The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-21
RALEIGH NEWS LETTER.
$500 SMALLPOX CASES DURING
THE PAST YEAR.
Record for This State Broken-The
Shriners Observation-Disclosures To-
Leave for Chicago-Farmers' Insti-
tutes to be Held.
Messenger Bureau.

NAC L"cANS iIDtLALS ending May lSt
there were $500 cases Of the disease in
North Carolina. the largest number in
T year since the disease made its
appearance in January, 1885. The
number of deaths was the smallest
during any season. For the first time
theTe were more cases among the
whites than among the negroes, the
number OF white cases being 500
against $500 coiored. The total num-
Ter Of cases since the disease made its
appearance in this state is nearly Is. 900
1t is thought the disease III all proba-
hility came in in 1898 from Mexico. be-
Ing brought from that country by rail-
way employees.
tomorrow the republican leaders in
this city, including Revenue Collector
Duncan. Postmaster Bailey and Dis
trict Attorney Skinner will leave for
Chicago Eastern North Carolina Re-
puolicans Will meet here tonight and
tomorrow morning and the special
si~eeping-car will be provided for them.
In which they will go direct TO the Re-
publican convention.
The Mystic Shriners literally made a
night Of it last night, as their banquet.
served in the armory of one of the
local military companies, did not END
ohtiI AFTER 2 O'Clock this morning.
over 200 were present. Excellent
speeches were made by Judge John B.
Gary and Jacob Baron of Columbia, S.
G, Adjutant General Register. Walter
L. LiddeL, Rev. j. j. Garden. of Dur
nam and others. There were "a candt-
dates for initiation. of which 33 appear
cd. 1T is said there are nov over 3oo
Shrlners in North Carolina The BAN
quet was given by Oasis Temple.
A charter is granted the Pitt County
Oll Company Of W~interville, to manu-
facture cotton oil, operate a knitting
mil, cotton gin. and ice factory, capt
tai stock 10000 paid-hp, with leave
to increase to 500. 600. A. G.. Coke and
others stockholders. A charter is also
granted the Lexington House Furnish
ing Company.
North Carolina boys are making a
record this year. At the National Mil
itary Academy at West Point they hold
first and second honors in studies and
in athletics. Robert Carr, son of DR..
Carr, of Durham. has graduated with
the highest honors at the Richmond
Medical College.
State Chemist Kilgore has been SICK
for a week. His condition was today
reported as somewhat improved.
On the first of July a series of farm
erS' institutes will begin, in the section
of the state between Raleigh and the
montains. continuing through August,
and covering forty counties. In Sep
tember the holding Of institutes west
Of the mountains will be pushed and
twenty are to be held in that part OF
the state. In November and December
they are to be held east OF Raleigh
SO that by the end Of the year every
county will lave had an institute. In
January and February Institutes were
held in 10 counties.
Inquiry was mad at the corporation
commission office today as to whether
any important matters were before it
n 1t was replied that there were none
just now. The Supreme court will heal
argument in the Selma Junction case
early in September. The Charlotte
Union Depot matter appears to be In
process of amicable adjustment. Chair
man Mcneil said there will b. some
thing announced about this in q few
days.
The farmers are very much pleased
at the change in the weather and the
warm nights, as the very COO days and
nights recently checked the growth OF
crops. which never the less looked very
well, though rain is needed east of
here.
A singular accident happened this
morning on the Raleigh and Cape Fear
railway. Fireman Dowd Blackwood got
off the engine to kill a snake and jump
ed on as the second car from the en-
CINE was passing. His foot slipped and
the lower part Of one leg was caught
between the car journal and a cross-t;e
and the bones broken. Blackwood is in
the hospital here.
Colonel Thomas S. Kenan has gone
&c Richmond to attend a meeting Of the
directors Of the hospital.
Colonel Thomas r. Robertson. of the
First Regiment, is here, the guest of
Colonel A. 3. Andrews.
Assistant Chemist William Allen of
the State Agricultural department who
has returned from Richmond and Rob
eson counties says the best cotton he
has seen this year is there, though the
recent old weather has injured it
somewhat. Clerk Cherry, of the Agri-
cultural department who has returned
from -Edgecome county say it is very
dry there and the need Of rain is mark
ed.
A very good story is old by a young
lawyer who is here from Selma. 1t ap-
pears tina a number of artesian wells
are being sunk there n the lawyer
dIlu OIISIS lIcuSnl lEcy Woulu d
some fun, 20 they invested twelve
dollars in a barrel of kerosene oil and
poured it in m of the wells, when the
latter had reached a depth Of 60 feet.
About the time they had completed
this operation UP came the town police
man, a man who would not know a joke
if he met it in the middle Of the road.
They let him into the secret and told
him to keep quiet and there would be
some fun the next morning when the
well borer came n found he had
struck OIL" But the policeman said
he couldn't keep quiet and so he told
the news. AS a consequence there was
no oil excitement and nc run, but the
gentlemen interested are out exactly
$12 and their time and trouble. They
hope. Selma will someday have a police
man who can appreciate funny things.
Only one remedy in the world that
will at once stop itchiness OF the skin
in any part of the body; Doan's Oint-
ment. At any drug store, so cents.