The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-30
NoRrH CAROLINA.

Nh. Simmons is said to be confident
Iof winning. The Durham Sun says 1t
Igoes well with Gen. Carr.
Morganton Herald: Walter Beach, a
ison of the Late n. L. Beach, was killed
Iby a freight train at Hickory ON last
Thursday night
The Moravian Home church, in Sa-
lem, will be 100 years old next month
THE Moravians will celebrate the event
lon November 9Th, 10th and 11th-
Greensboro Is suffering from a queer
kind of vandalism Somebody Is going
laround boring small holes in trees and
then blowing the trees to pieces with
dynamite The public is indignant.
The University OF North Carolina has
ordered work to begin at onc On a new
ldormitory. 1t will be a three story
brick building, with granite trimmings
and slate roof. It IS to o $4,000.
Near Method, about three miles from
Raleigh, Thursday, the 5-year-old child
Iof a Mr.. Henderson was SO badly burn
led that n nay not recover 1t is
Thought she was playing with matches.
Reidsville Review: A party of about
capitalists from Boston,
Mass, will reach Reidsville this morn
ling between 10 and IL O'Clock on a spe-
|cial train to look over the manufacture
ing industries Of the town
Greensboro Telegram: Miss Rhein-
hart, the young lady at the state Nor
NAL and Industrial college who has
fever, is getting along very well. The
fever has to run its course, but the pa
tient'S condition is not considered at
all dangerous. The health of the stu
dent body in general was never bet
ter.
Pittsboro Record: A negro named
Spruill killed another negro, named
Chandler Harris, near Gulf on last Sat
urday night. Spruin and another negro
were q~uarreling, and Spruill was trying
to shoot him while he was trying to
hold Spruill. when the gun fired and
killed Harris who was standing near.
Spruill made his escape.
Durham Sun: William McFarlin, who
near Bahama, is subject to the
having of fits or Spasms- On Thurs
day, 18th instant, he had one of those
attacks while sitting by a fire in his
home and fell S that he thrust one of
his hands into the fire, and being in
sensible to pain, kept it there until the
flesh was burned to a crisp. His arm
was also burned very badly.
The engine on the Western North
carolina road at Willett's station, was
|derailed. a little six year old girl found
"a spike lying on the track and put it
ION the rail. The engine left the tract
and dashed down a thirty foot embank-
|ment. Engineer PoindeXter stood by
the throttle and came out of the wreck
with only an injury to his shoulder.
No others We're hurt. The loss is
labout 500, says the ASheville Citizen.
Durham Herald: The internal rev.
Ienue officer here continue to collect
large sums of money for Uncle Sam,
Notwithstanding, the fact that the bu-
ISinesS is done in an office that is no
larger than it was ten yearS ago. The
sales this month will probably amount
Ito oVer two hundred thousand dollars
leash.
Fayetteville Observer: Major Pat
lterSon, who died of yellow fever in
Cuba and whose wife committed sui
icide an hour later, was appointed to
West Point from this district and stood
lin this city, before Rev. F. w. Eason
and MI. Duncan Rose. He was a ma
Ijor of volunteers and a captain in the
regular army.
Greensboro Telegram: William Hon
ieycutt, the murderer of Deputy Mar
lshal Grier, who has been confined in
Jail in Greensboro for the past year,
was tried in federal court at S%tatesville
Hast week. He was tried for diStilling
olIu lIIlSo OOO LII IOQA
years Imprisonment. On account of
1.-THE absence of any witnesses, it was
impossible to try him for murder. It
will be remembered that h only wit
mess to the homicide, a man by the
name of Phillips, was shot from am
bush, the shot being fired it is gener-
ally believed, by Honeycutt
Greenville Weekly: Friday evening
Charlie Wilkinson and Jesse Speight
started out to see their girls, a nice
horse and new buggy being their pride.
ION h river bridge, a trace became
unfastened and bad runaway was the
result. A collision with the buggy Of
] B. Fleming turred them out, their
buggy turning over. They were badly
hurt. MI. Wilkinson was hurt On his
head, his left shoulder was almost
IbrOken and one leg injured. Mr..
lSpeight was badly hurt While their
hurts are very painful, they e. not
very serious. The buggy was badly
wrecked. The horse was stopped over
lat h Cross Roads.