The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-04-26
R. D. Black Shoots and M0rtaIIy
Wounds Marshal Rowland
Smallpox PrCyalcnt-Pcachcs KiIlde
by E'rost-COmmencem Exercises
OF Baptist University Cor Women
Bank Of EliZabcthtoyvn Chartered.
Work Progressing on Power Plant at
BuckhOrn Fails
Messenger Bureau,


Mr. Eugene Maxwell, who has
charge Of the great electric plant at
BuckhOrn Falls, was seen today and
said great deal Of work is in prog
ress, new gates are being put i'll and
the machinery is being moved to the
power house, this including the first
set of dynamOs There will be two
more sets to be installed next month
The SeabOard Air Line will build a
squirt track down TO the river and the
machinery will, after this week, be
carried 10 the rivers and then loaded
on lighters and taken nine miles down
to the great dam. A great force is at
work relaying the wire which will
take the power to Fayetteville.
Experts here say that last Mondays
frost Stayed the peaches in this sec
ZION
Reports from the eastern fisheries
show that the season has been a very
Gull one for that business.
Howard c.. Thomas. SOD Of Captain
James J. Thomas, Of this city, died
here today, after two weeks illness.
He was connected with the Caraleigh
cotton mills
Raleigh men who were out in the
Wakefield section yesterday say that
there is Il great deal Of smallpox there
and that there is complaint by the
people of lack of quarantine or Of any
care in prevention, people sick Of the
disease coming and going at will 1t
Il
gTOes and now it is spreading fast
among the whites.
The commencement Of the Baptist
University for women, begins Nav
Goth. In the morning Rev DR.. r.
Cllten, of Charlotte breaches the bac-
Caiureate sermon. In the evening Rev.
Dr.. C. w. Mcdaniel, of Richmond.
will preach a missionary sermon. Mon
ciay there will be class day exercises
Tuesday the annual address will be
delivered by Rev. Dr.. r. S. Macarthur,
Of New York city.
Late last night RaWden d. Black,
white, aged Is years, was brought |
here and Jailed without bail privilege |
For the mortal wOunding of Marshal |
Rowland, also white, aged IS years, |
near Willow Springs at 4 o'clock Sun |
day afternoon. Black was on a car
at the railway station when a twelve |
year old brother Of Rowland came |
along. Black asked him where he |
could get some whiskey and the boy |
said he did not know, Black attacked |
hiGn, knocking him down and treat |
SsZr "a
EU the house of his brother Marshal |
aud the latter went down to see what |
was the trouble. AS soon as Rowland
Black drew his pistol and
shot at him five times, two bullets
Haking effect, one in the head and the
other near the spine. There is much
feeling in that community about the
crime. Rowland, who was shot, is a
young man of good habits and family
Itrere was another shooting Sunday |
IN the same neighbOrhOOd only two
miles from Willow Springs, but no
details could be learned except that
white people were involved.
Deputy Revenue Collectors Merritt
and Pou have returned from raid
III Granville county, where near PO-
they captured a still
A. II. Mobray arrived from Chicago
Today to become actuary for the North
Carolina insurance department, under
the new law. He will act as such in
regard to both life and fire business.
He is a regular licensed actuary who
has passed the requisite examinations. |
Go. Glenn expected to return from
Richmond this morning, \St the burn
ing of a bridge between here and there
detained him until tonight
A charter is granted the bank of
capital $4,000; anoth-
or charter is to the North Carolina
and Virginia Steamboat company at
J. F. Tayloe and others
capital stock $125,O0O.