Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-07-11
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
REPORTS OF STATE vETERINA-
RIAN on sPLENIC FEVER.
SEVERAL HERDS ARE AFFECTED.
Want to Buy sheep Farms-work on
the Roman Catholic Orphnnage-
aud Briefs.
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RALEIGH, N. c., July l0.-(Special)-
DR.. Curtice. State Veterinarian. returned
to-day from Alamance county. where he
examined the herd of cattle owned by j.
a. and w. S. Long, and found that out
Of fifty-two eight had died of sp,enic-
fever and eight were sick. The sick are
young cattle. 1t was found that the dis
ease was taken there by young cattle
brought from Chatham county. where
there are cattle ticks. Precautions to
stamp out the disease in the herd have
been taken. The cattle are rubbed with
equal parts of kerosene and warm lard.
The lard is melted and the kerosene mix
near Raleigh, is also found to have
splenlc-fever One has died and four are
sick, of which two will die. Young cat
tie sent to pasture by a butcher COM
municated the disease in this case.
The Agricultural Department was to-day
advised that in view of the prospective
release of Wilkes county from the terri
tory named as infected by cattle-fever,
the Southern railway will build extensive
stock yards there, so there can be sales
of cattle at regular dates, and thus de-
yelop a large business.
The Agricultural Department to-day re-
ceived letters from the Northwest de-
string locations for four sheep farms
Interest in this State Is particularly great
I'm the Northwest.
The seventy State banks are now filing
their reports with the Corporation Com
mission. With these are certified lists of
all the officers and directors.
Work began this morning on a Roman
Catholic orphanage and training school
one and a half miles southwest of RAJ
leigh. The Church has purchased 800
acres of admirably-situated lands, and
besides the orphanage will establish there
a home for the aged and a convent. The
lands adjoin Pullen Park and the lands
of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege.
Saturday night a white man and a
negro were killed at Morehead City. A
passenger train, which had delivered it's
passengers, was backing on "Y" mile
from the town, when it struck three cows
lying asleep on the track. The rear car,
a parlor-car. was torn from its trucks
and thrown across the track and part Of
another car was smashed. The white
man. a New Yorker, was named Harry
Mansfield. He was crushed under the
truck. The negro killed was a servant at
a hotel!
The State Labor Commissioner says
that replies are rapidly coming in giving
statistics regarding labor In the mills,
and that the mill-men are showing more
interest than ever before, as they have
found out that 1t is not the purpose of
the bureau to interfere with their bust
ness or in any way TO disturb the ex-
tremely harmonious relations between
employer and employee ana labor and
capital in North Carolina.
A very favorable State crop report is
expected tomorrow. The rains Saturday
were very general, and the drought APP
pears to have been relieved.
Elijah Joyner. one Of the two negroes
In jail here charged with the Turnarge
murder. in Pitt county, makes confession
that he alone perpetrated the triple crime
OF murder. robbery, and arson at Tur-
nage's store. His previous evidence came
near causing the death of several per-
sons, and Cephas Langley is now in Jail
because of IL.
Mr.. James w. Tufts of Boston has
made contracts for the building of an
other hotel of wood. With $50 rooms. at
his beautiful model town, "Pinehurst."
The cost will be $l25.0o9