The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29

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Governor Russell respites for thirty
DAYS Avery Kale, who is under SEN
tence OF death at Newton. but refused
70 Commute his sentence to life I'm
| prisonment.
Kinstou Free Press: There was a
| mad dog In Greene county Saturday
| The dog passed through snow Eli tnht
| morning and by Glenfield about noon
coming towards Kinston. He DIT n
| white woman at the Greene county
| poor house on the arm. Two dogs were
| also bitten by this rabid beast
Charlotte Observer: OF the Mecklen-
| burg criminals sixty were sent To Jail
since July. or the defendants sixty
| were in jaiI and twelve OF these were
| disposed of yesterday. Many submits
| sions were taken. or the
in court about seven-eights are ne
! groes.
note the large attendance at Oak
| Ridge institute this year Somehow
this school manages to keep I'm front
| OF the North Carolina schools in points
and numbers. II sends a large class or
well-prepared boys to the University
and the UNCONVENTIONAL colleges every
year
Courier: Samuel Calcut
was badly injured on Wednesday OF
| last week al w. J. Baldwin q Cos saw
! mill ten miles southeast OF
The injury was caused by one OF the
| feed wheels breaking and a piece new
UP and cut a deep gash on the risht
| side OF his face and chin
The Greenville Reflector says Mr.. A.
A. Forbes was held up on the roau 10y
a negro. He jumped from his buggy
and felled the robber, and in an instant
he was about TO cut his throat, when
the negro began begging piteously anu
| saying he was just in FUN. Mr.. FORBES
| let him get up n With a gooo scoiu-
ing let him go.
Durham Herald: II the negro tramp
who was killed yesterday evening IN
attempting TO climb upon the rods un-
| der a car has any relatives. they should
at once sue the railroad company Tor
damages. The railroads are entirely
too careless and should so arrange the
rods under their cars that there would
| be no danger OF falling on.
Raleigh News and Observer: There
! were sixty-one applicants for license
TO be examined and they were divided
among the several law schools of the
state, as follows: University, IS; wake
Forest, IL; Shaw University. (colored),
3; other schools, 3. One member or the
class gave up the examination shortly
after it began.
Murphy Scout: We learn that the
Il vi "S1oN@
| was shot in the Jack from ambush
nearly three weeks ago near town, Is
| such that his friends and relatives en-
terrain no hope for his His
body below the u Is still rdfaiyz-
| ed and his death is only a ques,icn or
| time. So far we have been unable to
| learn who committed the deed.
Greenville Reflector: Rev. B. Is. AL
! britton. an aged preacher In the Free
, Will Baptist church, died at $3.50 o'clock
! this morning at the home OF MS
( daughter, Mrs. III. G. Harris, about
five miles from Greenville. Mr.. Al
| britton was q native of Pitt county,
| and was in his S5th year. He had been
| in the ministry for more than half a
century.
On Friday afternoon about $3.50
| O'Clock, the little b-year-old son of l..
| B. Ross, of Earls, near Shelby, was
stricken by lightning and instantly
killed. The little fellow was going
home from the cotton field and while
walking down the public road within
| $50 yards of his home, the fatal bolt
| struck him on the left side, scorched
| the hair on his head. thence down the
body and both legs into the ground.
The body was entirely denude OF
| clothing except the wrist bands of the
shirt.
Raleigh News and Observer: Presi-
dent Meserve, of Shaw university. has
/ gone to Tarboro to attend the funeral
| of the wife &C Congressman Cheatham.
She died Sunday. Cheatham Is a t--
tee of Shaw university and its I.4ost
| distinguished alumnus.-Capt. James
Z. Lawton, superintendent of the iron
mines at Chapel Hin and Ore Hill. has
found in the Chapel Hill mine the
sword of a line officer in the confed-
| crate army. 1t is well preserved and
| he will present 1t to the state museum.
This mine was worked during the war
and it Is supposed hat the sword was
lost there then.-Marion, Sept. 25.-
Rev. j. A Perry, the holiness preacher.
died this afternoon at the Elhanan in
stitute. Mr.. Perry believed in faith
physician during his illness. He was
very much beloved here. His family
has the deepest sympathy Of our peo-
pie.
Winston Sentinel: There Is not a
more liberal denomination in the city
than the Presbyterians. This has
been proven on many occasions. On
| yesterday Pastor Caldwell called upon
his congregation to contribute $500 for
the mission work in Stokes county.
They did more than he asked. The
subscriptions aggregated $750.-For
weeks the life of one OF Moore county's
best citizens has hung by a thread.
Yesterday morning the thread snapped
and DIR. Richard Street, OF Glendon,
passed to his reward. The funeral was
conducted at 2 O'Clock this afternoon.
DIR. Street was for years a magistrate.
a large planter and was regarded as
n or the most correct and safest men
lin his county. He was a man OF big
4 heart, as poor people all over his sec
ton Will testify. who were the recip-
tents OF his liberality in the practice