The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-26
BIG FIRE IN RALEIGH.
LIVERY STABLE AND WARE
HOUSE DESTROYED.
Horses Burned in Their
Stalls-Faracrs Complain ut the
Drousht-Nesro Convicts Brought
Back To the P~cuitentiary.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c.. Angus; -.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. ". G.. Angus; -.
Fire was discovered this morning
just before daylight in the livery ana
boarding stable OF George II. Hard II
here. When the firemen reached the
place all the interior was in flames.
seventeen horses were burned in their
stalls seven OF these belonging to Har-
din and insured. the Others belonged
10 private individuals and business
firms. some of them being very hand-
some animals The origin ot/the fire
is unknown II is said that the watch
man. a white man, was asleep. The
building belongs TO NJ. T. Leach ana
E. ID. Barbee and was insured. Hardin
the lessee. is in Baltimore at the
driving park. with a string OF race
horses. About 20 vehicles OF various
kinds were burned. The fire spread 10
a warehouse owned by W. A. Myatt.
which was touched on two sides by the
burning stable. Wyatt has no insu.-
ance. In the warehouse were 240 bags
of sugar belonging to the Havemycr
Company, also car load lots of oats.
corn. nails. lot of molasses and several
reaping and moving machines. The
loss is $1,000 Oil these and 81. 400 on tine
sugar The chief OF the fire department
avs excellent work was done. but OF
the other hand there are criticisms of
the department which is volunteer and
1t is said there will De u movement 10
secure a paid one. The fire was very
nearly in the center of the city ana
created a great deal of excitement. II
had probably been on fire half an hon.
before discovered
The m are becoming rather ds-
pirited on account OF the dry weathe..
There were earnest hopes of rain here
last night. but all failed and III.
drought continues. all the more severe
by reason OF the long rainy season.
State Chemist Kilgore is back here
after d trip 10 Canada for the benefit
OF his health which appears TO be COM
pietelv restored.
All day today the clay pigeon shoot
ers were at work and its officers ale
al! from that city, George l.. Lyon
president. James II. S~outhgate. vice
president and A. Lyon secretary.
Ten negro cOnvicts were brought
back today from the state farm on the
Roanoke river. The train put them OF
near the penitentiary and some sat
down to rest there. but one walked
ahead towards the prison, and the
traln, in going westward, struck him
and knocked him off the track. His
injuries are considered somewhat seri-
Gus.
Democratic State Chairman Simmons
has gone to Beaufort to his summer
home where he will remain for a fort
night and thus miss the heated term.
Although 1t is not nearly as hot as il
was a year ago, yet the complaints
about the weather are loud and nume:-
Gus.
Governor Aycock was seen this after
Eoon in the executive office and when
asked if there were any new develop
ments about the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway, with a smile said.
Il think my foretaSte of heaven
Will occur on the day when
the newspaper men come in to see M
and have not a word TO say about the
Atlantic n North Carolina railway"
The Governor evidently thinks that ne
will get a foretaste pretty soon. in othe:
words that a lease will be made Sep,
TENDER 1St.
Captain C. n. Allen, of the Agricul-
tural department was chatted with TINS
afternoon in regard to the cotton croo
and said that the weather conditions
had been just about as bad as possible:
lIidl bASIe were Sih "cehS VI all
which filed the plants full of sap ana
made them about twice as large IA
usual n then came the heat. He said
4 do not believe there is a boil more
on my crop than was last year and l
do not believe / will make a lock OF
cotton more than / did then. A month
ago my farm manager said he would
make a bale and a half to the acre,
but he will certainly DO no such thing
now The yellow rust has taken the
cotton and already fully half the
leaves are yellow, except in low and
dark soil. The cotton has shed nearly
all the August crop and really only
July crop remains. Any quantity of
M say that their crop is not as
good a. it was last year.. but this is
always the ak and ! think it is about
the same as that last year. The rain
last season did not strike the crop un-
til August 18TH. The rust this year did
not appear until about August 18th,
that is l first observed it them Cap
tain Allen said he had sold all of his
crop, most of it at fancy prices. For
the last ten bales he got a thousand
dollars in a cotton mill n he pulled
out of his pocket and exhibited the GER
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