The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-10-19
NEGRO RUN OVER AND KILLED
Street Car Accident in Raleigh
Sunday Night.
Three White Men Hurt on Train.
Fight Between Two Merchants.
Tax List of Polls-North Cardinals
Exhibit at Boston Made Fine I'M
preston.
Messenger Bureau,
HOlloman Building,
Chamber Commerce Rooms.
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tOuluCTCo hOOIuS,
Raleigh, n. c.. October 10.
Last night negro named Judson |
Chavis, drayman here, got off Il |
street car, returning from the state |
fair grounds and stepped across an !
other track and was instantly struck |
by car ging in the opposite direction
and so mangled that he died in ten
minutes. He was rushed to the hos
pital on a street car, but died as he
was being taken into the building.
Three white men all fakirs. on their
way from the Richmond fair to :le
fair here. are IN the hospital having
been brought here last night. They
were coming here on a special train
ON the Seaboard Air Line and as the
train was passing under the tracks C1
the Atlantic Coast Line. twelve miles
this side Of Richmond, heavy pro-
jecting piece of iron struck the feet of
the men who were sitting lin the
open door of baggage car with their
feet hanging down. Glib Reynolds, of
UniOntown, Ky, was the worst hurt,
his ankle being broken. The other
men were merely bruised. AS soon
as they got here they asked If the
saloons were open.
The state fair nOmfnally began TO-
day but really begins tomorrow. Ra
leigh is generally well decorated Tor
the fair, but this year it is not the
case, for some unknown reason A
good many people came in today for
the fair and this was also the case
Saturday and yesterday. The line Of
exhibits is better than that of last
year, and the county displays, in COM
petition are a very attractive feature.
, The track is in good condition and
good racing is promised.
This morning a fight between two
shoe merchants here in the middle Of
Fayetteville street was the sensation
of the hour Nither was hurt, though
one was knocked down twice. and
both figured in the police court later.
/ The register of deeds has made up
the tax list, which shows 7,712 polls
} in the county, of which 2,445 are ii
) Raleigh. There are 519,995 acres Of
! land, value $4,495, ,674. The aggregate
value of all real estate is $10.096, ,25O;
! that in Raleigh being SIS, 1866 ,240. Last
F! years. taxes amounted to $164. .222.
Then the county rate was % 2-3. 1t IS
! now reduced to 20 cents, and the taxes
! this year amount to s160,12O. The
| total valuation of property last year
in the county was $14, ,406,7 ,7O5, this
year being s14.S44,364
/ One of the visitors at the demo-
t cratic state headquarters today was
! Locke Craig, of Asheville, who says
| everything is all right in the tenth
| congressional district.
| A charter is granted the Realty
| Company Of Tarboro. Capital stock
! $4,000.
! Your correspondent has letter
from T. X. Bruner, of the state agri-
! cultural department. in charge Of this
| states beautiful exhibit at Boston, in
! which he says that last week the
! Massachusetts horticultural society
! held it's annual meeting and fruit and
!, vegeta Bile fair, this rich corporation
j., owning it's hall, a magnificent stone
!. structure. He got permission to take
! the North Carolina exhibit of apples
| there, showed IA varieties which were
| the best exhibited, and which ire
ceived honorable mention and receiv-
! ed marked attention. He distributed
many leaflets about North Carolina.
Last week the Worster county hOrti-
cultural society also held it's exhibit.
It gives 25 exhibitions from May until
October He showed IA varieties of
apples there, they attracting a great
/ deal of attention, getting honorable
! mention and a premium. He was in
vited to a luncheon given by the So
ciety and was called on to tell about
! North Carolina. Mr.. Bruner says:
''I want our people to know that l am
| turning every stone possible to ad-
! vertise our state up here. | must say
| that the eff0rt is being amply reward
ed. I am satisfied I have done more
business for North Carolina during
the last two weeks than I did during
ell the St. Louis fair. This is eX-
planned by reason of the fact that
am in a community which is greatly
over-cOwded, where all the savings
banks are filed with small earnings
and where the people are looking for
a more genial climate, coupled with
the opportunity Of bettering their
conditions. 1t Is certainly a ten strike
on tho part of Governor Glenn and ths
board Of agriculture TO send this ex-
hibtt here. I find that small exhibit.
like this are far more profitable tC
1.-The state than the larger expositions
because in this case We are the only
ipeople here showing our resources
and all the attentions Of wouldbe IN.
| yestors is directed to u.s.
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