The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-29
ORT CAROLINA.

The L~aurinburg Exchange says tina
the cotton seed and oil mill has been
leased to a Philadelphia firm. The trusts
gObble up everything.
W~ilkeSborO Hustler: There was quite
a pple of excitement at the depot Satur-
day afternoon just before the train left.
John Waters, who is crazy, n who
ought to be confined. came over and said
who defended Morgan. It will be remem-
Dered that the mar who was killed was
Waters son. Waters also threatened to
kill r. N. Hackett. Waters is a public
nuisance and should be confined.
W~ilkesboro Chronicle: There was a lit
tie shooting out at Joe Harris, colored,
last Sunday afternoon. The scene of the
shooting is within a. half mile of where
Sunday afternoon, one Tom Oby, colored,
shot John Peden, colored, with a shot
gun. Some seventy-five shot took effect.
mostly in his left leg. The wounds are
that Oby had a bottle of liquor, and he
and Peden got to joking about it and
Peden took it from him. Oby got mad,
and Peden started for home. Oby went
into the house, got the shot gun and
fired on Peden, at a distance of about
twenty-five yards. Oby then hit the grit
and has not yet been arrested. Peden and
Oby are brOtherS-in-1aw, having married
daughters of Lewis Harris. Corn liquor
was the principal cause of the trouble.
Pittsboro Record: There is said to be
very great excitement and fear among
the colored people about the threatened
war between Spain and the United
States. This fear and excitement have
been intensified by ocular statements
made by persons, for the purpose of
frightening the more ignorant of our COL
ored people. Some of them really believe
that orders have been issued to catch
them and forcibly carry them to Cuba.
Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, of Sanford,
died very suddenly and under peculiar
circumstances on last SUNDAY mnrninU
She was accustomed to keeping a lamp
burning all night in her bedroom, III
which she slept alone, and with the door
locked. On last Sunday morning smoke
was discovered issuing from her room.
and, the door being locked and all eff
forts to arouse her failing, the door was
broken down with an axe, n so dense
and Suffocating was the smoke that. at
first, no one could enter the room. AS
soon as possible, however, persons rushed
in and found Mrs. Patterson dead, having
been suffocated by the sitting smoke. 1t
seems that the lamp had exploded and
set ire to the bed clothes, which suffo-
Gated her before she could awake and
escape from the room.
Charlotte Observer: Elkin, March "a
Last night about 1850 o'clock the alarm
or fire was sounded through our town and
it was found that the postoffice was on
fire. Nothing could be done to save the
building, and it was soon a seething
mass of flames. In the building was To-
Gated the postoffice, Bailey & Co.'S store;
Haynes & Co., groceries,; J. w. Gillian.
harness and saddles: DIR. J. NJ. Recess
office; Woodrufis shoe shop and Chill
der's boarding house up stairs. The flames
quickly communicated to the law office
Of J. T. Hendren and the jewelry shop Of
L. NJ. Butner. Fowler's clothing store
soon caught and was consumed. On the
east side the clothing store of Wefh &.
Ball was burned quickly, as was also
the residence Of A.. G.. Click. The flames
then crossed the street, burning the Elk
Inn and DR.. J.. w. Rings drug store
concord letter: Gasque, the escape edi-
tor of the Salisbury Waterman, was in
Charlotte last week, with $500 ION his
NIP. He remained in a certain boarding
house for a whole day, and when asked
by the curious landlady why he was so
secret about his business, he stated that
he was wanted in South Carolina; that
he had a wife in this state, and while
Spreeing in Columbia he became i~nfatua-
ted with a woman and was married for
a second time. He left the Queen City
between two suns and has not since been
heard from.@A runaway couple from
Salisbury excited the curiosity of the
people about the Charlotte Hotel Wed
nesday. They arrived in the city by pri-
Yate conveyance at 6 o'clock. They left
Salisbury for Concord with the intention.
they said, of getting married at the lat
on their trail and they had to advance
further on towards safer quarters. They
procured a team from Wadsworth'
sons, and went in the direction of
| Squire Bales, just over the line, return
ing later in the evening all smiles. Nc
one could obtain their names. They were
strictly silent and would give no infor-
nation concerning their mysterious ro-
nance.