The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-22
PROCLAMATIONS OF OUTLAWRY
Summons to Surrender Want the
Graded schools I'm Town-Noted Con-
vfct at LarRe-Brief Paragraphs of
Interest.
Correspondence of the Messenger.)
Fayetteville, N. c., May II.

Fayetteville, N. c., May II.
Thomas Forb, the young man charg-
ed with attempted criminal assault
on Mrs. James Driver at Hope Mills,
the story of which has already been
given in The Messenger, has been
formally enjoined to surrender him
self 10 the rightful authorities in a
proclamation just issue by Magistrates
G. P. OVERLY and J. T. Mckay, on
pain of outlawry. Forb is described as
a nan of small stature, weight l3o
pounds, with the figure of a nude wo-
man tattooed on his arm, and his g
20 years.
Mayor Cooks annual official n essage
deals with the question OF the gradeo
school,, and embodies a recommenoa-
ton that the city supplement the
sum already appropriated from the
public funds for its maintenance by a
subscription from the provld-
ed a location within the corporal Inn
it's, and nearer the centre OF the town,
be chosen. The school is now situated
on Haymount, IN h premises OF the
old Donaldson Academy, where the
Fayetteville youth have attended
school for over fifty years, but COM
plant is made that the distance Is 100
great for a majority of the children OF
Cross Creek township.
Lik the murderer Ridge, in Dick
ms story of the London No Popery
riots, Alex. Gilmore, notorious outlaw
and escaped convict, cannot resist the
perilous fascination of revisiting the
scene of his crimes. He has been seen
in Fayetteville within the past rev
days; and two or three years ago,
when he was hunted like a partridge
on the mountains" he again n again
boldly walked the streets or TINS city
in broad daylight.
a young man, accompanied by d
pretty, neatly dress girl, registered at
the Hotel Lafayette yesterday, and
an hour after were standing with join
ed hands before Rev. Joseph Lew, or
the Holt-Morgan factory village, who
uniId them in marriage. They were
MIR. w. w. Wicker and Miss Josephine
Seasons, seeking by a stolen refuge
to the altar of hymen for the happi-
ness which stern parents opposed.
Hon, Lock Craig speaks in the court
room at s O'Clock tonight. Ladies are
invited to be present, and his reputa-
ton as an eloquent speaker and bril-
liant debater should insure for him a
large audience.
Postmaster A. L. McCaskill left here
yesterday for Clinton, where the con-
gressional convention for this district
meets today. Leading republicans
here say that Hancock, postmaster at
New Bern, has the inside track for the
congressional nomination.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.. Holt and fam
lily are spending some time at Bonnie
Doom" their country place. Favored
as it is by nature, it has been greatly
beautified by the judicious and taste
full expenditure of means and labor,
and one can imagine nothing more de-
lightful than a season of rest by it's
placid lake, on it's broad p~iaZZas, under
it's cool shades.
Messrs. z. and l.. Williams, Van
story, Hon.. John G. Shaw. and per-
haps others leave this afternoon for a
fishing encampment of a few. days in
Robson county, carrying with them
tents, cooking outfit, etc.
The young folks were hidden to a
pleasant german last evening, held in
the commodious dwelling house (now
u~noccupied) of Colonel j. 3. Shaw on
Haymount, to make it's lofty rooms
and broad halls merry with the dance,
and to enjoy refreshments served on
the extensive grounds about the resi-
dence.
Mr.. Robert Strange, civil engineer,
has gone to New York city on business
for the Cape Fear Electric Power Com
pany-Mrs. B. Fuller, of Durham, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. s. Huske on
Dick street-Miss Daisy Smith, of
G~oldsboro, is the guest of her friend
Miss Eliza Williams on Gillespie
street.