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Several gentlemen here recently from Graham,
who know the facts, brought the pleasing intelligence that Mrs. WARDEN, widow of
the late J.E. WARDEN, the sergeant of Graham, who committed suicide recently, will
get about $1,250 insurance money. The Odd Fellows Lodge will pay her $200. The Red Men
about $50 and the Insurance company about $1,000. This amount though not large, will help
the widow keep the wolf from the door - provided it is judiciously and wisely used.
Mr. and Mrs. B.W. STRAS had a scare
last Saturday night, which might have resulted fatally to their right hand man Dudley WEST.
About ten o'clock Mrs. STRAS thought she heard someone in her kitchen. Mr. STRAS
soon "fell to" and know that he heard some one in the kitchen. Mr. STRAS
secured his trusty persuader (which doubtless hadn't been fired in ten years) and preceded
to investigate. Visions of burglars, dark lanterns and pistols all flashed through his
mind as he made his way to the kitchen. When he had reached the culinary department, he
thought he saw a man behind the door, but further inquiry proved that his man WEST
had come to the house to start the kitchen fire, preparatory to getting breakfast, as was
his usual custom. WEST, who lives in the department house back of H & G
Brothers store, said he had heard people getting up around him, and that he concluded it
was daylight and time to start Mr. STRAS' kitchen fire. Mr. STRAS finally
convinced him to the contrary, and he hurried home to tell his wife not to put the
breakfast on the table, as it was only ten o'clock the night before.
Walter Ripply; Believed to Have
Committed Criminal Assault May be Lynched.
News reached here this morning that a lynching was imminent in
Pocahontas. Walter RIPPLY, a negro is under arrest there for committing rape upon
Mrs. James ARMSTRONG, a white woman, about 55 years of age. The town was crowded
this AM with an angry crowd of men. The nergo is expected to reach here today on a special
train. The same nergo was acquitted at last term of court upon a similar charge committed
upon a white girl living near this last victim - about a mile from Pocahontas on the
mountain. The rape is charged to have been committed on Wednesday night.
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