The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-10
STATE PRESS.

The Weekly News would like to make
a move that the press of North Caro-
lima establish a court for the beneht
of these scOundrels that are using pls-
tolls in such prOmiscious way in self
defence. If so we will guarantee that
hemp will take a rise.-Robersonville
News.
William Randolph Hearst is ~ at
tend a jefferson day banquet at Des
Moines. Now if William
! wants to make a hit he ought to take
his Edenton young n along and give
an exhibition of how to start a presi-
Dental boom in North Carolina-Green-
vile Reflector.
Mr.. Bowen continues to provide
handsomely for the V~eneZuelans.
Bowen is of the right sort. He may
not be equal to some of his conferers
in diplomatic palaver but in getting
down to brass tackS n keeping there
or Whereabouts he beats them all out
Greensboro Telegram.
The practical solution of the problem
of making paper from corn stalks
opens up an avenue OF hope for the
American forests which have been laid
low largely to supply the demand for
! print paper. But if the paper trust gets
its grip IN this process, what will 1t
profit the newspaper men who are at the
mercy of this octOpus?-Durham Sun.
The Smithfield Herald is surprised at
the attitude of the armer of that sec
ton towards the good roads movement.
We have ceased to be surprised az the
attitude of the farmers, the people who
think they pay all the taxes and sup
port the government on their should
ers, take on any Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
Now here comss the statement from
Petersburg hat a negro tramp shot
and killed a conductor On the Norfolk
and Western road simply because he
ordered him off his train. We venture
to predict that mother Legislature Will
not adjourn in North Carolina without
passing a law hat will prohibit the
carrying of concealed weapons. 1t
ought to be a felony for any man not
an officer of the law to carry a pistol.
Raleigh Times.
The distillery licensed by the board Of
aldermen at their meeting two weeks
ago cannot be disturbed until atter the
municipal election in May, when, under
the provisions of the Watts Dill, an
election may be brought about by the
petition of one-third Of the quallhed
voters of the town, and if then a ma
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the distillery, it will go. There has been
some ~unfavOrable comment upon the
action of the board in licensing the dis
tillery, but they claim that they have
no option in the matter. that under the
law they could not prevent the dlst1l-
lery-Rocky Mount Motor.
In point of size they probably don
count for much, but in point of num-
Der and frequency AsheVIle strikes
! stand away up toward the from
Within the past few months there have
been many, most of them afLectlng the
building trades and most OF them Tor
| much the same cause-refusal OF UNION
men in one line of employment to work
! ALONGSIDE of men in another line that
! are alleged to be out of harmony with
{ the union. As a result AShevllle
/ growth has been hindered and its pro
| gress impeded. Men who nave hao
| plars already drawn for Id nave
| laid them aside awaiting settlement o!
these troubles, and union and non.
union men alike have been cut out OF
work.-AshevIle Citizen.
We have been engaged for some time
in doing the necessary printing IN IN
ease of WadsWorth against the city o
| Concord. the ease being prepared to d.
presented and tried before the supreme
4 IL lllO RASSS11 NSA1A'
question involved is whether q city cal
furnish it's inhabitants lights on tn
public streets, and pay for the same
without first submitting the question
to it's voters for their ratification. w
) have seen letters from the mayors Q
nearly all the cities in this state. an
we ind tina nearly every other plac
is exactly in the same condition tina
our city is, and hence the decision i
he supreme court will not only aztec
the interest of parties in this city, bu
l the interest of people in nearly ever
l city in the state.-Concord Times.
: The trustees of the Peabody educe
tional fund met in New York tn
5 week. and the fact is scarcely concea
I ed that there is a scheme afoot
o hdr the aid the trustees. HAY
been giving to the various cotton stat:
. for educational purposes. lie none
n is to be returned for the purpose
putting both capital and interest I'M
. a big normal college in some southel
city. The proposed change in the pla
IL of the trustees rests in its last analys
y upon the desire of atlanta to gobble Il
e whole thing-in q desire to boom IN
IS particular town. One of the truste
of the fund ex-Secretary of the LIT
rior Hoke Smith, and the acting age
of the fund. DR.. Glenn, reside in Alta
ia, and the propose to put the emit
fund amounting to several millions IN
m a college that will boom their OF
~ town.-Goldsboro Argus.
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