The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-19

COMMITS sUlcIDE

Return 0feho 0overu0gss 0naPd from Rock.
i~agham-rwo Of the Gaarasmsu 90 -
Discharged By their Empscy~r John
Nichols Calls Evasgeriiss Lee an Irish
Tramp New anOv~r's Tax Payment
The D~ubt~ Homscide at Durham-Much
Cotsoa Lsss In the Fields
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c.. November Is.
This morning at 5 O'Clock Ben Hyler.
colored. an old man who has had a stall
in he city market. left home, IL was
thought to go to his work. Nothing
more was heard OF seen of him until
nearly 3 o'clock. when his hat was
found on a stick near a small lake in a
disused stone quarry in the suburbs
His body was soon recovered. He had
committed suicide. No cause is given.
save that perhaps he was worried about
money.
The Governors Guard detachment
returned Sunday morning from a four
days tour Of duty guarding John
Evans. colored. at Rockingham. 1t is
reported h a an employer OF two of the
guardsmen has said he will discharge
them. Should he do so he will be liable
to punishment, as it Is a violation OF The
Code to discharge an employee for serv-
ing the state. The officials at head
quarters will prosecute promptly, they
Yesterday afternoon the Irish Evan
gelist Lee, at a meeting here in Metro
politan hall e a letter from Secretary
John Nichols, of the state fair, in which
the latter old him he would hold him
personally responsible for n attacks
on his character, and said 'he allowed
no Irish tramp to attack it," Lee said
that what he had said about Nichols
asking the board Of aldermen to ALLOW
the barrooms to be kept open all night
during the state fair was about him as
a public official; that. nothing was in
tended about his private character.
Nichols said today that so far as he was
concerned the incident was closed.
Among today's arrivals are VirgiHS.
Lusk Of Asheville, B. F. Long of States
vile and H.. L. Grant Of Goldsboro.
New Hanover today paid SIS, 700 taxes
into the state treasury.
The Southeastern Tariff Association
makes another big cut in fire insurance
rates in Guilford county.
1t is learned that Henry Green, the
negro man who shot and killed Swear
old Dan Lassiter, colored, at Durham.
n who was himself shot and killed,
really intended to kill a little son of his
mistress, Eliza Mitchell. He went to
the house where Lassiter lived, pulled
the boy out Of a door and shot him in
the mouth with a pistol. AS he fell h
shot him in the back Of the head.
Green served a term on the roads in
Wake county for pointing a pistol at
+, a man. He died with curses on his
lips.
Much cotton yet remains in the fields.
Some farmers appear to be paying lit
| tie or no attention to the crop.
It is strange, but true, hat the frosts
in the eastern part of the state have
| been far heavier than here, where they
| have not injured the tenderest flowers
There has been a good deal Of talk
| about the sentencing of George Johnson
to be hanged at Wilmington on thanks
| giving day, and the news that the gov
ernor will probably commute his sen
! tence is not surprising.
News reaches here of a fire in Gull
ford county which burned a saw mill,
roller mill, cotton gin and much wheat
and cotton, the total loss being $1,000
with no insurance.