools by one of the city’s philanthropists. BIG BATTLE IN CUBA TIIE INSURGENTS LOST TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY' MEN, THE SPANISH, FIFTY. FOUGHT NEAR MANZANILLO, In the Province ot Santiago de Cuba-- Gen, Martinez Campos Goes in Per son to Santa Espiritues, Where the Insurgents Have Gained Some Foot hold—Twenty-Nine Persons Sent to the Island of Pinos for Participating in Political Conspiracies. Havana, July B.—A severe engage ment has taken place between the Spifh ish troops, under the command of Col. Azuar, and Rabi, the Insurgent com mander, at the head of a large force. Two hundred and eighty of the latter were killed. It appears that Maj. Sanchez received information to the effect that a force of 1,500 Insurgents, under the command of Rabi, had occupied strong positions near Manzanillo, Province of Santiago de Cuba. Consequently the Major sent a messenger to his superior officer, Col Aguar, proposing to tne Colonel that they should join their forces and make an attack upon the Insurgents. The messenger, however, fell into the hands the Insurgents, who hanged him and sent word to Major Sar.chez in the name of Col. Azuar to make an attack upon the Insurgent p< sition from a point which compelled the troops to approach the Insurgents through a narrow thorough fare. Major Sanchez, recognizing the difficulty of the movement he was appar ently directed by his Colonel to execute, j sent forward two advance pickets of I twelve and thirty men respectively, i under the command of two sergeants, with instructions to push forward to the right and to the left of the narrow thor oughfare referred to and to be careful to take up advantageous positions from which they oould protect the al - vanoe of the main body of the troops under Sanchez’s command. The ser geants cleverly followed out the instruc tions given them. Major Sanchez then advanced carefully upon the Insurgent position, protecting his men by every in equality of the ground. But, as he ex pected, the troops were no sooner inside the defile than the Insurgents attacked them in force. The first charge of the Insurgents was made with enthusiasm and - ttcG r’.c'-hetes n’»yed have* among the troops, who were hem : mod in and unable to deploy on account of tbe narrow road they had to follow. But it was here that the two advance pickets under the two sergeants came to the rescue. From their elevated position they kept up a continuous and well directed fire upon the Insurgents within range and eventually, assisted by a charge of the Spanish troops, com pelled them to retreat outside of the defile. The troops pushed forward after them and, once in the open, they charged the Insurgents with great courage and compelled them to retreat hastily. The Insurgents then sought refuge in the strong position they had previously left in order to attack the troops; but the soldiers carried this posi tion and put the enemy to flight, with the loss upon the field of 280 killed. The troops lost fifty men in killed and wounded. It was at first reported that the Insur gents were commanded by Gen. Maceo; but it was subsequently learned that they were under the command ot Rabi alone, and that Maceo took no part in the en gagement. In another fight reported from Ve guita, tbe insurgents under Rabi lost five killed and many wounded, while on the side of the troops, one officer and four soldiers were wounded. News of another defeat of the Insurg ents ; reached here from Bellemotas, in the province of Santa Clara. Bellemotas was garrisoned by an officer and fifty soldiers who occupied a fortified barrack building. The place was attacked by the Insurgents under Castillo. The enemy built a large fire to windward of the bar racks and flames communicated to that building. The Insurgent leader then sent word to the soldiers forming part of the Union battalion, notifying them to surrender under pain of being burned alive. The officer sent word to Castillo in reply that he preferred to die fighting dr be burned to death than to surrender to the Insurgents. In the meanwhile some of the soldiers succeeded in extin guishing the flames which threatened to consume the barracks, and while they were doing so the remainder of the gar rison kept up a continuous fire from their rifles on the Insurgents. The latter re plied from every point but the garrison held ont gallantly for two hours. The news of the Insurgents’ attack had in the meantime been communicated to a detachment of Spanish soldiers in the neighborhood, and they pushed forward with all possible haste to the relief of the garrison of Bellomotas. The moment they reached that place a brisk fire was opened upon the Insurgents and the latter immediately retired, leaving many dead on the field. Os the troops three were killed and four were wounded. The Insurgents have burned a church near Banao, in Santa Espiritues district of the province of Santa Clara. Captain General Martinez de Campos has left Placetas for Santa Espiritues. Twenty nine persons have been sent to the Island of Pinos for participating in political conspiracies. Elizabeth City has a handsome school building, and a school of high gmle, conducted by Superintendent W. M. Hin- : ton. ] 24 PAGES--ln 3 Parts. