The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-17
H CAROLINA.

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ton mill.
Eugene Harren has had yellow fever
in Cuba but has recovered.
Salisbury is getting ready to issue
$4,000 In bonds for sewerage. The
bonds win be in denominations of 81. 600
each
Sanford Is to have new water works.
Is at work on a cocton mill, is build
ing new residences and doing a good
trade, all OF which indicates enterprise,
intelligence n prosperity.
The Bakervville Mirror learns thu;
Willard Winters. OF Mitchell county
was killed at Porac, Philippine stands
on b 18th OF October. Winters left
Mitchell county as. August en-
listed as a member of the Thirty
sixth ant infantry.
Kfnston Free Press: Elder w. II.
Frost, Free VIII Baptist evangelist,
has recently closed an unusually sue
cessful weeks meeting at Grimsley's.
Greene county. There were Ninety
conversions. forty baptized. and fifty
n additions to the church.
Saturday night Charlie Bond shot
and instantly killed Hymbrick Suggs
near Mr.. Henry FizzelPs home. about
six miles from snow Hill. The men
are negroes, and were gambling. They
406 q AtSHGGL VIZ Stu 4ES
in the left temple with a pistol. killing
him instantly. Bono has escaped.
Fayetteville, n. c.. Baptist: We have
learned that 1t is likely that DIR. HUFF
ham will cave an autobiography. This
Is good news. What he alone knows
bou our history for the past fifty
years would fill a big book. Such a
biography should be standard history.
He should be encouraged in the work.
Raleigh News and Observer: Anoth-
er divorce was granted in Wake su-
perior court yesterday. The title OF
the action was c. E. Love VS.. James
D.. Love. The plaintiff was granted an
absolute divorce from her husband and
given permission to her maiden
name and marry again She had been
abandoned by her husband.
oncor Times: Mr.. E. B. c. Hambly.
OF h Yadkin Power Company, has
purchased the famous Stone and Dunn
Mountain granite quarrieS, situated
four miles from Salisbury. These quar-
ries are two Of the most extensive in
the United States, and the granite
found in them has no superior as a
building stone.
The Sum is glad to note that there is
a movement looking to the establish
ment of a new industry in the shape
of a furniture factory in the city.
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About half of the necessary machinery
has already been ecured The factory
will be run by Mr.. w. d. Burgess, Of
Hight Point, and Mr.. c.. S.. Burgess, of
this city.
Raleigh Post: Albert Brown, a
Swede, who was convicted in Chero-
kee county of an attempt to commit
rape and sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment, was brought Ito the peni-
1 TENT ia rv vpS5fPrdq mn Fl Hem
derson, of Randolph county, a bake
man on the Southern railway, had his
DOT crushed yesterday by an engine
at Selma
Salisbury Sun: Some time ago Mr..
M. L.. Thorn, of Buena Vista, Minr.,
Advertised for a wife. Mrs. Goodnight,
formerly Miss Elmira BEackwelder. CT
Waits onville, this county, answered the
advertisement Soon photos were ex-
changed and correspondence was kept
up Until recently, wnen Mr.. Thorn sent
Mrs. Goodnight enoug money to pay
fare for herself and mother from Sails
buy to the railroad point nearest bue-
ma Vista.
Durham Herald: An accident happen
ed at the Union Furniture Company's
factory last night. A wood pulley
bursted, a piece OF which struck Will
lie Bryant ON the head, cutting an
ugly cash on the back of his head and
bruising his face.-Ernest Tilley was
burned yesterday with some chemicals
with which he was experime nting.-
Yesterday afternoon C.. L. Knott was
knocked down and badly hurt by a
runaway horse.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. M. G. Stan
back ait Sanford on the afternoon of the
11th, after a long and severe illness OF
typhoid fever. He was one of the beS'
known men in the state, combining
honor and integrity with great bust
ness ability and numbering his friends
by everybody who knew him.-Three
barracks at the old Davis school a
Winston, were destroyed by fire this
afternoon. There was some insurance
on the property. The origin of the fire
is not known.
Mcdowell Democrat: From Mitchell
county comes news of the killing OF
two we'll known young men, Miltor
Phillips and w. Caraway, there Lass
week. Both were shot from ambush
and the assailants are unknown. Phil
lips was found dead in the woods or
Rock Creek above Magnetic City, and
Caraway was killed near Cranberry
These deaths, coming right on tht
heels of the shooting of Deputy Mar
shall Greer over two weeks ago, ha.
aroused the respectable citizens of tn
county.
Edward Henderson, aged IS years, o.
Mecklenburg county, was crushed Il
death on Friday by a falling tree. HI
was standing in his yard looking a.
the telling of a large walnut tree.
Charlotte Observer: Yesterday even
ing, four miles from Sbatesville. Mar
tgaret, 6-year-old daughter Of Mr.. Shu
ford Miller, was burned ito death. Thu
child's clothes caught fire while ii
mother was out of the room.
Greenville Reflector: The store o
Mr.. Noah Lee, at Grimesland, WA
broken open and robbed. Mr.. Lee car
ried on a grocery business and a guam
tfty Of his stock was taken.-A dwell
ing Gus belonging to John Andrews
about a mile this side of AlamancI
church, caught ON fire and was de
stroyed Saturday night. No n liveC
in 1t, the former tenant moving on
Saturday. Mr.. Andrews had 500 in
surance ON the house, barn, etc. How
caught is not known
Salisbury Index: Miss Polite Bear
was a maiden lady OF IS years, she wa,
known to many Of q citizens having