The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-15

an operative employed by The Steele
LnlIls, was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed. No one was injured. tn
Great Falls cotton mills lost about haIf
ius fooI, and the cotton warehouse ad-
joining and other mill property was
considerably torn up. Z. S. Davis'har-
ness SHOP was badly damaged by the
WIND, the roof being partially blown
on Several sheets of tin were blown
ABOUT a hundred yards, falling near the
Mcdonald hotel. The power house
which furnishes power FOR the electric
nghts Of the town was so badly dam
aged That the plant could not be ope-
rated tonight, n as a Consequence
Rockingham is in darkness. The from
Of the boilers was blown away. and a
portion of the roof damaged. disarrane-
ing some Of the machinery.
Rich Square Times: The smaIInox
cases in Mr.. w. L. Stanley's family in
the upper part Of the county, have been
discharged as well. 1t is reported thai
Mr.. Stanley broke the quarantine es-
tablished by the health authorities and
may be prosecuted in the courts.
Kinston Free Press: Hose who he
I1eve that there isn't n North Carroll
ma bacon in this section would have
been agreeably surprised yesterday TO
see one of Onslow's successful hog
r~aisers, Mr.. j. H. Justice, drive in with
a tWo-horse wagon loaded with it.
There was fourteen hundred pounds.
The Robesonian: Nothing definite has
yet been done about perfecting the
plans n beginning work on the new
jail. Mr. j. NJ. McMichael, of Charlotte,
TO whom has been awarded the contract
for plans and specifications, was here
this week to meet the commissioners,
but the meeting was deferred until next
Monday, when it is thought something
definite will be done.
Kings Weekly: Friday Mr.. w. H.
Meeks, of Falkland, brought US an old
sword. 1t was left at his fathers at
the close Of the Mexican war. Two SOL
diers were returning home. Each had
a sword and pistol. which they left.
The other sword and pistols have be-
come lost. The one we have is a fine
specimen of the long curved sword of
those days. We have placed it among
our courios and relics.
Roanoke News: In the upper section
OF Northampton county we ale told hat
there Is an epidemic OF tyrnoid fever
and that the mortality among the peo-
pie living in that section is alarming.
In n family, that of Mr.. 7. S. Ingram.
well known citizen, the greatest af-
fiction has come. About ter DAYS g
he lost his wife with fever and last
Monday he buried two daughters in the
same grave. He now has two more
daughters sick with the same disease
and they were not expected to live, and
Mr.. Ingram is down with fever himself.
a greater affiction could hardly come
upon one family and much sympathy is
felt for him..
Roxboro Special to News and Obser-
Yer: A most horrible death occurred
near Mill Creek in Person county on
Wednesday, this following the destruc-
ton of the works Of the OrreCdale cop
per mines on Sunday afternoon. There
was q big explosion Of powder and dy-
Mantle there which destroyed the house
and part of the machinery, valued at
thousands of dollars. No one was pres
ent and it is impossible to tell how the
explosion occurred. On Wednesday a
negro employee, named Smith, went
down into the mine in a bucket. The
gas overpowered him and his lamp went
out, while the man dropped from the
bucket, dying in the min The last in
formation which came from the mine
is that the body is still there, as no one
has been found who IS willing to risk
his life going after it.
Wadesboro Messenger: Last spring a
~neighbor gave a lady who lives in Gull
ledge townships a few beans Of a new
and improved variety TO plant. Soon
after the seed were placed in the ground
the proverbia1 old blue men came along
and scratched the last one OF them up
and ate them. The lady discovered the
depreciation at once and, not to be out
done. she killed the nen and ate her
and recovered the beans before they
had been damaged. The beans were
again planted and this time they came
up and made a beautiful ld.-Ja
son Chavis, colored, died at his home
here last Friday. Uncle Jackson, 1t is
said, was SO years old il was proba-
bly, the oldest person in the county. He
was a free negro and bought his wife
from her master after lie married her.
He was a blacksmith and In his day
was a noted horse sheer.