The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-15
NORTH CAROLINA.

u-Hok NJ Whitley took part in the
snaLa cbovr having with HIM his green
snake which the snake eater refused to
eat.
%ew Fern Journal: A farmer from
OnsIow was heard to say that his sec
lion was suffering severely from
drought That no rain of consequence
bad fallen there for some time, and
that the tobacco growers could not set
ont their plants on that account.
Allegheny Star: Our information
from Jefferson IS that the Ballou SUIT
was 4 great battle. The property in
litigation is considered very valuable.
THE ria lasted eight days with night
sessions &. The jury found all the issues
in favor of defendants. Plaintiffs may
appeal to supreme court.
Raeford Notes in Aberdeen Telegram:
LAST Saturday evening and night there
seemed to be a good deal of rlnklnS
among the negroes i'll the village ana
that night about s o'clock the town
marshal, hearing shooting on the Out
skirts of town, and on going TO nVeSll-
gate found that a negro man had SnOI
Il negro woman, who died instantly
The murderer has not yet Deeh cap,
tured.
Sanford Enterprise: The Enterprise
At-lTDS IndL AlIS. NICl4LlACAAAAN- 80
Rev. MI. MCLAUGHLIN, died at her nome
ii. Texas a few days ago. Before her
marriage Mrs. MCLAUGHLIN was 4 Miss
FurgTson and a half sister OF Mr.
Eugen McIver, who lives near tnlS
place. She and Mr.. MCLAUGHLIN went
TO Texas soon after their marriage last
summer.
StatesviIIe Landmark: Statesville's
new cotton mill has been chartered as
the Bloomfield Manufacturing Com
Dany. The capital stock already sub
.-ribed is 500. 900 and it may be in
creased to $3.50. 900. There are sc stock
holders and the largest are H. \.
Yount. OF New Stirling, this county;
A Il. S~aunders of StateSVille, and
Chas. Webb & Co, of Philadelphia.
Raleigh Post: Mrs Caezar Cone,
whose husband is the indOmitable and
phiIanthropiC as We'll as progressive
proprietor of Proximity Cotton Mills at
GregnSbOrO-aS we'll as other equally
important mills and enterprises in 9TH
er actiOnS-Will establish a
gaTten for the benefit of the children OF
operatives at Proximity who are under
school age and who may be otherwise
left unprotected while their parents are
engaged in the mill.
SmithfeId Herald:In digging up an
old stump on the lar of JnO. Came,
Esq. in Boon Hill township one day
his week, Chas. Game unearthed six
Spanish coins bearing the dates of 1882
and 1892. a thorough search has failed
to show up any more wealth. - A.
young white man of Wilson miraculous
Iy escaped death on the railroad two
miles south of this place Tuesday
morning. While near an approaching
train he was seized with Il fit and fell
neal the rail, missing a horrible death
only q few inches.- In the election
in Dunn for the issue of 5000 addition
al bonds to complete the WaterWOrks
system in that progressive town only
one vote was cast against ono
Kinston Free Press, Ma Sth: At the
Atlantic and North Carolina depot last
evening while waiting for the west
Bound tram, a drummer called the at
tentiOn of some parties to the shadow
ing of three suspicious looking charac-
terS by two detectives. The suspects
were at the depot and left on the train
but the detectives were not known to
be there. The drummer said that his
attention had been called to the shad-
owing of the men while on the train
from G~reenville, but he did not find out
what the men We're being Swallowed for.
1t is thought by some that the parties
were suspected of being concerned in
the LAGRANGE bank robbery and were
ny III ~ III VI
getting evidence. All parties were
strangers to the people at the depot.
Asheville Citizen: His Honor. Judge
James f. Boyd. is still S~trenuOuSly OPP
posed to going to WilkesbCro to hold
court and is still firmly of the opinion
that 4 great mistake was made by
congress in creating 4 term of the
United States court for the state Of
Wilkes" against his hertfelt opposition.
The judge said so yesterday II said
it in open court, and he furthermore
said he simply was not going to
WilkeSbOro to hold cOurt unless there
was a decent place there for him to
stop. His HOnOr'S feelings in the mat
fer were undiSGuiSedIy expressed in
court yesterday afternoon When the
civil issue Ock was called. and it is
the firm belief of those who heard the
judge address the members of the bar
that If WilkesborO XpeCt to have the
honor of entertaining His Honor ana
his court next November it had better
be prepared for disappointment because
the judge doesn't want to be entertain
ed in WilkesbOrO and as there are more
ways than one of whipping his Satanic
Majesty around Il stump the act of
congress establishing the court may
not stand in the way. For instance. ii
may rOmot the public interest" to
have the Wilkes cases tried ut Green's
bOrO and if this should ppear to be
the case why then the court would
not he held in Wilkes.