The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-20
NORTH CAROLINA

Salisbury Times: Charles Reayis, a
colored rock mason aged about IS
years. fell from a scanold. on Tuesday,
n broke his heck
The roster OF h North Carolina VOL
unteers in the United States service in
the war with Spain has been complet-
ed 1t contains over 1000 names.
The Methodists Of the Western North
Carolina conference have decided TO
purchase Rutherford college and con-
duct a college Of high grade there.
Pittsboro Record: Mr.. John Barrin-
ger, of Lockville. has a COW that at the
age Of five years and seven months had
given birth 10 five calves, and none OF
them were twins
Kings Mountain Oracle: We have
been shown a sample Of India cotton.
such as is being used in the cotton
mill at Glover. s C This cotton cost
81 a pound laid down in Clover.
Sanford Express: We are old that
the prospects for a good wheat crop in
this section are very Door on accoun
OF a band stand. Some farmers have
not, more than half a stand Of wheat.
Mcdowell Democrat: w. NJ. Clay
was painfully burned by exploding
fiashlight powder, on Monday night
while taking some photographs at Old
rOTl- his escape IEOIn very SERIOUS III
jury is almost
Charlotte, y. C, February u: AT
2:30 o'click this morning a w~estbound
through freight on the Western North
Carolina railroad ran into a heavy
landslide near Black Mountain. The
! engine was overturned. Adam Jeffries,
fireman, and Porter Nichols. brake
man, were caught under il and crush
ed to death.
Cotton Plant Arkansian: We are
this week called 10 chronicle the death
of Mr.. j.. w. Becton. one of the oldest
and most highly respected citizens OF
our county. Mr.. Becton was GO years
old. He was born in North Carolina,
but moved to and located in
Prairie county in 1860. In 1861 he en-
listed in the confederate army and
made a faithful and efficient soldier to
the end of the war.
Rutherfordton Press: Sunday al
ternoon the 13-year-old daughter OF DR..
Stacy, who lives on the Marion road,
fell through Cherry Creek trestle 10
the ground, a distance of forty-two
feet, cutting a cash to the bone across
her face. and sustaining other in
jurieS. She is subject to fainting at
tacks and it is thought she was over
come by one while on the trestle.
Kings Mountain Oracle: On Thurs
day morning there rolled into Kings
Mountain on No. sc Mr.. Holmes Har-
mon, who, some twenty years or more
ago, quietly left for parts unknown,
leaving no word behind his as to his
whereabouts. He comes back to find
his children, some of them married and
some of them gone to their last rest
ing place. He comes back to find his
wife, who had given him up for dead,
married to another man.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. J. Alphon-
sc Young whose serious illness at the
home of his daughter, in Corinth, Miss.
was mentioned in yesterdays Observer
is dead. The deceased was the second
son of the late General John a. Young
Concord, February 13.-There was
a meeting of the stockholders of the
Cannon Manufacturing Company il
their offices here today, at which the
usual Semiannual diVident of 5 per cen1
was ordered paid. This cotton mill.
ing plant has enjoyed phenomenal sue
cess.
Tarboro Southerner: a colored ten
ant on w. II. knights farm Saturday
was in Tarboro and his wife in Sparta
with three children, the oldest . year:
and the youngest II months, in tht
house. 1t is supposed that they begaI
playing with the fire, which caught il
some shucks which they had in tn,
iCoC ~ Ai'fNhO g
the cause, the house caught fire anC
was burned TO the ground, and tn
youngest vas pulled out so much
burned that il died this morning. Ther,
is a law against parents leaving youns
children alone in the house.
Lenoir Topic: Lois Love, a negro
boy about 10 or 16 years of age. was
sent to Newton Jail by ]. G.. Ballew
Esq, for attempting to assault Mrs
Frank Miller, who lives about tive
miles from Lenoir, and at the time was
alone with her two children. 1t was
with some difficulty that the incenseC
husband vas kept from taking sum
mary vengeance upon the brute, but ii
is greatly to his credit and the credit
of the community that he is left to be
handled by the courts. He was kept
in custody here all day Thursday and
taken that evening to Newton Jail, as
the new Jail is not ready yet for pris-
OnerS.