The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-11
MAY HAVE 1 RIVAL
Gevaner Ayrsek's Friends viii
Urge Him for the Senate.
Hon. john D. Beila,ny in the Race fur
GoverEor-JohG Dockery Taken TO
His HOme-Car Famine ut High
Point About Switchboard of
Htaltl. Bulletin.
Messenger Bureau,

This afternoon L. :. Deputy Marshal
John c. Dockery was taken TO his
home at Rockingham, accompanied by
Ills father and sister. He had been in
Rex hospital about six weeks and his
improvement has been very steady.
The transcript covering 700 pages
typewriter. in the case of the South
fern Railway against the Greensboro
Ice and Coal Company. and the Cor
Iporation Commission has been prepar-
led in fifteen days. thise case now COM
ing up before the federal court.
Some time ago the assistant TO State
Entomologist Franklin Sherman re-
signed TO go to Tennessee and now
state service TO go to Canada. he has
been on duty here five years, and has
done excellent work along allthe lines
covered by his sub-department of the
agricultural department.
Both the liquor men and the dispen-
sary men say they will win out in the
detection which it is presumed will be
held on the question of licensed bar
rooms in Raleigh. The committee of
the board of aldermen will look very
lclOsely into the names as presented and
it is said a great many Will be thrown
out:
Professor Burkett of the agricultural
Icollege says the agricultural building
will be practically completed Septem-
Der 1, the date set for its formal open
ing.
A telephone message was received
yesterday by the sheriff from the Of
Ifcials at TarbOro, saying Wingate, the
imam charged with attempt %feloniOus
assault mad given his bond, $1,000 and
directing that he be released from Jail
here. 1t was expected that the papers
Iwould arrive Immediately. The Off
Icials would not release Wingate on the
telephone message. They thought the
Ipapers would come on this mornings
lmail, but they did not. Wingate all
1.-THE while that he has been in jail has
declared that he never was in any
danger of being lynched and says that
Iwhen he was brought out of Jail he
isaw no mob, only his attorneys and a
few friends. He says the talk about
Ilynching was done to prejudice his
case.
Colonel S. j. Cobb of Lumber Bridge
lis sending to the Hall of History here,
las a loan, a British musket used by his
grandfather, Neill McAlphin, who
was a non-commissioned officer in a
IScotch regiment in the British army
Iduring the revolution, coming here in
1777 and being sent south in 1850,
where he participated in the siege OF
lCharleston and the campaign in the
lCarOlinas, being severely wounded four
times, at Charleston, Camden, Raneys
mills. and Guilford courthouse, with
1.-THE bayonet at the latter place In a
hand to hand fight, in which his regi-
Iment broke the American lines and
lsaved the British from utter defeat.
latter the surrender of CORVALLIS they
took the oath at Wilmington and went
Ito the Scotch settlement at what Is
Inow Rennert
Your correspondent mentioned a few
Idavs ago that talk was beginning to
Ispring up about the senatorship II
the sovernorship, and so it came about
lat Ellington that there was quite a
Ilot of talk about the senatOrship, Sen
Iator Simmons having pa%rtisans there,
land Ex-Governor Aycock having Others.
lEx-Congressman John ID. Bellamy was
lin evidence and it was said that he
Twas right in the race for the governor
lship. These things are tolerabiy far
laway, but yet time flies.
Chairman Mcneil of the corporation
lcommission says he thinksth e trouble
las to the furniture car anime at Hign
Point is about settled; that standard
jcars are arriving and that these are
lbeing brought in from outside lines,
(which have them as we'll as from the
lSouthern and that the commission IS
lied to hope that he demand VIII now
Ibe met promptly and that the requisl-
ltions for cars will be filled as rapidly
las ears can be handled at High Point.
Ex-County superintendent ". u.
elements, who goes all over Wake, de-
lclares his belief that the cotton crop
lis not over two thirds what it was
Hast wear. He says upland corn in AL
lamance and Chatham is quite good.
Secretary E.. +. Colwell, Jr., of the
Greensboro Life Insurance Company
Twas here today looking after the regis
l~tration of policies in the office OF In
Isurance Commissioner and deposited
1.-The required $4,000. He remarked
THAT the had been doing busi-
mess only IL days and had written over
lS3O0. 900 Of insurance. He makes other
deposits covering the reserve as re-
Iquired by the law.
Walter Clark, Jr., son Of Chief Justice
IClark and a party of Harvard, l
land Princeton students were registered
to-day at Rome, from which place they
igo TO famous Capri, at Naples. They
left June /, and will return the last OF
September.
The July bulletin of the State board
Iof Health says in an article giving an
abstract of an address before the
board that people in North Carolina
have no idea how many people are
leaving the country n going to the
Icotton mills. From the village of
IClyde, in Haywood county. last year
1900 mountain boys and girls left to
fco tn the South Carolina cotton mills