The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-06
NORTH CAROLINA.

town yesterday were complaining OF
the drought. They report crops as bad
Iy in need of rain. Cotton will be in
jured beyond repair. and unless 1t rains
soon tobacco Will be a failure. Corn
looks well yet. The cultivation is per-
feet, no grass Is seen in the crops. A
few lays ago the prospects were never
brighter.
Durham Herald: The medals for the
Trinity Park high chool were made by
$. NJ. Snider, OF this city. and the are
very fine. The workmanship is Of the
finest and cannot be beaten in or out
Of Durham. Heretofore this school has
been sending off for the medals needed
and the fact that they were made here
his year speaks we'll for Mr.. Snider.
The medals are Of the very best quail
ity.
Raleigh Times: Quite q number from
Raleigh will probably attend the Tenth
international Sunday School Conven-
ton which will meet Ii Denver COlora-
do, June 18th, and continue several
days.-Postmaste- CoTbett. OF Selma,
was placed on trial in the Federal court
this morning for stealing registered
packages from the mails. This will be
a holly contested case and will GER
tainly last through tomorrow
Washington Clazette-Messenger: We
regret to hear that on account OF erect
ing the new depot the authorities of
the Atlantic Coast Line have notified
Mrs. Herbert Bonner that she will have
TO move and tie house will be taken
down. For seI eraI years the Bonner
house has been known far and wide
to the travelling public and has enjoyed
n large patronage and it is to be re-
GREETED that the railroad authorities
have it's removal necessary.
Charlotte Observer: Complaining that
until not the new train between Char
lotto and HaSerstown. Md, has not
stopped between Charlotte and Win
ston-Salem. ouI Mocksville cOrrespon-
dent says in today's paper: Some of
these trains look common enough to
stop at all stations" Now don't they?
The conductors and porters are as nice |
as they can be. but these trains are the
cheapest affairs that run into Char
lotte.
Greensboro Record: Mr.. ]. ]. Klopp,
OF Estherville, Iowa, mentioned last
week as being here with n view of en-
tering the wholesale and retail drug
business. in which lines he has had
wide and extensive experience, has
been carefully looking over the field
and IS charmed with Greensboro and
it's facilities for transportation and
quite likely Will embark in the busi-
ness.
Durham Herald: Umpire Proud went
up to Greensboro yesterday and will
umpire the first three games this week.
After that time he will leave for his
home in Philadelphia.-Tke Durham
ball team flew the track at Greensboro
yesterday and forfeited the game to
Greensboro in the last half of the ninth
inning. At the time Captain Stocks
dale's mon left the field the score was
tied-fOur to four-and there is no tell
ing who would have won out had the
game been played to q finish.
Waynesville Courier. Professor &C.
Briggs, formerly one Of the faculty of
Judson College at HendersOnville, in its
palmiest days, and since then owner
and principal of a fine school at Sails
bury, Mo, came over from AGheville
Monday and spent a day and & half re-
newing old ac~quaitances and making
new ones. He he'd not been here in fiji
teen years and was surprised at the
progress We have made.-The Sunday
trains began to run on the Murphy
branch last Sunday.
LumbertOn Robeso1ian: Monday
moring. between the hours of II and 4
o'clock the ticket office at the depot in
this place was robbed. The party took
a pane of glass out of the sash and
raising the window, entered the office.
There was about $40 missing. The cou- |
pom ticket case seems to hav been
turned over when they entered the
building, spreading the contents over
tHc AlOOT. bOlD uIdNcTS OI lne IlCh6I |
case were left just as they pulled them
out. No clue to the robbery could be
had.
Greensboro Telegram: District Attor-
ney F. A. HOlton. of Winston. was here
this morning returning from a daily
trip to Lexington to see his sick
nephew. the Ii iured fireman. Asked
how he was coming along in getting
evidence against the Beef Trust, he
said he wasn't getting any great sights |
of II. Most of the beef used in places |
where he has made an investigation, |
he says, is home grown, and though
the home cattle growers are getting
the benefit of the high prices prevail
ing they can't be accused Of being in
with the trust |
Fayetteville Observer: There was a |
rear old collision at Hope Mills this
morning. which fortunately did but
little damage. Through some misun- |
derstanding the through freight ran
into the rear or the local freight, and
but for the fact that the former was
going at a very slow speed, q horrible
accident would nave resulted. AS it
was the caboose of the local was some
what shattered, and three ssenger
Mr.. w. T. keels. Atlantic Coast Line
roadmaster, of Fayetteville. Mr.. ]. T. ,
Williams. Of Dunn and Mr.. J. A. Nc
Donald, OF this city-were slightly in
jured.
Charlotte News: Mrs. John Nj. |
Thomas whose home is on Park ave-
nue., Dilworth, was painfully injured |
this morning by being run over by a |
bicycle mesSenger.-Dr. J. s. Aberne-
thy, OF Long Creek, has lost nine hogs
in the past three lays caused by the
bite Of a mad dog. Several days ago |
q strange dog was seen in the pasture
where the hogs were. In a few days
the hogs became sick and died in terri
BILE agony. The dog that bit the ami |
M was killed some distance from
DIR. Abernethy's home. The cause of
the death of the hogs. DR.. Abernethy
say was, withCu ut question, h~ydropho-
bia and that too. in its worst form.