The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-20

The new gymnasium at Wake Fores
college Is TO be completed mex week /
Will be the best in the state
Raleigh News and Observer; TIL
case of Gattis VS.. Kilgo and others i
Set for trial in Granville county a
Oxford on Wednesday of next week
An array OF able counsel rave been re
tanned On both sides.
Concord Special to Raleigh Times
James c. Gibson. cashier of the Cabar
rus savings bank. who was for "a a
clerk of the Superior court of Cabar.
rus county. did at his home here early
this morning. He was nearly 60 years
OF age. He leaves a wife and five
children.
Charlotte Observer: The Harris
Manufacturing Company is the name
of a new cotton mill concern for Con
cord. Mr.. j. w. Cannon is to b. pres
ident and Mr.. r. E. Harris, secretary
and treasurer. The capital stock is
fixed at 800. 900 and chased along the
line Of the Southern Railway, north OF
town.
Durham Herald: Old man Buck
Blackwell was last week elected treas
urer OF this town. an office that pays
something like $25 a month, and we
supposed he was glad to get it If the
old man had one-tenth OF what is ow-
ing him by men who are living easy
around this bown he would forever be
put beyond want.
Henderson Gold Leaf: Miss Clara
Barton at the head of the Red Cross
relief worka t Galveston has placed by
wire with the Continental Plant Co.,
90. w. Blacknall & Sons) K~ittrell. an
order for 1000, 900 strawberry plants.
These plants will be distributed among
the fruit rover of Texas who suffer-
ed 50 severely from the great Septem-
Der storm.
KinSton Free Press: A fellow, Brown,
| claiming to be from Pitt county, was
run u Of Kinston yesterday by some
of n boys. The man a zee drink
ing bad whiskey, and was rejoicing
over McKinley's election, abusing Bry-
an and everything democratic. The
boys stood it a while, but when he
jumped on Kinston people he was given
ten minutes to get out of town. He
went.
Greensboro Record: lust about the
toughest story, but no doubt true,
come from Burlington La sick and
neglected until he was a mass of rum
ming sores, "varmitS'' taking possession
of him a. if he had been a piece of de-
cayed meat A fake doctor is charged
with the crime. After the condition of
things was dicovered Mr.. Eugene Holt
sent a reputable physician to the man
n he is said to be getting we'll.
Kinston Free Press: Bishop A. A.
Watson and Rev. John H. Griffin left
this morning for Ayden. They will or
ganize a mission there this afternoon
and return to KinstOn tonight.-Mr.
Joseph P. Bischoff. a Mormon elder,
who had been visiting the Mormons in
this county, went to Greensboro, his
headquarters, this morning. He said
the Mormon church weul hold then
annual conference in Goldsboro in De-
cember. He said his church a q
membership of about 1000 in this state
Whatever else may be brought
against Mr.. Bryan, the charge of pessi-
mism cannot be laid at his doors. In
closing the campaign last Saturday Mr.
Bryan declared that the election would
not and could not be bought as it was
in 1896 and that the great manhood OF
American citizenship would assc.
self and wou vote as conscience, q
love of liberty and of reputation anG
constitutional institutions and princi.
pies would dictate. Mr.. Bryan puts
faith in humanity. A miserable mar
is he who loses faith in his fellowmen+
Monroe Inquirer.
Fayetteville Observer: The man
found in piecemeal on the A. G. L
track yesterday morning, was indeed
the father of h d~isconsolate littl
boy who yesterday morning reported
the disappearance of his parent, job
Scoggins, a horse trader of Sanford
DR.. MacRae, acting coroner, had tn
various pieces of his body collected III
and they were carried to the undertak
ing establishment of James r. Mcneil
and there fitted together as best the.
| nnrr11 hn Tho ho6xr mos fhnn inI4~f;
fed as that of John Scoggins, and tn
little boys fears were proven only to
true. His father, after selling one o
his horses, had gotten drunk, but hoy
he wandered out to North stree
is a mystery.
Charlotte Observer: Rev. DR.. j. p
Shearer, president of Davidson college
suffered a very painful accident las
evening as he was about to cave tbs
caboose of the freight train, which ar
riveS in the city from Davidson, a
els o'clock. The train stopped on tn,
West Trade street crossing, n Dr.
Shearer, with a friend, decided to leav,
the car and walk up to the station
Just as he reached the rear platform
the train started forward with tn
usual jerk and DR.. Shearer was throw
from the platform to the ground, strik
ing, first, on his head and h left sid
"a AAAo 1ASO. 44AS 1OCAd was PISINy Oaa
ly cut and bruised, and the side Of hi
face was cut His left hip also, wa
slightly injued-
Brevard News: Our community we
shocked on Monday morning last by
call over the phone for Sheriff No
Gaia, conveying the news that Georg
Banther. third son Of Wash Banthe
! had bee shot and instantly killed O
! Sunday. In company with a few wi
nesses the sheriff repaired to the seer
/ Of the tragedy and in h absence {
: the coroner he empanneled a jury an
. held an informal inquest. From tt
evidence it developed that whiskey We
. largely to blame for the trouble. tt
party were all friends and had met
1 the home Of Mrs. Tiliman Owens for
: good time. Owens and a man name
, Shook fell out and were about to o
: to blows when George Banther int
fered apparently as a peacemaker, a
though the evidence showed that h
, attitude might have been construed
threatening. Owen urned and f1ashs
= a revolver in Banther's face. fired ar
killed him Instantly.