The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-10
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Durham Rsrald: Little Miss Mollie
Eubanks. daughter OF Mrs. j. s Eu-
banks, who was 50 f~earfully burned at
her home neal the Commonwealth cot
ton mill Tuesday afternoon. died yes
terday morning about 1880 O'Clock
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. George Poin- |
deter fell on the sidewalk. near the
Phoenix hotel. at 100 this afternoon
DR.. Pofndetter had an attack OF apo
jlexy. He was carried to his home,
corner Of Liberty and Second streets.
In n short time he was able to sit in
his portch-
Concord Tribune: Prof. H. T. j.
Ludwig died at his home in Mt. Pleas
ant Saturday night about 10 o'clock.
Very few people knew OF his serious
Illness and the news of his death was
q surprise. Prof. Ludwig was born in
Cabarrus county on the 18th OF jan
uary 1913. and was 81 years OF age at
his death.
Charlotte Observer: The recent re-
port in this paper of the wheat crop
of Mr.. y. Glenn Williams. or Yadkin,
how that North Carolina is not such
a poor wheat state after all. His crop
was 5S5 bushels and the average 2Sh
bushels to the acre. That was a fine
outcome and Yadkfn is not accounted
a particularly fertile county.
La Grange Sentinel: Bob Dawson.
colored, tried to paint the town rec"
Saturday. When Chief Wells attempt
ed to arrest him he resisted stubbornly
and attacked Mr.. Wells. and but for
the presence of other white men, the
negro bully and his allies might nave
injured the chief. Bob was finally
overcome n fined SIS for his ungodli-
ness.
Raleigh News and Observer: This
morning just before the time for going
to press, il was learned that a negro
named Joe Privett was shot near the
negro school house at the j.. w. B.
Watson place, near Lenoir street. The
wound was from a rifle and was in the
back of the Sead. The negro Much
High has not been seen since, and ii is
thought he shot Privett. Munich High
is about Il years old and is a s%trapping
negro buck.
Salisbury Sun: Mr.. S. NJ. Thomas, a
prosperous former Of Scotland county,
tells the Charlotte Observer that an
insect has made its appearance in the
cotton in the Scotland section: a small
red spider, active and destructive in its
work. These insects settle under the
bottom of a leaf and eat it entirely up,
and the plant stops growing, being
lead to all purposes. Mr.. Thomas
fears much damage from the insects
unless it can be effectually deal with.
Kinston Free Press: Between 10000
and $4,000 pounds of tobacco We're on
the floors of the warehouses at the
opening break Of the Kinston tobacco
market this morning. All the ware
houses had good breaks.-Dock
Davis, colored, was lodged in Jail here
last night on the charge of stealing a
hog from Guilford Cogdell, colored, In
Sand Hill township. Davis is alleged
to ave stolen the hog and old it to
Sam Brown, colored, in Kinston. From
reports Davis ppears to be quite a hog
thief.
Salisbury Truth Index: w. A. Lent:
Of Zeb, while blowing yesterday will
a cultivator passed a stump and tn,
pillow hitched and the handles strucl
the lower part of the abdomen. He wa!
made quite sick at the time and though
it would Soon pass away, but instead
grew worse and he summoned DR.. J
S. Brown. DIR. Brown took out a con
sulting physician this morning. Their
is no abrasion of the outside but it j
feared that. there is some internal in
jury.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth: ~
Monday a colored man named Archi4
taylor living about three miles in tn.
country. lost his house by fire. L oc
CURED about the middle of the da!
and it is supposed to have caught from
l a defective f1ue while his wife wa
+ cooking diner. He saved nearly all hi
property. The Commonwealth regret
the accident for Archie is a good maj
n a good citiZen.-Sunday nigh
2 about 10 o'clock Mr.. Henry Baker, a
ex-confederate soldier we'll known il
this community, died at Mr.. Barfield's
e He was about IS years old and tough
-, +Ia ,-a, fra~o ,c1 - ,c= 800
an empty sleeve as a mark of his sui
fering.-One day last week Mr.. B. T
=, Gray lost a Tobacco barn by fire.
+ Goldsboro Argus: Two white mel
hitherto on friendly terms. VIM War
rick and VIM. Singleton, over in Ne
Hope township, came to Goldsbor
yesterday n got drunk together an
. went home together, and at Single
+ ton's house they got into a drunke
dispute, whereupon Warrick fell upo
f Singleton with a knife and carved hi
up fearfully, cutting of his nose, a
most cutting out one Of his eyes. Gu
v ting the muscle Of his neck n two an
r fearfully decorating one Of mis- arm
when he was finally gotten CUT OF til
house and the doors barred. He the
broke all the window lights Nearly OF
t OF the windows trying to ger back i
to finish the job Warri * is now i
Jail, and Singleton it is thought wi
recover. 1t took DIR. Robinson sever;
hours to dress the wounds,
Rockingham Anglo-Saxon: We hav
reported to us on the very best author
ity that a number Of good people q
Roberdel witnessed an apparent mex
plicable phenomenon last Friday al
ternoon- At about an hour by sun o
that afternoon some OF = noticed a vol
ume Of smoke, about such as woul
come from an ordinary stove, curtin
up from the top Of a green spruce pin
in the NJ. E. Church yard at Roberde
1t attracted a great deal Of a~ttentio
and was watched with much interes
by a large number of people for abou
two hours, or until it was obscurec b
the dark No one has yet been able
suggest an explanation of this curiou
pheiomenon. 1t was in the churc
yard where no fire was near 1t, an
surfing up from a green pine tree.
Charlotte Observer: j. w. Young
blood, an employee of the Southern rail
way, was tried by the mayor yester
day morning for assault on the 9-year