The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08
MURDER AND HOMICIDE.
Terrible Eveats Reported <-om
Clsnfon-The Town BefnS Rebuilt.
Bfx Tobacco

Correspondence OF The Msssenger.)
Clinton. ". G.. August 4.
- murder Is reparted from Halls
township in this county. Ann Elizabeth
Showers. a deprayed colored woman
who IS 4 notorious thief. murdered her
three-year-old child to rid herself Of
the burden OF providing food for 1t. The
child was found concealed ander a log
in the woods and upon being arrested
the murderess confessed the crime and
has been lodged IN jail. She will be
tried for murder In October.
In the same neighborhooi there was
an unfortunate homicide last week.
Bascom Rackiey. sixteen-year-ofd son
OF Mr.. Frank Rackley. a reputable
white farmer got IN an alteration with
a negro boy named Elliott Faison
while working at tobacco "a 4 barn and
struck the boy with n small stick hit
ting him on the right temple. The boy
walked up the road some TWO hundred
yards and fell dead 4 c~oroner's jury
rendered n verdict that the boy came
TO his death by a blow from n stick IL
the hands OF Bascom Rackley. No ar
rest has yet been made as young Rack
ley is keeping out OF the way. The
friends OF the young mans family deep
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will get of light as no crime was pre-
meditated or intended at all. !" act.
1T - claimed by some eye witnesses .
the boy was advancing on young T. k
ley when struck with 4 tobacco SIX
If the blow had fallen anywhere e-se
h upon the temple nothing woeit
have come OF it
The burned district here IS beginning
10 be rebuilt. DR.. A. NJ. Lee has
broken ground for the erection of three
large two story brick buildings. One
Of these he viii occupy n : drug store
and the others have already been en-
gagged as general stores. Mr.. ID. l..
Clifton has begun building a new resi-
dence or the site OF the one he lost by
fire. Several other lot owners are be-
ginning on buildings and viii soon close
contracts for same. Messrs. lower &
McPhail have the contract for DIR. Lees
buildings. While the property loss by
the fire was heavy and the insurance
was small, yet in a year or so the whole
burned district will be covered with
new and handsome buildings and CIin-
ton will be a better own h ever.
There are, of course, individual losses
that will not soon be forgotten by the
individuals who sustained them. but
the town, as is the case OF most modern
tcwns, will be benefited in the end by
the substitution of brick for frame
ST. u1ldAC CO aAi1 lAAI Af+AN e. "
OF the cost of insurance.
The ~Episcopalians suffered a regreta-
able loss in the burning OF their church
here. Nothing was saved from the edi-
flee. The new organ was removed TO a
supposed place of safety, and was even
then burned. The rector, Rev. F. -.
Skinner sustained some personal loss.
including his watch burned in the build
ing. But the members OF the parish
who have twice lost their house Of wor-
ship by fire are not discouraged. They
have bought a desirable lot on Main
street, just back Of w. :. Patrick's
store, and will endeavor to build Il brick
edifice there. This parish is not finan-
cially strong, but timely assistance is
being given by lends abroad which.
with the funds being procured at home.
it is hoped, viii warrant the speedy
erection OF a church building.
Clinton promises to be one of the
best of the smaller tobacco markets IN
the east this season. There are now
two large warehouses here. the new
Farmers warehouse being just com
pleted. h one which has its opening
sale on Thursday, August eth. will he
operated by Mr.. +. W. Harriss. an ex-
perienced warehouseman. The Samp-
son warehouse. leased by Messrs. =. a
Bethune and i. NJ. Patrick, viii be
managed by Mr.. L. ". Nash. OF WI
Ston, who Is an excellent n experieI =
ed w-arehouseman. The American To-
bacco Company and the Imperial Con-
pany, as we'll as a numbe of export 4
houses, have placed buyers on this
ket and the sharp competition VIII in
sure the highest prices for tobacco sold
in Clinton.
Mr.. p. s.. Farriss, station agent Of the
Atlantic Coast Line here. Is critically
sick Of fever at his home on DeVane
street. He is reported as slightly bet
ter today.