The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-02-25
:9V; Rh93 etEzN DIDN'T SPEAK
RrsCk on Railroad Prevented His
FiIdng Appointment
Cannot Force Taft on NcgrOes-Coi-
ony for Observation-Disclosures Suit
Against Secretary of State-Rccord
OF Dce.ls for OnsloW -COunty-De-
mocratic Mayor Organizes Repubii-
c.xn Club.
Raleigh, n. c., Feb. 22

Raleigh. n c., Feb. =.
Governor Glenn, who returned from
Lynchburg last night, had quite AN
adventure this morning. He was book
ed to speak at HOLLY Springs this al
| ternoon and left for that place ON the
haleigh and Southprt Railroad at an
early hour, the train being mixed
| oLe When at = punt four miles IRON
here, the front part Of the train, COM
posed of freight cars was wrecked,
| with exception of the engine and ten
| der and as a result the traffic WAS
| blocked and the only WAY t" &C &c
| Holly Springs was On the engine Two
! or three Of 'nrSt ~hn ~t'r =" lE to
| that place made the trip on thG en-
gine, the governor did not feel Par
| ticularly well and thought it best not
to take the risk so he and Carey j.
! Hunter .tugged the four miles back
home. ....-
Rev. Dr. R. H. w. Leak, the well
| known negro Methodist minister herc,
says that Taft cannot be forced on
the negroes by the administration. He
says that n Roosevelt was nominal
| cd by tho people for vice-president
and then for president and that he
ought surely to stand back now and
let the people make the nomination
for president and not undertake to
90 it himself
Assistant Attorney General Clement
! notifies the Beckett commission that
the hospital for epileptics, commonly
termed the colony system, will be
placed at the Orange farm property
recently bought here or at the Spring
IiIl property, adjoining and also 4pur-
| chased, providing the sewerage is
conducted into Walnut Creek below
the city water works intake.
Marshall Bell, of jackson county, is
here and brings a mandamus suit
against the secretary Cf state to COM
pei him to issue grant for ce. tain
lands in Graham county to ]. P. Bar
ker. The purpose is to correct what
is claimed to have been a surveyors s
mistake. The matter will be heard at
Chambers before Judge Biggs and AS
sistant Attorny Clements will repre-
sent the secretary of state The lat
ter declines to issue the grant, saying
that there was no error in his Office.
| The grant demanded 1873 acres and
it is claimed that there should be 252
acres more, making a total of $40.
| w. P. Bachelor has almost complet-
ed transcribing from the records o.
dreds, etc for the county Of Ons .ow as
| found in the Office of the secretary Of
| state, everything from the founuat.CR
of the county up to 1900. There is a
| lot of the material and it makes over
| 900 written pages Much time has been
| devoted to the work and Mr.. Bachelor
says he believes it one OF the best
records any county has.
| The annual meeting of the North
I Carolina Society of the Cincinnati
| was held this afternoon and this even
| ing the usual banquet was given at
| Giersch's cafe.
| The supreme court was not able to
get more than half through the third
| district appeals this week, these being
| very numerous and the lawyers doing
great deal of talking SO that a lot of
cases go over until the end of the
| docket
The A. and NJ College baseball team
began it's work today on its athletic
field The latter has been leased for
| the summer for use by the professional
| teams in the Eastern North Carolina
Baseball League, Raleigh is SO in
terested in seeing formed.
An election is ordered for the cap
taincy OF Company L, First regiment,
| nncord to fill the vacancy due to he
resignation of Capt. Clint E. Smith.
The adjutant general has received
| 100 of the new Springfield rifles which
the army now has and with which all
the National Guards is to be quickly
armed. The issue will be made as rap
[ idly as the inspection; for example,
[ the first company to be inspected will
be B, of the Third regiment at Raj
eigh, and its Kraig-Jorgensen rifles
will be turned in and sent to the
governor, new ones being issued of the
| new pattern.
DR.. TAFT Butler Of the agricultural