The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-10
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i RI lIOH UyiIS ID DOIc through a strata
of rock they have struck When they
have accomplished this they expec to
| find water.
Elizabeth City Tar Heel: Mr.. FL. G.
| Davenport who has been all over the
west and the gold fields Of Alaska, dur
ing the past five years, returned home
to visit his folks last week. He will re-
turn west and complete some goIJ
mine developments, returning home 10
| live. He owns several valuable winning
claims.
Asheyille GaZette-News: Clerk Of
the Court Marcus Erwin has been ap-
piled to for al order allowing h corr
mitment of Miss Mary l. Strange /,
the asylum at Morganton. Miss Strange
is a lady of culture and wealth and
came here three years ago from Cleve-
land. She has Travelled extensively. ii
is said, and since becoming deranged
has a belief that she is the wife o.
George w. Vanderbilt.
Durham sun: Tomorrow afternoon
there will be a rally of the Anti-SaIoon
League held in the Academy of Music.
For some time there have been no
rallys held, but as III time is drawing
near for another contest at the polls,
they propose from his time on to get
their forces In working order and carry
on the fight in a vigorous amer 1t
is certain that some time during the
coming summer that there will be al
other effort made to get whiskey back
in the city. It remains to be seen
what result will follow the effort, but
| h11t MO orQ fold thn,a will 10 n lorJ
| fight put up by both sides.
Special to News and Observer: Sails
bury, n. c., March 6.-Springs EbeltOtt
q prominent young man Of Cooleemaes
Rowan county, at noon Sunday oaot
himself through the brain and died iii
stantly. The cause of the rash act is
! unknown, though a disappointment in
| love is believed to have led to the deed.
IT the forenoon Mr. Ebeltogt attended
/ Sunday school and took a promil elt
part in the service making a f~orceful
address. Later he went to his in
the hotel where he ended his life with
a bullet. The deceased was prominent
Iy connected in this state and highly
esteemed.
Durham Herald: Two more Illicit
distilleries were captured by revenue
officers who went out from Durham.
yesterday morning. After the capture
| OF these two stills the officers went on
a second raid but came C. empty
! handed-they received a tip" that sent
them on a wild goose chase. The stills
| captured were between here and Chapel
Hill, one in Durham county n the
other in Orange, and were Of larSa
capacity. Both had been in operation
but a short time when the officers
. swooped down upon them and protested
to demolish the outfits.
New Bern Journal: Several hundred
tons of steel rails for the Atlantic and
J North Carolina company, are being dis
tributed along the line of road between
| Clarks and KiRston and the work Of
placing them on the a bed is beln5
pushed as rapidly as possible-kln-
ston has passed an ~rdinanc for COM
pulsary vaccination and is having 1t
| rigidly enforced. The people have been
! annoyed with two or three epidemlc6
of the %oxiou disease, smallpox, and
it seems that they are now determined
to stamp it out. Quarantine regula-
lions prevail in the isolation of patients
and premises and any infringement is
! promptly looked after and punished.
A, Mr.. Privett, white man, was locked
up saturday for visiting an infected
house.
Raleigh Post: Mr.. t. L. Caudle, al
attorney of W~adesboro, is in the city in
the interest of the Winston, High Point
and Wadesboro I~nterurban railroad
I Mr. Ha,1I1o coyo tho y>Co n nYnn0csaH RI
run from Wadesboro to ALTERNATE,
through the Whitney Reduction Com
pany's tract on the Yadkin river, thence
to High Point and from there either on
to Winston or connect with a prospec-
tive electric line between these points
The company will obtai power from
the Whitney Reduction Company, be
ninety miles in length and connect the
fOur railroad systems of the state, the
Atlantic Coast lime, the Seaboard All
Line at WadeSboro, the Southern al
Albemarle and High Point. and the
Norfolk and Western at Winston-Sa-
lem. The company is to begin business
with s125. 900 and this may be increased
to So, 600, 900.
Charlotte News: The intelligence o.
a very unfortunate affair which DC.
Cured late Saturday night in BesseuI-
er City was sent this morning by tele-
phone to The New by n we'll a.
quainted with the facts. Mr.. Charlie
Smith, aged twenty-five years, ano
prominent in the town. was fired upon
and painfully injured by a ball whlCi
entered his leg just above the knee
Mr.. Smith was returning from a viSi,
4 tC- tha raSi9onPn Of \ Mr. JonEinS VII,
is also prominent there, where he haC
been calling on a young lady of tbs
home. He had scarcely gotten upor
the street when someone fired five shot:
at him. The assailant vas not mo-e
than twenty yards from Mr.. Smith
when the pistol was emptied. It was
done in the darkness, and no clue, posi-.
tive, is traceable. The ball entered
the right leg above the knee and Wen
through it into the left leg, against the