The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-23

| the last seen of the horse man.. In a
few days Mr.. Hare, a Wilson livery
man. came here and identified the
horse and buggy as his. He had hired
| the turnout to the alleged stock dealer
who never returned. The property was
turned over to Mr.. Hare and Mr..
| Smith is out $50.
Charlotte News: The case of John
| Harrill. VS. the Southern was concluded
in the superior court this afternoon.
Mr.. Harrill being awarded $500 DANA
ges; he SUED for $4,000. The train
frightened his horse, throwing him out.
and injuring him severe!y.-Lee
Hunter and John Moore had a fight
last night, n were tried this morning
for engaging in an affray. iunter was
| fined S., and Moore acquitted. Hunter
was also fined IS for assaulting Sam
D. McCarter. The affair occurred in the
colored pool room. on East Trade street.
The New York World has a picture
of North Cardinals lone Democratic
congressman, w. ". kitchin, Esq, Of
the Fifth district.
Kinston Free Press: The arc electric
lights ave been tried several nights
and so far have failed by a great deal
to come up to the guarantee. The town
authorities have notified the company
from which the dynamos were pur-
chased that hey will not accept the
arc dyna!no.-Edward Moore and j.
S. FELTON,, white, and Eli House, col
oreG. broke Jail some time last Friday
night. They made their escape from
the cage by saving a steel bar in two
and bending the sheet iron far enough
to permit them to get into the pas
sage of the Jail. The door of the Jail
is fastened outside by a lock and sta
pie, the staple being braided on the
inside. The bradS were sawn off, the
staple forced out, and the door open
ed through which they made their eS-
cape. The prisoners had nearly made
a hole in the Jail wall, by taking out
brick, through which they could have
escaped in a short time had their at
tempt at the door failed.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. w. S. Grier,
who works at Asbury & Fingers, got
his hand on the buzz saw yesterday,
and the consequence was that two fin
gers were cut so badly that they had
to be amputated.-Since the big
freshet Of last Sunday, a horse and
four hogs have been seen floating under
the Catawba river bridge on the Char
lotte, Columbia & Augusta road. They
had been lost from the farms up the
river, probably in CASTOR or Mecklen-
burg, and are by his time we'll on their
way to the sea. 1t is rumOred that
a million-dollar mill is to be built on
the property lately bought by Mr..
Chadwick from Mrs. Baxter Moore.
Northern capitalists are said to be in
terested.-Mr. and Mrs. Amos Nc
Manus of Union county nave lived to
see every one of their nine children
buried, and all of their grandchildren.
The last of the latter was laid away
last week. Mr.. and Mrs. McManus are
not so old, but they ave been sOrely
afflicted.
Raleigh News and Observer: Oxford,
N. c., March 16.-Special-Colonel r. J.
Mitchell died at his home here today,
aged II. He was a veteran Of the Mex
lean war, and for many years a promi-
nent citizen of Oxford. Gle also was
in the great war between north and
south.-Messenger)-Last night about
II o'clock Walter Daniel, a young white
man who clerks for a Mr.. Worrell, in
a small retail store on East street, filled
| himself up with bOiSterOuS liquor and
filled his pistol with slugs of lead, and
went into the house of a cOlOred woman
near WorrelTs store on a street. He
had been in the house but a little while
before he yanked out his pistol and
fired away at Ami Harrison, colored,
who was visiting the house. The ball
tore through her hand. She ran
screaming into WorrelTs store with
Daniel after her. She hid behind the
counter and WOrrell, the store-keeper,
grabbed the young man. He made sew
eral unsuccessful attempts to shoot his
employer, and in the %scuffle, grabbed
at his face and nearly tore out one of
his eyes. The irate yOungster declared
that he would shoot the Harrison wo-
man, shoot WOrrell, then go back and
kill the other woman and then kill him
self. But when the crowd began gath
ering and the police were called. he
concluded to skip, so he 'hit the grit
and at a late hour last night had not
been apprehended.@At Hillsboro
court Tuesday James Henderson,
charged with the robbery of w. B.
SorrelPs jewelry store here, was SEN
fenced for six years in States prison.
Wash Atwater, colOred, the famous
outlaw who was charged with attempt
ing rape on Miss L. Lloyd, near Chapel
Hill, was sentenced to fifteen years.