The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-19
CAROLINA.

and. one OF Rutherforu county most
PROMINENT Republicans. has Come
openly and squarely fog me 9 = Snu
,hing ard WI go through like a top"
Ola Fort. eptenber I2-On Yesterday
ar 4 n m. Captain George Is. Thoma-
SON hreataed his last at his home here.
pa vas Is wears Of age-was q native
az Granville county, N &, having 10
Gated here in business twenty-five years
arn Captain Thomson started IN pus-
tness early in life as q newsooy- ne
left an estate or $5o.uVo.
Raleigh News-Observer The council
OF state yesterday burned up soIsvVo-
Already $4,000 has been Gubscr1Ded to
the cotton mill 90 be built nj the FANS
M NeuSe. IL Is desired, however, 10 De-
gin operations with 500, 0Oo.-Wil-
snn. y. c.. September 14.-Mr. Is. J.
Best a prominent citizen on Greene
county. died in Baltimore yesterday
morning. The remain reacneu Ma1son
last night, and were taken 90 ms olo
horne this morning for fnrermenG
Lumber Bridge correspondent Lum-
h.rtop R-obesonian: The numerous
friends OF Rev. w. S. Lacy, ID. d., who
ONCE labored In Fayetteville PreSoy-
rerx n long series of years. Will hear
with sadness that his health IS In a
very p~recarious condition. As We pea
these lines he lies IN The saultar4um az
Clifton Springs. New York. n q weak
and unconscious state. His wife mas
been Joined by his sister from New Jer-
hey in minisoering at his bedside
q n Brirkley, OF Yadkin county.
who was found In Winston Tuesday
with a bullet hole near his lett eye, died
Tuesday might. Half OF the ball was
found in his brain. Three young white
men. Thomas Reid, Bob Cobler and
Tom Hudson, suspected with knowing
something abouc the shoo0ing, Mere
tried before two magistrates yesterday.
The evidence was stNch that $he desen-
dants wre comhnitsed to jail without
bail TO await the term OF n criminal
court
Fayeteville Observer: Last night
about nine O'Clock the wife OF Rev. &.
A Snow was sitting ON the front porch
Of her residence, rhe old HORNE mouse.
when TWO men passed by and threw
something in the yard. SHE told them
TO go ON their way and let her aione.
They came back by in q few minutes,
however, and n OF them, who h
SAYS was broadShouldered and wore a
straw hat, deliberately threw a brick
at her with ali his might The missile
struck her just over the eye, cutting
a great cash. The eye was completely
GsOStu dlIu IL ID NV nv" A1AA~
she will lose her sight OF o
Several men recently went 10 the poor
house of Pennsylvania county n en-
tered the room occupied by Brazil Chap
pie, an almost imbecile white woman.
The men choked her 10 prevent an cut
cry, dragging her MO lie bushes
about 200 yards from the house, and
there compelled her to submit TO their
wishes. The crime was committed, it
I. ..o,,,xA ol~o,,t IN 1fctna,y ~ N, and
IL was about 3 a. m. when the poor wo-
man reached the poo house and told
her story. n was 50 seriously in
jured that she could only make her way
by crawling. Warrants are out for
John Stancill, white. and John CASTOR.
colored, who are suspected OF completely
in the crime. Castor is in Pickens
county, S. c. There Is talk OF lynch
ing.-(Hangirg is 100 good for such
brutes-all wh,tes.)
Raleigh News and Observer: John
Moore, a white boy about IA ear old.
yesterday slashed Cicero Wilson, anoth-
er white boy, across the oma with a
knife infiicting a flesh wound three or
four inches long. Justice Roberts
hire of the newly elected fertilizer in
spectors are OF duty-Mr. Wiley
Barnes, OF Wilson county, In central
North Carolina; Mr.. w. w. Williams.
of Cumberland county, in We: &
North Carolina, and Mr.. Floyd iowa.
of Johnston county, in northwestern
| North Observation-Disclosures, n. c., Sep
tember 13.-(Specfa .)-Bertie county
court is in session here, Judge Bow
man on the bench Arthur Hoggard, a
negro man. Is on trial for his life,
charged with raping Matte Freeman,
a g girl Is years old. Part of the
states witnesses were yesterday exam
Il ina1 TndoU tho rDnonot.ftA- xxt1a Hrt~1
duce other witnesses and rest its case.
h defence will also introduce many
witnesses.
Charlotte Observer: Rev. A. s.
Williford, known here as a Baptist
minister from Winston, was arrested
! last night OF a Telegram sent by Law
yer w. o. S. Cox, of Winston, charg-
rng him with the misuse OF funds be-
longing to the booksellers whom he
Howe, OF Chester, S. G, who Is re-
lated TO Captain r. A. Torrance's fam
lily, was painfully hurt yesterday at the
Mecklenburg Iron Works, where he in
employed He got his hand caught In
The belt, OF the machinery and three
fingers were cut of.-Mr. w. +. Hall.
Jr.. OF Statewide, was in the city yester-
DAY. In answer to an inquiry as to how
S~tatesville was getting along, he said:
Il think we must have something like
$4,000 worth of new buildings now in
course OF erection. Amongst these are
the new court house, the sanitarium be-
Ing built with a bequest from the late
Dr.. Billingsly.-Mr. JEFF Bost, OF
Hlckory Grove, was very seriously hurt
yesterday by being gored by a bull A
messenger came in dire haste for a doc
tor. Mt. Bost was In his field when
! attacked by the bull The animal threw
him up on Its horns and tossed him
some distance. One OF the animals's
norns pierced into the abdominal cav-
ity, and ii Is feared Mr.. Bost + serious
ly injured.
Charlotte Observer: Jim Brown. a
negro VINO came in on the excursion
tram yesterday. was badly hurt when
Inc train was nearing Charlotte. Part
0 I o glass in the window was broken
OUT leaving a good-sized opening. The
stuck his head out Of the window
[. and in drawing it back cut the +emnaa