The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-19

Near Forestville Tuesday lightning
struck and burned h barn of Henry
Mitchell
An addition Of seventy-fve new
rooms will be built to Piney Woods
Inn. Southern Pines, this fall. They
expect the hotel to be crowded the
coming season.
1t is said that a number Of horses
have been poisoned in Albright town
ship, Chatham county, and certain
persons suspected of the crime have
been arrested.
Winston Sentinel: The vulgar dances.
which have been a dEgraceful fea-
ture Of several fairs in this and other
states. were excluded. We understand,
from the Greensboro fair.
Kinston Free Lance: William Cana
dy. a colored employe OF the Colds
boro Lumbe Company, was run over
by a log train yesterday and his right
leg. just above the ankle. crushed.
julius Clark, an employe at the Al
pine mills, of Morganton, clipped yes
terday with Carrie Maffitt, a woman
or the town, leaving his wife and four
children in a destitute condition
Winston Sentinel: Parties who have
been attending the federal court in
Greensboro say that an dc man from
Wilkes county made an effort to shoot
District Attorney Holton in the court
room Saturday Of a. week.
Tarboro Southerner: Yesterday while
one OF out merchants was showing the
action of a revolver to a negro, who
wished to purchase. 1t exploded, smash
ing some glass and soaring the negro.
who went off much more quickly han
the gun.
Greensboro Telegram: After two un-
successful attempts, h people of High
Point have at last voted to issue bonds
to the amount of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of putting in a system of water
works to be owned and operated by the
municipality. And thus does our thriv-
ing sister city go forward.
Raleigh Times: Colonel Charles A
Cook, the we'll known Warrenton at
torney and a leading republican, is here
today. He c~Ontemplates leaving North
Carolina and settling in the west, prob
ably in Oklahoma or Indian Territory.
He says there is no fight now between
the republicans n democrats in War
rem.
Three gentlemen of Cleveland county
are going init the ginseng culture and
have ordered their seed at S. per ounce
according to the Charlotte Observer.
Ginseng is a very delicate plant and
the seed planted now will come up in
oihC ODA IL n liz oSCo 1IoItl
eighteen to t~wenty-four months to
terminate.
Raleigh News and Observer: A few
days ago a man named Samuel S.
Haden, sent the News and Observer a
letter concerning his Imprisonment at
Salisbury, on a peace Warrant sworn
out by his wife. In that letter Haden
declared that he had robbed a Southern
railway freight car and expressed a de-
sire to be prosecuted for dit and sem to
the pe~nitentiary.
Charlotte Observer: Lexington, Oc-
tober 11.-LaSt night thieves entered
the roller mill of Grimes Brothers,
blew open the safe and secured the
contents, which amounted to s125 in
posted by another party, and the re-
mainder belonged TO the firm. The
safe is a completes wreck and is entirely
useless.
Durham Sum: Boodler Bailey, of
Advance, a poStoffice, in Davie coun-
ty, lis sending out letters to all of the
StorekeeperS, gaugers, gougerS and
revenue men generally, to the effect
that the election of Mckinley depends
largely upon the interest they take in
the matter, and that he confidently ex-
poets a check from them for a nice
round sum Ito help on the cause.
Speaking Of the campaign now being
made by Congressman KlutZ, the
Statesville Mascot says: His speech
es are on the high plane which Should
be expected from a m &c con-
gress. He deals frankly n fairly
with every question, seeking to win
upon the merits of his party. No dis
trict has a more worthy representa-
tive and this one V had n who
was ADLER or more faithful"
Wadesboro Messenger: Mr.. c. y.
Ingram, one of the best known and
largest planters of the county, die at
his home in Lilesville township Mon
day morning at $50 o'clock. He had
Deer ill for about two weeks with dys-
entery, and for a week or more his con-
dition had been dangerous. Mr.. In
gram was about 40 years of age.
About eight years ago he married Miss
Berta McCorkle, daughter of the late
Judge McCorkle, of Newton She, to-
gether with an infant daughter, sur
wives him.
house reached the high water mark
for tobacco thus far this Season Tues
day ais tobacco sold as high as SAG and
$50 per hundred.-Last Friday a ne
gro stole a nice steer from a man in
Henderson and brought him to Oxford
and old him to Mr.. Will Rice for SIG.
The gentleman claimed his steer and
V"l AeiSS ro O0L ~ ICAhS AAS
proved to be Sam Wilkes, and Chief
Day and Mr.. Rice traced him to Frank
lin county and scooped him in Tuesday
night, and brought him to Oxford We'd
nesday morning Int put him in Jail.
Durham Herald: Mrs. Annie Dur
ham has been granted a divorce from
her husband, w. E. Durham, by the
superior court now in session. There
was no legal fight yer the matter. The
husband did not appear n the d.
vorce was granted IN a few minutes.
In her complaint asking for h separa-
ton from her husband, Mrs. Durham
said he had struck, abused, kicked her
and committed other indignities; he
had accused her, she said, of things
that a true man could not link of &C.
cusing his wife; and by his continual
and habitual drinking he a made
life a burden. The complaint recited
many things never before heard OF by
the public.
Raleigh News and Observer: Tn
Carolina Northern railroad will make
a further extention from B~arnesville
n. c., to Marion, S. c., a distance OF