The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-11-24
NORTH CAROLINA.

New Bern Journal: The substitution
e IF gasoline boats for sailing craft Is
being rapidly made in this section.
Several cOmmOdiOuS freight DOiIS
aiSinE gasoline ah the motive power
ire now making regular trips between
New Bern and Oriental VancebOr0.
Beaufort and SwansbOrO.-The Ig-
-sestiOn has already been made IN me
Journal that an officer be sen out in
---itizens clothes TO search fJI VagTdnts.
The writer tried for m hour u h're d,
man yesterday morning before one
could be found that wanted work. al
though several Of the persons approch
I'D Wer.. known TO BE- out Of employ
zneut and We're known furthermore to
0e chrOnicaIly idle. 1t IS hoped that
the suggestion made will be given con-
sideralOn. and that the campaign
against Migrants by the city VIII be
continued until the last one Of the iIlL
aEretches y driven beyond the borders
II New Bern or made TO go to work.
YoungsyiIIe Dispatch. Henry Horton.
IN old negro man was cut to death
--wo miles from here. The cutting was
Ionc by Major Spirav. a negro about
twenty-five years OLD II appears Jh-.
Morton and Spiv@y. IN company with
: hrcc Of four other EegTOeS. had gath
cred Ut Il gin house not Tar from
k1OTtDnS mouse ana III Il I4A4lCu-tS
which arose Spivey was disembOwlet l.
After n was cut he ran to his home
and rs ne entered il ne was holding
ais intesuneS in his hands. He was IL :
forwards removed from his home Dy
some parties To an Out house where ne
-Nas allowed To remain until next day
oefOrc medical attention was sum-
EnOncI. and when the physician arr,v-
I'D ne was dead. At the trial here
Horton rho
EEranE.:utOn jail without bail.
Duran Herald. Nov. 18th: The trial
lf Adm Hunt, cOlOred. for killing
zsIeet Wilkins. white was begun in
EtoIborp yesterday. The jury was Sc
-ured late in the afternoon and the
taking Of evidence will begin this
morning. y special venire Of one num-
Ired men had been previously sum-
ZnOned to appear III court yesterday
morning. This one hundred were eX-
11austed in securing seven jurors. More
men We're then secured and finally.
Just before night. the twelve men were
secured and sworn in. In getting the
Jury the court found that Il great man.
-1ad expressed the opinion that the de-
<eudant was guilty and should hang.
This caused the work of securing
curry to be slow and made it impossible
Jo get twelve men out of the first huE-
,dred. j I .EI-sS Il
Monroe Journal: John Marsh. color
Id tried and found guilty at the last
November term of court of Il criminal
assault on the person OF Alice Care
Ock a public school teacher and the
laughter of u respectable COlOred nun
If Lanes Creek township, and sen-
-.nced to be hanged by the neck until
lead viii instead of paying this pen
atty. go To the chain-gdug rOr thirty
lays. Incidentally, he will SerVtz
eleven months on the roads for carry
nS concealed weapons. a pistol haT-
ing been found on his person when he
-EFaS arrested. He has already been Ia
gail for more than Il year. The case
me up at this term. u new trial haV-
1nS been allowed by the supreme court.
The trial was set to begin Thursday
md a special yenire of $50 men from
which to draw a jury was summoned.
The jury was selected on Thursday,
and the woman. who was the principal
Witness and her father gave their te5-
-l5mOny- After hearing the testimony,
(which was materially much weaker
-IIdn that gwen by the woman at the
CORNER trial. the Solicitor stated that
ne could not ask for a verdict of gully.
Sudge Justice said that he could not,
sfter hearing the testimony, allow tie
verdict to stand If the jury should
ind guilty. On this charge the judge
gave a sentence of thirty days on the
roads. which was as high as he could
90 by law and then sentenced Marsh
10 an additional eleven months for
carrying concealed weapons.