The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-09-13
TWO LADIES' KNOCKED DOWN
w N Russ Enters Race for Congress
-ProhIbitionists Still Fighting sork
E1ection-Year a Successful Ous
for Phosphate Company---AppcalS
From Third District TN Supreme
COuFt.
Raleigh. Sept Q.

and tailed for making disturbanc"
Saturday evening on the Raleigh anS
pamlico railway near here. When the
train was near Wendell Todd went into
the car for whites. when told TO move
drew revolver and began firing right
and left driving the conductor ou.
and knocking down a couple or ladies
as he ran about with his pistol. When
they reached Wendell Police Ofcev
Charles Franks attempted TO arrest
Todd, drew his pistol and would IN
an instant have killed the officer hld
not q hystander named HoneycuS
knocked up the pistol. Then the meh
were overpowered. -
Saturday nigh; negro named hl"
came here from Norfolk TO see wo-
man whom he had recently married
He has TWO wives and wife number one
was laying for him and she had him 4
arrested and he was sent 10 jail for
bigany.
Clerk of the superior court William
NJ Russ. one of the biggest and
in the race for congress in this district
and said today that he was in 10 stay.
He was out of town Saturday and
your correspondent had chat with
him this morning.
At the new suburb at Glenwood. I'm
the northern part of the city 2G houses
are in course of erection. 10 cost $50
600.
Some we'll known cotton growers IN
this vicinity were asked today how
much iam1ae they thought TIE drought
Snich ended a week ago h"d do 90
cotton and the average ficur~ tn y S."
was about 10 Per cent.
chartc~ is granted the Caba"rus
County Warehouse Company, mainly
to store cotton. its warehouse 10 b. at
Concord The capital stock is 800
600. and John p. Allison and others
are stockholders.
The widely known Pete" Murphy Of
Salisbury, and a party Of fe.low-fisher-
men passed here Yesterday evening ol~
their way tc Morehead City 10 ha,@
week of sport with the mac-arel NJ
blue fish.
The Caraleigh Phosphate Company
has had a very successful wear. The
value of its output which included 30,-
coo tons of fertilizers. was about $3.50,
eco. improvements to the amount Of
so 600 have been made.
The survey of greater Raleigh has
been completed The acreage before
the extension was 1924 while now with
the new addition it is 1896 acres
The added territory includes the peni.
/ tentiary, hospital for the insane. q
large part Of the Cameron property,
a considerable part of Glcnwood. the
| SeabOard Air Line yards. part of the
/ Pilot mills, OakwOod cemetery. Idle
wild, South park and the Boylan prop
erty, the latter having been bought
by syndicate for residence HA y
The attorneys on both sides an max
ing much preparation for the Rowland
trial, which is expected to begin in
exactly threes weeks.
The supreme court devotes this week
to appeals from the Third district
Opinions will be filed tomorrow. One
week from tomorrow there will be ar
gument in the very notable $3OOOU
fine case against the Southern Railway
Ex-Governor AycOck has been dcvotng
his time TO the very careful prepara-
ton Of this for the state
State Superintendent J0vncr returned
today from Montreal where n pres .ded
at the well attended meeting. the an
nual one Of the count grucriQtcn-
dents. He says that he is now sending
out a new directory Of all school Off
GERS, city and county, together with
county superintendents presidents. etc
of leading colleges. a revised list ur
books for libraries for public school
Is also being issued -
The foot ball squad At antM.
Collegt mustered today and zbout 3c
were present 1t is expected that the
team will be a strong one There. are
some good men on it from last years
team. The new athletic field is 20 b.
put In shape and hereafter used per-
manently, for both football an base
ball.
Mention has been made OF the in.
Crease in wages of men in various trad
es in this section. In the course OF
an interview with builders here IL is
learned that wages for carpenters
etc, had increased almost 40 per cent.
in the past five years This is a very
remarkable showing. Carpenters arc
extremely scarce, experts remarkably
so.
II IS remarked by gentleman here
that the people in this part Of the
country are only amused by the sto-
ries they read in the newspapers about