The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-26
A TRAMP's WONDERFUL ESCAPE
a Successful Teachers Institute
soldiers Home Notes wash-Outs
on the Seaboard Air Line - The
Striking Mach1nists-To Build New
Railroad Bridge at Weldon.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., July 10.

Raleigh, n. c., July 10.
Work has begun on the pumping sta
ton and tower for the new water sup
ply at the soldiers home here.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Toon has returned. He yesterday at
TENDED a teachers institute at Winter
vile, Pitt county. at which there were
$50 teachers from hat county and
Greene, he is delighted with itsl
work.
General TOon says a survey is now in
progress in TyrreT county of the last
lands sold by X 8. Finch, who was. by
the fusion administration, given an OPP
ton on the states swamp lands. An
investigation is being specially made
as regards this last sale.
In this county last night a one-leggedI
tramp had a singular escape from
death. Two fiat cars loaded with tim
bers over so feet long, pulled apart
The tramp was at one end Of a car I'M
der the lumber, which reached acrossI
the cars. 1t fell upon him and it re-
quired jack screws to raise it. To the
surprise Of all he escaped without a
broken bone. was helped into a 20 car
and continued his journey.
Applications are coming in rapidly
for the money the state appropriates for
free libraries for the rural public
schools. OF the $1,000 appropriated II
is the belief hat $500 will be called
for this year. Next year all will be
called for.
The Boyd Furniture Company here is
making the cases in which the North
Carolina exhibits at the Charleston eX-
position will be shown. North Carolina
Quarter-saSe oak is used. After use
at Charleston these cases will be placed
in the state museum here. They are
rn1nTaIIxr IA-inrnI for rhiC double DGp
1t is said by inmates OF the soldiers
home that application will be made for
a separate camp Of United Confeder-
ate veterans. composed entirely OF vet
Grams. The latter are now OF
L. OBJ. Branch camp, of this city.
The insurance commissioner has re-
ceived an application from the Agricul-
tural Insurance Company, of Water
town, N. j., for admission to this
state.
While q large force of laborers was at
work between Hamlet and Southern
Pines, repairing damages done by half
a dozen washouts. a dam on John 7,
Patrick's land broke, a flood of water
came down, tearing away seventy feet
of track and causing other minor
washouts.
The Seaboard Air Line strikers here
are greatly pleased at the receipt OF
funds from their grand lodge, though
they decline 10 state lHe
For a month they a been waiting fol
funds. The various labor
lions here have assessed tnensei'e;
a certain sum weekly for the AID o.
these strikers. All labor here appears
now to De organized save washer
ONE
It is found that the steel bridge a
Weldon, built in 1878, will not stan
the heavy traffic, hence a new II la
heavier one will be put in. The pres
ent piers will be used. There Is
wooden bridge across Deep river. u
in 1872. which stands the heaVles
trains on she Seaboard Air Line. l
is contended by not a few railway ON
Gals that wooden bridges outlast an
are superior to steel ones, always ex
cepting danger from fire.