The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-20
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Greenville Weekly: Last Thursday
Joe w. Carson got caught in a belt at
the Nansemond Truck and Package
Company's factory at Bethel. and so
badly injured that he died Friday. His
arms and legs were badly broken and
he was otherwise injured.
Fayetteville Observer: A great deal
of counterfeit coin is in circulation in
Fayetteville, especially dollars and
half dollars The dollars are a splen-
did imitation, and a only be detect
ed by the absence of the ring of the
genuine.
Fayetteville Observer: Two d
and thirty-five Angora goats passed
through here yesterday Yer the At
lantic Coast Line on their way TO Mr..
Mains goat farm, near Swann'S Sta
ton. They came from Texas and had
been on the road for twelve days.
Hickory Press: The people of
Hickory were greatly shocked on last
Friday evening when the news was
announced that 3. Sherman Clark, a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Clark, for
merly of this city, had met his death
while in the discharge of his duties as
fiagman on the 9. G. & A. division
of the Southern railway near Column
bia, S. c..
Stanly Enterprise: The hail storm
of Wednesday of last week was the
filOSl SlllLC Jill that hdS Ut thAS
section for man1 years. The hail stones
were very large, and on the morning
following were found from six to eight
inches deep on a level in many places.
The timbered lands Of Rev. d. S. Nor
ton, near Whitley, suffered the great
est damage we have heard. Some 800
or more pine trees were blown down,
some being nearly three feet in dame
ter.
Salisbury Trrrfh-TndQv- His MANY
Salisbury friends will be panied to
learn of an accident that will cost Mr..
NJ. E. Wyrick a hand. Mr.. Wyrick
some time ago moved to China Grove
from Salisbury, but was preparing to
move ack to Salisbury shortly. Yes
his kitchen. While standing before the
fireplace he was attacked with a fit and
fell forward. His hand fell in a bed Of
live Goals and before his condition and
situation was discovered his hand was
burned into a crisp.
Salisbury Sun: Montgomery county
had a suicide Sunday. That night Mr..
Tom Talbyrd was found dead in his
own house, his body dangling at the
end Of a rope, the other end having
been thrown over a rafter and fastened
there. Talbyrd was Sc years Did and a
widower. The rash deed was one
some time Sunday while he was alone.
Property on which there was a mort
gage had been aiken away from Tai
byrd and it is thought that this had
caused such a depression of spirit as
to lead to suicide.
Charlton Express: An eleven months
child of Mr.. ]. H. Guyton had a pc
culiar and very painful accident to
happen to it last week. 1t swallowed a
pine cone about IL inches long. which
lodged in it's throat, and was extract
ed with great difficulty. It's throat
bled very profusely, but it is now do
ing well.-On Monday. the 18th, Mi.
M. Guyton, while standing with his
back to a fire talking to a neighbor,
got so badly burned that he has been
disabled since. His p~antaloOnS above
the shoes caught and before he could
get it put out, his leg was seriously
burned.
Williamson Enterprise: A very sad
! accident befell Carl Harrell, of this
place, a few days ago, while cutting
timber with some men down on the
river. The young man was drinking
water from a spring when some one
shouted to him to DOL out, a tree was
falling, but before he could get out Of
the way a limb struck him on the head
breaking the skull seriously. losing
| some of the brain. While he is doing
well, we fear that the injuries are per-
manent.
Tarboro Southerner: Robert Will
1iams, a colored man, was killed Sat
urday afternoon near Kinsboro, by
freight train No. 81. This train passed
the town about $50 o'clock. When
found, Williams was On the roadbed
with his hea crushed. The engineer
states that he saw the man on the
track when he was about seventy yards
off and tried to stop his train. He re-
versed his engine, but it was of no
avail. The train was heavily a
and going at a good rate down a heavy
grade.