The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-14
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L-HoA NEWS IN last thursday Whey
Clippard was burned 10 death n her
house, a small log cabin. was entirely
by fire She lived alone about
one and a half miles from Kings Creek
church and on Wednesday had a slight
stroke OF paralysis.
Greensboro Telegram: Last year was
a phenomenal one In the growth OF
Greensboro. This year promises 10 be
greater Many dwelling houses have
Many houses have been and are being
built for rent.
Fayetteville Reporter: The Hone
Mills Manufacturing Company are daily
expecting the arrival OF the necessary
material 10 start up the factory at No.
2-three steam boilers AVE been shipp-
ed. Inc operatives are being taken
care OF by the company.
Wilson News: The Southern railroad
is on a hustle. It has Mr.. John Bridg-
ers now looking owe a proposed line
OF road to come from Tarboro 70 VIII
SON Inls IS 10 shorten the present
route, ana VIII mean a great deal for
both Wilson and Tarboro.
Washington, March 4.-The president
his afternoon appointed the five cadets
at the Naval Academy, who were pro-
vided for by special enactment. Among
them was David Worth Bagley. brother
"a NN F~N- @~AAS-SA liz ia
American naval officer killed in the war.
Goldsboro Argus: AT a recent meet
ing OF the board of aldermen h order
to pay DR.. NJ. 4. Robinson and DR.. w.
H. Cobb, Jr., $25 each TO vaccinate the
poor of the city was rescinded and a
resolution was adopted to a all the
physicians Of the city % cents for every
person receiving vaccination who are
able to pay.
Winston Journal; The OMNIBUS
claim bill which passed ongres
Thursday has these items: Thomas II.
Brinegar Of Davie county $3.50; Rich
mOnd G. Sheek, Of Davie county $500.
Other claims for North Carolina 10
the amount of s45, 900 passed. The
largest claim being that of ". E. Bond.
OF Edenton, for S39. 743.
Wilson News: Steamer Jim, as he
calls himself, was in an ugly mood Sat
urday. He is said to nave had %agrudge
against another negro, so on Saturday
night having found his man near the
old Eli Mercer store. on Nash street,
near the edge of town, he pulled his
gun and blazed away. His shot took
effect in his enemy's face, who has dis
appeared. steamer is in Jail avail
ing trial and Little Richmond mourns
his absence.
! Raleigh News and Observer: Oxford.
| n. c., March 7.-Increasing the num-
Der of county commissioners from three
to five by the legislature is very salts
J factory to our people.-Judge Graham
| returned home yesterday after an alb
sence Of several weeks in Boston, where
he has made remarkably successful
deals in the Blue Wing Copper Min
ing property of this county.-It de-
velops that Wiley Williams, who is in
| Jail connected with the recent store
| rObberies, was a robber forty years ago
in Wake.
Raleigh Post: Salisbury, N. c., March
"a. d. Shipping, who was shot Mon
day by p, F. Hedrick, died last night
at 1875 at the Whitehead-Long santa
RUM. The deceased was AZ years old.
He leaves a wife and seven children. He
was engaged in the liquor business and
operated a distillery near the city. He'd
| rick and Mauney were given a prelimi-
nary hearing yesterday. Upon the evil
dence Mayor Linn decided hat the case
was b%ailable, and fixed Hedrick's bond
at $4,000 and Mauney's at $1,000. They
| rave the required bonds
| Monroe Enquirer: Joe Goodwin, of
| Buferd township, was bitten by a Eabid
cat on last Friday. Mr.. Goodwin found
the cat in the barn and not knowing
that it had h~ydrophobia took it to the
| house and was petting it Whe1 it took
J a violent fit and in attempting to get
il out of the house-he was severely bit
ten on the hand. MIR. Goodwin follow
ed the cat after it left the house and
in attempting to kill it he was again
bitten on the leg and torn by the claws
of the cat. Howard Griffin, wkgIives
| a short distance from Mr.. Goodwin was
bitten by a cat on Monday Of last week
| A maidstone was applied to the Wounds
Of both men and it adhered to- each
wound for a long while.
Charlotte Observer The severe wind
II electrical storm that passed over
Charlotte about 1 o'clock Sunday morn
ing was very severe in the vicinity of
the Henrietta mills. A sixty-foot sec
ton of the roofing of the mill bu Laing
was blown away. A large force of hands
was engaged yesterday in repairing the
damage.-Elkin, March +Charlie and
Max, two little boys Of T. NJ. BURNER,
Esq, were badly burned about the face
n head today with gun powder, which
they were fooling with.-Fayetteville,
i March 4.-The Observer correctly
gauges public sentiment in throwing
out a word of warning against taking
for granted the carrying at the lTaIIot
box of the suffrage constitutional
amendment. 1t will require hard work
from the rank and file and leaders of
the party There is certainly no aloud
on the title of the Cape Fear denncra-
cy to orthodoxy, III the writer is sur
| prised at the number OF leading femo-
| crats whom he meeEs opposed &c, the
amendment. The clause about the
grandson of his grandfather is espe-
| cially decried as a moustrous abs Irdity.
| AS the season Of the year when
| pneumonia, la grippe, sore throat
| coughs. cold, catarrf1, bronchitis and
| lung troubles are to be guarded
! against, nothing "aS a fine substitute
will answer the purpose" or is Just
| as good" as One Minute Cough Cure.
l That is the one infallfble remedy for
| all lung, throat Or bronchial troubles