The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-07
NORTH CAROLINA.

Raeford Chronicle: About three and
a half miles OF grading has been fin
1shed on the a. and r. extension and
week.
Monroe Journal: Postmaster Hasty
has been notified that a money order
issued at Charlotte on Monroe. and
made payable to Henry Williams. was
raised to $50 by a swindler and cashed
for hat amount by q Greensboro mer-
chant, on which office the order was
changed TO appear. 1t was a bold trick
of the swindler. but he will no doubt
be overtaken.
Chatham Record: It is reported by
John Thomas tina his son saw a large
black bear in his field, four miles south
Of PfttDoro. one day last week The
boy is positive in his statement that
it was a genuine bear. No n in the
community showed any disposition 10
form intimacy with his bearship n
he was allowed to depart in peace.
Kinston Free Press: A car load OF
convicts from Dover camps, 46, with 9
guards, were brought up this morning
to be taken over to the state farm at
Tillery, but owing to failure by the
p~enitentiary authorities to previously
IIidhe DION1SAOA " III oAASPN
over the Atlantic Coast Line. they did
rot go and were detained here today.
Duplin Journal: There is only about
one-half as much tobacco planted in
Duplin this year as was last year. Mr..
f. Gibbons a reliable tobacco man. of
Iols experience has rented the Wallace
warehouse for next season and will be
ready to handle the tobacco of all the
surrounding country there next fall.
The farmers should meet Mr.. Gibbons
as he will gladly give them any infor-
nation he can to their interest.
Greensboro Record Deputy United
States Marshal J.. T. Millikan left at
zoe for Washington, having in custody
a white boy convicted at the Asheville
term Of federal court of robbing a post
office at Appalachia and sentenced to
thirteen months in the reform school in
the District of Columbia; also a color
ed boy Jesse Whitmire, who is SEN
to fifteen months in the rform
school at Cheltleham, Md, for a SINH
lar offence.
ReidsviIle Review: In Mayor Watts
court yesterday Ruffin Crave was
bound over for selling whiskey without
on the Sabbath. He was held
under three separate indictments, and
is now in jail. Wade Brandon was
$3.50 for selling cold drinks on the
Sabbath. This is the first conviction
under the ordinance recently adopted. |
election on the proposition to
establish a graded school at Ruffin re-
in a victory for schools, but con-
were made-a section of the
district which vas too far from the
of the proposed school house
to get benefit therefrom-
Monroe Journal: Mr.. Thos. Starnes
Buford township fell from the top
TO the bottom OF a forty-foot well last
and is still alive. His left
thigh was broken in two places. his
head was badly gashed, and other
were made about over his body.
Err. Starnes and some others were
deepening the well of Mr.. Murphy
Starnes, the uncle OF the man who was |
hurt. The latter had been in the well
and his companions were drawing him
out. In the end of the rope was a loop
In which he had thrust his foo and
then clutched with his hands about the
head. AS he came to the top. the men
turning the windlass told him 10 look
out and not get his hands caught IN
der the rope as it wrapped about the
cylinder. In turning loose to lower his
Mr.. Starnes lost his hold and
dropped like lead to the bottom o. the
we'll.
Special to News and Observer: Wiz
;ton-Salem, n. c., June Robert u
rural mail carrier on route
8, from here to WalkertoWn' was
arrested today on the charge of steal
ing letters from the W~inston-Saiem
p~ostofhce. The case was worked uo
and the arrest made by Postofiice IN
spector Enterman. Wagner was Sr-
raigned before United States Commits
sioner BeckeriditeC for trial. but NJ
waived examination and was bound
over to the next federal court in a
bond of $500. The defendant has been
carrier for more h a two years
and has always borne a good reputa-
ton. His plan in stealing letters, as
alleged. was to take ordinary and spe-
cial delivery letters after the mail was
made UP in the office to be sent away
ON the early morning trains. Letters
not containing money were burned IN
urnac under the postoffice.
Good Spirits.
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