The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-01
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
NORTH CAROLINA.

New Bern Journal Shipments of peas
are only moderate, eabbages in fair
amount. the small quantities of these
vegetables being due TO the damage
from the storms
Winston Sentinel: We are glad to
hear again from the projected railway
from Winston-SaIem via High Point to
he Cumnock mines, and we trust that
there is going to be something doing.
Durham Herald: M body OF Frank
J. Church, who was drowned at Gold
Hill, near Salisbury, on Easter Monday,
arrived in the city on the 1886 o'clock
tran this morning and will be taken to
his home in Henderson today.
Salisbury T~ruth-Index: a number
of New York men who are interested in
the proposed electric car line, were here
this week looking over the route along
which the line will run, and arranging
for the early completion of the work.
Ashevflle Gazette: Work on the Cen
trail Methodist church has been resum-
ed. The stone masons. some of whom
were laid off. some who We're out on &C
count of the action taken by the labor
NII1OI lit OlIIS1o II Wv mn ~
various reaosns, nave all returned to
work and the ediice is on the way to
completion. About 20 men are at work
now.
Elizabeth City Economist About two
miles from town, in this county, there
are living under one roof representa-
tives of five generations with exception
of the fourth. This unusual case is
found in the home of Mr.. Martin Pritch-
ard, one of Pasquotank's prosperous
truck farmers. He has a child whose
mother, grandmother and g~reat-great-
grandmother are all living together at
the home of Mr.. Pritchard.
Rocky Mount Motor: Mr.. E. ]. Bras
we'll, of ~BattlebOrO, was in the city
Thursday. He informed The Motor
that the farmers iii his section were
sadly behind with their work, that the
continued rains had packed the recent
ly piOwed fields until it was almost nee
essary to pillow again, but that they will
not I've time to do so and make their
crops. Mr.. BrasWelI thinks that the
farmers will not entirely recover from
the set back during the entire crop year.
Charlotte News: John Carter, the
IcSsO HIlO HluIucI6u Ills VILE, DIdSS1S
Carte. the morning Of the 2Sth, of last
Move Der, was today sentenced to 80
year.. t hard labor. in the state peni-
TENTH ; at Raleigh. by Judge Thomas
j. Shaw. Garter was brought into
court this morning and through his at
torneys Mr.. Frank r. McNinch and Mr..
Thomas c. Guthrie. he submitted to the |
charge of murder in the second degree, l
which submission was a greed tO hV So |
licitOr j. S. Webb.
Wilson News: Last night officer
James Ellis went to Contentnea on the
Shoe Fly thinking that Morris Tucker,
who sho John Gay might board the
train there. The policeman got off on
one side of the train and Tucker board
ed the train from the other and made
his escape. The wires to GOldsbOrO
could not be used and thus far Tucker
has not been apprehended. This morn
ing about II o'clock John Gay, the
man who was shot was removed to his
home. At 1850 o'clock he died from
internal k~en1Orrhage.
Special to Charlotte Observer: Green's
boro, April 25.-JOhn VanstOry, whose
arrest, at PauIs Valley, l. Il, under a
charge of writing threatening letters
to a banker was reported in The OBJ
server this morning, is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. p. VanstOry, of this city. his
father being a prominent business man
and leading citizen here. The young
fellow is only II years of age and has
been in Indian territory but i short
While. Failing in his efforts to dissuade
his son from leaving home. Mr.. Van
story furnished the boy with railroad
transportation and gave him a sum Of
money with which to meet his expenses
until he should secure employment.
Soon after reaching his destination,
young VanstOry wrote his father that
he had found employment on a cattle
ranch and hat he was agreeably stu
ated-
Special to Charlotte Observer: Ashe-
vile. April 24.-An unspeakably brutal
crime occurred in this city tonight.
Two days Z a young man, of very
good appearance came here from South
Carolina and engaged board with the
Galloway family on Spring street. In
the family there are several children.
one OF them a little girl eleven years
old, and while the adUI members Of the
household were out Harris returned to
the house and ~criminiIly assaulted this
child as she lay helpless on 4 sick bed.
This was about 10 o'clock and Harris
then fled, in which direction no one was
able to say. When news of the assault
became known many men. when told
the circumstances. We're Unframed to
anger, and at this hour, > a. m. bodies
of men are looking for the child's as
saildut IN all directions. : number of
railroad men have Joined the search.
some of them going west, while anoth-
er searching party IS i'll the Biltmore
section.
New York's new Stock Exchange
has been de~diCated-but To what?-Au-
guSta Chronicle.
A Great Sensation.