The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-30
DEATH OF MRS. G.. A. MCPHERSON
A Christian Woman Passes Away.
Louis Council Case-Sunday School
Convention-Personal Notes.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Fayetteville, n. c.. July q.
Yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock Mrs.
John A. Mcpherson, wife of Captain
John A. Mcpherson, register of deeds,
was seized with paralsis at the family
residence six miles west of town. and
passed away about four hours later,
aged So years. She was the oldest
child of the late Major Jack McNeill, a
prominent citizen Of Richmond county,
and sister of Hon. Frank McNein,
chairman of the corporation commits
sion. who. by his visit here this week,
saw her for the last time in life The
deceased leaves min children, all of
whom are unmarried except the wife of
Hon.. j. G.. Shaw. She was a woman
of noble character in all the relations
of wife and mother, and a member of
Mcpherson Presbyterian church, where
the funeral services will take place at
5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Judge +. X. Bryan was here yester-
day, at the instance of Rev. Father
Dennen, of Wilmington, making a care
full review of all the evidence and the
circumstances of the trial of Louis
Council. At the same time Mrs. West,
the victim of the criminal assault, was
in the court house with Mr.. A. A. Sim
clair, the able prosecuting counsel, re-
itering her sworn statement fixing the
crime on Council, and in a formal let
ter to Governor Aycock declaring that
she wishes the condemned man to suf-
fer the penalty of the law or go free.
The n convention of the Cum
berland County Sunday school ASso-
citation will be called to order in the
First Baptist church next Tuesday, the
Goth instant. Addresses will be deliver
ed by Rev. T. A. Smoot, pastor of Hay
Street Methodist church, Professor S.
NJ. Smith, n Messrs. H. L. Hall, J..
H. Weathers, Mop. Geddie and Claude
Williams.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. A. III. Slo-
comb. president of the Fayetteville
chamber of commerce, appeared at a
special session of the board of aldermen.
asking, for himself and associates, the
privilege of constructing a private sew
erage system. The board took the mat
ter under advisement, but il is not
thought that it views the proposition
avorably.
Mrs. John c.. Gorham proved to be a
delightful entertainer in the picnic Civ
| en- at Bonnie DOOM" Mr.. Walter Hollis
lovely country place, complimentary
to her sister, Miss Ernestine Anderson,
l of Mobile. Ala. The young ok had a
Il pledSdIll IluS III IldScs, III III lilclI
! wake went a huge wagon, bearing the
| material for a splendid picnic dinner.
Yesterday Mr.. n Mrs. J. Marshall
l Williams gave a pleasant house party
at their country home, in honor OF
| Miss Kate Isler, of Goldsboro.
Rose Hill, a negro woman living In
the outskirts of town, was before Unit.
ed States Commissioner Morrissey yes.
terday, charged with selling liquor
/ without license.
A sensational report is On the streets
which the writer cannot confirm tina
Rowland Hill, supposed to have entered
the house of Henderson Hodges on Har
rington hill, as told in The Messengel
a day or two since, has drowned himse}
in the Cape Fear river.
1t is gratifying to know that the en-
ergetic protest of Hon. George NJ. Rose
president of the board of trustees Of IN
Donaldson academy, has been effectua
in preventing the dropping Of Donald
son" from the name of the new nigl
school on Haymount. 1t will be tn,
Davidson-Donaldson academy.
The Southern Express Company, con
Quoting business for a long time in tn
Hotel Lafayette building on Donald
son street, will remove TO the first foo
of the knights of Pythias building o.
Gillespie street.
Frank Cain. youngest son of rhe lat
CharleSG. Cain, clerk of superior court
died lA Evening Of typhoid fever.
Miss k Hawley has returned fror
a visit to fyands at Wilson.
Rev. and Mrs. Levi Branson, Of IA
leigh, passed through here yesterday
after a visit to EliZabethtown.
Mrs. c. W. Broadfoot and Mrs. Mar
HinsdaIe are back at home. after
visit TO DIR. and Mrs. Will Jones at WI
son..
Miss Bessie Smith. of Gofdsboro. Ia
been visiting Miss Urbana D. Myrore
on Haymount-