The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-14
NORTH CAROLINA.

NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh News and Observer: New
cases Of smallpox-One in Raleigh
three in Rocky Mount an one In New
ton.
Lexington Dispatch: Babe Har.
grave, a negro boy about IL years old
was arrested at Lnwood Friday morn
ing for assaulting Mr.. Lee Lopp, the
postmaster at that place. The negro
drew a pistol in the ARRAY and pursued
Mr.. Lopp to his house. Babe was ar
rested and brought to Lexington and
is now In jail. He bears a bad charac-
ter.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Mr.. Lloyd
Hayes, OF the Brushes, tells US that the
prospects of a big fruit crop are excel
lent. He says that the peaches out
there are not killed and that the peach
crop viii bean average, according to
the present prospects. The prospects
for a big apple crop are good.-Ire-
dell county is to have a new court
house--Three octogenarians died in
Wilkes county last week--Statesville
Is preparing to give her soldier boys a
HGlCULiC AOIut-
Franklin Press: Colonel Henry, a
prominet citizen, who resided about
six miles from town on the Dillsboro
road, met a sad death last Thursday
evening. He and his sons and another
man were working in a clearing, and
some OF the party were chopping down
a tree expecting it to fall in the oppo-
site direction from were Mr.. Henry
was at work, but a sudden gust of
wind drove the tree in the wrong d.
rection, crushing him to the ground.
He was pretty badly mang1ed, and
died in less than an hour. One of his
boys barely escaped the falling tree.
The Progressive FARM. has come
down from its perch on the fence and
is Joining hands with Pritchard and
other opponents of White Supremacy
in fighting the Constitutional Amend
ment. We had expected all along that
its devotion to negro rule, as shown so
plainly in the campaign of 1898, would
cause it to join hands again with those
who want North Carolina ruled by ne
groes and selfish or corrupt white men.
In standing with Pritchard and Isaac
Smith in this fight, the Progressive
Farmer shows that it is a radical paper
through thick and thin.-Raleigh News
and Observer.
Charlotte Observer: Rev. A. NJ. Mas
sey, colored, and wife, Matilda, have
gone back on their promise to love
and cherish each other until death do
them part" They had considerable of
a rucus last night, which wound up by
Matilda shooting her liege lord. She
slipped up on him from behind and
hot lead into his shoulder. The
wound is not necessarily fatal. The
woman fled after shooting her husband,
and the police were unable last night
to find her.-Mr. John w. Poler is a
New England man who has purchased
acres of land at Vass, N. c., and is
going to raise chickens and live stock
for the Northern markets.
Gastonia Gazette: Bob Houston, a
we'll known colored man of Gastonia
is dead. Rich Miller broke his head
with an axe Tuesday night so that he
died yesterday morning. The affair oc-
Cured near the old saw mill place not
far from Mr.. Jim Shannon's. When
Miller went home after his days work,
he found that his wife was gone. He
learned which way she went and set
after her. He found her with Bob
Houston together, both drinking or
drunk. Bob had his axe with him.
He had been cutting cord wood. This
was about the time the vestibule passes
along. Miller took Bob's axe, Drained
him, and escaped. The wounded ne
gro lay there all night and died about
6 o'clock next morning.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. Duncan De-
Vane. who was a resident of Winston
several years ago, being a member of
the tobacco manufacturing firm or
Leak, Beal & DeVane, is now living in
Yuma, Arizona. From the Arizona Sen
tinel, a weekly paper published IN
Yuma, it is learned that Mr. DeVane
shot and killed a man Of bad charac-
ter named John McVeigh, on March
18th, for attempting to commit a name
less crime upon Mr.. DeVanes little
daughter. He surrendered to the sher-
if shortly after the shooting. The Sen
saws Mr.. DeVane was elected
treasurer of Yuma county last Novem-
Der by an overwhelming majority and
that he is one of the most popular men
in the county. His friends were con
fdent that the %coroner's jury would de-
eide that the killing was justifable.
Laurir burg Exchange: Last Friday
morning a negro man who had been
murdered was found lying at the door
of the Ashepole Presbyterian church.
He had been shot and dubbed in a ter
rible manner and subsequent investl-
CATION showed that he had been muir
dered in the swamp near by and drag
ged to the door of the church. A GER
tain negro woman living at Ashepole
was, at the time, cooking for Rev. Mr..
Craig, pastor of the church. Failing
to come on time that morning, MT.
Craig went to her house to see what
detained her. Upon his arrival he
found her asleep under the bed and her
clothing and the floor stained with
blood. She was placed under arrest,
but positively refused to make any
statement. The presumption is that
she and a negro man committed the
murder.
Cor. Lumberton Rohesonian: Sat
urday afternoon quite an exciting scene
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