The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-06

trouble is now over, as Mr. FEEDER. he
Manager Of the show was able yester-
day afternoon to secure a large vacant
lot on Gorrell street in South Green's
hOro, opposite the residence of Mr.. R
r. King, near the old Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley depot, and the circus
will now be in convenient distance to
all the very old people and the very
young children, and everybody as well
! as the circus folks are feeling better
this morning. The circus will arrive
tonight from Charlotte.
Mr.. Clay Reece, an operative in the
Carolina Spoke and Bending factory,
met with a terrible accident this morn
ing. He was operating a planning ma
chine. his hand in some a got in the
machine, and all the flesh was shaved
off. He was brought to the hospital,
and his wounds attended to by Dr..
Scott. His sufferings were circulating,
but the doctor thinks that the hand can
be saved. 1t was a notwithstanding
| wound.
a white man named Lucian Boggs
was arrested here this morning, on a
message from Alamance county order
ing it on a charge of larceny. He was
taken to Alamance by an officer at
noon.
The optimistic editor of The Evening
Record, Mr.. J. NJ. Reece, has the fol-
lowing editorial squib on the article by
Professor Bassett in the EDUCATIONAL
Quarterly, which has created a great
deal of and Indignation in all
parts of the state: How are kilgo and
Bassett to get together and decide on
who is the biggest man in the country.
kilgo says Duke is the man. Bassett
says Booker Washington is the chap.
We hope the matter will be settled with
out bloodshed.'
A pocket book containing a cashiers
check for $50 on the First National
Ban of Salisbury, dated September
! 18th, payable to P. A. Walters. was
| found by plumbers in the water closet
| sewer Of Cleggs Hotel last week. The
| pocket book had stopped up the pipe.
1t had evidently been thrown there by
a pickpocket, who went through Mr..
| Walters during the fair, getting $31 in
| cash besides the check. The latter
proved to be all right, and Mr.. Walters
yesterday sent the plumber who found
it, a liberal present !
Hon. w. S. Hill, of Winona, Miss, is
visiting his aunt, Mrs. H. E. Tate and
uncle. Mr.. w. S. Hill, of this city. Mr..
Hill is q representative in congress from
a Mississippi district, and this is his
| first visit to North Carolina in ten
years. 1,
Deputy Sheriff Parrish carried Will
liam Headen, the negro convicted last
week of murder in the second degree
n sentenced to the penitentiary for
twenty years, to Raleigh this afternoon.
The wife of Mr.. Thomas Hinshaw, as
sistant manager Of McDuffie's furniture
store, died last night after a long illness
of typhoid fever, and the remains were
carried to Ramseur this afternoon for
interment.
Mr.. a c.. Eindley, who has been
suffering severely for a long time with
rheumatism, was able to go driving
for the first time today. He spent sew
eral weeks at Hot Springs this summer
without relief and for the past few
weeks has been confined at the hospital
here, and has improved ~perceptibly
under the treatment there.
Mr.. w. L. Pearce, of ~Lynchburg, who
succeeds Mr.. G. y. Peyron as train
master of branch lines On this division
of the Southern railway has succeeded
in securing a comfortable residence of
West Washington street and will move
his family here next Saturday.
Mr.. T. W. Trogden who has been a
salesman for the dry goods firm of c.
H. Dorset for a long while, mas resigned
his position there to accept c.. H. Dor
set for a long while, has resigned his
position there to accept a place in the
office OF the American Cigar Company.
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