The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-11
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The auditorius fund in Asheville
now amounts to $40. 3S0-
Revenue collectors for August in
Asheville district aggregate $301. 424.16.
Tobacco paid $247 ,677.S2 OF this.
Jim Lunsford and Bud Lunsford, cou-
sins, quarreled In Madison county and
Jim killed Bud. The murderer escaped.
Mr.. George Vanderbilt has given
twenty thousand doallars toward the
endowment of a new hospital at Bilt-
more.
The Bulletin shows hat there are
pol cotton mills. is wooden mills and :
silk mills in the state, making a total
of $50 textile plants.
The demand for the production OF
the Roxboro cotton mills Is 50 great,
that h mills are now running from
8 a m to 3 p. m
Morganton has been excited by h
strange rambling about town OF a man
dressed in woman's clothes. He a
visited many homes frightening women
and children, but has not yet been ap-
pretended.
The Wachovia FIGURING Mills have
purchased property at Winston, and
Will erect a three-Story building to be
filed up with new machinery and to
have bins for holding q, 900 bushels
of grain The new plant vii have a
capacity VI Nv pdiEtiS u llVuE diR1 ~
bushels of corn and will be completed
not later than October Is.
The Jonesboro Cotton Mill Company
Is having new machinery put in the
mills, which will increase its capacity.
The Yadkin Ripple notes the death
Of DR.. W. E. Reabow at East Bend.
He was greatly owe in that county.
The canning industry in and about
New Bern, a new thing there, has
nrnNad \ CnannCS this ln1nn
Greensboro Patriot: In 1866 Joseph
c. Hardin, reared in tn Tabernacle
section of Guilford. pulled up stakes
and went to Indiana. In Tue time he
married in that state. He came back
here a month ago and is so we'll pleased
that he has closed a trade for a place
in Greensboro and inside of two
months hopes to be back in the and
of his nativity.
a North Carolina contemporary that
Michel county a sever murderers
in jail now and rODoS TO have a
wholesale hanging after court" Since
that item was written mother has
beer added to the list of murderers.
But there is not likely 10 a wholesale
hanging after court or at any other
time. There has never. we think, been
a legal hanging in Mitchell.
Mrs. George Styron, Of Washington,
N. c., was attacked by d masked man
in her home Thursday night She was
sitting in her with her back to
the door when the party came up and
placed his hands upon her shoulders.
At first she thought it was her huS-
band, but, looking around, she discov-
cred her mistake. Her screams
brought neighbors to her rescue and
the man made his escape
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. Morris w.
Rose, Winston's oldest Hebrew citizen,
died at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon
at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Car
RE Rosenbacher, on North Main street;
aged rs years.-Four prisoners. two
white and two colored men, broke out
of Jail here just before daylight Sun
day morning and made their escape
The white men are bad characters
their names being Noah Albody and
Edward Quate.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Last Thurs.
day just before shutdown, a homicide
occurred at Ed. Anderson's distillery
on Hunting Greek. Jim NARROW was
struck with a stick of wood on the sid,
of the neck n shoulder by Jim Lewis
from which death followed in a few
hours Lewis made no attempt to es'
cape. The sheriff went and brought
him to town FRIDAY morning. HI
waived examination n went r. ia1l.
L I'D II u u il
of Greene county. arrived in the cit,
last night and left his morning 70
the state prison at Raleigh with TIVE
criminals, one going for Is years anC
the other going for three years. TIL
negro who went up for Is years is tn,
same one that made the attempted as
sault upon Mrs. Suggs, the daughter O.
-Sheri Grant, some months ago
He was convicted and sentenced a
superior court last week.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. w. r
Clark was stricken with apo~lexv thi.
morning, and is now in a @precariou
condition.-A serious accident befel
the three year old son of our formeI
townsman, Mr.. Elijah Shepard. a
in charge Of a negro boy. was playin,
in the second story of the academ,
building, when he climbed UP on a win
dow sill and jumped out, falling t.
n ground seventeen feet blow. tn,
child was seriously, though not fatal
ly injured, and his escape from instan
death is quite miraculous.
Nashville Graphic: Tonic Williams
colored, was brought here Monday an.
put in Jail by Constable Otis Strickland
OF Jackson township. Williams 1
charged with assault with intent to xii
Manoah Bissette, a white man Of tina
township. From what we could lear
of the affair it seems that the negr
went to Mr.. Bissette's house arly Sun
day morning and without ~provocatior
attempted to kill Mr.. Bissette wit
a shot gun, firing one load at him
A number of the shot taking effect Il
Mr.. BisSette's side and face, but non
or the wound were Of a serious nature
Greensboro Telegram: 1t is a rattle
uncommon thing to record a fight i'm
puiplI especially when the minister @
the gospel is n of the participants
but such was h case yesterday at M
Peasant church, several miles south
east OF town. Rev. r. S.. Webb was I
preach and he had assembled the pulpi
and proceeding in the services as ia
as being about ready to start in on tn
sermon, when he in some wya disturbe
a nest of humble bees. At once the
pounced on him.: his head seemed to b
their objective point. and they made
lively for him, but the reverend gen
tleman was no coward, and he proceed