The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-04
NORTH CAROLINA WEEK
Ar Charleston Exposition To Begin
January 2Oth-New Buildings for
Agricultural College-Another Penf-
Tertiary Report to be Made.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., September 30.

Raleigh, N. C., September 30.
All the injured in the wreck Saturday
morning near Cameron, on the Sea-
board Air Line. of whom there are five,
are doing well. Three are in the hos
pital here.
+ One of the heaviest rainfalls Of the
year occurred here yesterday morning.
In forty-five minutes 2k inches fell.
Some parts Of the city were flooded and
Considerable damage was done to streets
here and there. 1t was a local rain.
confined to this township.
Governor Aycock selects as North
Carolina Week at the Charleston ex-
position that beginning Monday, jan
uary Doth. Later a programme will be
arranged. 1t is expected to have at
least a regiment of the state guard
present.
Cotton dealers here say this season
is the dullest they ever saw. The cot
ton receipts here last season were only
about a third what they were twenty
years e This season they will hardly
be more than half as large as they were
the previous season.
The supreme court devoted today to
the examination OF applicants for Ii
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forty-sevent, two of them colored. TWEEN
ty-one of them are from the law class
at the state university and fifteen from
that at Wake Forest college. The ques-
tons which the applicants had to an
swer in writing were prepared by AS
sociate Justice Walter Clark.
President Winston of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college says it Will
make a. NOTABLY extensive and complete
exhibit at the state fair here in October,
illustrative of it's work in wood, iron,
agriculture, drawing and designing,
chemistry, electricity, textiles, biology,
etc. 1t is the plan to buy more land,
in front OF the state fair grounds and
to the westward of the college proper
ty and there erect domitories for the
agricultural students, barns, dairy, etc.
These students will work on the college
farm and be paid for all their work out
of a special fund. 1t is also the plan
TO erect other buildings westward CT
the college and along a boulevard, these
including one for chemicals and dyes,
physics, etc. The college farm has been
in ten years brought to a high degree
of 1t was then so poor it
yielded only five bushels of corn to the
acre, while now the yield is seventy.
The health of judge Thomas c. Fuller
of the United States court of land
claims, has improved so that he is able
to walk a little.
The two suits at Durham involving
the right of that town to take it's water
supply from the Emo river, upon pay
ment of damages to a mill owner below,
are compromised. The supreme court
decides that in such cases the right Of
a municipality is paramount and that
the mill owner had better take money
damages. to be agreed on.
There was published last week one
report on the p~enitentiary. There will
be another later on it, which will give
in more detail the story of how the late
that there was marked extravaganza
ey. That administration made most of
its purchases through one firm. 1t is
said muc Whiskey was bought ma
that there was marked extravaganza
along various lines. There was some
rare attempting to make a good show
ing. The purchase of SO, 900 worth of
fertilizers was put down as permanent
improvements" Sales Of horses on
farms which were being abandoned,
were put down as earnings"
Seventy %convicts have arrived at the
penitentiary from Edgecombe county.
Up to the 1st of September they were
grading on the railway from Tarbo:o
but since hen ave been cutting WOOD
under a private contract. Now they
and 80 others go to Morton to do the
grading on the mountain section of 2
railway.
The ffty-fve students at Wake For,
est college who were in~subordinate
have signed a pledge to behave them
selves and follow the rules. This saves
them from expulsion.