The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-29

/ w. r. wooxen lieutenant commander.
and John X. Moore secretary.
Darham Herald: The small child OF
George Holloway WAS burned TO death
yesterday at his home near Bragtown-
His wife had occasion 20 so some dis
tance from the house TO get n bucket
OF water Ind left the child in tire house
by the fire.: when she returned she
found the child in the yard dead with
is clothing burned from its body.
Fayetteville Observer; Register OF
Deeds Bynum ts today recording n
mortgage deed OF the Aberdeen and
Rockfish railroad nj which Mr.. John
Blu ts president. to the Mercantile
Trust Company. OF Baltimore. liz lKa=
authority to- issue $4,000 worth OF
bonds bearing 6 PEI cent. Interest. re-
ceiving se.5oo for each constructed mile
Of railroad from said Trust Company
In return for the equivalent In bonds.
The bonds are -edeeunable In 1918.
Winston Sentinel; The leaf tobacco
sales OF tobacco for the nrst quarter
Of 1899 show a gain OF nearly 2.oo0. 600
ponnds.--A negro named Fob Phil
lips shot a colorcd preacher named
Williams. in Sidestown. west of Salem.
about / O'clock today. The wound is
not thought 10 be fatal. Phillips claims
that Williams has been too intimate
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him. Deputy Sheriff White went over
TO Sidestown this afternoon 20 zrrcst
Phillips.
Oxford Ledger: one day last week at
the copper mines in Northern Granville
n OF the negroes had two sticks OF
dynamite in one OF the shafts with "A
lighted torch. when one OF the fuses
became ignited and he threw It against
a house close by an ran, when Il cx-
ploded and blew our the side OF the
building. wounding two people. In an
other mine N Of the negro miners
fell some 60 feet and was killed. The
mines continue to show up an album
dance OF the best quality OF copper ore
and are being worked day and night.
Raleigh News and Observer: Profess
sor Frederick Agthe. a fine musician,
a native OF Germany and for three
years professor In the Salem college,
died today at the home OF his daugh-
ter in Ashe county. He had a stroke
of paralysis "a year ago. from which he
never fully recovered.-Mr. Walter
II. Page n MIR. Frank N. Doubleday
go INTO partnership as book publish
ers in New York city. Mr.. Doubleday
retiring from the firm OF Doubleday,
Mcclure e. Co. Mr.. Mcclure will con-
tinue McClure's Magazine and his
book publishing business, while MIR.
Doubleday and Mr.. Page will build up
a great publishing house.
Raleigh News and Observer: The
sympathy OF the people Of the whole
state will go out to Mr.. Thomas Is. Bal
ley, Of M~ocksville, in the deep waters
ef affiction through which he IL pass
ing. Yesterdays paper told Of the death
or his daughter. Miss Evelyn. at the
Normal and Industrial college at
Two weeks ago, his only
other daughter died of fever at the
Normal, and ten days ago his wife was
taken home, i'll with fever, contracted
while nursing her two daughters. The
rayer OF many win go up for her re-
covery. Mr.. Bailey Is one Of the first
lawyers of his section. an ex-state SEN
ator. a leader in all good works.
Tarboro Southerner: State GeoIo-
gist Holmes, who has been devoting
special attention to the oyster def
cheney, says the matter il extremely
serious. The great August storm ap-
pears to have caused havoc among the
oysters in Pamlico Sound, which Is the
chief place for them. Professor Holmes
has been to Washington, and the gov
eminent decides that the fish commits
sion steamer Fish Hawk, which has
been at Beaufort making oyster inyes-
LEGATIONS, shall vote the entire win
ter and spring to an examination OF
the condition of oysters in Pamiico
sound and sec What can be lone in tNa
way of getting a good catch of s.~t
at the next spawning season.
Greenville Reflector: AS the passen-
ger train was pulling into Plymouth
Wednesday evening two ladies, Mrs,
W. ID. Carstarphen and a Mrs. Cor
don, both of Plymouth, fell off the de-
pot platform IN the track in front OF
the engine. The ladies were rescued
| from fhafr nAFtIatsu Y.nrfffaa "a 1890
from being run over only by a hairs
breadth. Mr.. Clarence Latham, the
agent there, rescued one of the ladies
while some colored men saved the 9TH
er. Mrs. Carstarphen was hurt by her
head striking the track when she fell.
Mt Olive Advertiser: Robert Lee,
who killed Frank Phillips, of Albert
son township, Duplin county, a few
weeks ago in self-defense, was tried at
kenansville last week and acquitted.
Statesvilie Landmark: Sheriff /. N.
Monroe. of Rowan. brought Clint Will
liams, colored, here Wednesday and
lodged him in jail for safe-keepfng.
Early Wednesday morning the Sails
bury cotton mills shut down for a few
minutes and q number Of the employees
walked out toward the railroad where
Williams was sitting throwing dice. AS
they approached him one OF them. a
s~~C hs1aA sA@&h@o WIN l0DAt HdIU.
Let's vaccinate him. and approached
him. The negro at nce drew n pistol
and fired at young Bost. The ball en-
tered the abdomen on the right side.
infiicting a serious wound. The ne
gro fled and was pursued by an excited
crowd OF the operatives and frfends
OF the a The sheriff was
phoned for and after a chase he caught
the fugitive.
Weldon News: Lawrence J. Janaxon
a hard working colored man. wa. way-
laid and murdered by an unknown as
sassln near the Northampton end of
the bridge last Monday night
The spot selected was a lonely one and
iooks spookey even by broad daylight
AT night II has every appearance of
being the abode Of evil spirits. Jack-
son was in Weldon Monday and ex-
nbited some money. He purchased q
bag of salt In the evening and about {
O'Clock started for his home. which If
just across the field from the spot
Wnere ne Was found dead. vi saY,