The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-28
HONEY FROM TIE TREASURY
LET OUT BE TREASURER WORTH
WITHOUT WARRANT

Public Printing Taogie Gets wors~-Two
Terrible Crimes-Lynchers lndIcted Pen
Tertiary loo Much for the Republicans
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel.
Raleigh. N c.. September 3.
Superintendent Smith, OF the peni-
tertiary. says in his statement OF &C.
counts. that he has borrowed $l5.O0o
from the state TO meet expenses. The
last legislature made no appropriation.
contingent OF otherwise. for the peni-
Tertiary. Now the question Is. how he
got the money. The state treasurer
rop The treasurer added that the act
allows advances to be made to the
amount OF SIS, 600, and that the super
intendent got first $4,000 and later
$1,000 more. At the auditors office it
was said no warrant had been issued
to Superintendent Smith and that IL
any money had been drawn il was by
Treasurer Worth under the act OF 1891.
But there is no act OF 1897 making any
appropriation.
Mr.. Tyson, OF Knoxville. is here to
settle some important questions as to
the boundary between this state and
Tennessee, which involves $50, 600 acres
of lane owned by the Belongs, OF Gin
cinnati.
DR.. r.. H. Lewis. secretary of the
state board Of health, writes Governor
Russell that in his opinion it would be
extremely unwiSe to throw open the
mountain plateau OF western North
Carolina to yellow fever refugees; the
trouble being hat il would be practi-
cally impossible to detain refugees
there long enough to prove they were
not infected and hence be a distinct
risk of going to certain localities sus-
ceptable to the disease, notably Will
mlrgton. 1t is safe to say the noun
air will not be thrown open as DR..
John Hey Williams, Of Asheville, sug-
gested.
w. N. Hall, a clerk in the office of the
bureau of labor statistics, says he viii
sue DR.. John McBrayer, a leading re-
publican, of Shelby, for &c., 600 for libel,
his growing out of the great quarrel
about the Shelby ~postOffice.
Renewed efforts are now being made
to get an army post located here. OFF,
GERS say that with proper effort one
would already be here.
Suits are to be brought against the
>oAlPohy " liz
loss of buildings owing to alleged de-
f1ciency of water pressure.
The boiler at Hollands cotton gin
near here exploded yesterday and blew
him forty feet. He was unconscious
twenty minutes, but was unhurt.
Mrs. Pattie d. b. Arlington is here
to get a warrant for j. B.. Boddie, ex-
postmaster Of Nashville, against whom
she charges embezzlement.
Two ~cOnvicts from Henderson ar
rived at the penitentiary today.
The organ of the Methodist Episcopal
church hits the divine healer who Is
RAP.
Rain, So long wished for, fell here last
night and today, and the six weeks
drought is broken.
1t was a Pritchard republican who
gave out the news here hat Charles A.
Cook was sure to get the United States
district attor-eyShip.
The coiored Baptist State Sunday
school Association at Louisburg is very
largely attended.
st. Mary's school here opened today,
copal dioceses.
The number of students actually
present at the university is now 49,.
This breaks even the ante-bellum rec
ord.
The republicans find they cannot
manage the penitentiary and SO they
are resorting to the cOwardly tactics
Of trying to say that h late democrat
ic administration did not mak it self
supporting; but ex-Superintendent Lea
Ear proved that fact.
North Carolina republicans are join
ing anti-civil service clubs At the
same time they are crowding into civil
service examinations.
Nj. j. Edwards, of Raleigh, gets ST.
600 damages from DR.. j. J. Lawrence,
Of ST. Louis, in a suit for $4,000. 1t Is
a compromise. Both were formerly
from Wilson, n. c.
Bob Stafford, who played on the
Wake Forest and Oak Ridge base ball
Louis team.
A letter from Hendersonville says
hat the grand jury has found true
bills against many OF the lynchers OF
Bob. Bracket in Buncombe. The names
are, by order Of Judge Ewart, kept
secret until papers are served. 1t Is
said there is much excitement, and that
Dir Buncombe people have fled the
state.
Among today's arrivals here was
John S. Armstrong, of Wilmington,
who had a talk with Governor Russell.
The state is in a nice fix, SO far as
the ex-public printers, Stewart Bros,
are concerned. The latter claim they
are still the public printers. They ev-
identity intend to sue the state. The
latter has already sued them. 1t Is, as
a rule, hard to get populists or republi-
cans to say much against each other.
but yet the officials say the case
against the Stewards is a "a one. The
Stewards refuse to give up the state pa
per-at least 5000 worth, the auditor
says. The relations between them and
the populists are clearly greatly
strained.
Georgia is to have a penal colony for
the old and the young convicts and
the women on one Of the sea islands.
North Cardinals convicts are yet a
problem.
Ii will require much rain to Gill the