The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-07
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Rev. Carr Moore has accepted q call
to the passionate Of the Carthage Pres
byterian church.
The washington Gazette notes the
death Of Mrs. Hattie Peterson at Bal
timore. where h had gone for treat
ment.
telephone connection between Winston
Salem and Greensboro Is completed
conversation can be carried on with
most any place within a radius OF I.5oo
miles. N telephone company have
apparatus in hand which they paid
81. 500, 900 for that will increase the talk
ing distance TO 1900 miles
Raleigh News and Observer: DR.. Cy-
rus Thompson. ex-Secretary or state
will move back to Onslov county.
He was yesterday engaged in shipping
his household effects.-Greensboro, N.
c.. May 1.-The fight for the demo-
cratic nomination for mayor came 10 an
end In the war primaries last night.
when Colonel W. III. Osborn received the
nomination by a majority OF two.
Raleigh Times: About sixty negro
men will leave Raleigh tomorrow for
New York state where they viii work
in brick yards. This will be only n
start for eighty more win soon 20 also
over IuG StdDoAI All Line. 4nlS umG
every spring for several years num-
bers of negroes have been carried
north. but this year they exceed FORM
er records. Most OF the negroes who
go make their way back before six
months pass.
Kinston Free Press: Captain Gus
sack n DR.. Thomas Hill came 10 Kin
ston this morning from Goldsboro TO
examine recruits for the regular army
There were II applicants. Of whom
only three passed.-A very regreta-
Bile affair occurred this IN rning or
Queen street. the parties involved be-
ing Mr.. E. L Brooks and Mr.. s. A
Quinerly. While Mr.. Quinerly was
crossing the street. he was met mid
way and attacked by Mr.. Brooks A
weapon Of some kind In the hand Of
Mr.. Brooks inflicted a slight wound on
Mr.. Quinerly's head.
Seventeen North Carolinians as re-
ported In the Richmond Dispatch. were
graduated at the University college OF
Medicine in hat city. They were as
follows:
Alternately. Eric A. Beaufort n. G.
Allen, Joseph Augustus, P~oindexfer..
N. c.
Rrawley. r V. Mooresville, n. c
Dicks. J. F.. Walkerton. n. c.
Fearing. Zenas. Elizabeth City. n. 9
1oA~g -. <oS AtatA A'h 49,
Highsmith. Seavy. Parkersburg. n. c..
Jones. Arthur Lee. Silas Creek, N. c.
Leake. j, J., Francisco, N. c.
Meadows. Elijah Brodie oxford, N. c.
McBryde. Malcolm H. Little River,
Academy. N. c.
McFayden. Paul. Clarkton. N. c.
Parker, John Rainey, Laws. -. C.
Rose, Augustus s., Fayetteville n. c.
Self. L. Lester. Lincolnton. N. c..
Sheriff.. Albert. Lenoir. N. G.
Underhill. H. p. Selma, n. c.
Raleigh News and Observer: J.. G.
Braswell & Co., of Rocky Mount, writ
ing to the Southern Tobacco Journal
say that the tobacco crop will be about
as large as last year, but IL conditions
are favorable IL may be increased ten
per cent.-The fire at Kinston Sunday
night destroyed about 81, 500 worth Of
property, none of it insured. It orig
mated in the livery stable of s. H.
Loftin, midnight. and destroyed
the building and its contents. with the
exception of a horse. The fire was 50
quick and sudden that Ii was impossi-
BILE to save the animals in the stables.
-Ridgeway, N. c.. April 30.-The. sad
intelligence reached here this morning
of the death of Major Robert w. Ais
ton, at his home in this county, on yes
terday, the 18th, of pneumonia, the
disease being aggravated by old
wounds received during the last days
of the war at Petersburg. Thus has
passed from earth one of the most gal
liant officers hat eve offered hi life
for the defense of his native n He
was GA years old.