The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-18
THE ADVANCE on wAsHrSerox
By the Confederate- to he Marked In
Fort stevens Park-Geuerai w. Y.
Cox on the Commission-The I'M
parchment Trial Report-A Minne-
sofa Man Buys q Gold Mine In Ran.
dolph.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh. June Is.
Colonel ". B. Rodman. OF Washing
ton. commanding the Second regi-l
ment, state guard. is here. He SAYS
he thinks he will take a fine regiment tol
camp. He says northeastern North
Carolina is yet suffering from excess
sive rains, which prevailed last week
and this week.
General ". R Cox. president OF the
state fair. is here on business concern-I
ing the fair. He had a letter today
from the association which have in
charge Fort Stevens national military
park. in the environs OF Washington,
ID. C., and is made a member OF the as
ISOLATION. which is TO mark the furth-
est advance Of the confederates upon
Washington. General Cox said this
was because his brigade went nearer
tnan any other troops in the assault
UPON Fort Stevens.
The manager of the Wilmington base
a team says he feels sure that team
has the pennant. Ten straight games
were played here ending yesterday and
Raleigh won four of them, Yet play
ing great ball all the while.
Street NJ. z. church here
gives $500 more to the Methodist hos
pital here. 1t had already given four
~ ANN AAAAS lA4ok 4Alt0I
In the secretary of states office to-
day the officials laughed at some of
the newspapers for printing today the
granting OF a charter to the Winston
W~adesboro railway. The charter was
granted three weeks ago and the facts
We're all published then.
Secretary Bruner, of the agricultural
department returned from Tarboro
today, where he secured excellent pho
tographs Of growing crops on the state
SOIL test farm. In the farm proper there
are twenty acres but forty more have
been rented and put in oats, corn and
wheat Nowhere, says Mr.. Bruner, did
he see such crops as on this farm. The
oats will yield twenty-five bushels to
| the acre.
A letter today from T. A. Silver. late
of Minnesota, says he has bought a
| good mine in Randolph county and that
he was induced to come to his state
by John W. Thompson. who lately re-
signed as immigration agent
The state charters the W. T. Mason
Lumber Company, Of Whittier, Jack.
son county, capital $4,000. ". T. Ma
son.. Of Asheviile, and E. H. Hale, OF
Indianapolis, being the principal stock
holders.
The legislative committee which is
here to pass upon the claims filed by
the late fusion oyster inspector, Theo
philus White. which claims were
turned down by the new democratic ad-
ministration, got at work today. The
committee said the claims approximate
ed about $4,000, but the state auditor
avs those filed in his office mount to
only 81, 300.
1t is said at the office Of the secretary
of state that the impeachment trial in
the case of Judges Furches and Doug
las will probably be in print August
LIST. There are many inquiries for the
trial report.
Governor Aycock and the council OF
state are yet at work on the matter OF
removing h arsenal from the capito
square. A proposition is made to re-
move it for the material, but the mar
who makes the proposal does not wish
to put down curbing and turf on the
site.
Nine young ladies wrote up yester.
days ball game for a local paper, each
describing an inning. The work was
very cleverly lone is a new fea-
ture in this line of reporting.