The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-17
NORTH CAROLINA.

An electric car Line isproposed by
PHILADELPHIA capitalists to connect
washington, y. c. Greenville and
Kinston, looping back to Washington.
Elm City Elevator: Last Saturday
evening while Messrs. While, Hugh and
Joseph Johnson We're seigning in Town
Creek near Mr.. G.. a. Barnes Cherry
Farm" they caught among other nice
fish a white shad which weighed 6
pounds. How this fish 90: up this creek
from Tar river is a mystery, as we are
told thai the creek is damned in two
Or three places below.
Webster's Weekly: The colored pop
ulation and not a. few Of the whites,
IN Mr.. Will Clark's neighbOrhood, are
greatly exercised about j haunt that
is proving through the woods at night.
1t makes an unearthly graveyard noise,
which chills the marrow in q colored
gentleman's bones. There is a susp1-
cion tina the revenue officers will find
out about the ghost before very long.
Winston Journal: A letter received
here tells of a serious dcclden IN a
match game of ball TIVE Cana and
White school house teams at Nestor,
north of his city on Saturday after
noon. Two fielders were racing after a
ball when they coIlided with great force.
a. VI. Davis. one OF the players, struck
his shin against the knee Of the other
fielder. breaking it. He will be con-
fined to his bed for several weeks.
Greensboro Record: Postmaster Tyre
Glenn was notified by the pOstofffce de-
n4r+D,.rLt today that on AIIDTISr 1E- SlN
rural free delivery routes will be put in
operation radiating from Greensboro.
The sales his year Of the Green's
bOrO Nurseries, John \. Young, proprie-
tor. are SIS, 900 ahead OF what they
were July 1st, 1902, and 1000 ahead of
July 1st, 1901. The demand is so great
that some varieties will soon De sold
Entirely out.
Rocky Mount Motor: The Winstead
mill property a been purchased by
the town at a price of $780,, which is
considered very reasonable, for the pur-
pose of more surely purifying the towns
water supply, which is drawn from
Stony Creek. This mill pond has FORM
ed a stagnant pool of water above the
water supply of the town, and it was
thought advisable TO buy it and blast
away the dam, which would do away
with the stagnant pool of water.
New Bern Journal: A new steamboat
line will soon operate between this port
and Oriental, BaybOro and B~ellhaVen.
The boat was purchased at PolatkO,
Fla, and is now on the way here, being
reported at Charleston yesterday. She is
said to be a light draught c~ommodious
craft especially suited TO the waters
in which she will cruise, n be fitted
for both passengers and freight. Cap
tain H. H. Dowdee and Mr.. Charles
McCotton are the promoters of the en-
ferprise.
Charlotte Chronicles: y story in the
local columns of The Chronicle this
evening relates the fact that a number
of the negro firemen on me engines of
the Southern Railway have been over
come by the intense heat and collapsed
from syncope while at their post of
duty in the cab. While the passenger
is sitting in his comfortable breezy place
by the open window in the coach, it is
we'll enough for him to remember what
the fireman on the engine, between the
Jul and the furnace, is suffering these
July days.
Charlotte Observer Special: Ashe-
vile, July 1.-THE strike among the
men who handle freight, which has
81 prevalent in New York and else
where of late, has spread to Asheville
with the result that every man in the
organization, about 50, quit work this
morning. A few days ago the men
threatened to quit work, but through
Freight Agent r. P. Goster their de-
InandS as to wages We're allowed. Now
n men not only insist that they should
all be paid a uniform Scale of 90 cents
Il day, but insist that they should not
under any circumstances be required
so work more than 10 hours a day. a
large number of cars are standing in
n local yards in need of attention at
the platform, but only a half-dOzen
men. technically known is "scabs," are
loading or unloading them. Further
complications occurred today on the
local yards of the Southern when the
men who handle baggage at the passen-
ger station went on a strike. partly be-
cause of sympathy for their brethren
at the lower n of the yard. but prin-
Cipally, of course, because of personal
grievances.
Albermarle Special to The Charlotte
Observer: The gold brick men have
nit town. Albemarle was treated to a
rather novel or sensational trial yester-
day when Calvin Shankle and Alex.
Cr1Sco were tried before Justices Bos-
tain and Hitchcock for selling spurious
gold. On last Friday Shankle. it is al
heged, sold or pawned a half-pint bottle
Ewo-thirdS full of what he claimed co
De nugget gold from the Duke mine in
this county. Shankle sold the 50 called
gold to DR.. O.. D. King. obtaining SIS
for it. The next morning DR.. King.
thinking that there might be something
crooked about the transaction. tested
mis- gold and found il t. be a compost
lion of brass, very much resembling
gold, and o being able TO get his
money back had Shankle arrested. Ana
IN order for Shankle 10 save himself
10 some extent he Implicated Crisco.
1t was developed on trial that CriSco-