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Bob DUNCAN Recaptured (d. 1905)

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Asheville, Oct. 23 — “If they don’t treat me well, I’ll break jail again,” quietly said Bob DUNCAN, who effected the jail delivery here last Sunday, and who was recaptured in this city yesterday afternoon. “You haven’t a jail in your State that will hold me,” he said. “I have been through five of them , and can walk out of another. The jailer was so good to me at Hendersonville that I really hated to leave him, but I needed fresh air.” DUNCAN talked with freedom and frankness of his escape and of his movements since.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905

JENKINS, Della (d. 1905)

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Durham, Oct. 23 — A negro woman by the name of Della JENKINS, aged about fifty years, met a horrible death in the western part of the city yesterday afternoon. She was burned in a fearful manner at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and death resulted at 5:15 o’clock last night. Her burns were such that a great deal of the skin on her body slipped off before death. The woman was using gasoline in a stove, when there was a loud explosion and she was covered in flames. She ran to a bed, jumped upon it, and covered up. The bed clothes caught fire, this firing the bed, and the house was saved with trouble.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905

WOODY Monument (1905)

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Saxapahwaw, Oct. 20 -At a reunion of the WOODY family at Spring church Wednesday, a monument was unveiled bearing the following inscription: “John W. WOODY and wife, Pioneer Settlers and Parents of the WOODY Family, South.” The monument is of North Carolina and New Hampshire granite and was unveiled by little Thomas Clarkson WOODY, of High Falls. John W. WOODY and wife came from Maryland and took up land in this vicinity during the reign of the Lords Proprietors. They have many and distinguished descendants scattered over the United States, though only a few members of the family remain within the limits of the original settlement.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905

Servant Takes Revenge (d. 1905)

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A discharged negro servant in the family of Constantine SELLERS, of Alamance county, sought to take revenge by putting rough on rats in the coffee. The poison was detected before any of the family drank the coffee. The negro woman was arrested and sent to jail.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905

FIELDS, George (d. 1905)

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George FIELDS, a young man, was found dead in the woods near Dudley. His head was badly mangled. There are conflicting rumors as to the cause of his death, some thinking that he was murdered and others that he was struck by a falling tree.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905

Charles LEONHARDT Attacked by Bull Dog (1905)

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Bull Dog vs. Wrestler

Spencer, Oct. 19. – Prof. Charles LEONHARDT, the champion wrestler, who is in training for a match with Sam MURBARGER, of Indianapolis, at Spencer. Friday night had an exciting experience with a French Bulldog near this city two days ago. The athlete has a habit of taking a seven-mile spurt on foot into the country every morning in order to keep up his wind and powers of endurance. He was sprinting by a farm house five mile from the city at a fifteen-mile gait when attacked by a ferocious bull dog belonging to a farmer. The contest was fierce but lasted only a short while and when the noted wrestler parted with the dog he left the seat of his pants with the canine, coming to Salisbury for additional clothing.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 20, 1905

CORDELL, Robert (d. 1905)

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Asheville, Oct. 19. – Robert CORDELL, a young man employed in the round house of the Southern Railway Company hear, was run over by a railway train near here last night, and this afternoon he died of the injuries he received. He was found beside the track at 2 o’clock this morning with both legs cut off below the knees. Mr. CORDELL stated that he was walking along the railroad track going from his work to his home, when he was seized with an attack of dizziness and fell on the tracks and was run over by a train later in the night.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 20, 1905

GLENN, James D. (d. 1905)

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Greensboro, Oct. 19. – The remains of General James D. GLENN, private secretary to his brother, Governor R.B. GLENN, were laid to rest in Greene Hill cemetery this morning, following a funeral service at St. Andrew’s church. There was a large attendance and General GLENN was buried with Knight Templar honors, as well as with those accorded a Master Mason. The two Masonic lodges of Greensboro, conducting the burial, with the Knights Templar and Elks acting as escort.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 20, 1905

 

 

DANIELS, Joseph N. – (d. 1905)

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Joseph N. DANIELS, the 11-year-old son of J.N. DANIELS, of Southport, N.C., died suddenly in the office of Dr. W.C. GALLOWAY, an oculist of Wilmington, while efforts were being made to remove a sand burr from his throat. The child’s throat was being sprayed with cocaine and this is supposed to have been what caused his death. While in the operating chair he suddenly gave a twitch and died almost instantly.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 17, 1905

W.B. SNOW Appointed Postmaster (1905)

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High Point, Oct. 19. – Mr. W.B. SNOW, who was appointed postmaster by the president Wednesday, is one of the youngest postmasters in the United States, being only 21 years of age.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 17, 1905