The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-23
X CAROLINA.

Whiteville News: The many frenaS
Of our brother. Rev. J. r. Tuttie. viii
deeply regret TO learn of his death.
which occurred IN this village ca wed
nesday evening last. the e4th instant
Charlotte News: A we'll known cit
izen saw three men go up to the door
OF the Tryon Street Methodist church
today and knock on the door: enc a
butter and two had eggs for sale They
said they thought il was a boarding
house.
Lenoir News: \ petition sieaed BY
about $50 old confederate veterans and
their friends was forwarded from h.
noir this week to Congressman Ltuney,
asking him TO introduce in
a measure peusioning the confederate
veterans.
N~organton News: Al the BIske
county home for the age and faAru.
on Monday. the 5th instant. Thsnas y.
Coon and Nora Barringer. each ASes
60 years and inmates OF her home. were
made man and wife by he amp
knot-tier. Squire j. c. Null
Greenville Reflector: Information Vas
received here yesterday that the"Hon-
George H. White. the foul mouthes
defamer. who sits in congress as a rep
resentative from North Carolina. Was
not given an opportunity to collect
Goldsboro lust on his trilbys last eun-
day.
Durham Herald Mr.. Bryan. AZ I'M
derstood here. went TO Chapel Hili In a
private way and not to make a public
political speech. He charged nothing
for his lecture but those who secured
him charged. the receipts going for the
benefit of a new building hat il 10 Ne
erected oil he campus
wadesboro special to the Charlotte
Observer: Some days ago Gordon
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ted in Darlington. ;. c. for the muir
der OF Mr.. c. NJ. Smith. which was
committed near the depot on the night
OF January sth. The general opinion
is that these are the parties that COM
mitted the crime.
Mr.. A. s. Dockery. a son Of linked
States Marshal II. c. Dockery. OF the
Eastern district of North Carolina,
participated in the recent white SUI
premacy meeting at Rockinghan and
made his first political speech since
declaring his alliance to the democracy
at the last election.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. walter
Watson receiNe d a telegram last night
from Travis p. Elan. son OF Hon.
William Cecil ELAN. the distinguished
editor of The Virginian-Pilot. of Nor
folk, that his father was dangerously
I'll and not expected To live through the
night. Mr.. Elan Is a brother OF Ar.
Watson and is a native OF Fayetteville
Asheville Citizen: Yesterday even
ing about dark the superior court jury
in the case of Carrie e. Sims against
r. Lindsay returned a verdict, giving
judgment for the plaintin in the sum
Of $4,000. the amount OF damages asked.
Miss Sims sued for the loss of her hand
the loss being entailed while she was
an employe of the Biltmore laundry
in 1896.
Rich Square Patron: Between four
and five thousand tons of fertilizers
are shipped to Northampton county
every year, requiring nearly four thou
sand bales of cotton to pay for h.. An
advance of $3.50 a ton (already made)
means a tax OF our farmers for the
trust of about eleven thousand dollar
a year, a sum equal to all OF our
taxes. To successfully light the trust
requireS organization, and now 10 the
time for our to meet and dis
cuSS this matter. Two years ago the
farmers OF the vicinity of Woodland.
this county, by united action, save1
about two dollars per ton on all ferti-
lizers bought. Why not the farmers ia
every precinct of the county meet and
endeavor to form some plans to pro
tect themselves from the greedy trust"
Mt. Airy News: The Mt. Airy and
Eastern railroad will put on a number
of passenger coaches in a few weeks.
Mr.. Robert S. Gilmer. of Mt. AIRY.
recently passed his 91st birthday. He
is exceedingly well preserved for a
man of his age and has outlived hk
wife and all his children. except one
son, Mr.. William +. Gilmer.-As We
go to press a report is being circulated
on the streets TO the effect that ID. +.
McIver, policeman and city tax col
~lector. has skipped, leaving several Of
our best citizens in bad shape. The
tax books have been found. but. az no
checking up" has been done since
May. ii is impossible to ascertain the
amount the officer owes the city. We
learn that the defalcation, IL such q r..
will be 81. 200 or 1900.
Greensboro Patriot: A serious affair
came to light in the Shaws mill section
last Friday, when Thomas Keogh Wei
ker was arrested on a charge of av-
ing criminally assaulted Miss Ina, the
18-year-old daughter of John =. Starr.
on January BIRD. The accused was car
ried to Winston and placed in Jail 10
await a preliminary hearing. which
was to have been held before SQUIRE
Eckle in Greensboro Monday. but on
account Of the illness OF the prosecu-
ting witness 1t was postponed until
next Tuesday, the 10Th. We understand
that the young woman in question has
been i'll at the home of her brother a
greater part of the time since the crfHe
is said to have been committed and
only divulged ii the day before the ar
rest was made. Both parties are we'll
known in the community and are
members of the same church. Welker
denies the charge most emphaticaIly.
Wilson Times: Last week little
Ruby Rouse. daughter of Mr.. d. b.
Rouse. suffered a painful accident
While playing around a pile Of lumber.
the lumber fell and caught her legs IN
der a number Of large green sixteen
feet boards. The little girls right leg
was badly sprained and bruised white
the other was bent into a curve
About a year ago.. Thomas Sneed cane
to this city from Oxford and worked
at Simms & Cos. planning mills. Later
he courted and married Miss Cora Pet
way OF this county and seemingly
made her a good husband. A few
weeks ago II vas learned that Sneed
had left a wife at Oxford and that she
was taking steps for divorce. TIE do
this, she was having afidavits made In
this county as to Sneed's having mar
rfed again. Last Monday Sneed hears