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Great crowds of poople witnessed the finsl trial of the Cornell crew at Henley on-the Thames. A terrific cyclone yesterday swept over Kansas and upper Missouri, almost dc strying several villages. The situation is very grave in the Elk horn miuing region. Danger is immi nent and trouble may occur at any time. At Owensville, Ky., ex Congressman Young’s son cut his cousiu, Pliney Fas sett, who died. Great excitement pre vailed. Their mother attempted to separate her two sons, Pink and Frank Williams, who were fighting, in Montgomery coun ty, and was killed. Ex-Secretary of State Johu W. Foster arrived in Washington from China, where he has taken a conspicuous part in the diplomatic branch of the China- Japan conflict. Tbe Georgia Supremo Court reversed Judge Lumpkin’s decision in the South ern railway case regarding tbe location of shops in Atlanta. The Southern will spend 1300,000 in building shops. Thomas Norville. colered, was hanged in jail at Mobile, Ala., yesterday for the murder of Louis Coleman, colored, whom he killed last summer. This was the third legal execution therein a year. A special from Greenville, S C.. says Langford, wtio was shot by Ira John son, a negro, died yesterday afternoon, after suffering great agony. Johnson was safely lodged in Greenville jai». There are threats of lyncbmg. Mrs. Mattie Chambers, living near Tacoma, Washington, received an infer nal machine, sent by Rev. B. F. Fuller of the Christian church, who was jilted by Mrs. Chambers about a year ago, and was last heard of at Raleigh, N. C. The canoe race for the lew York Canoe Club’s international challenge cup was sailed at Gravesend Bay yesterday afternoon. Charles Archibald’s canoe, Mab, the Canadian challenger, was de feated by Paul Butler’s canoe, Wasp, the American defender by two miles over the nine mile course. A special to the New York Herald from Santiago De Cuba says General Antonio Maceo is now, according to the , reports from Spanish sources, hemmed in between El Cobre and Ramanagana guas, threatened on the one side by the Spanish General Gasco and on the other . side by the Spanish columns of Navawru RASEIIALL YESTERDAY. At Pith burg: Bouton trame postponed on account o* wet grounds. At Ixmisville: Txmisville, 00000231 0-6 Washington, 002000000—2 Batteries: Cunningham and Warner; Boyd and McGuire. Umpire, McDonald. At Clncinnat’: Clnclnratl, 310101010 -7 Brooklyn, 1000 3 2032- 11 Batteiiee: Parrot and Murphy; Lucid and Grim. Umpire, Galvin, At Cleveland : Cleveland, 00 00 0020 2—4 Philadelphia, 001002006-3 Batteries: Cnpnyand O’Connor; Zim mer, Carsey and Clements. Umpire, Keefe At St. Louis: St. Louis, 0 0 01 8 0 0 0 o—3 Baltimore, 0 01010 101—4 Batteries: Staley and Otten; Heffer and Clark. Umpire, Jevene. At Chicago : Chicago, 00202000 I—s New York, 02002 0 00 6—4 Batteries: Terry and Donohue; Meekln. D. C.ark and Farrell. The Fayetteville School. For a number of years Fayetteville had an excellent graded school, con ducted by Prof. Alex. Graham, now of Charlotte, under an unique arrangement. The white committee for the township applied to the school board for the money apportioned to the white race in the township, and this was then supple mented by private contributions. These were received in the form of noteß, and as soon as enough of these notes to pay teachers’ salaries were secured, the school began operation. Mr. John D. Williams personally guaranteed the notes, taking the responsibility for their payment. Under the management of Prof. Gra ham no school in the State stood higher than this. Bat when he resigned to take charge of the graded schools of Charlotte, the plan fell through, and the school un der this arrangement was discontinued. The Legislature of 1893 passed an act authorizing an election for a special school tax for Cross Creeks township to be held. But this was deteated, the negroes, who were to be most benefited, voting solidly against it. The schools of Fayetteville are now conducted with the money apportioned to the white school children of the town ship, there being no special levy. Shot From Ambiuh by Moonshiners. Solicitor E. W. Pou says that M. G. Holland, who was shot from ambush while picking whortleberries in Johnston county last Taesday, is in a very preca rious condition, and will probably die. Holland, it seems, was out looking for a blockade distillery, with the intention of reporting it to the Federal authorities, and it is supposed that Holland was shot by the moonshiners, who had learned of his intentions. Chamber of Commerce To-Night. Let members of the Chamber of Com merce remember the regular monthly meeting at the Mayor’s office to-night. PAGES 1 to 8.
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