The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-01
WOMAN UTTERLY HEARTLEss.
Mrs. Would Rather Drown
Herself than Discontinue Her Mad
Course Interesting Greensboro
News
Correspondence of Tie -A1essenger.)

III -NONG AGluIneQ from NOTIOlk TINS
morning. He says that he found the
elopers, Harding and Mrs. Stafford, abb
solutely beyond ali power OF reason or
persuasion as to the p~erilous course
they I'D begun. Mrs. Stafford said that
Harding had proposed flight TO her and
she had taken a ear to consider it and
her ,secisiOn was un~alterable. When
Il prospect of her children was referr-
ed TO, she said she had also consid-
cred that, and as they were all boys
they could we'll take care of themselves;
that before she would leave her unlaw-
full lover and come back she would will
ingly drown herself in the bottom OF the
sea. Harding was equally stubborn,
and the Chief, who went much as a me-
diator as an officer, could make no i'm
preston on them either by appeals TO
their sense of reason. honor of DrU-
dence.
They are going to Europe where thou
sands Of miles of salt water will roll
between them and Greensboro. God
grant the distance will always be as
great and that the water may keep salt.
Colonel A. b. Kimball, of the law firm
of King & Kimba1l, left for New York
last night in behalf of Harding's faith
er, TO meet the couple when they arrive
on the boat from Norfolk and try to
induce or persuade the young man to
stop his evil bent career before it is
too late. From what Chief Scott says.
the trip is useless.
Interest being revived in Major Glenn
of Philippine Water Cure fame, it may
not be amiss to recall the fact that he
was born and raised in Greensboro. He
is a son of DR.. r. w. Glenn, a very
prOminet physician. His mother was
a Gilmer, and he has a brother Robert
Rilmer Glenn, a druggist here. He is
also first cousin to the eminent evan
gelist Rev. E. G.. Glenn. He was ap-
pointed 10 West Point by General
Scales, afterwards Governor Scales, and
has always been a most popular officer.
In Norfolk and Richmond especially,
where he was at different periods sta
toned, he made friends by the thou
sands
During the last two days there has
been an important conference held here
between representatives of the South
Eastern Tariff Association and the of
ficers OF the Greensboro fire insurance
companies. Tremendous pressure has
been brought to bear upon the Green's
bOrO companies to induce them to allow
their Greensboro agents to charge the
% per cent advance in rates. After
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bOrO companies have decided to main
tain steadfastly their position and not
charge the % per cent As a
result of this decision, a war upon the
business of the Greensboro companies
has been in~augurated in
1t goes without saying that the people
of Greensboro will stand by their own
companies. By doing this a few a
6 they secured a permanent reduction
in rates on certain classes of business
of about 80 per cent. not only for
Greensboro but for the entire state, and
in this fight they will give their most
loyal support to the Greensboro COM
panies, not merely for the sake of sup
porting their own business Institutions
but also as a matter of business policy
in safeguarding their own interests.
Our people were farsighted in their sup
port of the home companies in the pre-
Vious fight and they will be just as wise
in this emergency.
One sensational feature of the fight
is tina the largest insurers in Green's
boro have been notified this morning
by representatives of the outside COM
panieS that uniesS he Greensboro COM
panies charge the % per cent. advance, |
all their insurance will be cancelled
within five days and that these large
insurers will BE- left without prOtec-
ton. The manifest purpose of this is
to induce the pi Operty-holdcrs them
selves to insist tdth Ehe Greensboro
companies shall charge the advance
but it is not beii-ved that the people of
Greensboro will submit to any such
humiliation.
Mr.. X. X. Lively, 4 successful In
surance man from Newport News, has
taken charge heIe as superintendent
of the Life Insurance Company of Fir-
ginia. He succeeds Mr.. J. I. Bass, who
left yesterday to take charge of the
field at Wilmington, to which point he
has been transferred. Mrs. Bass and
her two children nave zone to Rich
mond to spend c month with relatives
there. before gong to her new home.
Mr.. ]. Van Llldiey. who has just re-
turned from a conference with COM
missioner of Agriculture Patterson and
executive officers Of the state fair at
Raleigh, reports that he succeeded in
making arrangements to make the
fruit exhibit at the fair a prominent
and special feature. While absent he
visited. his orchards at Southern Pines.
He says that the shipment of early
peaches there is now over with and
that the season has been a fine one.
10th as to quality and price. He will
have over a thousand crates of late
peaches to ship in August from that
point. The grape crop is fine there n
shipments will sUoE begin Mr.. r. w.
Caviness, his Southern Pines superin-
tendent, who has been critically ill with
typhoid fever, has improved
If there Is any n man in North
Carolina who has done more than Mr..
Lindley to demonstrate the hOrticul-
tural. agricultural and fruit pOsSibili-
ties in the state, his name has escaped
me From my earliest recollectionS the
name OF Van Lindley has been a
synonym for good fruit and flower
plants, and his encouragement of such
things from an ethical standpoint alone
has been of untold benefit.
The Daughters of the C~onfederacy
are perfecting their arrangements TO
aid IN entertaining the old soldiers at
the reunion here beginning August
10Th. An enthusiastic meeting was held
Yesterday and they will cordially CO.
operate with the veteran camp and the
sons of confederate veterans. an organ
cation recently ounde here.
a concert by a chapter OF orphans
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