The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-17
NORTH CAROLINA.

Enfield Ledger: Those tobacco grow
ers who have made a success OF grow
ing the weed in a past. or many of
them at least, are increasing their acre
g this year, many of them about
double. The probable increase in acre
age in this section will be about Is
per cent-The new cotton seed oil
mill which is to be established on Fish
ing Creek by II. s. Harrison and others
will be quite a convenience to the farm
ers living in the Ringwood section.
Nashville Graphic: A whiskey drum
mer who became furious and INDUCED
in very u~nbecoming language on our
streets because of his failure to catch
an outgoing train, contributed 500 to
the town treasury for his disrespect to
u city ordinance.-While fooling
with a pistol at Nuns last Sunday Hay
wood Parker. a fourteen year old lad
accidentally shot Lucian CockrelI. he
ball striking him in the region OF the
back. CockrelI's wound is not consid-
cred serious.
North Wilkesboro Hustler: We learn
that a shocking murder was committed
in Jefferson Monday morning by
George Phillips. 1t seems that he is
in q demented condition. He met an
old man by the name of Ashley and in
a secluded place attacked and killed
49," AS -AANL NODh NnS IN q " a
mill pond and baptized the corpse three
times. Phillips was arrested about
noon and placed in Jail. We learn that
mania seems TO be all the go In Ashe
these days, as several have committed
suicide or attempted to do so during
h e last few weeks.
Tarboro Southerner: During the
night of the storm last week lightning
struck the house of a tenant on the
farm Of w. J. Davenport, in No. 3
township. The chimney was wrecked,
the rafterS n some of the posts to
the building were splintered and split,
yet strange to say, the colored man
and his wife lying in bed with the cleo
trio fluid flowing above and beside
them, were not even shocked though
they were terribly frightened by the
crash.-Archie Spivey is dead from a
bullet wound inflicted by Charlie Ross.
Both are cOlored; aged about IA and 10
respectively. The fatal shooting oc-
CURED Saturday night between IL and
II o'clock in the of a color
ed man named Black on Tarboro street.
Kinston Free Press: Hon. B. F.
Grady, of Turkey, N. c., who delivered
an able and stirring address at the
memorial exercises at New Bern Fri
day, came to kinston Saturday to visit
at Mr.. j. S. BiZZells. He returned
home today.-Mrs. ]. H. Haddock, a
young woman 10 years of age, was ter
ribly shot in the right breast Sunday
morning about 9 o'clock, at her home
near COahoma, about four miles from
Kinston, being accidentally done by
Mr.. E. F. Smith. Mr.. Smith is an uncle
of Mr.. Haddock. and lives just oppo-
site his home. A dog at the Haddock
home was suspected of hydrophobia,
and Mr.. Smith was sent to shoot it. He
brought a single barrel breech loading
o1Ir 40 rh@ 4Lo In~ rl;1 r-o ~
der the house, one time. Desiring to
make his death ure, he took a shell
to reload. Mrs. Haddock was standing
in the door, about 20 feet away from
Mr.. Smith. AS Mr.. Smith attempted
to snap the gun back after putting in
a shell the gun fired, h full load Of
No. 8 shot entering sideways the right
breast of Mrs. Haddock.
Brother John T. Britt made a gallant
fight in his Oxford Ledger for graded
schools in his town, and of schools by
a majority of five. 1t was a hard fought
contest, and there was strong opposi-
ton to the measure. Mr.. Britt is be-
ing very much criticised, and there are
threats of boycotting his paper, on the
part of the opponents to graded schools.
This is all wrong and they Will regret
such a procedure if it is practiced. But
this is only a reception of the birth of
graded schools in Winston and Dur
ham. In these two cities the schools
had a hard time in being established
and in the latter there was a fierce legal
battle I'VE the matter. Now the people
are for them, and in the last election
here they voted on bonds-the third
~time-giving $50, 900 more to school
houses, and the very man who fought
graded schools here in the courts as
we'll as out, has given a lot to our syS-
tenn of schools and there is now upon
it one of the handsomest school build
ings in the state.-Durham Sum.
Raleigh News and Observer: Hon. c..
B. Watson, of Forsyth, has been in
Raleigh gathering material for a book
he is writing on the subject of Farm
ing" He was also looking after the
case of Gattis VS.. Kilgo.-Professor
J. A. Holmes, state geologist, returned
to the city yesterday. He attended
the Coco Roads convention at New
Orleans which he reports was a sue
cess. On Friday night he spoke at
Athens, Ga, by special request, deliv-
ering a lecture on good roads, illustrat-
ed with S~tereoptican views. He finds
that great attention is being drawn to-
ward the progressive work now being
done in North Carolina--Special from
New Bern: Yesterday morning a Sc,
rious accident befell John c. White.
While at work at the mill of the Blades
Lumber Company he fell from a scat
fold and suffered a broker leg.-In
the Fifth and Sixth wards of New Bern
constituting that part of the city which
contains a majority of colored voters,
and which is so strongly attacked in
the Fowler-Thomas contest, and upon
which Mr.. Fowler's attorneys lay so
much stress in his contest. the results
(meaning those h voted or testified
against him) was defeated for city
councilmen. On the other hand the
supporters of Mr.. Thomas for congress
in the election of 1900 were elected by
safe majorities.