The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-14

twenty.
Durham Sun: Rev. W. B. Oliver,
| who Is known by many OF our citizens.
having resided in Durham several
years ago. was here a short time this
| morning en- route 10 brakes Branch,
Va. He has been engaged In evange-
| Iistic work IN South Carolina
Winston Sentinel: Frank Stipe. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson Supe. OF
| East Salem, net with a painful acct
| dent yesterday afternoon. In taking
a towel on the mantle, a pistol. which
| was under the towel, discharged, and
| the ball entered the palm OF Franks
left hand and lodged in his wrist.
Greensboro Telegram: A horrible &C
| cident which cost Adolphus Wagner, a
| young white man, his life, occurred on
| the Southern railway yard shortly after
noon today. The young man was a
brakeman on a southbound fast freight,
| which had run in on a side track. west
| Of the passenger depot. He had un-
| coupled b cars. to open the crossing
| OF South Cedar street. and stepped upon
the main track to signal the engineer.
A passing shifting engine struck him
| and his body was horribly mangled be-
| meath the wheels.
Webster Herald Last Monday even
| ing there was enacted at the home of
| Tyler Buchanan, a most horrible TRACE
| dy, before which all others pale into
| insignificance. Tyler was out in a COW
| yard, milking, along with Miss Julia
Frizzei, who was living with Lawrence
Buchanan, a brother Of Tyler. The
| homes of the two brothers are only a
few rods apart. While Tyler and the
| girl were milking, Reuben and Robert
FTady, brothers, came UP, and a pleas
ant everyday conversation took place.
yUhar rho two nOUc uyQra riTkad tho
two Frady boys changed their talk and
became abusive to Tyler, cursing and
threatening him. The girl then ran for
the house and Tyler started to also,
when the Frady boys intercepted him
at the gate. Buchanan, seeing that he
could not get away, undertook to fight
the Fradys off, but hey were too much
for him. Reuben caught him and held
him while Robert shot four bullets into
him, the fire from h pistol burning
his clothes. Reuben pounded him with
| metal knuckles and cut him in the back
with a knife. One of the balls entered
the body just above the heart and rang
ed down just above the hips, On the
| opposite Side; another entered just be-
low the collar bone and ranged down
! the back; another entered the temple
and ranged down to the back of the
neck, and a fourth entered the body in
the back and down and through the
bowels to the front. 1t is this shot that
will end his life. He was also horribly
cut and bruised. The assassins fled to
the recesses Of the mountains.
Asheville Citizen: Mrs. Darius Gun
ter, so years, of age, while walking on
| a trestle lear Halls on the Murphy
branch at 4:5O p. m. yesterday was
struck by passenger train No. 10, with
the result that of her legs was
broken. Because of her advanced years
the injury is thought to be fatal.
Morganton Herald: The widow of
Marion Houston, who died recently a
| victim to smallpox, was shot by her
brother-in-law, Sandy Houston, on
| Saturday last and died the next day.
In her ante-mortem declarations she
| stated that the shooting was accident
al, though Sandy is still in Jail, no
hearing of the matter having been had
at this writing
Fayetteville Observer: Yesterday
afternoon in h lower part of Mr. Jas.
Kirkpatrick's plantation in Gray's
Creek, lightning struck a tree under
which were five persons and two mules,
killing a white man named Andrew
Murdoch and the two mules and injur-
ing more or less Mrs. Murdoch, Henry
Gilmore, colOred, a colored girl and
a little fve-year-old white boy.
Elkin Times. We hear that a negro
attempted to kill Mr.. n. Glenn Will
liams, of Yadkir county, last Friday,
and a glancing ball saved his life. 1t
seems that Williams has certain forms
Of chastisement for his work hands
when they do not please him, but this
one drew a pistol and shot Williams in
the forehead, but the ball glanced and
little damage was done. Thu negro
left.
Charlotte, N. c., July 8.-Thomas E..
Wright, of Chester, S. c., committed
suicide last night by shooting himself
with a pistol. The bullet passed
through his head, the ball being taken
out by the surgeons on the opposite
side. He vas agent of the Simpson
Scale Company of Elkhart, Ind, and
leaves a wife and children at Newton,
n. G. He had been drinking for sew
eral days and had told his friends that
he would 500 be dead.
Scotland Neck Common wealth: The
cars on the Scotland Neck road are
much better than those given us when
the Jim Crow" cars were first put on
The cars are better finished and the
interior generally is a good improve
ment over the old ones: Indeed they
are the best and finest and most com
Portable cars ever on this road. The
travelling public appreciate this effort
on the part OF the railroad people to
make travel on this road comfortable.
Raleigh News-Observer: Wilson, N.
c., July 1.-THE statements which GER
tain papers have made concerning the
incident occurring here Wednesday at
the depot when Professor Britton held
his daughter to prevent her mother
from taking her to South Carolina, are
greatly exaggerated and the affair
grossly misrepresenred. No one at
tempted to take Briton's daughter from
him, and she finally went by his con-
sent. He is not divorced, nor has any
suit for divorce been brought. The
sympathy of the community seems to
be with him in his domestic troubles.
-Plymouth n. c., July 5.-Yester-
day Washington county celebrated its
Tooth anniversary hv a GRAND copfon-