The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-27

Fayetteville observer: we can say
for Fayetteville that she too wants this
great industrial school. and Is the place
far above all others for Its location.
Our people should surely make a con-
certed effort 10 secure this school for its
proper site.-The annual meeting or
the South Atlantic Lumber Association
will be held in this city on next We'd
nesday. January 25th. Ii is said that
the meeting will be one Of great impor-
lance.
Clinton Democrat: There is a rnmor
current that the Atlantic Coast Line
which has bought the c. +. and Y. V.
railroad, may build a connecting link
Of road from Clinton to Roseboro, and
abandon that part OF the c. T and Y.
V. from Roscboro 10 WILMINGTON. Thi2
would bring trains from Fayetteville
to Wilmington via Clinton and Warsaw
and would amount 10 a saving OF some
20 miles OF track. The umo Is given
for what it may be worth.
Raleigh Post: A negro woman, serv-
ing a lie sentence in the p~enitentiany.
was pardoned by Governor Russell.
The woman is Sarah Swan. She is
from Chatham county and came to the
penitentiary in 1888. The woman CON-
mitted an awful crime. and her sex
probably saver her from a worse pun
ishment. Since her confinement in
prison the Swan woman has made an
exceedingly good prisoner. Her pardon
was secured through the efforts of sew
eral members of the w. c. T. U. Sarah
Swan was one of the Oldest convicts In
the pen~itentiary. She was over sixty
years of age.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. Henry
Markerson and family live at Shopton.
Friday Mrs. Markerson went into the
yard leaving the youngest child, a lit
tie girl of four, in the house. In a few
minutes she heard the child scream and
running In found 1t onveloped In flames,
In attempting to save the child the
mother was burned as badly as the child.
1t is thought, however, that both will
! recover.-John Tentee, a Biddle stu
dent, died yesterday morning about 5
o'clock, of malaria. He had been con-
fined to his only three days. He
was in his 18th year. Tentee was
brought over from Africa by a return
ed missionary and taken TO Wisconsin
about nine years a6o, and shortly there
after was put TO school@There was
a frightful cutting scrape at the Cling
ham mill Inst night a few minutes be-
fore II o'clock. Geo. Jones, one of the
young boys working in the mill, was
cut nearly 10 pieces. Sergeant Jetton
and Officer Cunningham and Overcast
answered a telephone call, and on ar
irving o the scene found Jones lying
in the mill, the fight having occurred
in the building. weltering in blood that
flowed from wounds in his back. arms
and shoulders. His back was slashed
in three or four places, one cut under
the shoulder. it Is thought, penetrating
the lung. There had been a general
melee and Jones was in it.-Wades-
boro, January 19-Mr. Edward r. Lit
tie, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Little,
died at the home Of his parents, in
W~adesboro, Monday afternoon anJuary
16, 1899. Mr.. Little was a young man
in the prime of life, being about 81
years OF age. He was a young man OF
fine sense and sound Judgment. which
made him a successful business man.
"Morganton, January 19.-In the
course of a trial before Justice w. E.
Powe. a few days since it was develop
ed that there is a gold mining company
operating In this county, with its head
office in Syracuse. ". Y, that Is cap
italized at 81, 5000. A Charlotte man
is said to be the owner Of 40, 900 shares
Of the stock.