The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-04
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The Monroe Enquirer says that a man
was granted a divorce in Union court
last week and the next night was mar
RED again and i now. living with wife
No. 2.
Raleigh News and Observer: The peo-
PIE OF North Carolina are always inter-
ested in the successful career OF DR.. Il.
J. Calling. a native OF HEREFORD county.
whose rapid-fire gun has made him IA
nous. Now in his old age ne is IN Cleye-
land. Ohio. TO see the final work on the
new type OF big coast defense gun. which
ne has invented.
AsfevilIe Citizen: Otto Fischer. a ma
tive OF Germany. was struck by 4 moving
engine in the yards Of the southern rail-
way Saturday. sustaining a fracture OF
the thigh Mr.. Fischer was at once
taken to the Mission hospital. and at
tended by DR. W D. Hil.iard. the rail
| road surgeon. Mr.. Fischer died this
morning at 3 O'Clock.
Raleigh Press: This appointment Of
Rev. Baylus Cade caused a genuine SEN
sation in political circles. The repubIi-
cans generally remarked that the APP
pointment OF 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS as
Russell's private secretary meant that
h abandoned the republican party for
good. Before the governor made the ap-
potntment he was told that action would
b. regarded as an abandonment OF mis-
party, but that did not deter him.
Rocky Mount Argonaut: John Bras
Wei and wife. colored were convicted at
ltIDOTO Criminal tOL4L 4dSl WEN VI -
ting fire TO the gin house Of Flag Marsh
last fall. and burning up a large amount
Of cotton. They We're given five years
each in the p~enitentiary. Brasweli mad
two c~onjure bags with him At the trial
and depending more on them than his
| lawyers. practically ignored the latter.
and kept changing his hoodOOs from one
hand 20 another during his trial. They.
| however. did him no good and he Will
| spend the next five years meditat!ng on
his folly.
Winston Journal: Near Hanes. David
son county. on the 18th of this month.
| the 6-year-old girl of +. ]. Sink. was seri-
| Ously. if not fatally. burned. She was in
the woods where her father was cutting
timber and her clothes ignited from a
fire he had built there.-A Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley train struck Mrs.
Wall. an aged lady and mother Of c. T.
Wall. a prominent merchant. Saturday
evening at four o'clock near Rural Hall.
breaking one of her legs. Physicians were
summoned and set the broker limb. Mrs.
Wall is reported doing we'll. She is
about Sc yearse old and somewhat deaf.
Charlotte News: 1t seems that Trubie
Finch. the Charlotte boy, who was killed
aboard the Maine, had a romance which
has just come to light. The New York
paers print pictures of him and of the
sweetheart he left in New York.-Cecil
Hagie and Wade Alexander, two young
Mayor Springs this morning charged
with a serious crime. The evidence be
fore the mayor was that Alexander and
Hagie way-laid. knocked down and rob
bed, a white man by the name of c. S.
Hendricks who says his home is at Nc
AdenvIlle. The crime was committed in
the deep cut just before approaching the
, Air Line trestle.
The Illinois State Register published a
good picture of Mr.. S. X. Strother. editor
of the Taylorsville Courier. Mr.. Stroth-
er is a Raleigh boy. probably born in
Granville, as was his father. Frank
Strother. who published the oxford Lei
sure Hour in 1s4S. when this writer ed
tied it. Frank was a nephew of the late
Thomas J. Lemay. who founded and con-
Quoted the Raleigh Star for a long time:
Granville Observation-Disclosures
afternoon James Ray, a justice of the
peace of Wake county. was arrested upon
the charge of larceny and imprisoned in
the city lookup at Durham. a little
later friends came to his rescue and he
was bailed out.
Charlotte Observer: Henry Hoover.
white, of Paw Creek, tried to commit sui
eide Sunday by taking laudanum. He had
been here drinking for several days.
Mrs. r. B. Hunter, of Sardis, and cook,
were both painfully burned last week.
The cooks clothing caught fire by COM
ing in contact with the stove. She rushed
screaming into the dining room. Mrs.
Hunter, not knowing what was the mat
ter, ran to meet her. Seeing that the
woman was on fire. she began to try to
fight the flames. She succeeded in saw
ing the cooks life, but burned her own
hands and arms badly.-A wreck Oc-
CURED On the Southern Sunday night at
u o'clock just beyond the Air Linz juno
ton. Freight train No. 80, Charlotte
bound, ran into several freight cars that
had broken loose from a train and Slip
ped down grade northward, on the main
line, striking it just in time to be run
into by 70, which passed there on sched-
ule time. There is a switch at this point.
The switchman were at work. when the
| train hrnka in tUn E'nOinppr Iinahar-
Der and Fireman Ed Webb were in the
cab of %. They both jumped Fireman
Webb ran into a barbed wire fence and
got his face badly cut up. Engineer
Lineberger was slightly scratched about
the face and hands. Four cars were de-
moished. Nothing about the engine was
broken but the pilot.