The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-08
NORTH CAROLINA.

AsheviIIe Citizen: y party of TWEEN
ty-fve Cherokee Indians passed
through the city yesterday from
Whittier. en- route to the May Festival
at Chattanooga. They will play 1t
game of Ia crosse in Chattanooga dur
ing the festival
Durham Herald: If We remember
correctly the Earl of Yarmouth APP
peared upon the stage in this town l.
few years ago and you would not have
known that he was either an earl or
an actor if it had not been so an
uOUnced on the bills.
Marion News: The wife of Rev. T.
=. BOstick. u Baptist missionary to
china, died at ChefOO China a few
days agO of pneumonia. She leaves
four little children with their father TO
look after. Mr.. BOstick was well
known in North Carolina.
Fayetteville Observer: Deputy Sheriff
Monaghan arrested Il white man
named L. y. Kinney, Who aid he was
from Michigan, whom he found Won
dering carelessly round town and
seemingly half-witted. He was COM
United to Jail by Mayor Mcmillan.
KinstOn Free Press: Sheriff Wooten
holds a letter from superintendent
Dill, of the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima railroad, telling Of q habit that a
certain COlOIeu Iltu HAS VI ScllllIS
drunk and sitting on he railroad
track. near this place. He has been
driven off the track several times.
Mighty bad habit, and may result in
something serious if the aforesaid
doesn't mend his ways.
Wilson Times: "StantOnsburg is on a
boom. A company has been formed
there with DR.. Croker the moving
spirit to do a general milling and mer-
r,r+iIo IY,ci,acc Tho ,oar.,n+iIa hue
mess of Thompson & Whitley and the
saw mill of Croker. Thompson q Co.
will be purchased and Incorporated. a
large store will be erected and in the
near future u fertilizer plant and oil
mill Will be established there. Keep
your eye on StantOnsburg she's all
right.
Franklin Times. May list: Mrs. POy-
thress, who lives about six miles east
of L~ouisburg, committed suicide on
Monday night last, about midnight,
by shooting her brains out with a
double barreled shot gun. She had
been in i'll health for several months,
ana her people nae observed evidences
of insanity, but did not think matters
would take such u serious turn. She
leaves Il husband and Il very young
chield.
GoIdsboro Argus: Nj. E. T. Atkinson,
IOO14IE vi PNOAiN
schools, Mrs. w. R. Hollowell, presi-
dent of the Wayne County Association
for the betterment of public schools,
and Miss Laura Kirby, of the faculty
of the KinStOn graded school, and
president of the state association for
the betterment of public schools, left
this morning for Greensboro to attend
a conference of leading education
spirits of the state in the interest of
public school work.
Kinston Free Press: The question
arose today ut the polls as to whether
Il man could vote in the municipal
election under the grandfather
clause" 4 voter, who had not regis
tered for the spring election, tend
cred his vote under the permanent
registration provision OF the grand
father clause" and VS. refused by the
poll holders to be allowed to vote or
the grounds that the pFeSent election
was being held under the election law
rs provided for in the amended char
ter as passed by the last legislature.
This being an election where a ma
jOrity of the qualified voters is neCes-
sary for an election, the judges de-
cided that the only way to determine
a majority of the qualified voters was
by reference to the registration books
of this springs election. and refused
to allow = voter who had not qualified
himself in this way to vote. The cir
cumStanceS created more or less COM
ment III the street. some taking both
sides.