Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-01-07

Masked men robbed a coach of nail
pouches near Glib, La.
Fire destroyed the large wholesale
grocery house Of Porter & McRea, No.
361 Front street in Memphis, Tenn.
Emmanuel Presbyterian church, one of
the finest edifces in Milwaukee, Wis,
was totally destroyed by fire.
A large portion of the town of Hicks
vile, Ohio, including the handle and stave
mills, was burned. Loss 500, 900. There
is much suffering among the homeless.
A powder magazine explosion at Alloy,
China, November 81, destroyed one
fourth of the buildings in the town,
blew fifty soldiers to atoms and killed
several hundred of the inhabitants.
A collision on the Utah and Northern
Railway, near the city of Dillon, Mon
tana, killed one engineer and seriously
injured several firemen and brakemen.
All the employees of the Union Glass
Works, of Somerville, Mass, 1855 in
number, finished up their work on Satur-
day morning and left, refusing to accept
the manufacturers list of rules for the
coming year.
The bridge across st. Mary's River has
been rebuilt, and through connection is
! restored between Savannah and Florida
/ over Waycross Short Line.
Tho lore Ia, tba rooar4 fra in tbo +o,r,,
Of Houman, La, was $3.50, 900; insur-
ance, $17, 800 Many families did not
even save their wearing apparel.
The freight employees of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company have demanded
an advance of wages for over time. No
trouble is anticipated.
VIM. Herrig, of st. Francis, Ark,
who shot his wife and her paramour and
burned his house, has been lynched.
Patrick O'Brien, of Iowa, was picked
up dead drunk in the streets of
Cincinnati, Ohio, with $4,000 in cash,
Sc. 900 in bonds, besides valuable jew
elry, in his pockets.
The engine-house of the Equitable Gas
| Works in New York was blown to pieces.
One man killed.
Perkin, DuPee & Co., stock brokers of
Boston, have failed. Liabilities $95, :.
256. They offer 60 cents on the dollar
The cashier of the Herkimer New York
National Bank has absconded with $780,
900 to Canada.
Jones Shoe Factory, at Stafford, Mass.
was burned to the ground. Loss $50, :
900; insurance $35, 900.
Near Harrisburg, Cabarrus County, N.
c., a negro named White shot and killed
Green Johnston, colored, with revolver.
Three men in Rutherford County, N.
c., named Alexander, all brothers, set
upon white man named Cox Robbins
and stabbed him fatally.
Rev. Geo. S. Williams, of Nashville,
Tenn, has telegraphed the congregation
of the Raleigh Baptist tabernacle his ac-
ceptancc of its unanimous call to the
pastorate,
The Newberne, N. c., people are quite
dispirited in regard to the recent decis-
ion of the supreme court in the matter of
the election on the question of the $780,
900 subscription to the Wilmington,
Onslow and East Carolina railroad
Deputy Sheriff Wilmington brought to
the penitentiary at Raleigh, N. c., from
Greensboro a negro girl named Mary
Hairston, who is sentenced to one years
Imprisonment for throwing stones at
train at Greensboro. She is the first
woman ever arrested in the state for that
offence.
A few nights past there was an affray
at Shaw university, colored, in Raleigh,
N. c., between two students, p. p.
Streeter and Walter Scott. Streeters
brother took hand. Scott seized stick,
with which Streeter had attempted to
strike him, and struck Streeter on the
head. Streeter died. 1t is claimed that
his death was due to pneumonia, and not
to the blow given by Scott.
The executive committee of the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly met in
Raleigh last week and arranged pro-
gramme for the next meeting, which will
be held at Morehead City next June. The
assembly now has membership of 2, 900.
1t was decided to lay the corner stone of
the assembly hall April 2nd. That cere-
mony will be Witnessed by several schools
which will make an excursion to More
head City.