The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-13
NORTH

Hon.. D. II. Mclean will deliver an
address at b confederate reunion at
Shelby. October 18th.
Representative Stuart. OF Harnett,
VINO has been critically I'll, is thought
to be improving, says the Dunn Ban
ner.
Mt Airy News: But notwithstand-
Ing the unfavorable season, the crops
are fairly good. Economy and pains
In saving what has been made. VIII go
Tar towards pulling the farmers of this
section through.
Archdeacon Weber, an evangelist
OF the Episcopal church, is conducting
a mission or revival at Hickory and
mas large congregations He will &C to
Lincolnton on Saturday to preach one
week.
Weldon News: Congressman Claude
kitchin, who Is attending the supreme
courtin Raleigh, tells the morning Post
tnat the crops in Halifax county are
the best in years. The rains OF the
past fifteen days may break the force
OF this statement to some extent.
Dunn Banner: Dunn High School
opened Monday with an enrollmet of
20 pupils. This is the best opeing ever
mad IN Dunn.-In Harnett there are
2,3S1 voters. white / .76S; colored 569; the
total value or white property in the
entire county is s1,64s,0 66; the valua-
ton of colored property is S7S,247.
Fayetteville Observer: Judge Nc
Neill made a splendid impression on
people, and Mr.. Mclean, the popu-
lar solicitor, gains admirers at each
succeeding court.-A telegram was
received mere this morning announcing
the death at Clinton last night of Miss
Al Urtin STnzranc In.YohtAr 80 ~ L
Stevens, Esq. who is we'll known to
many of our citizens. Miss Stevens
was 10 years of age n a very popu-
lar young lady. She died very sudden
ly of a ~congestive chill.
Fremont Victor: Bob Benton, q
young farmer living about two miles
east of town while returning from Will
son where he had been to sell tobacco.
was shot from ambush, near.the Black
Creek Bridge. in Wilson county, infict-
ing a severe flesh wound in his right
arm. Doctors Brooks. of Black Creek,
n Lewis, of Fremont. dressed the
wound and Benton was taken home last
night. Sheriff Sharpe is on the track,
and it is hoped the guilty party will be
caught.
Raleigh News and Observer: Rowan's
tax valuation has increased $500, 900
over last year. The revenue law is evil
IDENTIFY being generally carried out by
people and ofIicers.-The opening of
the A. and NJ. college is an event in
the life of the state. We are not sur
prised that it is crowded, full, and
overlooking. The needs of the state for
Industrial education for the farm and
factory are great, n daily becoming
| greater. The college is supplying
them, and the young men are flocking
there.
An AShevile correspondent writes to
Charlotte Observer of what Solicitor
! Gudger says or the lumber situation in
Madison county that in two years, I'M
less something unforeseen happens, all
the valuable timber land in Madison
county will have been denuded. Five
companies are operating in the coun-
ty, which handle from five thousand to
twenty-five thousand f,-t of lumber
every day. Mr.. Gudger says the eSti-
mate of twenty-five thousand feet for
the company at the mouth Of Laurel is
a very low one.
Charlotte Observer: At High Point a
peculiar accident happened to Mr.. Sam
Franklin Tuesday. He was assisting
in putting a pump into a well at the
American Lumber Company's plant,
when it slipped, jerking his ankle
against a plank. and literally tearing
the ankle bone out of the f1esh.-Dur-
ham, September 5.-a young negro Wo-
man named Fannie King is under ar
rest for killing her newborn babe
near Hickstown, west Durham. She
crushed the head of her offspring with
a rock this morning before day and
hen carried the body to an old barr
nearby. She admits killing the baby
but says it was an accident. The coro-
ner will hold an inquest early tomor-
row morning. 1t was q brutal, cold
blooded murder.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. A. G. McGill
of Kings Mountain, the father of How
ard McGill, the lad who was captured
in Charlotte Thursday night, while or
his way 70 Washington city, arrived
yesterday and took his boy home. He
says hat mis- son is short $50, having
stolen over SIS before he left home
DR.. Smith, of Olive Branch, Union
county, arrived here yesterday in
charge Of Mrs. SilaS Nance, whom he
brought here for treatment by an ocu-
list. Mr.. Nance was hurt in a pecu-
liar way. He is a farmer, about &C
years of age, and lives at Olive Branch.
Thursday he was engaged in backing his
wagon under the shed at his barn.
He was standing at the heads Of the
two horses that were hitched to the
wagon and had hold of the bits, jerk
ing them in the ann usual to make
horses move backward. One Of the
horses gave a sudden jump and the
chain to the breast tree snapped. This
! released one end of the tree and it flew
around with great force, striking Mr..
Nance over one of his eyes. The bone
over the eye was crushed and h eye
itself was apparently destroyed.
Charlotte Observer: ~Statesville, Sep
tember A serious crime was revealed
here today, when the little ~9-year-olt
daughter of Maggie Burke. a woman o
disreputable character. returned home
The facts learned are that some day!
ago one Pleas B. Mcdaniel, who live:
about a mile from Ostwalt postofflce
appeared at the house Of Masgie Burke
and stated hat he wanted to take he1
little girl home with him to raise as {
member of his own family. and to thi:
the mother consented. Mcdaniel hav'
ing convinced the mother that he would
lake proper care of the child. Last Sat
urday MCDANIEL started to his hom'
with his child. 1t was late In the after
noon when Mcdaniel was nearing
home and as a threatening cloud wa!
i anpr0orhip0 he took the girl to an out