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. DEKPEItATE FIGHT IN A JAIL.
Tw Notorious Outlaws Get Away After
au Excitiug CouibaE A Trouiiueut
Youn Man Shot Dead.
Sumpterville, Fla., Feb. 16.
Henry Wilson and Julius Good
win, notorious negro outlaws,
made a savage attack on Deputy
Sherriff Charles Lane, yesterday
afternoon as he was. leading
them into their cells from tha
corridor. The officer was knocked
Vj the floor and seriously wound
ed. The men then ran through
the jailer's residence and were
attacked by -Airs.' Lane, who was
rushing to the assistance of the
officer 1 with a Winchester rifle
and repeating gun in her hands.
The negroes attacked her and
wrenched the weapons from her.
The woman's screams attracted
a great crowd and the negroes,
barricading themselves behind
their victim, began using their
weapons on all who entered the
house. George Stafford, . a
young white man, who was
gerously wounded in the head
with a club, and Willie Porter,
another white man, was badly
wounded in a clinch fight.
In a few minutes news of the
battle at the sheriff's house
spread through the town and
places of business were closed
and scores of people with all
kinds of weapons ran to the
scene. The negroes had rushed
up stairs and barricaded them
selves from the throng below.
Leo Gr&ham, one of the most
prominent young men in the city,
with gun in hand, attempted to
reach the second floor and was
shot dead on the staps. In the
excitement following the murder,
the men escaped through the
rear, and though sevoral shots
were fired at them in the,pursuit,
managed to get away. Both of
them are believed to;be seriously
, wounded.
Thl9 is the Way to Do Us.
The Graded School and the
Concord High School held but
one session today. The weath
er's too bad anyhow to go to
school. It's about right for
snow-balling and rabbit hunting.
The wonder isthat these big
folks with their heads full of
learning ever thought so far for
us boys andgirls
Dies ot Consumption.
Miss Eddie McCurdy, a very
XJopulai and charming young
lady, died Saturday night at the
home of her mother near Flowe's
of consumpton Sho leaves a
sorio.;' mother, three steers
ar1 i -.i ' r-. i'" v.';.-;-tors
half brother to
mourn their loss. She was laid
to rest today (Monday) at 12
o'clock in tho .Howell's Baptist
church car; ol cry.
Mi.s.3 McCurdy was about 22
years old and leaves many sor
rowing friends.
LADY BURNED TO DEATH.
Mis Mamie McKaue, of Central Tele-
phoutf Office vt Charlotte Dies From
Her Burning Olotbtug Saturday Morn
ing.
Miss Mamie McKane, the night
operator of the Charlotte Tele
phone Company, was fatally
burned m the central office there
at 3:45 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. She died at St. Peter's hos
pital at noon.
Death was but a timely mercy
as the young woman suffered un
told agonies while consciousr
ness lasted, which was two hours
after the horrible accident.
Ther.e was no one in the room
with her save her little nine-year-old
brother, who lay sleeping on
some blankets.
She was putting wood into the
heater and as she dropped the
wood on the bed of coals a flame
sPranS out of the damPer and
caught her skirts. These being
dan-;cottoa and linen burned with
awful rapadity. bbe attempted
to smother the names with blank
ets on which her brother lay but
they also ourned and being in
frantic pain and distress she ran
screaming down two flights of
stairs and out into th snow.
Two policemen near hastened to
her and extinguished the flames
with snow. The flamos had done
their fatal work, however. She
was taken to Jordan's drug store,
where the druggist administered
morphine till physicians could
bo gotten.
She was of the Catholic faith
and Father Francis arrived
in timo to administer tho rites of
the church before sho became
unconscious.
Her funeral was conducted at
10 o'clock today.
The McCurdy Land Sold.
Commissioner L T Hartsell
sold the Jacob McCurdy land
today (Monday) at the court
house door. Mr. John McCurdy
was the purchaser of the farm of
some 120 acres, paying $810.
The acre lot was bought by Mr.
Archie White at $175. This
property is situated at Flowe's.
Maionie 5otie.
Resrular ominuniftWon
Stokes JLodge No. 32, A. F.
& A. M., Monday night
Feb. 17th, at 7:30 sharp.
Address by Rev. W II McNairy.
W. Reece Johnson, Sec.
Patriotism Above Money.
Who in the South does not
honor and revere Mrs Jefferson
Davis for her decision as to the
disposal of Beauvoir? Refusing
an offer of $90,000 from" the
North she will sell it to the State
of Mississippi for a home for
Confederate veterans for $10,000
Such love of the Southland such
:y;o'V:r! to hor husband's mem
ory ought to establish her for
ever in tho affections of our
people. Greensboro Record.
O.NE OF THE TWINS D&AD.
The Operation Separating Dordica and
Radica Bnds in the Death of the
Former.
Paris, Feb. 16. The Hindoo
twin named Dordioa, who was
separated from Radica by an
operation on February 9. died
suddenly this morning at 7
o'clock in convulsions, due to
the advanced stage of the
tuberculosis . from which sho
suffered.
The twins appeared' to im
provo during last week and
passed their time plajing
happily with toys. -The death
of Dordica has been concealed
from Radica who is making
excellent progress.
Tart of a Tenner Town Burned.
Nashville Feb.' 16. About
two-thirds of Woodbury, Cannon
county, burned '. to-night, tho
loss being estimated at from
$50,000 to $75,000. Tho fire
forced the long distance tele
phone operators to move out and.
details are meagre. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
(iood Kind to Have Around.
Henry. H Rogers, an oil
millionaire, lives in Fairhaven
Mass., and is doing much to
mako it fairer. He is decorating
and improaing the town as if it
were his own private propel ty,
and not counting tho expense.
He has given it a public library,
water works, a sewerage system,
town hall, schools and church
all of whick wore paid for out
of his money. Millionaires of
that kind are useful follows to
have around. Groensboro Re
cord. Light Ilaihvii) Mcu hilled.
A Marshall town, Iowa, dis
patch says four livos wore lost
in a head-on collision one mile
north of Gifford eariy Sunday
morning. Several passengers
ware injured. The killed were
the engineers and firemen.
Two wore killed and several
were injured by a head-on col
lision near Litchfield, 111., the
am a day. The victims were a
fireman and brakeman.
An engineer and fireman were
killed by a heed-on collision near
Erie, Pa., on Sunday, the lGth.
"The first time a man runs for
an office he Js cocksure that ho
is going to be elected and wind
up in the White House; the next
time he knows he is going to be
beaten and wind up in the poor
house."
Mrs. R L Daughton left this
morning for her home at Laurels
Springs after attending the
burial of her mother Mrs. T C
Strieker.
Jim Wilson of Concord, is at
home to see his brother, who is
not expected to live. Gastonia
News.
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