The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-12

The Daisy hosiery mill at Burlington
has started up with twenty machines.
1t will soon ave forty, and will pro-
duce 200 pair of hose per day.
Fayetteville Observer: Right Rever-
end A. A. Watson. bishop OF East Car
DINA. yesterday administered the rites
Of confirmation to four persons at 81
Johns Episcopal church He alsI
preached a very able rmo
Gray Speight attempted suicide at
Goldsboro Wednesday night by taking
twenty grains OF morphine. Physicians
saved his life.-A young Lady teacn
er in Guiiford county who was indict~
cd for whipping a pupil. was acquitted
and the prosecution had 20 pay the
| costs.
| Representative Carraway. OF Lenoir
county, is quoted by the Raleigh CORE
spondent of the Charlotte Observer. as
saying that there was a truce In the
movement to take a slice from Craven
county and d Il "a his county: that
there had been arbitration: and the
the legislature.
Danbury Reporter: Paul TayIor's dog
recently passed through a. experienc.
which If the animal could tel il. would
probably harrow ND ones soul to hear
it The dog was accidentally imprison-
ed in q room neal Taylor & Joyce's
store at Walnut Cove. where II re
mianed for more than ten days without
food or water. When the animal was
found n allowed its liberty it present.
ed a shadow of its former self, AMI
could hardly walk. Keeling a IL ntoxi-
Gated.
Charlotte Observer: Vester Helms. an
employe OF the Victor Mills, shot and
SQrinnSlV wounded fharlaS rrnShy Nal-
ored. yesterday afternoon at $50
o'clock.-Mr. Z. H. Sloan died sud-
denly at the residence of his son, Mr..
j. b. Sloan, at S09 North Church street.
at $50 o'clock last night. Though he
was 76 of age he had good health
and seemed to be without ailment.
Deceased was a native of South Caro-
lima and served with Hampton's brig.
ade during the civil war.
Burke County News: On last Friday
during the high wind. the roof of Sherir
McDowelps residence on West Union
street. caught fire from a spark from
a chimney. There were no men neal
and the flames kindled rapidly. Two
small boys, Isaac Tru and Ben Davis.
near By. did not do as mos
Boys would have done-run for help
but bravely set to work to put out the
fire themselves. They secured a long
ladder, placed it by the house and be-
fore help came had carried water and
stopped the fire.
Winston Sentinel: Master Albert, the
I-year-old. son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. S.
Douglass. who resides on ShaEowford
street. west Winston. met with a sad
n serious accident Saturday night
ne that may prove fatal. The mothe,
had Just finished bathing her boy. He
stepped from the bath-tub On a stick
of wood. which turned and threw him
a hot stove pipe, which ran into
the fire place. Albert fell on his abdo-
men and before the mother could res
cue him he was horribly burned.
| Greenville Reflector: This week Mr..
R. R. Cotton received from his son,
Captain Lyman Cotton, who has for
sometime been amid the Oriental war
scenes in the Philippines and China, a
box containing some of the weapons
used by the people over there in their
warfase. In the box were two rifles Of
different pattern, a pistol with a barrel
as large as a shot gun, a sword, anu
some bullets. The sword was the most
modern in appearance of any of the
weapons. Mr.. Cotton says he also has
a Chinese flag which his son sent him.
that was captured at Tien Tsin. He is
getting quite a collection of relics.
Greensboro Record: A warrant has
been issued his morning for the arrest
of Bob Coble and Oscar Harden.
charged with a fight with deadly weap-
on, to wit: A knife. in which affray
Dave FoSleman was dangerously cut
and carved up. The parties are all
white and live near Alamance church.
six miles southeast Of Greensboro. TIL
fight took place last night and the par
ties who came up after a warrant said
that Fogleman was stabbed in several
plces. one cut being in the back through
which. one of the men declared, tn
wind was escaping every time he
breathed,' giving rise to the idea that
he was not long for this world.
Charlotte Observer: Washington,
March 4.-The empire is here; its ad-
ven being heralded today by a wonder
ful display of militarism and amid the
blare of many trumpets, and altogether
the Of Emperor William the
First was a great success. A well
known North Carolina democrat who
terms today's exercises 1.-The corona
tion," said that he had heard a good
deal about imperialism during the cam
paign. but didn't think it Mount to
much until he reached Washington and
saw the cleopatra needless" victory
columns and arches of triumph along
Executive avenue in front of the White
house. They are unmistakable signs
that the empire Is here" said he, for
l never saw anything like hat at an
inauguration before"
Charlotte Observer: DR.. w. r. At
kinson, who was president of the Char
lotte female college for many years,
and later Of the college for women at
Columbia, S. c., is dying of consump-
ton at his wife's home in Williamsport,
Pa. He has had consumption for sever
al years and for the last two or three
days has been sinking very rapidly.
-Statesville. March 3.-The unload
ed pistol got in its work last night. Mr..
Alvis Foard and some companions were
in the armory Of the Iredep Blues and
had been toying with a pistol from
which the cartridges had been extract
ed. Some one had later replaced the
charges in the pistol. Mr.. Foard did
not know that the Dad had been re-
placed and in handling 1t later the pis-
| toI was accidentally fired the hall of