The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-08-28
NORTH CAROLINA.

RED Springs Citizen: Captain Denny
says he will continue the shipment of
NSatermelons until frost. Mr.. Mckin-
non has many fine ones remaining in
Eais field. but has such a fine stand Of
E1eas that he ays il will be more prof
JtabI- 10 cease shipment of melons and
gsatAer hay later on.
kinston Free Press: Mr.. King. rep
res-nting the Southern Bell Telephone
Company, was in the city today and
SsiV-s notice that he will make applica-
tioTa to the board of aldermen Of the
CITY 20 enter here with their lines. The
BeH viii connect Kinston with all
Eoi.-ts On the long distance line, New
E-o:k, Richmond and other cities.
I05ersonyilIe News: Little Clyde,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Bunting.
czied quite suddenly last Friday night.
He nad been quite sick with fever for
several weeks, but as the fever had dis
appeared, it was believed that he was
cut of any immediate danger. Last
Friday night his father who was Sleep
ing with him, awoke TO find his little
boy cold in the embrace OF death.
New Bern Journal: The sharpie ABB
bIe Elizabeth Captain ]. r. Smith, ar
Etved yesterday from BOgue sound
Ecaded with oil and fish scrap from the
Factory of Mr.. X. 3. Stewart. Cargo
consisted of twenty-five barrels of oil
3nC thirteen tons scrap. This is the
first load sent by Mr.. Stewart this sea-
son but from now on he will ship the
output of his factory weekly. The out
f1Itt IS from seven to eight barrels of oil
8Ed eight to nine tons of scrap a day.
salisbury Sun: For two days the
coal in the chute at Spencer has been
afr, and so far all attempts to extin-
ssui=h it have been ineffective. The FIRE
sStar ed in some mysterious way at the
10 sOm of the thousands of tons of coal
~Itch the Southern always keeps on
hSIt here and a steady stream of
1Gtcr has been playing upon it since it
w. discovered. This is the second fire
of ;his kind in the same chute within
zhe past six months and the coal de-
&5LIOyed is considerable.
sam JudsOn, colored, has a hard head
He was playing baseball near the city
Thursday and one of the players made
the third strike and slung the bat.
striking JudsOn with Il fearful force
ssquarely on the head, knocking him
down. He lay speechless and notion
Less for a few minutes, being in a dazed
state. but finally regained his feet and
<Valked home, a distance Of two miles,
K1One the worse for his experience ex-
sept an ugly bruise on his right temple
and a slight headache.-ROcky Mount
Motor.
Durham Herald: In yesterday
mornings paper it was suggested that
Ike time was ripe for the differences be-
II cen the strikers and the contractors
Il, E.N I-hi a1 II hair tod +[a
ne that the suggestion originated
u, lta a prominent citizen who had alb
..SCutely no interest in the OUTCOME of
9SNe strikers, other than the welfare o.
Durham at heart. The articLs in que>-
-EiCU caused much comment on the
Etyeets during the day but it is now
certain that the matter cannot be ar
oitrated. The contractors say that they
have nothing to arbitrate and will not
hear to any such a proposition.
Charlotte Chronicle August 21st: I'm
~aoubtedly the most shameless and
zsRGndOned criminal with whom the Of
1IcgaIs of this city have had TO deal in
- long time is Will Reedy, worthless.
-GHOntemptible white man, who was con-
yiCted of yagrdncy in the recorder s
court Tuesday and sentenced to the
tJaUnty roads for thirty days. All who
beard the outcries OF the girl and came
satisfied that Reedy was guilty of a
lar more serious offence, and the re-
~corder stated in open court that he
regretted his inability, owing to Il lack
OF evidence, to bind the defendant over
10 the superior court to answer for the
crime of incest The needed evidence
mas ben secured, and today Recorder
ssShannOnhOuse committed Reedy To jail
without bond, on the charge OF criminal
Gy assauIting his own daughter, Emma
Beedy.
Special TO The News and Observer:
EpS in northwest kinstOn, owned by
Mr.. Z. J. BectOn ard used by 7. E
Roberts & Co, as a tobacco stemmery
was totally destroyed by fire last night
together with the machinery, stock o1
tobacco on hand, amounting TO 106 hogs.
EEeads and 100 cords of wood near the
factory, which belonged TO L E Rob.
SartJ X Co, and was TO be used in theil
business this season. The fire was dis.
lowered just before o'clock a. m. 10y
he watchman at the American Tobacco
Company's big brick warehouse ant
vAhen first seen by him the centre o
tie lower story of the large stemmer!
was 4 mass of flames. The books o
Che company. which were III the SAT
EEI the office. We're saved by those ear,
ut the fire, who rolled the safe out an,
turned the combination side 10 III
s-round.