The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-19
NORTH CARoLINA,s MISTAKE.
Aycock. Simmons and Overman
Should Have Been Sent to 81 Louis.
j. A. Giles Succeeds O. j. Speares-
A Big Snake at the Museum-Jessc
Allen Jailed i'm Raleigh.
Messenger Bureau.
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Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, ~. c., July II.
J. A. Giles, OF Pittsboro, who has been
appointed Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney, has taken the oath.
succeeding o. J. Soears. who was GUST
led. An effort was made to GUST also
that department. but the President
would not assent. The salary of the
assistant is $3.50 a year.
Jesse Allen. coIored. who is charged
with felonious assault upon a little
were hints. Application has been
placed in Jail here. FOR fear Of lynching.
No special threats were made. but there
were hints Applications has been
E1ade to the Governor for a special
term Of court there. but this has not
lyet been acted upon, as there is a reg
ular term the first week in August.
Charles Hardesty has been elected
steward Of the state hospital for the
insane here. to succeed William r.
lCrawford, Jr., who filled the position
with marked zeal and ability for fif-
teen years.
The experts who has been looking
ever this city with a view of the ex-
ltention OF the street railway have made
their reports, setting out three or four
lgood routes, and il is now up to the
ldirectors to act. There is nothing in
1.-THE rumor that the line will be built to
bMilburnie on the NeuSe river, six miles
from here.
As yet no one here knows when the
Democratic state committed will have
its meeting to elect a chairman. 1t is
lnf course understood that it will re-
Ielect Chairman Simmons.
Professor and Mrs. William R. Royal
returned to Wake Forest college today,
after a trip abroad which lasted an
I~errtire year. They spent considerable
thine in Greece. Professor Royal holds
the chair Of Greek. While at Athens
they met the King and Queen and a
la very friendly and informal chat.
Among the visitors here is M. H.
Holt, OF Oak Ridge school. That school
cas been notable fol years for the ath-
ileteS it has turned out, particularly
Ioase ball players. -Four professionals
from it are now in the field. one of these
Ibeing Stafford. first baseman in Allan
la; Wicker pitcher of the Chicago Ma
I~tional League team, who has lost only
lore game this year; Bennett third base
man Of Nashville. and Carter left field
for Omaha.
Inquiry was made of the city physI-
clan of Raleigh as to the public health.
lie said there had Deen much sickness
Iamong children, but that his was now
lending. The mortality has been very
light. There is little fever.
Jas. H. Pou and T. S. Fuller have
Iheen added to the attorneys On the part
of the state in the prosecution of Nc
bee and Finch on the charge of con-
lspiracy against the state.
State superintendent Of public in
lstruction says the school outlook is
very good and hat reports of county
superintendents to their district asso-
l%ciatiOns are very encouraging. Last
week three local tax districts were
ladded. II of these at Startown, in
lCatawba county, wnere three other dis
|tr,cts are to vote OH this question.
Adjutant Generi, Royster is here pre-
IpGring the orders for the encampment
lai the First regiment at Manassas and
lof the Second AMI Third regiments at
Morehead City. He says each regi-
lrcent will take 500 officers and men to
camp. The First regiment will proba-
lblv rendezvous at Greensboro.
The state charters the Star Meadow
Mining and Lumber Company of Hills
tV"iO, JdIhSoh COuulS, capital StCCh
l45CO, 900, the principal stockholders being
W. H. Campbell Nashua, N. H. Hor-
lace P. Hunt. Of Cambridge, Mass;
Walter w. Field. and F. P. Hale. Of
massachusetts. n A. J. Kelsey. OF
New York. The cmpany will mine,
isnseit and manufacture, gold, copper
lErintItg 6 Company of PutherfOrGton,
:. f. Wilkie being the principal stock
IhClder. the capital stock being S.. 900.
The corporation commission is hard at
work making its annual assessment of
ithe property of railways and other
Ommon carriers. AS yet the SeaboaId
AIR Line has flej no application for
deduction OF its assessment.
John WILDER Jenkins of the Balti-
lmUre Sun is here, direct from the st.
outs convention, and stops to rest af-
ter the fatigue and excitement Of what
lac declares was the greatest conven-
lion ever held. In his hand hr held
1 small black bottle, clutched very
Tightly, which occasionally he put to
ibis mouth, but tho bottle was empty
lanG VA found to be a whistle. with the
name Parker written large upon it.
Ifr. Jenkins thirks North Carolina
made a big mistake in not sending
IAycock. Simmons AID Overman as del
legateS to the convention. They would
nave cut a big figure there. As 1t was
North Carolina senms 10 have gone
AWAY back and sat down. amidst the
IFflipinos as Red Buck puts it.
State Chemis.. KI'gore has gone to the
IlnountainS OF Virginia to recuperate
latter a very severe attack of illness.
There is nothing in the world that
Herbert Brimley, the talented curator
f the safe museum loves better thar
IN snake and Ne w3S simply tickled to
Heath today a: tlI receipt Of a RATHER
Er'm New Bern. which is ahead OF any
lining seen in these parts Editor ChaS.
u. Stevens, of The Journal, sent the
lsnake, Which is S;x feet long and four
Inches in diameter and it looks nearly
twice that big. 1t is seven years old
land when killed was on the point OF
Swallowing a frying-siZed chicken. At