The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-09
TrainnS ArIeated.
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel
Raleigh. y. g. July

The observance Of the Fourth here to-
day amounted to nothing. 1t was TOO hot
TO celebrate. II was the eighth day OF
the intense heat. AT no time during that
period has the maximum been below -
degrees. The national and state flags
were displayed at the capitol. but hung
buildings We're closed.
Work goes on rapidly at the institution
for the colored deaf-mutes and blind. The
annex is half completed.
Commissioned of Agriculture Mewborne
left yesterday for kinston. where his wife
is critically sick.
In Marks creek township, Saturday
night, Berry Cook. colored, murdered a
an inquest yesterday. Cook was brought
10 Jail today. He will probably be tried
at the term of court which began today.
There Is another capital case.
The woman killed was Rosa Morgan.
aged 20 years. Cooks mistress and the
mother Of three children. He choked her
to death in the hearing OF several per-
sons and just outside of her door. Her
oldest son says Cook went to the house
at night and called his mother outside.
She was heard to cry for help. Her body
was found next morning within "a few feet
of her door.
State Senator Norriss is elected superin-
tendent of Wakes public schools.
The plant of The Daily Tribune, which
was bought by a creditor, to protect him.
self, will be sold by him on the Sth in
slant. 1t is intimated that there may be
several bidders. Some printers want to
buy, they say. in order to start a paper.
Professor Collier Cobb. of the University
of North Carolina, has been appointed by
the executive committee of the National
Educational Association as q member of
the committee of five to present the sub
ject of physical geography, and invited to
speak at the meeting of the national as
sociatiCn at Milwaukee. July Sth.
"A track-walker on the Western North
Carolina railway was caught in a cut by
a train and struck by an engine and lost
one arm. He sued for $40. 600 damages, got
81, 900 and Oh appeal by the defendant has
lost his case, it being held that he was
negligent.
Tramps are being freely arrested along
the railways in the Piedmont section and
are being sent to the roads to work. The
Southern railway is particularly active in
its efforts to capture all tramps on its
line.
Judgment to the amount of $50. 600 has
been obtained against the Catawba Lum-
Der Company, one of the largest west of
Raleigh.
The Hendersonville and Brevard railway
was sold today. under a decree of the SUI
perior court. to satisfy judgments for
labor and material furnished.
The number of convicts recorded at the
penitentiary during the past thirty days
is so remarkably small as to attract at
tentiOn.
The populist papers are attempting to
make denial of the fact that the repub-
lican-populist revenue act will imprison
people who ram to pay taxes. No
amount of talk or denial will affect the
fact that there is such a law.
Much ~antagonism to the special tax in
aid of public school is developing. IN
some sections it is taking an organized
form.
The dispensary law is in full swing at
Fayetteville and sales of liquor are heavy.
rooms in the town. 1t is said that an
original package store is to be estab-
lished there by q Baltimore house.
vote ,n en- the issue eN Of 5000 $50 900 in rSI bonds for
street improvements. The odds are great
lV against the success of the measure.
The present board of aldermen is not
popular as a whole, and between it and
the mayor there is almost a breach.
This is a notable year for injunction
cases in this. state, but the queerest of all
Of them came up at Durham today. A
colOred Baptist church, claiming that it
had first employed q band to play at a
Fourth Of July festival today, obtained
an injunction to restrain the band from
playing for another church of the same
denomination.
Julian S. Carr has gone to Denver, Col,
as a delegate for this state to the inter-
national gold mining convention.
The main building of the home for negro
consumptives. at Southern Pines, is soon
to be dedicated.
The republicans have formed a state as
sociation to control federal patronage.
There is little or nc attempt to disguise
its purpose.
AT the penitentiary today the convicts
had holiday. They gave some sort of a
theatrical exhibition.
This morning a negro man went to the
MAYORS office to make a complaint
against a white man for fighting him ON
the street. The white man followed and
in the presence of the chief of police
struck him. He was instantly arrested
and heavily fined. The court was not in
session when the attack was made.
The number of criminal insane thus far
received at the penitentiary is seven. all
from the asylum at GOIdsbOro.