The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-28
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Charlotte Observer: At the present
term of the district court only Major
w. E. Breese will be tried, the cases
against j. f. Dickerson and Cashier
Penland being postponed to a future
term of the court. The hearing OF the
witnesses on the case against Major
Breese will pc resumed this morning.
Witnesses who signed notes that are
alleged TO be valuelesS will be intro
duced by The prosecution.
Webster's Weekly: While the ma
jority received by the democratic
ticket at the late election in this coUn-
ty is the largest that has been pollad
for many years, yet it is not as great
as was reasonably expected before the
Inauguration of the campaign. 1t is
not an agreeable reflection that Rock
Ingham IS no longer the banner county
of the Fifth congressional district, hav-
ing to yield that honor to Guilford.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. George Biggs
and nephew, of Amesbury, Mass, are
the Promoters of a new enterprise for
High Point. They have been there this
week in consultation with Mr.. ]. Ell
wood Cox and as Il result a company
will be organized at once for the manu-
facture of carriage wheels. 1t is very
probable that work will begin on The
- ~ d !" veins, as lllc pldllS
have been drawn for some time.
Franklin Times: Lillian De Wire"
or The Curse Of Randolph HalT' is
the title of a new move just issued
from the press by the Scroll Publish
ing Company, of Chicago. The author
of the novel is Mrs. Marie Clements
Undertake, wife of our countryman.
Mr.. Chas. E. Undertake, of Youngs-
vile. 1t contains 334 pages and is
printed in plain large print. The edi-
tor returns thanks to the author for a
copy of her book, n will give it a
careful perusal.
Asheville Citizen: In the coming
North Carolina legislature the upper
house will have fifty MEMBERS; one in
dependent democrat major Conley, Of
McDowell,) four republicans and forty
five democrats. The lower house has
12O MEMBERS: one Independent demo-
crat (E. G. Simpson, of Perquimans,)
nineteen republicans and 100 demo-
Gratis. 1t is claimed by the friends
OF Locke Craig that in the general
assembly there will be 145 democrats
to vote for Craig for United States
senator.
New Bern Journal: Forty thousand
birds were killed recently on the North
Carolina coast for millinery purposes.
They were mostly sandpipers. A So
ciety of ornithologists recently met in
Philadelphia where this report was
made. More strict laws regarding the
killing of song birds are needed. -
Cyrus Dixon, the murderer, who es-
capped from the Jones county Jail some
time ago has been seen in the pocosin
swamp near the scene of his crime. A
man sCinS through the SWAMP came
upon him accidentally and Dixon COW
.Ta6 him with hic ~,,n ,-ol +nT3 L;,o -
git" The man got"
Washington Messenger-Gazette: Jno.
Cherry, the negro that was committed
to Jail Monday a week ago, after a
hea ring before Justice of the Peace a.
Mayo in default of a $500 bond, charged
with ~defrauding about two hundred
negroes out of forty cents each by rep
senting himself as the agent of the
Thunder Mountain Gold Mining Com
pany, and in return for their forty
cents they would receive one dollar per
month until they received a certificate
OF stock valued at $50, was released
from Jail yesterday, SO many of the
ne5-c2s having expressed a wish not
to prosecute him and the doubt wheth-
er he could be convicted or not.
Durham Herald, Nov. 21st: The rush
OF tobacco on the Durham market yes.
terday was such hat the sales were
blocked. The Banner warehouse die
no. sell and for the first time this sea
son Saturday will be salesday today
Yesterday morning all the warehouses
were crowded with wagons, the Par
riSh warehouse alone unloading Is
wagons. In addition to these many
~hogsheads and crates, shipped here By
farmers living in Granville, Person
n Alamance counties. Mr.. Pope. one
of the proprietors. told the reporter
yesterday afternoon tina somewhere
In the neighborhood Of one hundred
thousand pounds was sold at the ware
house yesterday. The Center also haC
ii large break and the Banner was wei
flied. 1t is estimated hat about two
HUNDRED and fifty thousand pounds o
tobacco was offered for sale on thi!
market yesterday. -- Emory College
of Georgia, n Trinity College, of thi.
city, will meet in joint debate sometime
early in the spring. The debate viii
be held here.
Special to The Charlotte Observer
Asheville, Nov. 22.-The Jury in tn.
case of Gus jenkins alias Reedy Hern
don, charged with having criminally
assaulted Mrs. Laura Spivey, returned
a verdict of not guilty, this afternoon
This case developed ONE remarkable
eatures during the progress of tn
trial. Mrs. Spivey was the victim o
an ~unspeakably brutal assault, her as
sailaDt having entered her home neal
Fair View while she was alone anC
rendered her helpless by threatening
her with an axe, but others were equal
ly positive that she was mistaken
Among those who tool this view weri
the lawyers whom the court appointed
to conduct the defense. Frank Garter
and H. c. Chedister. These gentlemen
went to work without money and with.
out price, and but for their efforts tn,
negro would have certainly paid tn,
death penalty on the strength of Mrs
Spivey's identification. Mr.. Chedistel
spent several days in tramping through
Mcdowell and Rutherford counties in
search of evidence, and his search wa.
rewarded by finding a sufficient nun
Der OF witnesses to an alb
that no sort Of Identification could
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