The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-17
ROUGH ON THE JUDGE.
THE ALLEG ALTON that HE HAS
PREJUDGED A CASE.

Republicans Pleased at Popu1ists Refus-
M to Declare for White Supremacy.
Death of Chas. d. Heartt-ConfessiOn to
Causing the Bostian Bridge Disaster.
!. Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
e Raleigh, N. c., August IL.
r The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany proposes next Monday to remove
Its case from the state courts to the
federal courts, on the ground that a
Judge of the supreme court of the state
has already prejudged the case. This
Is the matter of the order Of the rail-
way commission reducing the state rate
on day messages from 25 cents to Is
cents for ten words.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction says he knows only ten
townships in which the school tax vote
was successful.
In looking over the earliest land
grants the secretary of state discovers
that the Dismal swamp vas then
called the great desert"
The republicans express their pleas
ure at the declaration of principles"
which the populist committee gave to
the press yesterday. They are pleased
that there was no declaration in favor
of white supremacy in the state. The
p~opulists who insisted in sue a decla-
ration found themselves outnumbered
ten tC one.
Among the arrivals here is Rev. DR..
George P. Bostick, a we'll known mis-
sionary to China.
Charles D. Heartt, who was for over
eighteen years chief of police here,
died quite suddenly at his home at 4:30
O'Clock this morning. He was born
June 10, 1S4S, in this city. He married
Miss Belle Bragg, daughter of the late
Governor Thomas Bragg. He was a
member of the Presbyterian church.
When only ,16 years Of 6 he enlisted
in the North Carolina troops in B. c..
Manly's battery of light artillery. His
death was due to a complication of di-
seases, liver, kidneys n heart all be-
ing involved. A wife and seven child
rem survive him.
Some Of the Baptist associations are
demanding the resignation of DR.. Whit
sell, president of the Southern Baptist
theological seminary. It appears he is
about to split the church asunder.
In August 1891, the fearful accident
at Bostafn's bridge, near Statesville,
occurred, in which a train was thrown
off and SO many persons were killed
and injured. CONCESSIONS made by y.
"A. Hand and Bob Shepherd, two white
state convicts, are said to implicate
them. The grand jury OF Iredell coun-
ty finds a true bill against them for
murder, for this horrible offence The
iwrecking of the train was for robbery,
it seems as they told where they had
hidden some Of the money.
The republican organ that
congressman Skinner is to be the
coming hero in the next political cam
paign in North Carolina.
A Boston man now in the west an
nounces that he will TAX $4,000 stock
in the Morganton and Blowing Rock
electric railway. 1t is now stated that
the narrow gauge railway to Lenoir
will be extended to Blowing Rock.
The State Farmers Alliance has
a complete change in officers.
John Graham is president, T. B. Par
ker, Of Goldsboro, business agent, and
J. T. B. Hoover succeeds w. S. Barnes
as secretary-treasurer.
The Southern railway is buying right
Of-way along the line of the proposed
Moorsville and Mocksville railway
The colored newspaper organ says
that the crime Of rape must stop; that
1T becomes all ~law-abiding citizens to
denounce in unmeasured terms the
Crime and it's perpetrators.