The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-07
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a lOng time TOOK place INdI 0olSS
City. Rutherford county yesterday.
Southern Pines will at once put in a
water works system, it will include a
cypress tank that vii lhold $1,000 gal
Ions. The pump and engine vii be large
enough to supply 5000 gallons per
hour.
Clarkton Express: A very serious
and frightful accident happened TO Ut
tie Agnes Cromartie on Saturday st
Eli~zabethtown- Her father had Just
driven up and stopped his horse win
the buggy under some trees when a
broken limb that had been hanging in
a tree above became detached and
dropping struck Agnes and cut a
CHASTITY cash across her face and head.
A spur on the limb struck Just al the
edge OF her hair and pl9wed throut
her ace
Winston Journal: A large numbe OF
colored women are leaving Winston for
New York and other northern cities
where the 60 TO do household work.
Six left on the morning train and more
will leave tomorrow. The wife OF W.
II. Pettiford, the janitor OF the Yin
ton-Salem poStoffice, secures them the
situations. They have TO pay si25 on
their tickets and she agrees 10 get
them situations that pay from $l2 TO
S22 per month.
gro, Avery Mills. shot and killed
Mr.. Mills II. F1ack. n of the most
prominent citizens Of the county.
Mills drew the pistol and shot Mr..
F9ack under the heart. Mr.. F9ack
drew his shot gun, and the o took
effect in the negro's shoulder. Ohio
Flack prevented the negro from shoot
ing him by hitting hin in the head
with a rock. F1ack said before he
died that he wanted his friends to see
that the negro was hanged. Mr. F1ack
lived only an hour after the shooting
Monroe Journal: The alumni. II this
county. of Wake Forest colleg-, gave
a banquet, at the Gloucester Friday
night to themselves and several invited
friends.-Lightning did damage in
Goose Creek township last Thursday
evening Mr.. Lum Longs barn vas
struck and a valuable horse killed. The
barn of Mr.. w. L. Williams was also
struck and several hogs killed. -
While driving along the road ned. Lees
mill last Saturday night, Mr.. Ernest
Barrett was fired at twice, with d piS-
toll by two negroes who had concealed
themselves by the ROADSIDE He had a
close call, one ball passing through his
clothing just v his heart. he re-
turned the fire and the negroes ran
Greenville Reflector: We learn this
morning of a fight which DC :urred
Monday on Mr.. Henry Trips place.
near Rountree's church, between Mr..
Henry Trip and Mr.. Frank futon. 1t
seems hat Mt. luton in with
another man was working In Mr..
Trips field, when Mr. Trip came up
and began using insulting Language to-
ward Mr.. luton, and started back to-
ward his house when Mr.. TuUon cut
hin twice with a knife. Mr.. Trip then
went to the house and got his gun and
nm hooL or6 shot Nh rNIfnn who
in the meantime had gotten over the
fence into the road, twice, one load
taking effect in the leg and the other in
the hip. Mr.. luton was taken home
and attended to by a doctor. Mr..
Trips cut did not prove so serious.
Oxford Ledger: The sad news came
across the wires Wednesday, The 22nd
of August, Of the sudden death from a
stroke of paralysis, of Mr.. John g. La
nier, of Fayetteville, Ark. He was
honored and beloved in the community
in which he lived. He was the second
son of our venerable and IGNORED
townsman DR.. NJ. ". Lanler and we
mourn with him and his family in
this their great loSs.-Oxford was
visited by a severe rain and electrical
storm on last Wednesday night which
lasted from 10 to IL o'clock When the
storm was at it's worst and the rain
falling in torrents, a house occupied
by a colored woman, Carolina Over
by and family, was struck By light
ming and consumed. One of her grand
children, a girl, aged about four years.
persisted in h flames.
Reidsville special to Charlotte OBJ
server: Jews reached here at 5 O'Clock
this afternoon of a criminal aSSaul on
the 6-year-old daughter of John Fl.
HuSkey, who liveS six miles west Of
Reidsville. The crime was committed
by Joe Scales, a negro boy 10 years old.
The crime was discovered by the
mother of h child. Hearing the
screamS of her daughter AMI being
told by her Younger child the cause,
the mother secured a revoiver n ran
after the negro. He ran into Il barn
and took refuge under a wagon. Mrs.
Huskey forced him to come out and at
the point Of a pistol marched him to
the house; then she ang the farm bell
for the men in the fields. Th.y came
at nee and also friends from adjoining
farms hearing the alarm, were soon on
the spot. They seized the boy, bound
him, and carried him TO Wentworth.
Charlotte Observer: Concord, Sep
TENDER Twill Edwards. who killed
Policeman KernS here, just one year
ago, will be hung in Salisbury Monday.
The hanging will be private.-Mr. Loeb
mon, one of the night bosses at No. 4
cotton mill, Forest Hill, was seriously
cut last night by Bendigo Pool, a hand
under him. Pool was arrested today
in misunderstanding, September
Jim Lunsford killed Bud Lunsford
in Madison county Thursday. The men
were cousins and quarreled on account
Of an old feud. Jim Lunsford escaped.
Ton Randall, who is alleged TO be an
accessory, was captured and jailed
Rutherforduon, September IA report
reached here yesterday aftrnoon that
a mob was organizing at ForSet City
TO come here and lynch Avery Mills
wife for giving her husband the pistol
to Kill Mr.. NH. FYack. Hearing this,
the sheriff and deputies moved the wo-
man from the Jail and carried her a
few miles above town n tagged down
and put her on the South Carolina &
Georgia train going toward Marion.
Last night Sheriff Martin was 'phoned
that a mob had organized and was
coming when he promptly informed
them that the woman had bee taken
away. / learn that she was taken 20
~StateSvIle. Every night since the kill
ing h a been removed from the Jail
and heavily guarded--Newton, Au-
gust 30.-For several months burglars