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State News. A very destructive fire took place in the town of Pantego, in Beaufort County, about thirty miles from this city between 3 and 6 o'clock Monday morning. Iredell and Columbus Counties are not troubled with race suicide. In Iredell, there are twenty-four children in one family, and in a Columbus family the number is sixteen. Tuesday afternoon between 6 and 7 o'clock the grand-stand at Kanapolis was blown down by the severe wind storm and Robert Gunter, who was one of its occupants was killed. Bitten by a bulldog belonging to a member of the Raleigh band, the little daughter of C. D. Bradham, of New Bern was badly hurt. The dog was shot and the head sent to the State Physician to determine if it e had rables. o Il The receiver, stockholders and dia rectors of the People's Bank of I Chapel Hill, met last Monday before e Judge J. C. Biggs in the office of Il Attorney R. O. Everett and it looks Il now as if the bank will be put on its c feet and will open its doors again. N Jealous of the attention her husband was showing another woman, Helen Price, a Charlotte negress, shot t and blowed off the head of her husd band, Oscar Price. She surrendered G quietly to arrest and was placed in in jail. c a Leave of absence has been granted in to third and fourth-class postmasters h in North Carolina to attend the meeta of the North Carolina State ti League of Postmasters to be held at W Winston-Salem, September 23d and 24th. $ n te Ab Byrd, of Fayetteville, who is charged on July 2nd inflicted the G fa low which subsequently caused the leath of Fred Thomson, was arraignMonday before Magistrate McLean. He pleaded guilty, waived examination, and was remanded to O ail without bail. ch ti Waynesville is just now in the ty nidst of the busiest part of the th ourist season. Every train brings in D rowds of visitors from the south and W The hotels and boarding houses en filling up rapidly, and it is quite ertain that the town will be crowded be August 1st. ti Ca The committee appointed by Govis rnor Kitchin to make an investigata into the management of the tate tuberculosis sanitarium at Iontrose has begun its investigaThe committee is composed B. C. Beckwith, of Raleigh. and Ne F. Beasley, of Monroe. we on Lewis Stewart, a farmer, was m unconscious with his skull ed ractured in one of the stalls at a tocu acco warehouse at Winston-Salem. th he supposition is that he was aswi aulted with a brick by a negro and no obbed. Mr. Stewart was removed the hospital. His condition is seious. J. W. Davenport, a merchant of Sa ne tocky Mount, is held for court, mi harged with assaulting and choking ma Agnes Rose. The woman, who in a delicate conditions, is seriery wi usly ill. There is considerable feelon both sides, Davenport's friends gr laiming that there is absolutely no the rounds for the charge. I By communicating to Jailer J. M. ranch a conversation overheard beSa veen two negro prisoners, Rev. T. ing Alston, the preacher-tailor, and the eorge Green, both colored, and sentak enced to terms of the county roads app false pretense and forgery, refou ectively, a negro woman probably edy the life or serious injury of the iler at Wilmington and prevented esecape of the negroes mentionThe negroes had plotted to overGre
