The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-02
$50 VENIREMEN SUMMONED
SEVERAL RELATIVES AND WIT
NESSES WILL BE EXCUSED.
Haywood Trial Will Begin IocaH.
No Road Building in Wake-NeW
Rural Free Delivery Routes-Other
News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, \. c.. September 50.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., September 80.
. The sheriff of Martin county today
brought to the penitentiary a negro
boy only 13 years Did, who is under .
sentence for % years for arson. only
his youth saved him from the gallows.
H was convicted of burning a store
and its contents. all valued at over
$4,000, in the Town of Williamson.
The Haywood trial, it is nov posi-
t.Eely declared will begin tomorrow
morning. Thee work OF sumr1onin1
the 30 special veniremen was ended to-
day. In the liSt as drawn are several
w theses III the case and also one of
the brothers of Haywood. Of course,
all these are excused by the judges.
Mention has been nae of the prob
aG!e building of the Atlanti coast
Line railways branch. which now runs
as far as Spring Hope, about 2S miles
from Raleigh. on to this city. A we'll
known railroad official said today he
thought this talk was a bluff. 1t is
made in connection with the building
of the Raleigh and Pamlico Sound
railway, the survey of which is to be-
gin at Wilson tomorrow and to be
pushed both ways. 1t is declared by
III DSNA LII peOplS ludl WOIh Ol
this road ought to begin at Raleigh
and on to Wilson. Some think it should
begin at the Washington end, in order
to get cheap transportation for the
rails.
1t appears that rain is now quite
generally desired in the tate. Even
the cotton gorWers, who are having
such a wonderful season for picking
that crop, would be glad to see some
rain
This county used to build it's roads
of macadarn. but now uses gravel. To-
day 1t sold it's stone crusher to of
the Georgia counties. The roads here
are rot in good repair, but the streets
are worse. No work has been done on
the streets in a long time and they
are showing the evidences of this neg
lect most plainly. There is no money
for street work, and there will be none
until there is another issue of bonds.
Governor Aycock VII attend the
greensboro reunion. Another appoint
ment which he has for this month is
at Mooresville, Iredell county, on tho
18th.
State Agricultural Commissioner,
Samuel l.. Patterson, who for many
weeks has been at his home in Caldwell
county, quite sick most of the time has
returned here, and is looking very we'll
indeed.
| The addition of the eleven new rural
Tree delivery mail routes to the num-
Der already in operation in this state,
brings he total VI to 400. AS these
routes pay $500 each, this mean a total
| OF $240, 900 expended IN North Caro-
lima for this service.
State Auditor Dixon has finished the
work Of making the assessments OF
various corporations not covered by
the corporation commission. The work
has been very tedious.
The state superintendent of public
instruction is Informed that Trinity
schoo district, in Beauford township,
Union county, has voted a local tax
FOR schools. 1t is the third district In
that township to so vote.
tomorrow State superintendent of
! Public instruction J. Y. Joyner viii
make a speech at Randleman, in the
interest Of schools there.
The advocates of the d~isDensary here
make the statement in their speeches
mat the saloons cost the people of
Raleigh SIP, 900 annually. and that the
dispensary will save them of hat sum
at least $11S, 900.
During the state fair. the alumni as
| ISOLATION of the College at Wake
Forest viii ave a reunion and banuuet
here, the banquet to be served at
| Giersch's cafe.
Inc state anll-SalOOn league is inform
ed that several whiskey distilleries are
still operating In Yadkin county IN
open defiance Of the Watts liquor regu-
| lation bill.
The grand jury in this county has
found a true bill against a II year old
negro boy, named Leonard Spence for
burglary. 1t is claimed that he enter
ed several houses here. Besides the
Haywood case. there is one other capt.
tai case to be tried probably at this
term Of court, this being that against
a man named Goodwin charged with
criminal assault upon a little white
girl, who was an emp,oye on his farm
near Raleigh.
Appeals from the Sixth district will
be called next Tuesday. October 9Th.
in the following order by the supreme
court: State VS.. Mcdonald. Whitfield
VS.. Garris, Lassiter VS.. Railroad. Bar
row VS.. Cotton Mills. Young VS.. Rail-
road, Barnes VS.. Railroad, Motzno VS..
Railroad, Mial VS.. Ellington. Watson
VS.. Railroad. Purnell VS.. Page, Monta-
que VS.. Williams, Hodges VS.. Tel.
Company.