The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-07
WHAT WILL RUSSELL DO
IN THE NATTER OF THE TWO
RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS?

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move Th~em-Russell's Contradictory Ac.
ton Toward Ohio wilson-Exciting
Scenes at the Execution Of BrodietState
Guard Notes-Raleigh Insane Asylum.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, N. c.. September 2.
Most OF the talk is about what the
governor will do, or rather try to do,
with the two railway commissioners, ].
w. Wilson and Ohio Wilson. 1t Is be-
1ieved he will try to suspend. II so
that does not affect them. They f1gur-
atively SNAP their fingers at him. They
are judges. He CAM remove them.
The current comment is that the gov
ernor has put his foot in it," that he
has been made a cats paw Of by people
with grudges. On the commissioners
desk today was found a picture repre-
senting a portly gentleman in his shirt
sleeves turning the crank of an auto
matte kicker, with three pairs Of feet,
each foot as it comes around striking
him. On the feet, with their heavy
boots, are written the names Of a SEN
ator, a judge and an editor. The moral
of it is that the governor is kicking
himself.
Last week Ohio Wilson was sent a
commission by the governor as dele
gate to the rate congress at Omaha
September End, the commission setting
forth that the governor cOnfided in his
good sense and loyalty to the people
of North Carolina. The very next
day he got a notification from the gov
ernOr to appear September LIST before
him to show cause why he should not
be removed from office for being guilty
Of d great crime.
The railway commission makes the
rate on Western Union kilograms Is
cents. Judge SimontOn issued a re-
straining order. 1t is returnable at
Wilmington. Ohio Wilson is made the
representative of the commission at
that hearing. He has the proxies Of J.
w. Wilson and DR.. Abbott. He expects
to have the attorney general with him
to also represent the state. Now he is
informed that the governor has retain
ed four lawyers to also appear.
Two negro boys, aged Is years,
charged with %Outraging an ~11-year-old
negro girl at FranklintOn, were captur-
ed in this county and are now in Louis
burg jail. They were very brutal and
even used a knife.
1t is said that Rev. P. r. Randall,
colored, succeeds Rev. DR.. T. w. Babb
as pastor at the caledonia" convict
farm on the Roanoke river.
1t seems that there came very near
being serious trouble at Henderson
yesterday during and Immediately af-
ter the execution Of George BrOdie. Ne
gro women are said to have declared
that the man ought not to be hanged.
The police made several arrests of per-
sons who fought. The race feeling was
evidently considerably strained.
The agricultural department is get
ting great numbers of letters from the
north and west making inquiries as to
lands in North Carolina, and saying the
writer's desire to come south.
Changes in the state museum began
to be made today. The natural history
department will be in the room now
occupied by minerals and ores The
latter will be in the room where the
woods and timberS have been shown,
The latter are being placed on the low
er floor room in the lately completed
annex. In the upper room of the an
mex will be geological specimens and
building stones and metalliferOuS ores.
The present natural history room will
be devoted to the chronological Speci-
mems.
The state has a full supply of camp
equipage, blankets and O~vercoats for
the state guard. Camp equipage and
blankets are kept in the arsenal, but
are issued when needed. Overcoats have
been in the company armOries. So ut
terly careless has been the OF
many companies as to OvercOats that
they are now all called in. Moths have
ruined great numbers of them. In one
case forty came in and only ten were
fit for use. All this is United States
property. The carelesSness in som
cases shown by companies is remarka'
BILE.
In all of the counties through which
the North Carolina railroad runs a deco
is being registered from the Southern
railroad to the Central Trust Company
of New York, assigning the SOuthern's
lease of that road a. security for bond:
held by the trust
Colonel A. w. Shaffer, engineer to thu
state board of health, returned yeSter
day from G~oldsbOrO, where he and 9th,
err members of the board went to ex
anime the water supply, etc. SO far a:
a superficial examination showed tn
water supply was clear. There is NJ
sewerage, though it was the under
standing, that a sewerage system
would Immediately follow the introduc
ton of water. There is only surface
drainage.
Greensboro has in the past two day
had two exciting trials of negroes. wit
convictions in all; one for placing
bomb under a dwelling, the other, o
two men, for burning a store.
The Silver Valley silver and gOlt
mines in Davidson county are to be Op
Grated on an extensive scale, after
long shut down.
There are now 425 paints in the cen
trail hospital for the insane here. II
October the new male annex will b
occupied. Work soon begins on a nev
80 feet boiler stack. Pumps are to b
attached to the five new driven well
for the water supply. These are II
feet deep. One we'll, $50 feet deep. is
failure. All the way down there i
solid rock.