The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-17
AN EPIDEMIC OF CRIME.
FIVE MEN NOW UNDER ARREST
FOR CRIMINAL ASS AULT.

A Movement to Form q New Party out Of
Recruits From the Present T~hree-Popu-
lists Content With Holding tho Balance
OF Power-Question Of Suppressing the
~"Sanctiied B~ands'-Only ten Townships
Yet Known to Have Voted for School
Taxation. .g1
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, N. c., August IL.
The comment is made in official cir
cles here that the sheriff Of Buncombe
did not manage we'll the Bracket case
and that he could have foiled the
lynchers.
A negro man, m and 6-months
old child were here today, walking
from West Virginia to Robson coun-
ty, this state. The woman was nearly
exhausted, having carried the infant
most of the way.
There is quite a lot Of surmising as
to what the populists propose doing.
Most of them have no higher ambition
than to be the balance Of power" in
North Carolina. A leading democrat
said today that it was infamous that
SuCH d cldlC VI oiuA oAAoNAA ~NA~e
that 10000 Of a party should dominate
the state. "For my part he added II
would be willing to fuse with the re-
publicans to wipe u the populists for
ever" It is the talk that it is the plan
of a republican, a populist and a dem
ocrat, all state figures, n n of them
a national one, to create if they can
a new party and lead into it all the
people they can from their own. The ac-
tions Of the three appear to bear this
out.
George Davis, alias DR.. Davis, the so
year old negro under arrest here on a
suspicion that he outraged and caused
the death of a little girl near EdentOn,
is causing a stir. He is a Raleigh ne
gro. His arrest was telegraphed to the
Chowan officials and the reply was a
remarkable telegram that he could be
sent there If Raleigh would pay the
expenses. His photograph and descrip-
tion were sent. Yesterday word came
that he was not the man. Meanwhile
he had applied for a hearing under
habeas corpus before Judge Clark to-
day. Papers in this matter were served
on the mayor. The chief Of police
meanwhile released Davis. When
Judge Clark heard Of this he said some
sharp things. At II o'clock last night
Davis was rearrested. This afternoon
at 5 o'clock he was given a hearing be-
fore Judge Clark. He vas at first ar
rested on suspicion and there were no
proper papers to hold him.
The bulk Of the people who have
anything tt say about the Buncombe
county lynching express satisfaction
at it.
Joe Black is the name OF the negro
on trial for rape in Greene county. A
negro at Winston is in Jail for the same
offence. Then there is the Hodges
case at Washington and that Of Brodie
in Jail here for the same crime at klt-
trell.
Senator Ben Tillman, Of out car
DINA, spoke to a large audience at
Mocksville, Davie county, today.
The question is asked here whether
the solicitors Of the First and Seventh
districts will take steps to punish the
"sanctifed band" who are acting SO
d~isgracefully in some counties OF east
ern North Carolina.
Not q township was carried in Wake
county for the special tax for pubic
schools. The state superintendent OF
public instruction so far knows OF only
Ten townships in which the election was
successful. He is disappointed.
There has been no rain for sixteen
DAYS in the Henderson section n 1t
Is badly needed.
The falling off in the acreage of to-
bacco in this state is so great as TO
attract much attention. 1t is reported
to he At per cent. under an average.
There will be much demand for labor
in this state in the next twenty days,
to harvest the great crops.
The Farmers Alliance has certainly
fallen off greatly in membership. 1t is
a question whether it number LOW
emb where once it had 1O5, OOO.