The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-08

eT Tor $5U,0VU. charging Id4-
ure 10 have a sufficient water pressure
when his hotel was burned
Winston Sentinel: According to an
unbiased estimate, the ~dispensary, al
the end OF the present year, will pay
Greensboro $13. 900 and Guilford county
$3.50, whereas the barrooms paid only
$1,000 TO the city and $500 to the county.
Mr.. J. z. Macarthur, master Of trains
for this division OF the Southern, was
attacked and badly beaten or the street
in Greensboro Saturday evening by
R H. Dixon, a brakeman, who was
discharged on Saturday for cursing a
negro fireman. It was learned today
that Mr.. Macarthur was so badly 5
up that he was not able 10 get out to-
day.
Charlotte Observer: L~umberton.
August 1.-After two years Of successful
operation, the Lumberton tobacco ware
house entered upon its third season to-
day, and the first sale was the grand
est success eve seen n a compare
lively new market. One hundred thou
market today and prices ranged from
1 20 20 cents per pound, averaging 10
cents.
Asheville Citizen: The shooting Of
the negro George Smith by Constable
James on Saturday seems to have been
within his rights, il not his positive
duty, under the law, but We have no
hesitation in saying that in our udg-
ment it is bad law. No officer should
be given h right to shoot a mar down
who tries to escape from his custody
unless charged with the gravest Of
crimes.
Raleigh News and Observer: Wilson,
\. c., August Miss Jane Fulghum,
the lovely young daughter of James H.
Fulghum, of this county, who a both
legs broken by the falling Of a tree
across the buggy in which h and Mr..
Fab Lewis were returning from a picnic
on Thursday last, died on Sunday after
noon, despite the fine surgical skill OF
Drs. Moore and Anderson, of this place.
Her untimely death, amid circumstances
SO narrowing and distressing, has
plunged that whole community in bit
terest grief. The young man, whose
| legs were also broken, is still living,
though it is feared that his reason will
: be lost.
Shelby Aurora: Zeb. Coche, white, of
Asheville, an employee of Contractor j.
Rush Oates, on the Cleveland Mills
railroad, was shot Wednesday after
noon by Tom jenkins, a ne
gro laborer. From what we can learn,
the shooting was entirely unprovoked.
and cOWardly in the extreme. Some of
the negroes had been engaged in pistol
target amusement, when Jenkins asked
another to lend him his pistol; suppos-
ing that he wanted to shoot at the tar
get, Coche proffered his, and Jenkins
accepting it, fired point blank at Coche
the bullet entering about three inches
above the navel. Immediately follow
ing the shooting Jenkins fled and has
| not as yet been captured. The weapon
used was a 32-calibre. The wound,
| while a painful one, is not, in the Opin-
ion Of DR.. Ellis, who examined the
wounded man, necessarily a fatal one.
be lost.-Yesterday in the eastern part
| of Nash county there was a shooting
| ARRAY between Joe Farmer and N. R.
| Eatman, a tenant of his, which result
ed in a tragedy, Eatman being fatally
wounded by a bullet from Farmers pis-
: wound in the head. His mule also vas
shot. Eatman died from the effects of
. his wounds this morning.-The open
ing tobacco break here today is very
satisfactory to all concerned. About a
hundred and fifty thousand pounds
were sold. 1t will average about cents
it is believed.-Oxford, N. c., August
William Lassiter, of the Sixteenth in
fantry, who has been on a visit to his
mother in his place, expires on August
18th. He expects to leave for Manila the
middle of the month, to join his regi-
ment.
AshevilIe Citizen: Red Buck -
H. E. G. Bryant, the capable, we'll
known and genial travelling cores
pendent of the Charlotte Observer.
has gone down close to the rivers
brink, and possibly saw the old boat
man hustling his passengers in. But
he is better now, and we sincerely
trust he may long remain on the
hither side.
Fayetteville Observer: AS Mr.. w
c. Fields was on his way to his home
at Idaho last night a pistol exploded in
front of his horses head. He jumped
out of his buggy and gave chase to the
scamp, whom he soon captured. I'M
man turned out to be a negro named
Thos. Evans, who, Mr.. Fields says, has
been guilty of this same practice sew
eral times before. Mr.. Fields, who
was several miles from town, made the
negro get in his buggy and brought
him to the county Jail for safe keep
ing.
Edenton Courier: In Washington
county, on July 18th, Mr.. Henderson
SWANS fence was blown down ano
cattle got in his field, nile ne was
away. His wife was afraid to venture
out in the storm to drive the cattle away
When Swain got home he was angry
and beat his wife to death. She was
found on the bed dead, and in thu
bosom of her dress a note was 1ounc
stating that she had taken rough OF
rats" to end her misery. The note wa
in SWANS handwriting, it was learn
ed after he had been tried and give1
bond. for his appearance at cour
What a brute!
Charlotte Observer: Concord news
Mrs. Mamie Davis was today grantee
a divorce from Mr.. ]. Mack Davis
Mrs. Rainey was this afternoon grant
ed a divorce from her husband, MI
| Chas. Rainey.-The Charlotte boun'
passenger train from Wilmington wa
rocked twice Sunday night, the mrs
time getween Hamlet and Monroe, IN
second time between Monroe n Omar
lotte. The first rock shattered a pan
of glass, the pieces flying In the lac
of a gentleman who was sitting ne2