The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-11
NORTH CAROLINA.

Monroe Journal: The eight new rural
.ree delivery routes lalu on IN TINS
-c11-v BY Special Agent knight last |
u1uter will be started on September |
rst Postmaster Hasty on last Saturday |
received orders from the pOstoffce de-
Z.rtmcnt to open up the service on
that date. The carriers viii be named
-Sis month. All of them will receive
seGG per annum except carrier Tor
route No. 6, Who will get $500.
Gastonia News: The colored people
are leaving here regularly mostly or
she night trains. They are going %
Agents are in the county
EiCT taking them TO Oklahoma ana
The Southern railroad is at work to
80. a large number in the fan 10 go
20 work on their grading for the dOuDIe
rack. 1t is expected that a large
m will leave in the fall Tor the
EsEIroad and many of the farmers WIZ
E0o lacking farm lands TO gamer Ile4I
crops.
Salisbury Truth-Index: Some time
ago the revenue officers seized nine
Barrels of whiskey in the country anu
El .ught them here, Wnere theS mHe
stored in the warehouse OF T.. C!dih
K Sons for safe keeping Friday night
80 Darties entered the building and
ro,k away the bug juice. Nothing IN
the hOuse was disturbed. Government
Officers are at work on the case out
so far have been unable TO locate out
on barrel of the missing spirits, ana
That was fOund near the OLD talr
grounds.
cbarIotte Observers: Mr.. w. Drum
zuCnd Marrow, consulting electrlcdi
.I..-fueer and contractor, has been Sc
Te,iad by the commissioners Of Laur-
=rburg as their consulting and super
yising engineer, to prepare plans ana
specifications for and to install the
electric light system for that town.
The plant will be strictly up-to-date IN
Every particular and Will cost, con-
r7latr. $4,000. Mr.. Marrow has also re-
f.-,,ed a contract for the electric light
IN Of LumbertOn.
Monroe Journal: Jim Stitt, a young,
married negro, was committed to jail
I5~- night on a charge OF having as
sauIted a fOurteen-year old regro girl
sunday night. The negroes live near
Waxhaw The girls family went to
church Sunday night and left her in
Ehe house alone. 1t is charged that
Stitt broke into the. house and COM
tTitted the deed. The negroes were
very much disturbed over the occur
ance and some of them said that he
you'd have been lynched, but the lead
.==rs failed to get up a crowd.
Charlotte Observer: Professor G. Z.
Van Deveer, of Newark, Del, has been
engaged to come here during the falr
and do-about in his famous war bal
Loon. The professor writes to Secre-
rary Julius Harden that he Will neeu
q few things to help him along with ais
-~ascensions, and he wants Mr.. Harden
70 arrange for the purchase of the ar
-iCIes in Charlotte. Among other
N hi,,es the aeronaut says he will need;
E1lenty of gas and water, 1000 POUNDS
LAf oil of vitrol and $500 clean cast iron
&4tnings or filings from machlhe
shops. The balloon is a big affair. and
,DiCtures of it show that it carries d lo'
of passengers.
Charlotte News: A bright light tt
the west of the city at about ) ocIoch
this morning startled the residents OF
Charlotte. The fire proved to be the
large barn on the Wadsworth Mode
Farm about IL miles west OF the city
Owing to the fact that the building
Ha.S a frame structure and the con
42nts of the most KIND, tn
thames quickly consumed both. AS u
the origin of last nights fire no on
zsaems to know. Mr.. J. w. WadswOrtl
SGzates that he nor Mr.. Cochrane ca
.rzve the remotest idea as how tn
EsJaZe originated. Some say they thln
Ft must have been the result OF a ia
-Rad a match while others hold TO TN
nheory that a tramp in lounging aoou
asne place struck a match and ignite
the hay.
Asheville Citizen: The beginning
-6Ele trial of Zach DOane ana Henr
Etice for the murder Of William Lytl
ugas characterized yesterday mornIn
10Y a sensational attempt to nix IN
Sury by z. T. Doan the father of tn
Drisoner DOane. Just as the case wa
about to be called yesterday morn1n
m the superior court the elder Doan
handed to Sheriff Reed a paper cor
raining six names of men with the re
Quest tina when the regular panel {
TuTors was exhausted the sher1
Sfshould call these men to sit on tn
Eury. The request appeared to be sigr
.ed also, the solicitor admitted, by
81. Doane, a brother of the prisoner
FEhe sheriff promptly gave the pape
ID Solicitor Brown who prosecutes tn
cease as the representative of the stat
-Ehe states action was prompt. A Oh
&as at once drawn and sent TO IN
Erand jury and after examlng Sherli
Reed that body in a few minutes re
turned an indictment against the tW
men, T.. T. and ]. NJ. DOane. for oh
atIucting justice.
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