The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-15

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The commission has sent &c Wake su-
perior court a Ease of the Round Pine
Lumber Company against the E
board Air Line. this being on appeal by
the road, which was ordered In place q
side track at the company's saw mill
between Raleigh and Hamlet, and re-
fused tn do 50 on account of the near
ness Of the plant 10 another station. 1t
being only hat IA mile To q station
where there vas a siding.
The commission keeps very closely
III touch with railway construction. as
il has reports when surveys are begun
and when finished and also OF track
laying. operation of roads, etc The
| commission has to fix the tariff before
a road can begin TO charge for freight
and passengers.
ANOTHER HEARING IN BEHALF.
OF ADAMS.
Attorney William Il. Snow. Of RAJ
| eigh. was again before Governor Glenn
today regarding Will Adams, the negro
murderer whom he Is trying 50 hard to
save from the gallows. Mr.. Snow said
that the governor has given this case
a very marked degree of attention. and
had remarked that the case presented
such unusual features that he desires
to consider it further, before he IN
ounces his decision.
The dockets of the supreme court At
the present term are very light indeed.
! Next Tuesday the first opinions will
be filed.
State superintendent of instruction
JOINER sailed from New York yester-
day for Europe. He was sent Il num-
1 h,,. 90 %oI@r-.,,x x;utfar I;p, d, harnx
voyage. 1t is said that he will return
about the middle Of October.
Secretary of State Grimes will be
one of the principal speakers from
North Carolina at the Farmers Nation
al Congress meeting at Richmond next
week. He speaks Wednesday and his
theme will be the agricultural re
sources and opportunities of the south.
Revenue officers have been active
lately and they have captured not only
a number of stills. but some moonshin-
ers. \ few days ago they made Il raid
in Granville county and found an
illicit distillery on the land Of an old
man named Hayes, who became 80
much excited on account of this find
that he died in three days, of some
kind of heart trouble, although he said
very positively that it was not his dis
tillery and that he had not previously
known anything about it.
TRYING TO FORCE ELECTION ON
BAR ROOMS.
The attorneys for the liquor dealers
and their friends here are not satisfied
with the turning down by the alder
men of the petition for an election on
bar rooms here, and so will apply, in
mandamus proceedings to some supe-
riOr court judge in the hope of forcing
the aldermen to carry the election, and
take the matter up to h supreme
court as of course the city will fight for
it's contention.
PREPARING FOR THE STATE
FAIR.
1t is understood that the band of
the Third Regiment is the one engaged
to furnish music during the state fair.
Arrangements are being made for an
unusually elaborate series of social fea-
lures during the fair, and the dances
will be on a very extensive scale. Raj
eigh is going to be taxed as it never
was before to accommodate visitors
and people will have TO open their
houses as they did during the expOsi-
ton in 1884. With every house open
there will hardly be room enough for
the multitude who will come here. The
railways have arranged to get cars
from roads outside of the state, and
borrowing has been pretty general, all
these plans having been made well
ahead. The fair grounds will certain
" be more attractive than ever before.
The avenue along what has come to be
known as the Midway" has been
made much wider than ever before,
and the grand stand has been placed
at a different angle, so that it not only
commands the track but also gives a
Lsweeping view down the Midway
Every one seems to be Of the opinion
that the crowd will break every re-
cord in point of numbers SC far as
North Carolina is concerned. Of
course with the presidential party will
be a picked force of Z. S. secret SER
vice men, and there will also be all
classes of detectives on the grounds,
together with more special police than
ever before and an escort and special
guard of troops.
AT THE A. & NJ. COLLEGE.
The scenes at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college are already very
animated and beginning yesterday af-
ternoon the foot ball practices began,
while more than 100 freshmen looked
on admiringly at the picked men who
were practicing on the fine lawn in
front of the main building. The ath-
letic field, which vas graded several
years ago by convicts, and which
could have been made very attractive
indeed, is uncared for, and has been
all the summer long a ragged waste.
unsightly in the extreme. The foot
ball and base ball game, instead of be-
ing played on this are played at the
fair grounds, for the reas0n it seems,
that in the gift Of the lands to the col
lege, it was provided that no part
should be put under fence, and so
athletic grounds cannot be enclosed.