The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-07
RUSSELL'S STAR CHAMBER.
EVIDENCE AGAINST THE COM
MISSlONERs wITHHELD.
The Governor Refuses to Confront the Ae-
cused With Their Accusers-Butler's
Break With Otho Wilson Fatal so the
Former-A Race Conflict Narrowly Avert
ed Ht the Execution OF . Negro at SNOW
HiI-A New Enemy to the Cotton Plant
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel


HiI-A New Enemy to the Cotton Plant
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel
Raleigh, y. c., September 4.
Governor Russell does not exhibit the
evidence on which he based his demand
on the railway commissioners. He says
the letters are confidential: that he has
no power 10 summon witnesses.
DIR. r. A. Cobb, OF the popufist state
executive committee, says a break be-
tween Otho Wilson and Senator Butler
will smash the latter so far as the
committee is concerned; that is. he will
lose control of il. He added: We
would not have stood back at our last
meeting but were a little afraid. Now
We can take the step" Cobb is
minority populist and what he says is
hence the expression of the anti-Butler
sentiment.
The bonded debt of Raleigh is only
sl90.15O today. Yesterday s27 500 OF
Cancelled bonds were burned.
There is now the question as TO the
Lynchites or sanctified band. in the
southeastern port of the state-will
they pass on to South Carolina. This
state longs to be rid of them.
Salisbury wants to get in the south
ern base ball league. This state is now
in no league and interest is on the
waDe.
One hundred convicts from the state
farms, are, under private contract, dix
ing the Arlington farm near Goldsboro.
In this county the assignment of the
Of "a m
the Central Trust Company of New
York by the Southern railway was
registered today.
Jutice FurcheS grants rehearing by
the supreme court Of the Charlotte wa
terworks bond case, which at last term
the supreme court decided adversely to
the city.
1t is remarked that the penitentiary
is apt to furnish the next state sensa-
ton.
1t is said that over 200 enlisted men
in the First artillery, United States
Army, headquarters at FIT. Monroe. are
from. eastern North Carolina. Colonel
Frank, the regimental commander, sets
great store by his North Carolinians.
The war department at Washington
desires to correspond with members Of
the various North Carolina regiments
which participated in the battle Of An
tietam (Sharpsburg.)
Eight thousand people were at Snow
HiH Tuesday to see Dock Black, the
negro who outraged Miss Jane Stepp.
publicly hanged. It was conclusively
shown that it is very bad plan to
have public hanging. Morbid curios-
ity drew most of the crowd, and pistols.
knives and clubs were on view all day.
1t was hard to avert a riot and race
war. The negroes were excited and the
guards drove them back by putting
guns and pistols in their faces. Black,
standing on the gallows warned them
to go back, saying he had committed
the crime and deserved his fate. Az
ter the drop fell the negroes tried to
make another rush and lot Of then,
had to be driven out Of the town by
the white people, as they made the
worst threats.
Worms, of a kind not before seen
here, have attacked tobacco in this
section.
In a fortnight young ostriches will
be hatched at the poultry experiment
farm here, by F. A. Hege, in a new
pattern incubator.
There is no doubt that the crops are
badly cut off by the drought.
1t is asserted that there are 1,50(
bicycles here.