The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-02
NORTH CAROLINA.

Rutherfordton is to have a new no.
tel.
Chairman Simmons claims $1,000 ma
jority for Bryan in this state.
Forty-seven applicants for law IL
cense were examined at Raleigh
Kinston Free Press: There were $50
boxes of fsh on the A. & N c. train
this morning.
Charlotte News: Isaac Jones, color
ed. a well-known lineman, was killed
this morning at h corner OF Sevenh
n Graham streets, by the
OF an electric pole on which he was
at work. The pole vas 10 or % feee
high.
J~oneSboro Progress: We think the
number of negro farm hands who have
left this section Is very small. The
impression that labor Is scarce, arises
out of the fact hat price for picking
cotton are higher than usual. and la
borers not at work are "a to find.
Fayetteville Observer: Hon. Charles
r. Thomas left Saturday for Harnett|
county TO begin regularly h fall cam
Qaign in this congressional district
From HarnStt he Will go into Moore
county and then into Bladen, speaking
Al EliZabethtown, Bladen county. dur
ing week about October LIST
Charlotte Observer: As one OF the
negro couplers of the shifting train on
the Southern yard jumped from a car
yesterday morning he tripped against
a clearing post and his foot was thrown
on the track. The wheel of one OF the
carS caught the edge of the mans shoe
and tore off the sole and part OF his
shoe, blu the foot was unhurt-
Baltimore Manufacturers Record:
l The erection of the Loray mills, or
ganiZed last year at Gastonia, N c., Is
progressing rapidly and this S,OcO,O0o
enterprise is expected to be in opera
ton early in 1901. The mill will have
the largest number of spindleS n
looms under one roof in the entire south,
viz: $4,000 spindles and 1900 looms, to
produce woven goods, such as sheet
ings, etc.
Henderson Herald. Mr.. Wash Urey
and family, OF Tar River, near oxford,
were sitting under a tree in the yard
stripping tobacco when a small cloud
came up with no rain falling, and while
Mr.. Urey was pouring some cider from
a pitcher into a gless lightning struck
the gless, shattering 1t to pieces and
killed a dog lying by his side. OF
course they were all stunned, but soon
recovered.
Winston Journal: Five children, sup
posed to ave been bitten by a mad
dog, were brought to Squire Leham's
office this afternoon in order to have
him apply his mad stone. Mr.. Troy
Butner brought three Of his children
and Mr.. i. NJ. Fulp brought two OF
his. They o live about three miles
north of Winston. The children are all
very small and were only slightly bit
ten. the dog was ais very small. The
children We're bit at different times
since Saturday while playing with the
dog. The dog died last night.
Lumberton R~obesonian: We learn
that Sheriff Mcleod has undergone an
operation in Johns Hopkins hospital.
Baltimore, and is doing we'll Is could
He hopes that his condition will permit
his return home by October the 1St.--
Saturday while on her way to Saddle
Tree, on a visit, Mrs. Haynes Prevatt
and baby We're thrown from the bug
gy in which they were riding and were
painfully though not seriously hurt.
Mooresville Enterprises: About SIX
miles north of town there is an Old
Scotch cemetery, started by the early
settlers probably more than a century
ago. 1t is a known fact that no in
terment has been made there within
the past ten years. However, the grave
diggers have been at work. From re-
sponsible parties living in hat neigh
borhood we are informed that within
the past two weeks some person OF
persons have entered this old burial
ground and opened a grave taking VI
and exposing a few dry bones.
Charlotte Observer: Shelby, Sep
TENDER 22.-Miss Sabra Burgess was
run over by a horse belonging to Mar
shall Moore, near Sharon, and killed
ABOUT 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
Some men were unloading a molasse:
boiler, when the horse became fright,
onnl nnl AGs-- x-n- - l.
road and being deaf, could not hear thu
horse coming. She was killed almost
instantly. She was 20 years Old-Ir
! speaking about his maidstone yesterday
=, DR.. D.. O'Donoghue said it had been il
: his possession since 1892. and that fol
l 40 years prior to that time it had beer
owned and used by Mr.. J. T. Butler
who gave him the stone. DR.. O'Donog
hue says he a applied the stone t.
wounds caused by rabid dogs about iv,
! hundred times and has effected a cur'
t in all cases where the stone was uset
while the u was fresh, efore i
had begun to heal. The stone ma.
. been applied in every state in the unior
DAVIS, who killed Superintendent
q Odell, gets the highest penalty 70
murder in the second degree-thirt!
: years. The prisoner was charged will
e the murder Of Mr.. Odell, of Besseme
City. superintendent of the factory il
=. Il WHICH laws was employed. B6cauS
= Mr.. Odell had d~ischanger him, Dasi
q cut the formers throat with a knife.
Charlotte Observer: Colonel John X
Webster, Of Reidsville. who was her
today, says the senatorial fight il
4 Rockingham county is becoming yer,
interesting. The democrats general,
are lining up for either Carr or Sim
t mons--Mr. Paul B~arnhardt. an age
e citizen of Cabarrus. died yesterday an
@ was buried today at Cold Water church
The old -~confederates are passir
away. Two have lately died in ca
barrus.-Mr. Warsaw Carver, a life
long republican, who served Cumber
land in the state senate, has,, it /
stated on h streets today, given Il
his adhesion to Bryan, being a believe
t in free silver.-Rev. R. II. Cline,
|, Lutheran minister of Cherryvillt
. brought his two sons, Carl and Rus
: SELL to Charlotte last evening to b
treated for mad dog bites. Carl /
: eight and Russell six years of ag.
While they were standing near thei
house AT ChQrrvyiIla yc=+arJo- ~