The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25
r CAROLINA.

NORTH CAROLINA.
W~au0nngton Messenger. Governor
kusod closed his official term Tuesday
by granting a number OF pardons. Some
q them are the worst in b peniten-
aary and the term OF nearly q third OF
ne convicts IN the central prison have
been shortened
Raleigh correspondence Charlotte
Observer: Governor Russell declined TO
pardon w. A Anderson. Senat Pritch-
ards brother-in-law, who Is an outlaw
and who. under ar assumed name. IS
nov a sheriff I'm a western state. Ex-
Judge Avery made another attempt
yesterday to get the pardon, but faxed.
Greensboro Record: The business of
the Greensboro Roller mills. w. a.
Watson & Col. proprietors. q out
grown its present equipment. and for
some time these gentlemen have had In
view an enlargement OF the plant 20
meet the increased demand New ma
ehinery Of the latest max was order
ed
Morganton special 10 the Charlotte
Observer: The jury in the case OF Per-
~ VS.. the Western North Carolina rail-
road at 11:3e o'clock last night return-d
a verdict in favor OF the plaintiff, as
sessing the damages at 5000. and judg-
ment for that amount was signed by
Judge Councill. The railroad gave no.
ticeof Of appeal.
Wadesboro Observation-Disclosures:
Jess Melton. colored. who was sem
fenced to the penitentiary for fifteen
years for the murder of Mr.. Frank
Gaddy, in GuIledge township, has e5-
capped from that Institution. 1t is said
that he has been seen a number Of
f;roac aaantr.- ~ r,lalno &aun~hfn
ReidsvilIe Review: One OF the best
and most prominent m of the
county fallen a victim TO smallpox.
and passed away after only three days
illness. Our people We're greatly sur
prised and grieved to hear early sat
urday morning of Mr.. Franklin Pred
dy's untimely taking of.
Winston Journal: Tom Reid return
ed to Winston at noon today from the
p~enitentiary at Raleigh where he had
been serving a sentence for killing a
farmer named Binkley in Winston a
year ago. He was ~pardoned yesterday
morning about IL O'Clock by Governor
Russell. 1t was one of his last official
acts as governor.
Asheville Citizen: Henry Robinson.
of this place, was run over and his left
leg crushed so that amputation was
necessary. Robinson attempted to
board No. IL while running by the old
freight depot at thirty miles an hour,
Robinson. in company with three young
men. was sitting on a lumber pife lid
as the train approached he stepped to-
wards it. He grabbed the day coach
step and was drawnunder h wheels.
Kinston Free Press: We learn that
a little colored child, aged three years,
was burned to death at Hookerton
Tuesday evening. The chiId's father,
Sal Dixon, and it's mother were two
or three hundred yards from the house
feeding hogs. When the mother re-
turned she found the child sitting in a
cnrner with it's clothes all burned off,
and it's flesh in places was baked, cauS-
ing the skin to peel off. The child lived
only a few hours.
Tarboro Southerner: 1t is reported
that poStoffices will be established on
the East Carolina railway as soon as
the road is running twenty miles. For
a less distance the government does
not put on a clerk. So when the road
is open to Farmville these postoffices
may be expected. 1t is now grad4d
four miles or more beyond Macclesield
and the rails laid for about a half a
mile. The distance between Maccles-
field and Farmville is twelve n a half
miles.
hlIbSCOu Free 1TtSS- Edgar JOyIleT,
coIored, was before Justice j. CT. Cox
yesterday for larceny. He was bounu
over to court in the sum of 500, in de-
fault of which he was committed to
Jail. Joyner stole seven suits of cloth
ing from Mr.. j. B. Cummings store
THE case against w. B. Bland, for
killing his brother. c.. A. Bland, ait Ay-
den. began at Greenville Saturday and
ended Tuesday, the jury returning a
verdict of not guilty.-The grand
jury returned a true bill yesterday in
the case of Anus Davis, for killing Jack
Mills.
Greensboro Patriot: Theopera house
in the new city hall has been LEASED
to Mr.. 8. A. Schloss, of Wilmington,
for a term OF two years from the first
of next June. The annual rental il
$15e and the city reserves the right to
use the opera house for public meet
ings and gatherings Of all kinds
The machinery for Johnston & Wat
sons shoe factory has arrived and Is
building, on Fayetteville street.
The directors of h North Carolina
Railroad Company held a meeting IN
this city last Thursday and declared
a semi-annual dividend of 3 per eel
IN the stock cf the company, payable
on and after February 10th. The aggre-
gate amount OF the dividend is $40, COZ.
|-Charfes FRY, a young negro from
near Brown Summit, was last week
placed in Jail charged with shooting
Mary Bolton, a 14-year-old colored girl.
1t IS claimed by Fry that h shooting