The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-10
NORTH CSROLNA

Mrs L B. Robinson. Iivx>s near Roar
inS river. Wilkes county. gIye birth to
triplsts on S~unday-two boys and one
girl.
Ed Fuienwtder. OF Mo-roe. rot the
orators medal at the North .aru1f,.a
college. The decLa{me-s naial was
awarded 10 Mr. ". W. ke1.y. Of Rowan
county.
Mr.. benjamin Barnes. who lives near
Pendlston. y. -. was drowned in Kirby
mind has been impaired for some time
am family had - kesp watch over
Greensboro Telegram: NJ. J. Van Lind
ley was in the city today and remarked
TO a Telegram man that he has a spIau-
did crop at Southern Pines and chat the
shipping season - Just opening. The
shipment of black and dew berries has
been on some time and NJ. Ldnilav saws
prices are good.
Newton Enterprise: Will, the little
son of A NJ. Harreu was setting potato
slips Monday afternoon he was struck
on the leg by 4 flash OF lightning. Two
distinct outs Were made which b!ed pro-
fusely- He Tea against a negro woman
who was working with him and was stun
ned for an instant.
Greensboro Record: Professo- Charles
L. Paper. who for the past four years
has held me char Of phlfosop'y, science
and Greek in the Greensboro Female
college. mas severed his connection with
that institution. He Will probably spend
the following year either at Johns Hop
kins or at Cornell university.
Washington Progress: The largest
mortgage ever recorded in this county
was probated here Friday last. 1t is for
81. 0Jo.oo0 and is given by The Old Domin-
ion Steamship Company. Of New York.
to the FarmerS Loan and Trust Company.
The object of the mortgage Is TO raise
money to build new
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. D. c. Berry
hill. who was cut some weeks ago by
Mr.. Houston Taylor. his fellow town
shipman. was in town Saturday for the
first time since recovering sufficiently to
be taken home. Mr.. Taylor Is still sn
Jail. but it is likely that a compromise
will be effected. as both parties desire
and wants to be friends. While Mr.. Ber-
ryhir's life hung in the balance, Mr..
Taylor suffered keenly. He was nearly
craZed with anxiety.
Littleton Reporter: Last Sunday an in
FAINT was found dead under an out house
at Warren Plains. Upon removal and in
veStigatiOn it was found to be a new born
negro baby. Suspicion pointed to one
Bette Green as being the mother and
~perpetrator of the crime of murder.
hence she was arrested and arraigned
for trial. She acknowledged the child
as her own. DIR. P. J. Macon was called
to xamine the child and it was ascer-
tained that its neck was broken and had
several bruises on its head.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth: Henry
Mobiles, a cOlored boy 16-years old, was
killed by lightning at Ayden, N. G., Mon
day evening at ) O'clock. He was at
work for Mr.. John Hart. He had been
building some fence and had started
across a SrnaM field of cotton toward Mr..
Harris lot when the lightning struck
him. He was near the lot and was ask
ing some boys to drive Mr.. Harris cows
up the lane and help him get them in the
lot. Several persons were looking at him.
He appeared to be covered in flames of
fire. 1t tore out tine top of his mat crown
and blistered his chin and breast.
Durham Sun: About 6 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon, Rufe Summers. of the
Durham Bottling Works, was in the east
| ern part of town with his delivery wagon
and ais he dropped the lines to get out,
the horse, from some cause, made a
break and started on a run. He reached
down to get the lines, when he fell out.
He was thrown against the railroad
crossing, and the wagon passed over his
verely hurt. A considerable cash was
cut over his left eye, his left arm was
| bruised very much, and the right arm
badly skinned. No bones We're broken,
though he had a narrow escape.
Thomas Settle has gone to Washing
ton. Some of his friends say that Mr..
Settle is in Washington for the pur-
pose of getting a commission to raise
a company of cavalry in North Carolina.
Fayetteville Observer: About 1 o'clock
( this morning BODY Bryan shot Vina
Freeman at the home of the latter on
Mumford street. Bryan fled and has not
been captured. The woman was SHOT
through the back, the ball emerging from
the abdomen. She is probably fatally
hurt. The cause assigned for the shoot
ing is that the woman refused to admit
| Bryan into her house.-Mr. Chas. Fra
zell, of Kingsbury, this county, who was
recently shot in the leg with a Winches-
ter rifle by a negro in Georgia, necessi-
tating its amputation, passed through
here Yesterday on his way home. The
negro made his escape after the shoot
| ing and has not been apprehended.