The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-11
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oXlOTQ L$OSer Inc SIdulHS lOTCe Ol
the oxford and Coast Line Railroad
are now at work in the Venable field
inside the corporation. Work on the
~trestles is also being pushed, and it is
thought the road will be completed by
Christmas.
Concord Times: Mr.. Michael Love
and family and Mr.. John Hartsell. who
went to Texas from their home near
Locust two years age. returned to old
North Carolina last Saturday, and say
they have come back 20 stay. They
lived in Mckinney, Texas. but now say,
after a thorough trial. that the Old
North State is the best afte~ all.
Special to Asheville Gazette: Hender-
%sonville, N. c.. November 5.-The hard
est and hottest political fight ever
fought in Henderson county came to
a finish last evening at sunset when the
polls closed. The county is sixty-siX
years old. and has never changed it's po-
litical principles. Before the civil war
it was whig. and since the war it has
been republican
News and Observer: The agreement
between the machinists and the South
ern Railway at Spencer, gives the ma
chinists an increase of $3.50 FER month,
a total increase of SO, $50 per year, all Of
which is spent in Salisbury and Spen-
Ger, says the Salisbury Sun. The total
increase over the entire system mounts
to over 500. 900 per car This is for
machinists alone. The carpenters also
received an advance in wages along
with the machiniStS.
Newton Enterprise: A delegation of
Hickory and Mitchell county republic
cans left Hickory Wednesday morning
Boosting that they were going to Newton
A. ~ NL.-
They got here, but we have not yet
heard of the THROWING "ut Of the New
ton vote.-A subscriber from Cald-
we'll township says hat the Leople are
sowing so much wheat that it will be
difficult to find any land for truck
patches neXt spring.
Chatham Record: It is said tina a
large amount of money $4,000 was sent
here by the republican state commit
tee to use as a campaign fund in their
desperate efforts to carry Chatham.
Don't o know that so much money
was a ~"windfalI' to certain persons?-
For the first time since 1897 there was
no swarm of negroes around the polls
on last Tuesday. Their absence was a
decided improvement, but it made GER
tain white republicans :.cl mighty lone
some.
CndtndIn ReCOTQ. E1SlI Oe11OCTdIlC
members of the last senate are re-elect-
ed to the next senate, and it so happens
that exactly half of them voted for
the conviction of the impeached judges
and half voted against it. The former
are Senators Vann. Of Chowan; Travis,
of Halifax; Woodard, of Wilson; and
Warren, of Jones'. h latter are Sem
ators Brown. of Chatham; Glenn, of
Guilford; Henderson, of Rowan, and
London, of Chatham. This is quite a
strange coincidence.
Charlotte Observer: There is much
complaint on account Of the laXneSS of
the quarantine regulations with regard
to a number of negroes Wlo have small
pox and who are supposed to be con-
fined-and yet are not confined-at their
homes near the corner OF West Second
and Graham streets. II is declared that
the negroes, and especially six persons
who are we'll broken out with the small =
pox. should either be sent to the pest
house or else made to stay indoors un-
til completely cured.
Wadesboro Messenger 1ntalligencer:
The dead body of Will Fort colored
vas found on the Seaboard Air Line
track, abou so yards on the other side
of the overhead bridge. early Monday
morning. The body was discovered by
Jim Mason. colored, a brakeman on an
extra freight which was going in the
direction of Monroe. The body was cut
entirely in two at the waist. Forts
legs were lying between the rails. while
his body was lying on The north side of
the track. For was I brakeman on a
through freight which passed here
about 9 o'clock Sunday night. Re was
last seen alive by a person. whose name
we could not learn who was standing
On the overhead bridge when the train
passed. This person raw Fort running
on tor of the cars in the direction of
the engine. Suddenly the lantern watch
Fort was carrying Mas seen by this
person to disappear. n hody was
found the next morning about the place
where the. lantern disappeared. showing
that he had fallen between the cars.
Three trains a passed over the body
before It was found. Fort had been on
TIL railroad six or eight years and bore
q good reputation. Before gong on the
railroad he lived about four miles north
of Wadesboro. Coroner Fentcb held an
inquest over the remains Monday. the
verdict of the jury being in accordance
with the facts as stated above.