The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-22

20 years. was found drowned In the
Hiawassee river. ten miles below Muir
ply, Friday morning The coroners
jury decided that IL was q case OF u
eide
Greensboro Record: Lieutenant Set
tie has enlisted thirty men so far this
month. all OF whom are for the vo.un-
teer army except two. Tonight he VIII
send away thirteen to Vancouver a
racks in the state OF Washington, who
viii enter the Thirty-ffth.
Monroe Enquirer: The old soldiers
OF Arson county had a reunion in
Wadesboro yesterday. Nearly every
Mr.. Robert Klutts, who lives just
lost IL, 900 feet of lumber by fire at his
saw mill last Thursday night
Mt Olive Advertiser: Our truckers
viii save $4,000 per year through the
reduction in freight and refrigerator
charges-The farmers not having
any cotton TO sell. of course no one
should be surprised at the advance in
price-it was always thus
huntsville Eagle: Little Roscoe
Fairchilds, the 10 year old son OF DR..
j. NJ. Fairchilds, shot himself in the
leg Just above the knee Monday. de
was carelessly handling an old pistol.
when it was discharged. The wound
while quite painful to the little fellow.
will, it is thought, not cause any per-
manet lameness.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. P II. Casey.
who was injured by falling through
the elevator hole at his factory a little
over four months ago. is greatly i'm
proved since going to mis- old home
in Davie county( and hopes to be able
to return home in a few days. He Is
now able to walk on his crutches.
Durham Sun: Durham land is valu-
able property to have. We are told
that a gentleman who owns a four acre
lot neal town, has refused an offer OF
S 5000 for the lot. Real estate is chang
ing hands here daily, and large num-
bers of working people are investing in
in lots on which TO build, and thus
provide homes for themselves.
Fayetteville Observer: This morn
ing about daylight four prisoners in
the county Jail, all colored, George
McPhail, Tom Henderson, Herbert
Ross and Will. Melvin, escaped by priz-
ing and bending n of the outer steel
doors wide enough to squeeze through.
Williams planning mill at Red
Springs, two hundred feet Of the main
line of railroad and four hundred feet
of siding were destroyed by fire this
afternoon.
The insurance commissioner says
that a number of towns in the state
are passing ordinances imposing taxes
! upon insurance compaies and upon
agents. The commissioner states that
| several agents have written him upon
the subject, and that it is in direct vio-
lation of the general insurance law
chapter "a. section 70, which, after CIV
ing the tax imposed by the state, says:
mo county or corporation shall be al
lowed to impose an additional tax, IL
cense or fee On any insurance COM
pany."
Smithfeld Herald: Mr.. James Timer,
a young man who lives with his father
on the road between Smithfield and
| Clayton, accidently shot his mother
and sister last week while showing his
| new gun to a friend. His mother is in
| a critical condition and it is not believ-
ed she can live. 1t seems Mr.. Timer
cannot handle a gun with safety. A
| few years g he was out hunting, and
finding some young buzzards punched
| one of them with the stock of his gun.
The young bird struck the hammer of
the gun with it's wing and caused the
| load to be discharged under Mr.. Timers
arm. He came near dying from the
| shot.
| Rockingham Anglo-Saxon: Last
/ Thursday Revenue officers w. A. Nc
| Donald and S. T. Cooper, Jr., went out
| foraging in the neighborhood about
nine miles north of here and succeeded
IN finding and capturing a corn juicery
establishment. They destroyed what
| they could not bring with them, tied the
still to their buggy and were driving
! leisurely homeward congratulating
| themselves, doubtless, upon their sue
| cessful raid, when a rife report was
heard and the peculiarly lonesome
| whistle of a Winchester ball as II
whizzed closely to their heads. Cooper
| put the whip to his horse and fell into
the bottom Of the buggy. Several shots
were fired, one of which cut the dust
under the horse. They reached home
safely, however, but their horse died
soon after they got here. And whether
his death was due to a rife ball or tC
the overhead from driving Is still q
mystery-to them
Greensboro Telegram: Two white
men raided the section around Pleas.
ant Garden, six miles south of here
Sunday, broke into two or three houses
and stole several articles and wound
UP their Sunday work by an attemp
at highway robbery.-The death rate
in Greensboro for the white race II
smaller than any other town Of 5,00t
people in the state. There is a LARGE
percentage OF children according Il
! population in attendance on the school.
han any other town in the state. Their
are o passenger trains coming int
and leaving Greensboro than any othe,
town in the state. The hours OF trair
services are better. There is no merry
jest or fairy story about these state
ments, they are facts. Health. educa
ton and transportation the best
The Chifar Consolidated Cold Min'
company of Gibsonvilie, this county
began crushing ore Monday at / o'clock
John Farlow, superintendent of tn
! ro;pnc rba u-or in tho CITY fpiI "a Tale