The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24

mission 10 rake more Evtdence - 20
Fraud In the Railway Lease
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel,
Raleigh. ". c.. September Il.
The secretary Of state today granted
a charter 10 the New Bern Investment
Company. Of which Thomas c. Daniels.
j. W. Stewart and Enoch wadsworth
| are the in~corporators. The capital Is
s100. COO. The company proposes to do a
| general real estate and investment bus
mess.
One convi from Allegheny and
seven from Wayne arrived at the peni-
| tertiary today. 1t cost $40.45 to deliv-
er the one from Allegheny and $23.05
the seven from Wayne. The sheriff of
| Allegheny says last weeks weather in
the mountains broke all the records for
heat. the temperature ranging over IS
| and some times nearly 100 degrees.
| Last night was cool here and his
morning the temperature was so de-
grees. with a stiff northeaster blowing.
Overcoats were noticed. The dust in
this city and section is very annoying.
1t is as fine as -four.
There are now thirty companies in
company. There are no less than
eighty-nine applications on file for per-
! mission to form companies.
The rang Of convicts which for a
month has been putting down brick
pavement in the capitol square will
| o,J .Lo4 x-1rly .h;s ,-ao1r Tho .lnupacr
Of the work is a subject of general
| comment.
The friends of John r. Smith, super
intendent of the penitentiary, consider
that he is badly handicapped by the
| board of directors. He wishes to re-
tain the raine officials, while the
board demands that new men be put
in. For some time plans for leasing
the penitentiary hav been under con-
sideration. The institution is a white
elephant" OF the republicans hands.
They simply can't manage it. 1t has
lost money and made none this year
and the struggle to make both ends
meet has been a tax of which the Off
Gals are heartily tired.
This morning the railway commits
I sion took up the complaint of the
North Carolina Freight Association re-
garding freight rates on cotton. r. c.
Stannard, the of that aSsocia-
ton, was present. OF railway officials
there were present T. NJ. Emerson,
traffic manager Of the Atlantic Coast
Line; w. w. Findley, vice president, J.
M. Culp, traffic manager, w. A. Hen
dersOn, general counsel, J. H. Drake,
general freight agent, and ]. B. Mum
son, division freight agent, Of the
Southern; r. E. Pretlow, Of Virginia.
H. w. B. Glover, traffic manager Of
Il 49, r.
ton wants lower rates on cotton. There
is no complaint of discrimination. There
are complaints of interstate commerce
rates from points north to North Caro-
lima. These the commission heard. If
sustained they will be sent on to the
Interstate commission.
Artist w. G. Randall leaves here in a
day or two for Greensboro to paint an
oil portrait of the late Major S. NJ. Fin
ger, for the State Normal and Indus
trial college.
Judge Purnell has gone to Asheville
to clear the docket of the United
States circuit court.
There will be a hearing here on the
2Sth Of September of the evidence Of
certain Raleigh people in Governor
RusselPs case against the old direct
ors of the North Carolina railway.
Willis G. Briggs, who was city editor
Of the defunct Tribune, will be a wit
ness. The subpoena for him was issued
by the clerk of the United States cir
cult court at Greensboro. The hear
ing will be before Special Master Kerr
Craig. So far the governor has made
a conspicuous failure in his attempt to
show fraud on the part Of the old direc-
tors.
1t is quite remarkable that so few
North Carolinians have visited the
Tennessee centennial exposition.
Elizabeth college, at Charlotte, will
open October 18th. General regret is
expressed that the Baptist state female
university at Raleigh cannot open be-
fore the autumn Of 1898.
The effort at Hendersonville to Sc
cure evidence against the men who
lynched Bob Bracket, the negro rap
list, is so far a conspicuous failure. All
persons who are examined swear they
knew nothing. Yet the lynchers were
not masked.
A so-called divine healer is now
deceiving people at Greensboro.
Several persons in Tennessee are
sending red foxes to this state for
breeding purposes. The gray fox is
quite plentiful, but the red fox is very
rare here.
The news from the gold bearing re-
gion of the state is that there is great
interest in mining properties.
There are 215 students now present at
the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege here.
Professor w. F. Massey finds very
little of the San Jose fruit scale in the