The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-11
NORTH CAROLINA.

Washington Gazette-Messenger: The
Fisher Tobacco Company are shipping
today $4,000 pounds of plug tobacco to
San Francisco. having received with the
order a certified check for over s.. 900
10 nav for it. How is this for Wash
ington2
Gastonia Gazette: The water in Da-
Wis mill pond was left off a few days
ago and 27S pounds of fish were taken
therefrom. OF these twenty-five were
carp, which weighed Ia pounds. six OF
the biggest weighing sixteen pounds
each
RobersonvilIe News: Noah Biggs,
one of Halifax county's most prominent
and prosperous farmers, gave out a
statement here a few days ago that ne
would grow seventy-fiVe barrels OF corn
On three acres of land. Last year he
grew seventy-two barrels on the same
three acres
Wilson Times: Mr.. A. a. Grantham'
of GoIdsbOrO, who is at the sanatOrIum
and was operated on Saturday morning
for appendicitis IS no better. II was
found that pe~rftOnitis had set in before
the operation and he was in = bad way
He. however. has a fighting chance TO
recover and his temperature Is normal.
Gastonia Gazette: The LOray Cotton
Roanoke News The Atlantic Coast
Line has opened for the convenience
and comfort Of its passengers the new
waiting rooms recently fitted up here,
and Ticket Agent Ct. @. Gary is now in
his uew- ticket office. The opening OF
the reception rooms and the remOval OF
the ticket office into new quarters are
changes which the travelling pubic
greatly appreciate The new quarters
are certainly great Improvements on
the old ones.
Greensboro Record: The Revolution
Cotton Mills are charging the capacity
of their plant. The present capacity IS
about 500 bolts of anton flannel daily.
The plant wheu completed Will be
about one-third larger than the present
capacity.-The High POint correspOn-
dent of the Charlotte Observer says
that at least twenty-five cases OF ap'
pendicitis have occurred at High Pom
this year. The doctors seem TO thinE
that there IS some local cause but ar'
unable TO tell what it is.
Raleigh Post: Mr.. w. y. Dunn, :
prominent lawyer of Scotland Neck, l
here with his attorney, Congressma
Claude kitchin, for the purpose OF ia
ing Policeman j. w. Beasley ARRESTED
for assault and battery upon his broth
ar. Mr.. Raymond Dunn, of Scotlan'
Neck. Mr.. w. \. Dunn stated las
night that he had spent the Afternoon
Investigating the case, had q talk VII
Mayor Powell and had fully made u
MS min not only to have PoHcema
Beasley tried before u magistrate her
for assault and battery, but TO sue hill
- I / Hnlln
fOr damages.
Mill has established an enviable repu
tation for it's goods in he Chinese en-
Dire, as is attested by the large numbt
of shipments of it's products made
that country. The ompany is no
shipping to Shanghai, China, via Sa
Francisco, 1900 bales of it's standal
sheetings, the largest single shipmel
made by a local mill to a foreign coul
rry. This requires for ~transportatiC
EUenty-six cars and represents a vail
OF SIG, 900. 1t is gratifying to note t
demand in foreign countries for Cast
mia goods and the Loray is to be co
graduated on the splendid trade 1t
building up in China.
Winston Journal: j. B. Craver,
Young man about twenty years of q
HHd a member of one of the best fan
lies in Forsyth county, was arrest
yesterday afternoon on the charges
fraud. The warrant was sworn out
fore Justice of the Peace Major j.
Bessent. by J. B. Johnson, spec
agent of the Industrial Aid ASSOCIATE
of Georgia, with headquarters in 4
ianta. Mr.. Craver is charged WI
canvassing for the Industrial Aid
this city, insuring and collecting pl
miums on sick benefit policies unC
the assumed name of ] C. Mcknigl
nder p~retense of being an authoriZ
agent of that company.
Special to News and Observer: Ii
ston, n. c., Sept. Fire broke out
the four story tobacco prize house ne
to the Carolina warehouse this morni
about 2:15 o'clock, and quickly sprea
ing to the Carolina destroyed the I
with all in them, also doing seriC
damage to the American Tobacco Co
pany's stemmery across the sire
When first discovered the blaze V
seen on the first floor of the prize hol
near the center of the building. I
cause of the fire is nknoT and CO
not be reasonably accounted for,
there was no occasion for fire in
building. not even a stove flue be
IN 1t. being used only as a storage TO
for tobacco. There was no steam DO
attached To the building. There W
said 10 be bout 120 hogshead of tob
co in the prize house where the
originated, e~ighty-five ~hogsheads
longing TO the Randolph Meads {
valued At $4,000. and tobacco belong
TO the Farmers Warehouse COmpa
valued at $1,000. The fire when
covered was a small blaze a little
the rear of the center of the pl
hoGse. The theory of spontane
combustion IS advanced by a few K
pie but the opinion is pretty gen,
hat the fire was of i~ncendiary ORR
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