The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
NORTH CAROLINA.

Durham Herald: The grand jury
yesterday returned a true bill against
Joseph McK1nsey. colored, charging
him with criminally a~ssaulting little
Ethel Moore. colOred. Under the in
dictment as found against the pris-
oner he will nave to suffer death if
the court n jury finds that he is
guilty.
Greensboro Telegram: A. will be
seen from h local columns the print
ers of Greensboro have made an in
crease in the scale of wages. In addI-
ton to this a morning paper whose
work is mostly done at night has TO
pay a substantial increase over the
price Of day work. 1t costs money TO
get out a daily paper though there are
not a few who don't recognize the
fact.
PittsbOro Democrat: The grading
Of the proposed railroad from here to
Greensboro is watched with much IN
terest by the citizens of this place.
The grading force will be largely in
creased next week. The grading Is
now being done in the "Old field near
the northern border of town, but
next week a large force will also De
at work near the old Eubanks place
abou two miles north of here.
Kinston Free Press: Justices Coz
and Dibble are listening to the evil
dence in the gambling case, an ac-
count of which was given in these
columns at the time, that broke UP &
camp meeting near Failing Creek some
time ago. The game was running ir
opposition to the camp meeting anC
in close proximity to it when the par
Elephants got into a row and shot q
pistol several times, disturbing The
preaching. The result of the trial is
not known when we go to press.
Rocky Mount Motor: The manage,
of an instalment house here informed
us that his Saturday night collections
continued far below the average
amount during the s%OjOurn Of tn
hobby horses in this city. He saiC
many of his patrons spent nearly al
their earnings on the merry go round
With some of the men it was a pin
Or two of whiskey and then to ride
ride. ride and next the c~alabOose an(
lastly the mayors court. judge
ThOrp's Monday morning docket near
ly always contained several of tn
hobby horse fends.
Gastonia News: Farm labor il
scarce in CASTOR county. The negroe!
seem scarce and not willing to work
There seems to be two causes of TIL
apparent scarcity of the negro. Man!
have gone to the large syndicate
farms and mines. Others have crOwd
ed into the towns and cities. While
the white population has a a con
slant increase negro population doe!
not increase il the cities and town
and villages. Even 81 small a tow
as GastOn!a has but few negro chill
dren and many of them are the off
spring of families that have move
from the country. The country dis
trictS are constantly drained by tn
flow of the negro population to tn
town and in the towns they die will
no offspring.
Winston Sentinel: Engineer S..
w. Lucas of the incoming passenge
train from Roanoke, Va, CWinston
Salem division of the Norfolk am
Western railrOad) was killed about l
o'clock today near PhOsphO Lithi
Springs II n q half miles beyon'
RIdgeWay, Va. Mr.. j. NJ Stafford
fireman on the same train, was scala
~ed-fatally, it is feared. The acciden
was caused in this way: A freigh
train from Roanoke was running sew
eral miles ahead of the passenger an
while the former was going UP grad
several freight cars broke loose an
ran back, gaining tremendous spee'
before they Struck the passenger en-
CINE. 1t is sal dthat the engineer an
f1remen did not see the wild car
coming until the were within a fey
hundred yards of the passenger train
hence there was no possible chanc
. for them to get out Of the way. TIL
passenger was running at the rate o
about forty miles an hour The col
tIsiOn was terrific. The engine wa
completely wrecked and the freigh
cars were derailed n badly dam
aged. The passengers were shake
up, but fortunately all of them eS
capped injury with the possible eXcep
ton of a few bruises.
Asheville Gazette: A gigantic en-
IeTprise tending oward the develop
ment of the country surrounding Els
meralda Inn, Hickory Nut gap, is OF
foot. 1t is being promoted by Ashe
willie persons, William Whittam, pres
ident of the William Whittam Tex
tile Company, being the prime facto
in the big movement. Capital to tn
amount of $500, 900 will be involved, i
the original idea is carried out. TIL,
60 develop the natural water poWe
OF the streams flowing within a radlu
of several miles around the inn Mr.
Whittam has in his office plans al
figures which have been compiled a
considerable expense. The plans anC
reports of the engineering done il
that section show that from 1000 t
5000 horse power can be had. tn
amount of power depending solely OF
the territory included, to a certain
limit. as the incline leading to tn,
point where a proposed dam would b.
built is very steep. Mr.. Whittam':
map shows that his plans for water
power development would be devel
oped at a cost of about $500. 900. this o
course including other expenses thar
the erection of the dam,