Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-01-14

The News of the North, East, South
and West, Reduced to Facts

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and West, Reduced to Facts
An Interesting Budget for our Busy
Readers.
The news of the shooting of the noted
Mexican bandit, Bernal, has been con-
firmed.
The latest news from Powderly is to the
effect that he is improving in health.
Ecuben Crawford of the internal reve-
nue. department died at Lansing Mich.
Isaac Merrick, ut Camden, N. j., muir
dered his daughter and then shot him
self. No cause is ascribed for the TRACE
dy.
The fire at Louisa Courthouse Va, re-
suited in the destruction of twenty-one
out of twenty-four business houses.
A fire in Chicago destroyed seven
story building, No. 29S and 300 Third
avenue.
A large deposit of bituminous coal has
been discovered near San Antonia Texes.
John Gibson, another victim of the
CINCINNATI Southern Railroad accident
on the 31st. is dead.
The National Bank of Greenville, S. c,
has been designated as a depository of
public funds by the Government.
Two-elevators belonging in the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company were burn
ed at Rockford, MINI.
The anniversary of the battle of New
Orleans was celebrated in New York by
a banquet at the Hoffman House Presi-
dent Cleveland sent letter.
''Aunt Eunice' Cottrell, died at Nor
wich, Conn, aged lis years. She was
the great grand child of King Phillip, of
ante-revolutionary fame.
The body of Capt Amos Cliff, former
ly of Sheridan's staff, who died in Wash
ington about two weeks ago, has been
stolen from the cemetary and sold to the
medical college.
The death is announced of Bonamy
Price, NJ A., professor of political econ
omy in Oxford University. He was 80
years old.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
have been formally invited to attend the
opening of the Sub-Tropical Exposition
at Jacksonville, Fla.
At Rockford. ILL.,, the Rockford Co
operative Furniture Company's building
was burned with all its contents. Loss
500, 900.
Delegates have arrived in Chattanooga,
Tenn. from several Southern States to
attend tine railroad convention to secure
an excursion rate OF one cent per mile
from the North and West to all points in
the South.
The Vicksburg, Miss, Commercial
Herald building, newspaper, job office
and bindery, were burned. The loss is
heavy. The insurance on building and
stock is $4,000. The paper appeared
as usual.
r. Gaylord Eaton, charged as an ac-
cessory before the fact to the lynching of
Waldrop, at Central, S. c., applied for
bail before Judge Norton, at Walhalla,
S. G., and it was granted in the sum of
So, 900.
DIR. James r. Dugan, Professor of
Chemistry at Wake Forest, N. c., Col
lege, died there, aged 30 years. For
more than a month he had been sick
with typhoid -malarial fever, followed by
pneumonia and meningitis. His body
was taken to Linton, Ca, his home. Il
was accompanied as far as Raleigh by
five professors of the college and COM
mittee Of ten students. DIR. Dugan not
long since married the niece of Rev. DIR.
Taylor, President Of Wake Forest Col
lege.
Large crowds are attending Evangelist
Pcarson's meetings, at Spartanburg. 5.
c. Many of the audience have gone into
the inquiry meetings, and have otherwise
manifested an earnest interest. Quite a
number of people come in from the
country, aud strangers generally drop in
to hear What is going on.
A premature blast occurred on the 3
C's road, about three miles from Blacks,
S. G. One negro was killed and two
others severely injured.
Henry Dennis, wcll-known negro in
Spartanburg, S. c., was arrested on the
affidavit of j. NJ, Spann, charged with
robbing the delivery wagon of the South
ern Express Company. Dennis was COM
mitted TO Jail TO await trial. lie had
two accompliccs, who escaped.
! At Quancock, Va. William C. Duer,
/ cut the throat of his wife, killing her
almost instantly, while riding with her
and their two children. He is said to
have been insane for some time, but was
supposed to have recovered. Duer was
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