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Dana, the nine year old daughter of Charles and Mary
MCDOWELL, died at 5 am yesterday morning very suddenly. She had been
sick only a short time, and was sent home Friday from school. Her mother
had given her medicine and on Sunday some of her schoolmates, with the
teacher of Tip Top School, came to her hoe and spent sometime with the
family. On Monday morning she arose and told her father to get the
doctor quick, as she was choking. The father started for Dr. PYOTT,
less than one half a mile away, but before the doctor got to her, she
died. We buried her, beside the little grave of sister and brother, gone
before. The doctor said she had diphtheria, and the school will be
closed all week, as a precaution against possible outbreak of the
disease.
The store of W.G. WIBURN & son at Bailey was broken into one
night last week and robbed of about $250 in goods and cash, besides some
12 or 15 bushels of wheat in a granary nearby, owned by Wilburn and Will
Wagner. Their store has been broken into several times within the last
few years. Some parties are operating here who are well acquainted with
the lay of the land.
A shooting affair occurred on Mud Fork among the people of the festival
at the M.E. Church a few days ago. One of Mary MARTIN'S boys got
a couple of slugs of lead in an arm and leg from the gun of one of the
HIGGINBOTHAM boys. The guilty parties have fled and are supposed
to be in West Virginia.
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