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THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL BANK CLOSE FOR $80,000. Grady Arrested for the Murder of HisWife-Seven Negro Children Roaster d Alive- War of Words Between Editors. North Carolina News. RALEIGH. N. C., Dec. [Special. A special from Fayetteville to-night announces that the People's National Ban OF that city closed its doors to-day on account of a heavy run made upon it. The run was caused by the failnee of the former president of the bank, E. F Moore, who recently resigned, and whose affairs are in bad condition. Th. liabilities are stated at $80,000. and the as sets $200,000. It is claime that the deposi tors will be paid dellar for dollar. and that the bank was closed so'ely 01 account of a run, which for a while looked paricky. The closing of the bank resulted in the failure of G.W. Ingram, J. L Taarm, and George Rosenthal, merchants of Fayetteville A NEW YEAR WEDDING To-morrow afternoon. in Edenton Street M E. chureb, in this city. Rev. J. D. Arnold of the faculty of Asheville Female College. of the most prominent ministers in the is estern North Carolina Conference. will be united in marriaze to Miss Nannie Clark of this city, sister of Associate Justice Walter Clark, of the North Carolina Supreme Court bench. GOVERNOR FOWLE IN HIS NEW HOME Governor Fowle to-day begun moving into the new Governor's Mansion, on Blount street, which is now completed. and which has been turned over to him by the State Public Buildi g Committee. WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN EDITORS. Editor Fairbrother of the Durbam Daily Globe, to-day replied to the attack made upon him vesterday by Josephus Daniels editor of the State Chronicle, in which Daniels referred to him as a coward and blackguard. Fairbrother's reply is very abusive of Daniels, and closes with in iting him t a personal settlement if he desires it, as be said, as his editorial intimates. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS BANQUET Last night the Knights of Pythias of this city held a grand banquet at which covers were laid for 125. After re'reshments were served speeches were made by his Honor A.A. Thompson. Captain E. R. Stamps, Grandsire C. M. Busbee, Joseph J. Bernard, Esq., Rev. George 1 underlid, George H. Snow, Esq.. and others. Mr. Hal W. Aver, late city editor of the Daily Chronicle of this city, left to-day for Washington, where be goes to take the position of private secretary to Colonel L. 1. Polk. president of the National Farmers' Alliance. DEPUTY COLLECTOR HAWKINS' SUCCESSOR E. A. White, collector of internal rever nue for the Eastern district of North Carolina, has appointed Benjamin Hawkins deputy collector of Vance, Franklin, and Warren counties, to succeed his father General Phil. B. Hawkins, who has resigned on account of illness. SEVEN CHILDREN ROASTED ALIVE A special from Bay boro, in Pamlico county, brings the blood-curdling news of the burning alive of seven negro children near that place Sunday night. A colored man named Scott Thompson, his wife and oldest child, who live five miles below Bayboro, went to church Sun. day night, leaving seven children, tive of them his own and two of them his grandchildren at home, their ages ranging from infancy to above tifteen years of age. Before the services were concluded it was discovered that their home was on fire, and the congregation made a rush for it. On nearing the scene of the conflagration the agonizing screams of the children could be plainly heard. but when the place was reached the building had fallen in, and every one of the inmates had perished in the flames. It is supposed that the tire aught in some way from the chimney, and spread rapidly, and all the children being sound asleep, did not awaken until the flames had cut off all egress. CHARGED WITH HIS WIFE'S MURDER Tilla J. Grady and his daughter-in-law were brought here to-day from Millbrook, in this county, and committed to jail, charged with the murder of Grady's wife by poisoning last week. Grady is about sixty years old and his daughterin-law is about twenty-two, and has a child only a few months old. Grady and wife have not lived happily together for many years. and she has Ire. quently had Grady arrested and before courts for squalt and battery upon ber. Since her son married he and his wife have been alivingwith Gradv The elder Mrs.Grady has imagined that her husband and her daughted-in-law saw too much of each other, and this has caused Tilla Grady's of wife to become intensely jealous her husband and her daughter-inlaw. On Monday of last week the four in family took breakfast together, and very soon atterwards Mrs. Tilla Grady was taken violently ill with symptoms that indicated menical poisoning and died in four hours. Her husband had left home as soon as be finished break. fast, and was not there when his wife died. The deceased declared from the time she was taken ill till she died that her husb and and daughter had poisoned her by putting something in the coffee which she drank. The coroner has for sev. eral days been holding an inquest, and the evidence was found to be sufficient for to hold the accused parties action by the grand jury. The body of Mrs. Grady has not been exbumed, but will be, and a post-mortem examination will be held at once. The family are well-known, and the affair creates great interest.
