The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-28

1S6tClEn ACSIO n1IuG0 Lu-
ward Rhodes Tor Rose,) is lying dan
| gerously wounded 1t Rex hospital, the
| result of wounds inflicted with a .raz-
Zor' or knife in the hands Of Frank
Richardson, a negro hack driver, late
Saturday night. It was at first thought
that the wounded negro had been ia
| tally injured, but his condition last
night had improved, and it is believed
now that he viii recover.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. E. A. Hilton
lives near Nj. w. F. Benefits place,
west OF the city. Yesterday while
handling Is gun on the porch 1t acct
dentally discharged. Two boys, Bar
zilla and Jessemer Harry, aged 5 and
IL, respectively, were playing in their
yard, 200 yards distant. Three Of the
| shot struck Barzilla in the head and
arm, and two Jessemer over the eye.
The latter wound is the most serious.
The eye is badly swollen, bet the doc
tor thinks the sight can be saved.
Raleigh News and Observer: Mr.. W.
H. Osborne stated yesterday afternoon
that he and Captain Ramsey were at
work on the old accounts Of the peni-
Tertiary. The work is very tedious.
will the debt fall below the figure set
by the legislative comittee, s1l0. 000?"
was asked. The vouchers show the
debt is about $3.50. 900 though some of
these may have been paid. On the 9TH
er hand there may be outstanding debt
Of which we have not yet learned. The
figure will not fall below s110, 000."
Greenville REFLECTOR: Frank ]. John
son, a we'll known colored man Of his
town, sho himself this morning. His
wife saw him get a pistol and ran to
him to try and prevent him using ii.
In the scuff1e that ensued the weapon
was fired twice, one ball striking his
wife's finger and the other entering
his head just above and behind the
right temple and lodging in the brain.
Physicians were hastily summoned but
they could do nothing except admins
ter medicine to quiet him Fragments
of brain were oozing from the wound
and it is believed the shot will prove
fatal.
Raleigh News and Observer: 1t is
learned here that a bloody fight oc-
CURED at the distillery of Jim Stewart,
in Montgomery county, on last Satur-
day. Ex-Sheriff Ewing drove out to
the distillery to collect some back taxes
and became involved in a quarrel with
Stewart and others over the matter. A
furious fight followed, and in the melee
Ewing shot Stewart, killing him in
| Stantly. Ewing was arrested and car
ried to Jail at Troy. On the way he
complained of his back and when the
| Jail was reached an examination show
ed that he had been severely slashed
with a knife. 1t is charged that he was
cut after the fight. Friends of Stew
art will employ counsel and Owing will
be vigorously prosecuted.
Warrenton special, 18th, to the Raj
eigh News and Observer: A shocking
death occurred here early this morning.
Last night about 10 o'clock, after he
had undressed and had slipped in a
dressing gown, Mr.. Walter Aycock low
cred the swinging lamp n blew it out,
when it burst, enveloping his bodyfrom
neck to foot in burning oil. No one else
was in the room at the time, but his
| wife ran in and enveloped him in a
blanket and extinguished the flames,
badly burning her w n She
| burned several blankets before she con-
quered the fire. Mr.. Aycock was CHAIR
ed to a crisp, but survived till Z o'clock
this morning. He was about &c years
| old, was a good merchant, and was uni
versally esteemed. He was an active
member of the Baptist church His life
was insured for o $4,000
Danville (Va.) Register: Recent de-
velopmentS that have been carried on
in the southern part of Halifax county,
Virginia, and the northeastern part of
person county. North Carolina, have
drawn attention to hat promises to be
a good Upper district. For the past
forty or fifty years there has been more
or less prospecting here, and in 1SS6-Sl
the Blue Wing mine was opened and
some 500 tons taken out. Prospecting
was also carried on at the old Yancey
mine, and in other places in the Vicin-
fty- But the reports that were made
some of them by competent men-did
not seem to Indicate much of value, and
the work was suspended until about w
years ago.. During the last two years a
great deal of work has been done, and
in all some 225 cars of ore shipped out,
most of it going to the oxford Copper
Company for mixing with the Canadian
ores.
Asheville Citizen: S. F. Venable, the
new county superintendent Of schools
is a gentleman, a scholar, a democrat
sans peur ct sans reprOche. This is the
kind of men democrats put in honora-
BILE and responsible positions.
Franklin Press: About 8 o'clock
last Friday night Mr.. j. F. Palmer's
plank kiln in the eastern part of own
was consumed by fire. 1t contained
about 5000 feet of plank, and made a
great blaze for a few minutes.
Murphy Bulletin: The Cherokee
Iron and Marble company have made
a contract to supply a Middlesborough,
KY, furnace with a large amount Of
the iron ore from their property three
| miles above town, and the first W.
cars were shipped Friday last owe the
A. K. & N. via Knoxville. Shipments
will be made at the rate of not less than
two cars per day.
Winston Sentinel: The mad dogs
and the scare is increasing in Davie
county. Lonnie Bowles' horse, which
was bitten by n several days ago,
died from the effects of the bite Sun
day night. A dog suffering from hy-
drophobia passed through Mocksville
Monday and bit at least fifteen dogs
before he was killed. Hardly any of
these have beer killed, says the Times.
Mrs. Sal1ie S. Yates relic Of the late
Major w. ]. Yates, of the Charlotte
Democrat, died recently at Charlotte.
She was a Presbyterian and was in
Charlotte in 1888.
Lincoln Journal: Julius Anthony, a
member of the firm and Rudisill & An
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