The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-29
NORTH CAROLINA.

Wilson News: Recently We stated
that $50 had been raised TO employ the
very best talent TO punish the perpe-
traitors of the foul. coWardly murder
ers of Percy Jones. Since then the
amount has increased 70 5000.
Greensboro Telegram: The White
Oak mill is not the only important ad-
dition to GreensbOrO's cotton manufac-
turing industry: Revolution mill is
a~rranging-not to increase-but to
doubt its capacity. Contracts nave al
ready been let.
Winston Journal: Earle Holt. the
big first baseman on the champion
base ball team and full ack on the
University foot ball team, will coach
the athletic teams of ST. Albany school
in Virginia next year. Holt is one of
the finest first basemen the University
every had and as q fullback he has
few equals. The college loses him with
Tegret and st. Adams may consider
itself fortunate in procuring such an
al around man.
WhiteyiIIe News: W. Z. Hjnson was
d pleasant caller at The News office
Tuesday. He is one Of CIarendOn's most
successful truckers. On one acre OF
berries set out in July and September
he has shipped one hundred and ninety
crates netting him nearly five hundred
collars, with a total expense of not
Lore than one hundred and fifty dol
rs. He says he Will clear over three
hundred dollars on this one acre. He
speaks very high of the truckers as
ISOLATION in that section, and attributes
to their good management the high
prices they have received for their
berries.
Gastonia Gazette: Al St. Luke's hos
pitaI in Richmond the life of Mrs. Lena
Davis hangs by a fragile thread. She
* = sister of Mr.. H. Schneider. who
returned Tuesday from Richmond,
"Here an operation was performed Sat
UTiay afternoon at I o'clock in the hope
Of saving her life. \ few weeks ago
in lifting something she broke a blood
vessel, which bled internally until there
w%s no hope of recOvery without an OPP
GRAFTON.
Pilot Mountain News: This section
of the moral vineyard is in the midst
of u severe drought and it is doing I'M
told damage every day. There has been
no ain in six weeks and farm work is
almost suspended. The wheat crop will
not be over half a crop; corn cannot
come up; gardens have dried up and
vegetation generally is in a n
dead. There has been no tobacco plant
ed and the outlook for our tobacco
planters is gloomy to say the least. A
large number of them have bought and
put IN the ground immense quantities
OF commercial fertilizer and from pres
emit indications it will be of but little or
no benefit to them.
Henderson Gold Leaf: Joe Cole. Sr..
murder of ROadmaster Fred
St~r:. saves his neck. Convicted Of
l the first degree and s~entenc-
e. lung, the supreme court grant
&. l new trial. Joe Cole was
brought into court and through his
counsel. T.. NJ. Pittman, submitted to
4 plea of murder in the second degree.
The question of sentence was then rails
ed and his couns ~endeavOred to get
him off with a lighter sentence than
thirty years (the terms given Joe Cole,
Jr., and Charlie Ferguson, convicted at
the same time of murder in the second
degree as accesSOries) but this was OPP
posed After a brief consultation with
his client Mr.. Pittman said he was will
ing to take a sentence of 80 years and
this was imposed. Cole was taken to
Raleigh on the evening train and has
entered upon his time which he said he
did not expect to live long enough to
serve out. He is now 10 years old he
said.
Wilson Times: 1t was at first thought
that Mr.. Ernest Daughtry who was
also in the Raleigh railroad wreck was
not badly hurt. The impression went ont
a the manly young fellow did
not want the new to come TO his moth
er exaggerated and cause her pain.
But IN investigating We find he is not
only severely bruised but escaped a
most miraculous death. He was sitting
in the seat with Sheriff Sharp next TO
the aisle. He felt the car humping the
cross ties and grabbed the railing o.
his seat for support When the car
went off the embankment h was
thrown through a window by the seat
opposite and heard the glass shatter
al round his head. His hat saved his
face and doubtless his life. The car
turned down on the side his head went
and then the window struck the earth
just as his head went through it, and
went into the mud. With the force
he was going had not the earth stop,
ped him his throat would have beer
cut by the glass. As it is his RICH.
shoulder is fearfuIly bruised and hi.
knee and leg badly skinned. causing mir
to walk with difficulty.
4 Little Early Riser.