The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-28
NORTH CAROLINA

white boy fifteen year old, vas killed
by some negroes. The boy was drunk.
He provoked the negroes and they
killed him.
Mr.. Thomas Jefferson Meekin, OF
Elizabeth City, n. c., through the eff
forts of Representative Skinner, will
be appointed a major In one Of the
colored immune regiments.
Linney is having strong opposition
in the Forsyth district for The o
gress. Wilkes presents Colonel T. J.
Dula; Forsyth Lieutenant-Governor
G. A. Reynolds, and Assistant District
Attorney E. s. Blackburn; Ashe, DR..
j. o. Wilcovx; Surry, S. E. Marshall;
Davie w. A. Bailey.
The Dispatch says that Mr.. David
Huffman, of Davidson county, was re-
turning home in a one-horse wagon
on the 9th. When within 200 yards
of his home he started to drive down
a steep hill, not knowing one Of the
holding back straps was broken. The
horse ran away, throwing Mr.. Huff
man out of the wagon against a tree
with such a force hat be died in less
than forty-eight hours.
Greensboro Telegram: There are
10Y six federal prisoners in jail here,
five of whom were brought in from
Charlotte. Saturday night. Three of
the latter were white men who were
convicted of blockading at the last
term of federal court in Charlotte and
go to the pen for eighteen months
each. The other two are negroes con-
victed of passing counterfeit money
and received sentences Of one year
each.
Wilson Advance: Professor L. l..
Hargrove, formerly Of Mountville, Ga,
is in the city visiting relatives. Mr..
Hargrove has decided to return to his
native state, North Carolina, and has
purchased school property in Green
Vile, where he vi open a select school
for young ladies next fall-Will
Barnes, a negro who works at Batch
elor's saw mill, about four miles from
Wilson, had his foot badly cut today.
He was cutting logs, when the blade of
the axe glanced and split his ankle
open.
The Monroe Journal is informed
that the Mormons succeeded in getting
about twenty names of persons who
were ready and willing to form a
church at a point in Buford township.
But when the elder got them together
and began preaching to them about
giving one-tenth of their stuff to the
church, it broke up the whole business.
Fayetteville Observer: Last night
a negro man knocked violently at the
door of a house on Robson street oc-
| cupied by two white women named
Bass. They refused to open the door
| and ordered him off. He left, but re-
turned in an hour and tried to get in
a window. One Of the women then
! raised the window and pointing a pis-
toll at the fellow fired. The man
showed the utmost contempt for the
weapon and advanced towards the Win
| dow, when the M fired two more
| shots, she says struck him in the
| breast. The negro was without coat
or hat, after walking around the
| house, slowly departed. The Bass
who are respectable looking,
say they are from Greenville, N. c.,
| and their father is Jonathan Bass.
Charlotte Observer: Dr.. George T.
w luStOu, VINO las UOOu. C"O yCoiS
president of the State University OF
| Texas, passed through Charlotte yes
terday on his way to White Mountains,
| New Hampshire, where he will spend
two months roaming over the noun
tains Of that part Of the United States
and in Canada DR.. Winston is still
in love with Texas. He thinks it Il
the greatest State in the Union. The
University had last year 1,050 stu
dents, $50 regulars and 200 in the sum
mer school. The doctor is looking
well-The alarm that called out the
fire department in full "Wednesday
night was for a fire seven miles in the
country. 1t was Mr.. H. K. Reid's gin
house, in Sharon township. 1t is
thought that the fire was incendiary
The Clubhouse was full of wheat. The
damage was not heavy. Mr.. Hutch
Kirkpatrick lives on the place now
Mr.. fitzpatrick lost $50 bushels of oats
by the fire. Two good gins were also
burned-Late this evening Railroad
Supervisor Henderlite brought thu
news to Coroner benson Caldwell tina
he found a dead negro in Rocky rive
at the railroad bridge. A jury has
gone out at once. No particulars arr
known yet.-It is a misfortune tina
there is not room in the institution
(Morganton hospitaD for all thu
chronic incurable cases Of insanit.
in the district-for all the epileptics
idiots and imbeciles who are a care tt
their families, a charge upon tn
counties, and oftentimes, when goin,
at large, a mace or a nuisance t.
their respective communities. Blu
there is not such room; there is no
even room for many case of insanit
which might possibly be cured if ad
mitted.