The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-16

Oaspooeary-Evangor gorliss Lee sim IN the
Rorefroae-Fuuds for the Durham aaA
Charl0tts Railroad
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., November Is.
Proportions were made today to re-
iieve the troops now guarding John
Evans at Rockingham. by sending the
Lumber Bridge Light Infantry there
in case the trial does not end tonight.
The captain Of the Maxton company
thinks fifty men sufficient as a guard.
The beautiful exposition car City Of
Charlotte" is here, and will be loaded,
mainly with articles from the state
museum. for its long tour through the
eastern, middle and western states. An
act Of the legislature allows the use
of exhibits from the museum. The
state is at no expense. 1t is q private
venture. The Southern and the Sea-
board Air Line railways are interested.
John B. Brewer. a merchant of Wake
Forest, made an assignment today to
Charles H. Belvin. His liabilities are
about $4,000.
There are now 800 students at Shaw
university here. OF these sixty are
medical students, twenty-five OF the
latter being freshmen.
Alfred Hebrard, Of New Orleans, has
been transferred to the revenue col
lector's Office here, to an $500 position.
He was a chief Of division at Washing
ton, but was discharged under the new
administration. Upon appeal to the
civil service commission he was REIN
stated and then transferred here
The penitentiary authorities have
kept secret the fact that Burch, a ne
gro convicted here last year of bur-
glary in the second degree, has made
his escape. He was serving q fifteen
year term. 1t turns out that he escap-
ed last July. Neither the city nor
county authorities We're given the least
notice. The other day a negro saw
Burch at large and made inquiry as to
why he was out Of the penitentiary.
There is no telling how many convicts
have escaped this year. The laxity of
the penitentiary management Is un-
precedented. Superintendent Smith
does not care for the criticisms. He
says openly he never reads q newspa-
per.
There are complaints that the Louis
burg dispensary is extravagantly man.
aged, and that in violation Of the law
the managers have been allowed to bot
| tie liquors. and further. that they have
put water In the whiskey. To not q
few people the latter is the unpardon.
| able sin. There is talk Of impeach.
ment.~ -e-a.a-<s.s..
News reaches here Of the burning O,
a fiat loaded with 16S bales OF cotton
| on Tar river.
I Evangelist Lee announces that he in.
tends to stop the exhibition here of thu
Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight pictures
| which are billed to show here on thu
18th instant. Last night he called OF
| his auditors to back him in this cru.
sade. He says he will carry his point
A mortgage for 81, 600 900 il being ex
ecuted by the Durham and Charlott,
railway to the Frankfort Safe Deposi
Company. Of Philadelphia, which fur
nishes the funds for the building of tn,
line in two years.
Governor Russell has, during the tel
months Of his administration, issue,
| forty-fOur pardons. 1t is asserted tina
this does not exceed the average mum
ber.
Some moonshiners, supposed to b
the Sta1ey brothers and their friends
fired from ambush on Biscoe B. Bowl
din and other revenue officers in Gull
ford county during raid. Nobody wa
hurt.
The x ray photogra phs taken of Mr.,
Watson for the purpose Of locating tn
bullet. are so dim as to be failures An
other attempt to get photos will
made this time by Burlington artis
Twenty-seven convicts were ser
from the penitentiary to the Roanok
farms today.