The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-05
SMALLPOX Al DURHAM
MANY SENSATIONAL REPORTS
HEARD IN RALEIGH.
Rural Free Delivery ROutes-Negro
Starts a Department StOre-Wil
Adams AppeaIs-Arrests for Drunk
enneSS.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. N. c.. April ,

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The number of rural free delivery
mai routes in the state has now reach
ed 4S7 and Postmaster Bailey says will
pass the 900 mark this month. The pay
roll will this year go oVer $3.50 600. this
being due to the increase in the num-
Der of routes and also to the increase
Of the $120 annual salary of the car
riers. He now has to nave 15.C00 checks
| printed to voucher the years pay
ments.
| The Raleigh ~postofice. Postmaster
Bailey says. is showing a wonderful ILL
| crease in business. The receipts have
more than doubled in the past four
| years and the increase during the past
twelve months was over IL per cent.
| Out at Pullen Park here many I'M
prOvements are being Ia The
bathing pool is being enlarged by an
| addition of a hundre feet. SO that ITS
size will be 40 by &c. The supply pipe
has been increased 1000 feet in length.
80 as to tax the water from a very
clear stream. The poor will be the size
of the one at Richmond.
The state charters the BrysOn City
bank. with $1,000 capital stock, to do
commercial business. the principal
stockholders being E. K. Collins Of
Bryson City and G. w. Maslin Of
Waynesville.
The state authorizes the Gate City
Furniture Company of Greensboro to
increase its capital stock from $4,000
to 500. 600.
The Governor has commissioned Rob-
ert L. Lester Of Monroe. adjutant gen
eral of the North Carolina National
Guard. with the rank Of major.
~. - a.
Tense in the case Of the state agains.
X s.. Finch and Y. E. McBee was Set
for $50 o'clock this morning in the su-
perior court. but at the request of
counsel, Judge Brown postponed the
hearing until 2:30 O'Clock this afte"-
noon. The defendants and their law
yers. and the solicitor and the attorney
general were present and there was
quite a large attendance expectius
some interesting developments.
The nomination of Spencer Black
burn for Congress by the Eighth dis
trict Republicans was fully expected
and a been for weeks. The Demo
Gratis know this district is the Republi-
can stronghold. and hence there in un
usual interest in any developments
there.
Will Adams, the big negro sentenced
to be hanged for the murder Of Mar
Bridgers and her daughter Lilly, Jan
uary END has appealed to the Supreme
be handged May 24th and the appeA
be hanged May oath ond the appea
was made at once.
George McNeill. the brutal negro whs
feloniously assaulted Emma Taylor or
the street here, gets off with a sentence
of Is years in the department for thu
criminal insane in the pe~nitentiary
He is a very dangerous criminal, bu
his insanity was quite clearly proves
The Durham and Charlotte railway
? which now has in operation "a miles o
I road between Gulf and Star. and whici
is building from Star TO Troy and from
| Pittsboro to Greensboro. has laIg
: forces at work on both these exten
sions.
| Robert C. BEDFORD. a member of tn
l board of aldermen was buried here TO
day. the Masons having charge of tn
ceremonies. and the funeral being heIt
: from Edenton Street Methodist Eris
) oopal church.
2 All sorts of sensational reports ar
. in circulation about SMALLPOX at Dur
: ham. one of these being that there ar,
I several hundred cases. The city au
: thorities have ordered compulsory vac
! eination. That is the oniv way L
stamp out the disease. Raleigh Tau
!, stamped it out twice. with most re
4 markable success. yet it seems IN
number of Durham citizens are protes;
. ing against this very sensible measurs
Today Charles W. Hoover. One Of til
best known colored men in the state
long connected with the colored stat
]. fair and a member Of the board OF al
3 dermen. opened the first colored lie
partment store ever in this city. Thu
new movement attracted much atten