The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
NoRrH CAROLINA.

Tarboro Southerner: Gray Station.
colored. while walking the road near
H. l.. Stations Bats farm was wound
ed In the right arm by a bullet fired,
station claims. by some unknown per-
son.
Durham Herald: DR.. Edward Peace
VINO mas been critically i'll for some time
died at his home on Dowd street last
night at $40 O'Clock. Consumption was
the cause of his death. He came here
T. ON Granville county and during Inc
short time hat he mingled with our
people he made many friends to whom
this announcement of his death VIII
carry sadness.
Kinston FreePress: We learn that
MI; Edward Cobb. who lives about four
miles from Snow Hill, lac the misfor-
tune to lose his barn with about so
barrels of corn and a lot of farming
implements by fire about 4 o'clock
Monday. There was no insurance
Truckers say that the past few days of
cold weather have not injured truck or
fruit in this section.
Durham Herald: Passengers who
came over from Oxford last night, said
that the superior court was now in the
midst of a murder trial. The defen-
dant is a negro and the murder was
committed in Brassfield township,
Granville county. There were several
parties implicated in the murder but
all escaped with the exception of the
N now on trial, who was wounded in
such a W a that he could not make his
escape before the arrival of the Of
icers.
G~reenville Reflector: A negro prison
er named Jim Wooten waiting trial
for petty larceny, escaped from Jail.
hole cut through the brick wall and
a blanket suspended from the bars OF
the second story window told the taie
of how the escape vas made. a three
cornered file was found near the hole
Wooten was in the second story of the
jail and with the file he cut a hole
! through the wall just beneath the Win
dow sill. He then tied a blanket &C
the window. crawled through the hole
| and swung himself down to the ground
Oxford Ledger: 1t now appears that
the completion Of the Oxford & Coast
Line railroad from oxford to Dicker'
sons station, on the Durham q North
ern, is assured, provided proper ter
minal facilities can be secured, and 20
the future prosperity OF the town truly
hope no obstacle will fore sta. it's en-
trance into Oxford. A syndicate
with Colonel Benehan Cameron anC
Judge A. w. Graham among the mos
prominent members. has taken hold O
the matter n expects to complete tn,
road within 80 days.
The ten soldiers appointed second
l~ieutenants by the war department
from North Carolina are John w. Gull
lex. Goldsboro; Edward Hill, Concord
Robert 0. Patterson, Asheville; William
d. Pritchard, eldest son of Senator
Pritchard; William R. Reaves, Raleigh
Walter Mcintosh, Dickson A. Everett
John A. Wagner, Asheville; Bradley j
Wootten. Wilmington; John S. z
Young, Henderson. -Mormons arr
making many converts at Mount Olive
Wayne. One day this week nine per
sons left that town for Utah. Most o.
the converts are among the Door anC
ignorant.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: AShe come:
forward with something new for this
section. In last weeks court there wa
a case of "blasphemy" and the parties
submitted and paid the cost. This is
the first case Of the kind on record in
this section SO far as we can learn
The parties loaded up with the liquid
extracts Of corn and went to a mill
pond on "Hoss creek on Sunday and
baptized ZACH other as best they could
under the circumstances. Their LOUD
shouting and praying disturbed thu
neighbors and they were indicted fol
blasphemy. Blasphemy is not a statu.
tory offense in this state but it is a
cOmmon law offenSe.
Charlotte Observer: AT Antioch
church yesterday morning Thomas
Matthison was shot and instantly kill
ed by his brother, Joseph Matthison
The affair was accidental. The two
young men were out hunting, each
carrying a gun. They were accom-
panied by a younger brother. The
course of the hunt led them to An
tioch church, and there they got up u
coVey of birds. Thomas Matthison
shot and killed a bird and was in the
act of picking it up when he was killed
by the accidental discharge of the gun
in the hands of his brother, Joseph
Matthison. The young men were close
together at the time of the accident
and the entire load of shot entered the
left side of Thomas Matthison's head.
causing instant death.