Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-07-07
North. East and West.

The Chicago railroad rate war con,
tinues.
News has been received that band
of Apaches is abroad in southern Arizona,
wandering and numbering whites.
John Jacker, who lives few miles
west of Racine, Wis, is now in the forty
first day of his fast.
George w. Wilson was hanged at
Albion, N. Y, at 10:15 Wednesday
morning for the murder Of his wife cn
January 10, 1887
erected in Birmingham, Ala, for which
500, 900, partly Charleston capital, has
been deposited in banks.
At Magma Vista, Miss, a few days
ago. negro covered stOrekeeper with
a revolver, then auctioned off his goods
to other negroes, pocketed the cash aud
escaped.
Mrs. President Cleveland and her
mother, Mrs. Folsom, arrived from Paris
Tuesday. spent the morning in their
rooms at Victor Hotel They left for
Washington in the afternoon on the
2 "a train.
Hon. John NJ. Glover, Member Of Con-
gress for the Eighth Missouri district,
has filed suit for $50, 700 against the
Globe Democrat, of St. Louis, for libel.
William Aldridge, tough character.
shot and killed James Cunningham, a
I,o.l,or vrhoco homo ss -, nar,.;1la Iu1
at the house of Cunningham'S sister. The
men quarreled over woman.
James Jowett, forty-four years of age,
shot and fatally wounded Arthur Craven,
young mill employee. at Wanskuck,
r. |. Jowett says that Craven attempted
to assault his daughter, twenty-one years
old.
Officer Murty Q'Sallivan was shot in
the abdomen and fatally wounded about
midnight Tuesday night by negro
roustabout named Frank Parker, at St.
Louis, Mo.
At the Gettysburg reunion, speeches
were made by Gems. Slckles, Gordon,
Longstreet. Chaplain, McCabe and others.
The blue and the gray intermingled in
harmonious celebration.
Cotton worms have appeared in five
counties in the southern part of Arkansas.
and it is feared that they will do as
much damage to the crop as in 1867,
when the crop was total failure.
The furnace fires IN Cincinnati, New
port and Covington Rolling Mills, Ohio,
were permitted to die out Saturday
night, and were not started Mond y
morning. Seventy-ive hundred men are
thrown out Of work, and the lockout
promises to be protracted.
A desperate battle occurred between
revenue officers and mOonshiners near
Black Springs. KY, on Thursday. ln-
ternal Revenue Collector Frye and posse
raided the moonshiners, in which Deputy
Collector Marshall Trammell was killed.
At Milwaukee, Wis, six hundred men
were thrown out Of employment by the
closing down of the North Chicago Rol
ling Mill Company's mills at Bayview,
because Of the difference between the
Amalgamated association and the manu-
facturers over the scale Of wages for the
ensuing year.
Vicar General Conway, probably one
Of the best known Of the Catholic pre-
lates in America. is seriously i'll at his
home in Chicago. and all hopes Of his
recovery have been given up by his
friends.
A special from Memphis. Tenn. SAYS
that Thomas MoOrehead. an old citizen,
was stabbed six times by Thomas Taylor,
a young man, and died Saturday. The
trouble Was the elopement Of Moore
heads daughter with Taylor. the old man
compelling the girl 10 return home. On
meeting the old man Taylor attacked
him with the result stated.