The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-06
BOYS AND THE DEADLY PISTOL
Two Children XIII Themselyes-Annf-
versary of a Business House-Sunda..
School Omcers EIect-Other News
Matters.
Correspondence of the Messenger,

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Fayetteville, August 1.
Pistols lying about loose have caused
two violent deaths within the last two
or three days-first that of a negro hoy
living on the outskirts of town wbo
snapped a pistol thought to be unload
co. "a second that Of a child four years
OLD OF Mr.. A. Walker, of Flea Hill
township. who was playing with a re-
volver found in a trunk.
Inc Huske Hardware Bouse -.
which Mr. R H. McDuffie is vice nrAe
loent, and Major 3. r. Huske seretarv
ana treasurer, celebrates it's tenth an.
hlVersary today. It is the first NOR
camille corporation ever established in
rayetteVllle. and has enjoyed a graft
tyIhs measure or success, while the
OF its officers have preserved its busi,
ness name and standing without fay W
or blemish. "
Inc officers elected for the nsuin
a by the Cumberland County Sun.
Day School Association are Mr.. .Jobn
MGR Geddie president and CAPTAIN r
"A; Southerland secretary and treasurer.
me ~conVehtlon was interesting, the
following leading Sunday school work
ers aklng part in the proceedings:
ReVs. 7. A. Smoot, H. T. Graham. 6 T
Porter: Professor s. NJ. Smith: Messrs.
j. A. oates, ]. NJ. Lamb, H. H. Bolton
H. E. Smith, John Beard, II. T.. Hail
John Guy and James Beard.
Ex-Judge Womack of Raleigh. has
oeen In Fayetteville looking into the
case Of Louis Council. He saw the
prisoner in Jail, and had a conversation
with Sheriff Burns and Mr.. N. A. Sim
clair prosecuting ounse Judge Wo-
mack did not express himself to that
effect. but it is believed here that he
came at the suggestion Of Governor
Aycock.
The Sunday school of the Fayetteville
presbyterian church enjoys it's yearly
picnic on Saturday. 3rd inst, at Red
Springs, which is an ideal place for a
summer outing.
The young people have been making
merry with country picnicS and moon
light evening rides within the past
few days, in honor of the following
guests of the town: Misses Rosalie CAL
vert. Of College Park, Md; Eliza
Ala; Mcmillan, Savannah, Ga; Boyd,
Concord: Thompson, Baltimore.
The strange story told by the Red
Springs Messenger correspondent Of the
Cumberland boy who returned home the
other day after an absence of 33 years,
finds 1t PARALLEL in the disappearance,
one night in the early fifties, of a re-
markedly bright, handsome young la
of Fayetteville. Letters written and
inquiries made all over the country
availed nothing to find a trace of him,
until, about twenty years after the war,
a letter from an official in a county of
a southwestern state informed his relt-
tives here of mis- death, and of his leav-
ing property of value.
Mr.. S. II. Powers has just died in the
65th year of his age at Cheraw, S. c.
He was a native of Fayetteville, broth
er of Mr.. Thos. J. Powers, street COM
missioner, and for many years worked
at his trade of timer with the late
Bishop Andrews on Market squar
The emains of Mrs. Margaret Nc
liver, widow OF the late D. J. McIver,
who died at tho residence Of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Adams. We're carried to Buffa-
10 Presbyterian church, Moore county,
for burial.
Md. Walter / Holt is at home for a
few days from Wrightsville, where his
family are spending the summer.
Mr.. Ernest Holt, of Greensboro, was
here yesterday on his way to h sea-
shore.
Misses Alice and Nellie Matthews will
spend some days with friends at
Wrightsville.
Mr.. Ernest w. Cooke, general man.
ager of the Cape Fear Electric Power
Company, has returned from New York
and other northern cities.
Mr.. T. c. James, of Wilmington,
agent of the Norfolk and Western rail-
road. was IN the city yesterday.