The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-04

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Greensboro. October 3a.-Nr. W II.
warAlns. the leading manufacturer OF
Ranmsaur. spent the morning here. He
says hat the people IN ns section are
reasonably sangulne over a new line or
railroad. the Durham and Western, 30
Greensboro and that the question of
freight competition Viii alone De a Dis
item in the profit column OF manufac-
tured goods
Hon, r d. Glenn returned from Ra-
leigh his morninE. where he had been
TO argue a case before the supreme
court He was enthusiastic over me
floral parade there yesterday. and de
clared =, was TIE most magnificent
pageant he had Ger seen anywhere ia
his life. Col. Glenn ief at noon for
Reidsville. where he speaks tonight. In
the remaining four days before the
election, 90 great is the demand Tor
Til plendid campaigner. he will make
six speeches. three in the day and three
at night. al different places.
Will Poteat. the Winston co.C-ed
bootblack. who was found se-erely in
jured by the railroad track y~esterday.
die last night. IL Is SAID th-t he was
seen sitting by the track at noon be-
fore and that he had been drlnk.n@. 80
the presumption now is that a pa ng
train killed him. He never rega.Ied
consciousness. His father, David Po-
teat. an estimable colored man OF Win
ston-Salem, and driver for the Phoenix
Hotel bus. came down las, night and
took the remains to Winston on the
noon train 'oday for burial. Ike Dean,
colored. was the first man to see Pc
teat. and carried the unconscious mar
to a porch near by. Later Poteat was
taken to a house on Gilmer street
where he died last night. His head was
badly injured in two places. At m OF
them the doctor said the skull was
fractured. There are several theories
as TO how he came to receive his in
juries. He may have been drunk and
ga down on the end Of a Crosstie n
been knocked of by a passing train. II
is known. however. that other boot
blacks in the city did not like Poteat,
who came here from Winston, a
Of the superior clothing h wore and
his rather supercilious demeanor.
Pos master Tyre Glenn offers his
patrons now what he has long been
wanting to offer them-a stamp win
dow separate and apart from the gen.
eral delivery window. Mr.. Joe
Armfield is clerk at the stamp WIN
dow while Mr.. X. j. A. Lung continues
O preside at the general delivery WIN
dow.
nrr. Weeks. of New York. is here
looking at some property with a view
to making Il purchase. He has visited
the principal towns in the entire south
and states that he has found no place
which pleases him so well as Green's
boro does.
f. b. Kicks. of Nashville. n. C, is III
the city prospecting for a view to buy
ing some property and locating here,
engaging in the mercantile business.
Mr.. Cudlipp, of Richmond, h is well
known here as a trusted empioye ofC
the Western Union Telegraph Com
panv, has been made superintendent OF
telegraph of the Atlantic Coas Line,
with headquarters at Wilmington.
The east bound train this morning
carried two aspirants for the position
of United $ ateS senator. One of them
Hon. G. b. Watson, Of Winston, going
to Durham: the other Captain 5. G.
Alexander. Of Charlotte. going to RAJ
leigh for the state fair.
the county candidates will speak in
Greensboro tomorrow night. Chairman
Scales and Douglass got together on
this date today. The speaking viii
commence at 7:3O o'clock in the court
house.
A party coming in from the cas- .ern
part Of the county this morning re-
ported that snow fell in his neighbor-
hood last night for a few minutes.
superintendent Jones, of the Green's
boro Electric Company, today turned
over to Professor G.. A. Grimsley a
check for $75.5 that amount being the
proportion of receipts of educational
day on the cars going to the rural
school improvement fund.
lessee Freeman, colored, convicted of
b~arn-burning, in Guilford county SUI
perior court gets a new trial by opinion
of the supreme court rendered yester-
day. Major Chas. NJ. Stedman appear
ed for Freeman. When the case vas
tried here he insisted that his client
was convicted without any legal testi-
mony whatever.