The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
Short Line Will Greatly Benefit the
Three Bic Systems
Entrance Into Fayetteville Will be
Made Probably i'm July - Cold
Weather Trying on the Crops-Fed-
eral Court in Session-Weathef Bull
letin for the Week-Hon. John Il.
Woodland VIII Not be q Candidate
for Congress.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., MAY 20.

UnseasOnably cool weather followed
the rain and is rather trying on the
crops, particularly on cotton. Among
the visitors here today was Mr.. e. M.
KoOnce of Onslow, who said the rain
Sunday was the first in his section in
about a month, and tnat he never saw
1t finer, and never saw crops grow more
rapidly than in the past few days, the
result being that the farmers are all
smiles. Much cotton is not up and one
OF the questions is in that section of
the state, as in this, Is whether it will
come up. Some cotton around Raleigh
has been planted five weeks and has
not yet appeared, and the question is
whether the seed are dead. Of course
much more rain is needed in this sec
ton, and no doubt in most other sec
tons of the state, though the rain
within the past II hours nave been
quite general.
The hearing before the commission
eers at Raleigh in the matter of the
Glenwood Improvement Company's
property through which the Raleigh &
PamlicO Sound railway propose to en-
ter the city has been ended SO far as
the GlenwOod Company is concerned,
which introduced twenty witnesses, the
average estimate by these of the dam
age done to the property by the propo
ed right-Of-way of the railway being
$4,000 President c.. o. Haines of the
railway testified generally On it's be-
half. The Glenwood Company has
filed a proposition in writing to the eff
feet that il, after the hearing is over
and the commissioners make the
awards, the railway company can have
ten days time, in which either to accept
the award or in case it does not but
agrees not to enter the Glenwood land,
then the GlenwOod Company will let
the whole matter terminate without
cost to the railway.
Yesterday afternoon a young man,
H. E. Lumley of Durham came here
and last night registered at the Var
borough House, telling the clerk that
he wished to be awaked this morning
at $50 to take the train for Durham.
When he went to his room last night
the bell boy was with him and he told
the latter that he had taken a little
Whiskey and that it had nearly knock
ed him out. When the bell boy went
to call him this morning he found that
Lumley could not be aroused and Upon
examination, it was found that he was
in a stupor and that there were various
empty bottles in his room and that he
had apparently taken three or four
kinds of drugs. A physician was i'm
~ n VI nolI1I D~I nir1 - +S~o@
though he could not say what would
be the effect of The reaction.
The board of visitors OF the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college met this
afternoon and went out to the college.
The members of the board, whose
terms were on the point of expiring
have all been reappointed by the gov
ernOr
The measurements were completed
today at the Union passenger station
here for the new building of the South
ern Express Company when Will be to-
the west of the station, and which will
be a large and convenient one. Ex-
tensive changes on the interior Of the
station are to be made at one as more
is needed for white persons.
Governor Glenn expected to leave at
1 o'clock this morning for Green's
boro to attend the commencement ex-
ercises at the Normal and Industrial
college, but the Wadesboro lynching
which occurred yesterday kept him
here. He was advised that Judge Neal
who had been directed to go to Wades-
boro to hold a special term and fully
Investigate the lynching would go to
WadeSbOro today. The governor will
go to Elkin, to spend a few days with
Mr.. Hugh Chatham.
A charter is granted the Lexington
Mirror Company, capital stock Sic, 900,
J. T. Hedrick and others stockholders.
State Auditor Dixon says that the
blanks for the reports to be mailed to
him in June have been sent to all the
corporations which report to him, the
building and loan associations and he
banks, over 5000 having been sent to
corporations and about fifty to building
and loan associations.
An unusually large Number of special
agents of the post Office department
are here to attend the term of the fed
eral court, and several post office cases
come up for trial, among these being
those of the route agents who stole
large quantities of stamps during a Pc
riod of two years from pouches on the
route between Norfolk and Edenton;
Will Simms who is charged with steal
ing a money order here, and Ed Perry
who is charged with having stolen
quantities of mail from sacks at the
union railway station at Raleigh.
The weekly weather bulletin for the
week ended last night issued today by
MI. Thissen, the section director OF the
II. S. weather bureau says that the
average temperature during the week
the state was a little below normal;
the days generally warm, the nights
cool. Last Saturday was the hottest
day in the east and center, and last
Thursday the hottest in the west. The
first three days of the week were cool,
the highest temperature was 80 degrees