The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

cartridge. He shot and instantly killed
Former. He was captured and placed
in Jail to await trial at the spring term
Of Mitchell court. For tner was a quiet
peaceable citizen, Will Daniel is sal
to be a desperate character.
Monroe Enquirer: On last Monday
afternoon a little 5-year-old son of Mr.
J.. w. Hasty, Of Marshville, was burn
ed to death. The little fellow went out
to where some broom sage was burning
and his clothing caught on fire. After
five hours Of suffering death relieved
the little sufferer.-Miss Stella Ward
=, aged Is years, Of Rowan county. was
bitten by a pet dog las September. The
wound was so slight that no attention
was paid to it, even the scar had near
ly disappeared. Last Wednesday, the
girl was stricken with hydrophobia,
n two days later she died in terrible
commissions.
Raleigh News and Observer: Many
sneak bills were smuggled through the
legislature. One was found in the clos
ing hours Of the session.-The legis-
lature has lone one thing for which
credit must be given. The act to en-
courage local taxation for public
schools, which appropriates $1,000 to
be given to diatricts that levy a spe-
cial school tax, is one of the wfseSt
laws eve enacted in North Carolina
''|' H'Slo IiobctS at bhdl. HSe VI
them, tried to take charge of the fast
interstate freight, No. q, on the Sea-
board Air Line Monday night. They
We're at kilty, a small station in Vir-
GINA, just this side Of Suffolk, and
they wanted to come to Raleigh. They
proposed to come on this particular
train, the conductor and train hands to
the contrary Notwithstanding. Result:
A wounded conductor, n dying negro
(probably dead by this time), another
in jail, and the officers after three 9TH
ers. The story Of the occurrence is
told by the conductor, Captain John
G. Judkins,-It has been a dO-nothing
body, and a disgrace to the state. Pie
for the fusionists has been the only in
centive of that ang If there were
not places enough to go round, new
places were made to fit the man.
Charlotte Observer: Hog cholera has
broken out in the county. o S. B.
Alexander has lost all of his fine hogs
but one.-A colored woman named
Weir at Greensboro. was caught be-
teewn two cars On the Davie street
crossing Tuesday afternoon, n one
leg was found SO badly mangled that
it was found necessary to amputate it.
She will probably die.-Quitea ripple
Of excitement was caused at LenOir
Tuesday by the arrest about daylight
in the morning of Fry Terrence, and
his vigorous resistance Of the officers.
Some six or eight months ago Tom Set
Ter, Of that county, died, leaving a wife
about 70 years Of age, and, it was sup
posed, quite q lot of money secreted
after SetZer'S death, the old dy-h
WidOw-and Fry Terrence, a young
chap Of wild ways, and about % or %
years Of age, were married on the
Blowing Rock turnpike about two miles
north of Lenoir. Apparently all went
alone cn00th1v until within tho noct
few days, when there have been rumors
of war. In the meantime, hOwever,th the
spry old lady placed a warrant in the
sheriff's hands calling for young Tor
renee, n charging, it is said, that he
vas attempting to flee the county with
$500 Of his belOved's clear cash. After
the hardest tussle Sheriff Boyd has ever
experienced, he says, he and his dep
uty, Alternately, landed Terrence in
Jail here. Although handcuffed and be-
ing led by the sheriff, he managed to
trip the sheriff, throwing him into a
ditch, and falling on top of him broke
a rib for the officer.
Raleigh Tribune: It is enough to
make a sphynx laugh to near the sup
pOrters of the bill to annul the North
Carolina railroad lease claim a victory
or a drawn battle When their measure
lies on the table and everything they
fought for during the space of two
IIlOIllIIS Is lOSl."1j IS Sd1u Una j.. no
wan Rogers is to be rewarded for his
work in Wake county last spring. Will
he divide with the negroes that hi
bought up?-The prediction of Bailey
of North Carolina that the governor
would nave a black list can be verified
by reference to some of his recent ap-
pOintments.- Senator Pritchard is
hardly less occupied than the president.
The only southern republican senator,
he is consulted by all the southern rep
resentative leaders who assume that he
carries a night latch to the White
house. He presented twO North Car
DINA del-Sa,iOnS to the president to-
day. In the %fCr-nOon Re presented Col
onel Boyd, who is slated for first assist
ant postmaster general. Representa-
tive White of the Second district, *
Representative Cheatham and I. M.
Milliken, of Randolph, are applicants
for United States marshel, and G.. S.
Keene is on trial at Smithield for the
murder, last fall. of his brother-in-
law, Ransom Johnson. The difficulty
was on account Of an old feud between
the men. There were no witnesses to
the act. but there is 70 doubt Keene
murdered johnson. The wife of the
murderer is q sister of the murdered
man and is ir the courtroom while her
husband is on trial for killing her
brother She sticks to her husband.
Scotland Neck Democrat: Captain
G. J. Rhem, manager of the state farm
near Halifax recently killed a hog
which weighed 612 pounds.--The Suf-
ginian says that farmer Riddick of
Gates county marketed in Suffolk a
hog three years old that weighed COS
pounds.
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