The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24
CAUSE OF THE EPIDEMIC
At the Greensboro Normal school n
Broken Sewcr-Pfpe Under the Dining
Room Roanoke Mosquitoes to be
BacteriologicallyE Examined a Queer
Suit Against the state.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. n. c. November Il.

Raleigh. n. c.. November IL
Ten weeks ago A. NJ. McPheters, Jr..
superintendent OF the Raleigh water
works. sprained his ankle and has
since been unable TO leave his room.
Today he was taken TO Baltimore for
treatment.
Senator Butler was here last night.
on his way TO Asheville to participate
In the Interstate meeting which will
memorialiEe congress TO purchase lands
in western North Carolina and estab-
lish national park there. The sena-
tor heartily favors the scheme.
Last night young white man nam
ed Peasants, from Aberdeen, was bad
ly crushed here while coupling Sea
board Air Line cars.
A number OF mosquitoes from soms
section along the Roanoke river have
been sent TO the Johns Hopkins hos
pital, for n meteorological examina-
ton. Y is claimed that the bite of
this particular kind OF mosquito is
quickly followed by chills and fever.
One OF the cueerest letters the sec
retary Of state has ever received came
today from John A. Graham, OF Nor
wood. He is evidently insane. He
says that he will sue the superintend-
ent OF the western hospital for the
insane for $4,000 damages; that he has
asked for the papers on which he was
committed TO the hospital and that
II the state does not at once privately,
settle the matter he viii have IL before
the supreme court at the present term.
IL is asserted that the cause OF the
fever at the Normal and Industrial col
lege at Greensboro is a broken sewer
pipe under the dining room. A num-
Der of the students who went home
were so sick as to barely be able to
travel The forty-eight remaining
now in the hospital are receiving the
most careful attention.
Among the arrivals are: Robert II.
Glenn. Winston; George III. Hall. Red
Springs; f. A. Humphrey. Goldsboro.
President William A. Graham, OF the
Farmers State Alliance. calls on all
the sub-alliances to send delegates here
TO attend the tobacco growers conven-
ton December 9Th. II is no secret that
it is the purpose OF this convention To
antagoniZe, in the most forcible and
direct manner, the American Tobacco
Company, which is the most cordial
ly hated trust in this state.
Richard II. Battle is elected president
of the Olivia Raney memorial library
association here. The library Is 10 be
opened next spring.
X. B. Russell, the editor OF the negro
organ here, The Blade. has been given
place in the revenue service and has
turned his paper over to other per-
sons.
The ladies here will give a concert to
raise funds for uniforms and drums
for the drum corps OF L. OBJ. Branch
Camp, Confederate Veterans
Or. "A. j. Buffalo has filed an appeal
TO the supreme court in the divorce
suit which his wife won in the supe-
rior court here.
The 'Merrymakers" virtually won In
the suit against them here. The con-
stable who levied on their property ex-
ceeded his authority by seizing their
private effects, and a suit against him
may follow. He entered their rooms
and took their property.
This county decides to pay $1,000 OF
the 5000 this city spent last spring on
account OF the smallpox epidemic, I'm
the maintenance of the pesthouse and
detention camp.