The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-03
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Lenolr county fayorS j. W. TRANCE
Tor congress and Aycock for governor.
The Clegg iron mine. in Chatham
county. has been purchased by Rich
mond people who will operate ii on an
extensive scale.
Troy Examiner: We hear hat Mr..
W. NJ. Mckenzie, who lives just over
the line in Moore county, has recently
caught seven large offers, the skins
Of which he sold for nearly $50.
Professor John Duckett, of Lumber
ton, nominated General 7. F. Toon for
superintendent OF public instruction.
If he should make as good an official
as he did a soldier he will prove a
great success.
Raleigh Post: Judge Hoke issued
judgments nisi for 800 each against
the sherifs of Richmond and Cumber-
land counties yesterday for failure to
return capiases in case on the crimi-
nal docket Of Wake court.
District Attorney Holton telegraphs
the Winston Journal from Washing
ton: The probabilities are exceeding
ly favorable to getting the federal
court established at Winston. An ar
rangement satisfactory to Greensboro
people will likely be made"
The following enterprises have been
chartered: The Seaboard Knitting
Mill at Henderson, capital $50, 900.
CraWford-Brooks Hardware Company,
at Winston, capital $4,000. Halifax
Hotel and Improvement Company,
stock 5000.
Mr.. r. D. Blackwell, the leading
druggist Of Durham, is dead, aged 80
Raleigh News and Observer: The
Melrose Knitting Mill, a new factory
to be established here, will be located
on Dawson street, near the Seaboard
railroad, on the lot now occupied by a
lcolored Episcopal church.
The G~reeneville Reflector reports the
Sudden death of DR.. H. E. Hornaday,
a prominent physician of Willow
Green, Greene county. DR.. Hornaday
had just started to get into his buggy
to visit some patients, when he drop
ped dead Of heart disease.
Clinton Democrat: A correspondent
suggests Hon. B. F. Grady, Of Turkey,
for state superintendent of public in
Istruction. The democrat does not
know that he would accept the nomi-
nation, yet it hardly thinks he would
refuse it if rendered, though he is by
no means a candidate for it. Mr..
Grady is a distinguished educator.
Salisbury Correspondence Raleigh
Post: In the event hat President Nc
lINiIley WlIluTdWS the HOI1ludllOH VI
Mr.. Ewart for judge of the western
North Carolina district, it is thought
by a great many prominent men of
both parties in this section, hat the
nomination will be rendered to Cap
tain Charles Price, of this city.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.. William
F. Wade, formerly of Hope Mills, this
county, the foreman of the carding de-
partment in he Wayne cotton mill at
Goldsboro, was instantly killed yes
terday afternoon BY being thrown from
belt. His head and arms were fearful
lly mashed. He leaves a wife and sew
era children.
Durham Herald: The remains OF
Rena Banks, wife of Cannon Banks,
were laid to rest in the colored GENE
terry yesterday afternoon. Rena Banks
was burned to death. Thursday night
she was doing some sewing, when her
husband went, to bed. The next the
husband knew was when he vas
awakened by the screams of his wife.
When Cannon Banks aWoke his wife's
dressing was on fire and the flames
were higher than her head. Her first
words were, Don't let me urn to
DEATH"
Hillsboro Observer: Last Saturday
night, a white man named Luther
lSli dlSe, III lit SillplOy VI Tie OOulueII
Stone Company, got crazy drunk and
Iparaded the streets with a knife in
hand and made several attempts to Gu
persons with whom he came in con
tact. He was finally knocked down
and o~ver-poWered by a citizen in front
of Rosemond's store and taken to the
guard house. In the s~cuffle, parties
unknown threw stones and broke
lStrange's skull in two places and il
had to be ~trepanned. His physician
DR.. Paris, reports him in a critical
condition.
Raleigh News and Observer: The
t125th North Carolina supreme our
report has just been issued.-Statt
treasurer says the state debt is o
Sc, sol, 77O.-A gun club, of twenty
five members, has been formed here
"A railroad official say that within
the next sixty days two hundred negro
women will go to New York n Bos
ton to take places as cooks and house
Observation-Disclosures, N. c., Marcel
I27.-Rev. j. Q. Adams, who has beer
Ipastor of the Wadesboro Baptis
lchurch for a period of six years, pre-
Isented his resignation to the churc1
Sunday morning, to take effect Apri
l1st.-Rev. Charles Fetter, who ha:
been pastor of the Episcopal church
,of Wadesboro four years, offered hi!
resignation to the officials of tina.
lchurch today, and goes to Rock
mount where he accepts a pastorate.
Charlotte Observer Before Govern
or Russell there was a hearing Of the
lShemwell ~extradition matter. Locke
Craig and Thomas A Jones, of Ashe-
willie; Spencer B. Adams, of Greens
Iboro, and Frank c. Robbins, of Lex
lington, appeared for Shemwell and
asked the governor to quash the war
rant for extradition. Jesse L. Ray
land ]. P. Cant came here from Knox.
willie, for the other side. The govern.
Tor did not act on the matter today
but gives the Tennessee authorities
thine to supply an omitted affidavit
Rev. w. S. Bowman, D. D., died yes.
lterday morning at Mt. Pleasant, in
the seth yea OF his age. Fighter
months g he suffered a stroke Of
paralysis while pastor Of ST. Mark
Lutheran church, of this city. A few
months after his illness and so soon as
he was able to travel he went to F1ori.
Ida for his health. Shortly after his
l~arrival in Florida he had another
lstroke Of paralysis; and since thai
thine he grew gradually weaker unit