The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-01
EPIDEMIC OF CONTEMPLATING
More Couuterfefters Arrested-nlness
OF Attorney General Gilmer-Cum-
mock Coal Sfines-Death OF Pulaski
Cowper
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. n. c., October Is

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Attorney General r. D.. Gilmer Is
very sick and it is believed has typhoid
fever. He was today removed from his
room at a hotel to h Rex hospital.
s. Brown Shepherd, Esq, will argue his
cases in the supreme court.
Bishop Cheshire, OF this Episcopal
diocese. talked very interestingly yes
terday to a congregation here about
the work of the great convention at
San Francisco. He spoke Of the coming
use Of the revised version OF the Bible,
saying 1t was fully recognized that il
was far nearer the true sense and mean
ing of the original than King James
version, owing to the great strides in
learning in three centuries, and said
the end of the agitation would be that
the clergy would be allowed the alter
native use of the revised version.
Judge Purnell left today to hold q
term of the federal court at New Bern.
1t is said there are twenty-five aspi-
rants in this state for the judgeship
on the count of private land claims
made vacant by Judge Fuller's death.
Frank I. Osborne, of Charlotte, will be
very strongly endorsed for it.
The deputy marshals today captured
and jailed two alleged counterfeiters,
A. T. Lowery, white, n William
Cunningham, colored. Lowery was
caught almost in the act of passing
counterfeit silver and in his pockets
were two pounds or more of dollars,
half dollars and quarters. Never was
there so much counterfeiting in this
Section as at present. 1t has come to be
quite a fad among the criminals. There
are now seven counterfeiters in jail
here.
The output of bituminous coal from
| the mine at Cumnock is 100 tons a day.
There is a ready sale for all. 1t is ex-
pected hat by the end of the year the
| output will be 300 tons a day..
| The Virginia-North Carolina Photog-
raphers' Association meets here today,
III the senate chamber. Several dele
gates arrived Sunday, and many today.
The partridge shooting season begins
Friday. AS a general thing there are
plenty of birds and they are well
grown.
The shortness Of the cotton crop in a
large part of this states cotton belt
eXciteS more and more remark. One
curious feature is hat many persons
do not believe the farmers statements
and say they were deceived last year
by the farmers, who said the crop was
short; but the matter is serious this
year; in fact, a farmer said today it
was deplOrable. He cited one case in
which only one bale will be picked on
twenty acres.
Secretary Bruner, of the agricultural
department. says it's collection of ex-
hibits for the Charleston exposition is
practically complete, save for a few
agricultural products. The specimens
of cotton and tobacco are not of as
high quality as expected, but the gen
eral exhibit is UP to expectations. BY
the end of the week shipments to Char.
lesion will begin.
Pulaski Cooper, for many years wide.
ly known in the insurance business
died here this morning, aged about 70
He was a native of northeastern Nortl
Carolina. He was private secretary L
Governor Bragg. and was in official lf
during the war. He was from 1868 un
til his death connected with the Nortl
Carolina Home Fire Insurance Compa
ny. He was of literary tastes an,
wrote well. His health had been feebl
for a year or more.
This morning Judge Purnell, on tn
application of S. A Henszey, issued a
order to restrain the sale of the Com
mock coal mines, the matter to b
heard November 9TH. Henszey say
the present holders of the mine took
for five years, giving certain securities
n were then to turn it over, while /
was found that they intended to Sc
! 1T today under the foreclosure of
l mortgage. The amount involved i
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