The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-08

partment that more tents have been
shfpped-enough fCr,a whole brigade.
News comes from Tarboro that sx-
Judge Philips. who has been very
sick. Is convaiescent. sitting up and
sleeping well.
At the Caraieigh Cotton Mills. a
mile south of Raieigh.> about one
O'Clock this morning. Mr.. ana Mr.
John G Cole found their house In
flames The mother seized her baby.
and. led by her husband. got out
Then he made \ desperate effort to
return and save the other four chfs-
dren. His hands were badly cut with
glass. and he was painfully burned.
One boy. aged II .sprang from an up
Per window and was avej. though
seriously burned. The three other
children. aged Is. 10 and 4. were
so large that many Raleigh people
thought IL was the cotton mill a. Car
sleigh. Mr. Cole Is head weaver at
the mill.
The state charters the Piedmont
Mining and Development Company. OF
Charlotte. capital stock $4,000. to
mine gold. silver. copper n other
minerals: the Carolina Pine Fibre
Company. OF Georgia, Northampton
county. $4,000 capital stock. to man.
u~facture fibre. oil and other products
from the foliage OF the fine; h
LEA uI AofEle&a lily slll WA
coke Steamboat Company. to operate
mail and freight boats between those
points: the John c. Stout Construc-
ton Company. OF Wilson.
The A. and NJ. College has mode
two ~inportant additions TO its stsT
in the chemical department Thes
are DR.. George McP. Smith, Who will
give instruction I'm metallurgy and
analytical chemistry. and DR.. Charles
Walker. who Will assist in the In
struction and Investigations In agrt-
cultural chemistry. DR.. Smith was
graduated at Vanderbilt University.
with the degree Of bachelor OF arts.
and at the University OF Freiberg.
Germany, with the degree Of doctor
OF philosophy. He has been con-
nected with the Michigan School OF
Mines for the past year. He Is a
brother of Captain w. r. Smith. OF
the faculty OF the United States Nil
Walker Is a graduate OF the Univer-
s1ty Of Tennessee. ana more recently
was advanced to the decorate I'm phil
osophy at Clark University. Massa-
chusetts. in which institution he held
the fellowship in chemistry for three
years. He has taught In the Univer-
sity of Tennessee. Carson and New
man College, and h United States
Naval Academy. He has contributed
several articles to the American
Chemical Journal.
The celebration OF the Fourth ex-
actly one hundred years ago In this
town Is described IN The Raleigh
Register. There were over thirty
toasts to the army and navy. to the
memory of Washington. to the state.
and, of course. to the ladies. Raleigh
was a little town In those days. but
1t literally boiled ove with patriot
ism.
Passing through the fine farm Il
the A. and NJ. College. you corres-
pendent noticed what a fine effect the
recent rains ave had upon the crops
there. particularly upon the corn. A
gentleman said he had nowhere seen
as fine corn as here.
A was occupied today
in a very delicate and dangerous Bit
or work. The largest plate glass in
any window in North Carolina. ana
indeed in the south, is In the Tucker
building here, literally making the
entire front of the drug store. It was
found yesterday that in washing this
glass. the moisture a gone DOWN
into the frame and so decayed IL under
the glass that IL was of no strength.
Piece by piece the lower frame had
to be cut away and fresh material put
in. The glass Is worth a thousand
dollars. and its weight is great. II
was liable at any moment to give wav-
NN ~ NfEA W "a
General Robert F. Hoke was here
today. n will return to his head
quarters among the Cranberry from
mines, in Mitchell county. He says
three hundred persons are now en-
ployed in getting out the ore from
this mine. 1t is sent by rail to John
son City, e That part of North
Carolina is shut out from the remain
der of this state by the great noun
tain wall. 1t was for this reason that
Governor Aycock has been eve since
he came into office so DESTROYS q have
some great highways over the noun
tains TO bring northwestern. North
Carolina in touch with the remainder
of the state. The Wilkesboro-Jefer-
son turnpike will be one OF these high
ways, and he VII. like to see another
by Blowing Rock. unless the railroad
goes through there. A road - under
construction Through Mitchell county.
on which state convicts were employees
to a little over a al ago.