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. ]
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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.
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