The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-05-03
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The North Carolina section OF the
American Chemical Society, in session
at Raleigh. elected w. E. withers. of
Raleigh. president; William J. Martin.
Of Davidson College, vice president; c..
B. Williams. of Raleigh, secretary.
One Of the members announced hat
by personal tests he had discovered
alcohol is an antidote for poisoning by
carbolic acid.
Charlotte Observer: Morganton,
April 29.-James Cape, a young white
man from Orange county. yesterday
shot a young lady named Martha Ba-
ker. at the home of her father, Martin
Baker, two miles east Of Morganton.
because h would not let him accom-
pany her to church. The ball entered
the cheek near the mouth and ranged
along the jaw-bone to a point near the
base of the ear. The oun is painful
but not considered dangerous.
Charlotte News:-The New York Her
aid of yesterday has a column headed
Americas Chrysocracy-Our 3,S2S Mil
lionaires." In this for North Carolina
are the following: Frank Cox, Ashe-
Vile; ]. s. Carr. Washington Duke.
James B. Duke. Benjamin n. Duke. B.
L. Duke, Durham; Lawrence Holt, Jas.
Holt, William E. Holt, Burlington; P.
H. Hanes. Winston; K. NJ. M~urchison.
Wilmington; Mrs. Westmerland, Char
lotte; George w. Watts, Durham
Raleigh Post: NJ. H. T. King,
editor Of Kings Weekly, Green
vile, has done the state a service by
presenting, through Hon. Bryan
Grimes secretary Of state, to the state
museum. copies of esolveS adopted by
the patriots of Pitt county prior to the
revolutionary war. He also presents q
drawing of the first court house OF
Ds&A 4hD~ &~l - ~ -- NJ
denboro. which. like the building. has
ceased to exist. The meetings of the
patriots were held in this old building,
Raleigh News and Observer: Judge
A. w. Graham. of oxford, is in the city
on legal business. On Tuesday Of this
week he addressed the citizens OF
Granville. giving an account of his
stewardship in the legislature Of 1901
1t was court week and a large CROWD
was present. many of whom took &C.
casion to express their approval of al
the acts of their representative in the
last legislature.-Yesterday was Maj.
or Martins 60th birthday, but II
brought no joy to him in confinement
in the state priSon.-The state super
intendent of education of South Caro-.
lima, Hon. job J. McMahan, spent the
day yesterday in visiting h city
schools in company with superinten'
Q6nI T.. Z. MOSES. ne Is fldhlIS q
careful study of the methods in use Of
his Investigations in South Carolina.
Raleigh News and Observer: The
accidental killing Of a student Ii
Mitchell county and in Harnett county
in plays at school commencement!
ought to cause teachers to put an enc
to plays that require the use of pistols
They are "unloaded" but produce dead
ly results. -Ex-Representative B. F
Grady reached the city yesterday from
his home at Turkey. He reports a fin,
crop of big Blues coming OF in hi.
section, the cold snaps not having in
jured them. Strawberries he report.
are doing well also. General Toor
returned yesterday from Henrietta, in
Rutherford county, where he addressed
the county Teachers Association or
Saturday On The Money Value of Ed
u%cation." He says that it was a wei
attended meeting and a the report.
Of educational progress in Rutherford
are encouraging. At night by specia
invitation he addressed the factory
people at Caroleon. There are L
cases of smallpox in the pest hous'
near Raleigh. Within the nex sixt!
days there will be in operation a new
and very complete telephone system
connecting Asheville with all the noun
tain fouypc