The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

0AE q last ~-th Two men at stem
We're badly burned about the neck and
face while robbing bee gums
A colored man secured a divorce IN
Halifax court Monday. and within
thirty minutes had license TO marry
moth woman
Editor j. B. Whitaker. OF the Wins
ton Sentinel. has been nominated for
the legislature by the democrats Of
Forsyth county.
Newton Enterprises: Mr.. r p. Da-
kin has contracted with the Shuford
cotton mill company of Hickory TO do
the woodwork on the factory building
on the South Fork river. about two
miles from Hickory. The building will
be IS feet by 200 feet. two stories.
Western North Carolina is particu-
larly adapted TO apple culture. Where
one barrel Of apples Is now grown in
Western North Carolina a hundred
barrels; twenty years from now a car
load Will probably be raised where a
barrel is now raised.
The state has chartered the Eliza
beth City Water Company, capital
SIS, o00. 1t las also chartered the We'll
don and Norfolk Steamboat Company,
authorized capital 500 900. This COM
pany proposes to put on boats draw
ing four feet, and run these through
the Dismal Swamp canal.
Hickory Press: ]. r. Drake. Jr.,
who is charged with an attempt 10
burn his stock OF goods while mer-
chandising in this city. vas arrested in
SouthCarolina and taken 10 Lenoir by
Judge Boyd last week and the case,
which was removed from this county
TO Caldwell, will probably be tried next
week.
Durham Herald: Mr.. Glenn is a
wheel horse when il comes TO speak
ing and ranks with the best that has
spoken here since the campaign open
ed. The pity Of it is that every white
nan in Durham county could not have
heard him last night. 1t was a power
full speech, full of argument IND con-
vincing
Winston Sentinel: The supreme
court decides in favor of Clerk s. T.
Neal and Solicitor E. A. Griffith, OF
the criminal court. The higher court
affirms the decision of the lower court
in these cases. Clerk Wilson, of the
superior court, was contesting for
Mr.. Meals office, and Solicitor Mott
for Solicitor Griffith's place.
Oxford Ledger: Solicitor E. w. Pou
discussed the amendment at Franklin
ton Saturday to 1,500 Teople. 1t GER
tainly seemed to be a great good old
white mans day in that hustling lit
tie town, and must have made the
lovers Of sweet scented Ephriam feel
a little weak about the pie counter
craw.
Warrenton Record: A very strange
thing occurred at J~Ohnson's store last
Saturday night. One of the large cleo
trio burner lamp chimneys became so
hot as to melt and change its shape
and yet did not break. The heat
must have been great and h CHM
ney must have been of extra good
glass.
Henderson Herald: A terrible acct
dent happened this morning near Bal
ance Rock. in Franklin county. in
which Daniel Pearson, colored, had his
house and five children destroyed by
fire. 1t seems that the children were
left alone in the house and when the
parents returned they found the house
on fire and the children burned to
death.
Greensboro Record: This morning
at the Southern railway station was a
man with more legs than the law az
lowed him. He had four, but seemed
to be able to get along very nicely.
There was an extra limb on each leg,
but they were not of the requisite
length, each growing partially on the
inside of the usual limb. Most of US
have too much tongue but it is seldom
a man is seen with too many legs.
Durham Sun: Obey Ripley, a white
man who resides near Hickstown, and
who is said to have served a term in
the p~enitentiary, Tuesday afternoon
committed the unmentionable CRIME
upon the person of Eva Crabtree, a
white girl scarcely nine years old, liv-
ing in the same neighborhood. This
Rippev is a married a about Is or
80 years of age, and had been living in
hat community about a year. He
bears the character of being a pretty
tough fellow.
Charlotte Observer: On Thursday
night Titus Coble, a white man from
by Deputy Marshal D. A. Hampton
for counterfeiting silver dollars. He
was brought before United States
Commissioner D.. G.. Maxwell yester-
day morning and for lack of United
States witnesses was remanded to Jail
to await trial. He could not give 1000
bond fixed by Commissioner Maxwell.
Salisbury Truth: Tom Carr, who was
with Will Edwards when the latter
killed Policeman Kerns, of Concord,
will get twenty years in the North
Carolina penitentiary for his connec-
ton with the crime.
Durham has. never had a hanging
says the Herald.
Durham Sun: Our readers will re-
m that on last SUNDAY week MISS
Barbee, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
H. Barbee, who live in Paterson town
ship, and Mr.. Eugene Massey, so71
of Rev. p. III. Massey, ran away
from Berea church and came over here
and were married by Squire D. c
Gunter. That. afternoon the father OF
the yound lady-almost a child-ame
over here, got his daughter and car
| ried her home. Since hen she has
resided with her parents. Young Mrs
Massey was in Durham yesterday with
her parents and it is learned hat she
will enter suit for divorce in a shor,
while.
Weldon New: The salary of post.
office, has increased from 81, 100 u
81, 400, owing to large increase in re
ceipts at h ofice.-William Dillon
a white man, was burned to death a
Roanoke Rapids, Wednesday night tn,
18th. He had only been living at tn
Rapids a few days. Wednesday he wa.
arrested and put in the lookup 70
being drunk and disordsrly. Tha
night about II o'clock it was discover
ed that the Jail was on fire, and befor,
the prisoner could be gotten out h