The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-25
RUSSELL CRIES ENOUGH.
He Desires to Stop the
Railway War.
OVERTURES FOR PEACE.

Measure Murderer Of Engineer
Bumgardner In Jail-Mormons Mar
rowly Escape Mobbiny
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. c.. Feb. Il.
II WAS learned yesterday that thu
railway commissioners COR rather Cald-
We'll and Pearson) would today reduce
passenger rates OF fare on the leading
roads in the state TO "a cents for first
class and pa cents for second-ciass. a
reduction OF = cent per mile. The gov
ernor did not desire this action taken.
He wanted the rate war and the war
against the lease OF the North Carolina
railway stopped. provided the Southern
railway takes the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway of the states hands
at an annual rental OF 2La per cent. on
capital stock. This was the rate the
Southern offered. Then. too. the Cov-
ernor wanted the offer accepted be-
cause 1t embraced the payment by the
southern OF all the expenses OF the
governors war against the North Car
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amounting to some sl2. ZOO or ST.. 900.
The governor at last sees. what the
public has seen all the while. that he
cuts no figure in the North Carolina
lease light. 1t was expected the gov
ernor would be very angry when he
found the very commissioners ne Gre
ated We're intent on reducing rates and
spelling his plans. Chairman aid
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meet with the council OF state late
Saturday afternoon when the matter
OF leasing the Atlantic u North Car
DINA railway was considered. The
governor was anxious to know what
Caldwell and Pearson proposed to do.
1t is the argument of the latter that
they had said they would reduce rates
and must do it. Now the question arises
will their actions nullify all the gov
ernor's prospects? They wish, Of
course, to show their independence, but
the public is asking How Will this
set on the governors mind?" The
commissioners argue, further. that they
have nothing in the world to do with
railway leases.
1t was officially given out Saturday
that no one would until next Septem-
Der be elected as president OF the At
lantic and North Carolina railway to
fill the vacancy caused by Hancock's
removal. 1t is asserted today positively
that If the governor had made that
announcement when the directors OF
the road met here ten days ago a ma
jority of the directors would nave re-
tanned Hancock. as several OF them
wanted to be president.
AS to the resignation OF +. II. Mead
ows as director OF the Atlantic and
North Carolina railway, It was tender
ed because Governor Russell proposed
TO look at the Hancock matter from a
purely political standpoint and Mead
ows, as a democrat, could not afford
to take the republican view. Govern
or Russell, as your correspondent has
stated, wanted to Dust Hancock on the
ground that it was good politics and
would sound we'll on the hustings.
Governor Russell, it is said. cursed
Hancock for employing +. NJ. Simmons
and G. 3. Aycock as attorneys. Ham
cock retorted, saying the governor had
also been employing democrats and
had paid Aycock as attorney in the
railway case. The governor said that
was business, while the case now i'm
hand was politics and would put two
leading democratic politicians in the
possession Of secrets Of his administra-
ton.
The North Carolina Society OF the
Order OF The Cincinnati meets here to-
IHorToW. mayor tndrftS l.. DAVIS, u
;. A, of Asheviile, Is here to attend H..
No more cigars are allowed to be-
II his city on Sundays, not even
in hot..s.
Osborne Lambert, the 19-year-old
white youth. who murdered Engineer
L. NJ. Bumgardner, OF the Southern
railway. in Henderson county last No
venber, is at last in Jail. For him
over $500 reward was offered. He says
he has not since the crime been more
than three miles from his home. His
mother and friends had aided him to
hide.
Mormons in Cabarras county are re-
to have narrowly escaped being
mobbed last Saturday.
Judge T. c. Fuller, OF the United
States court OF land claims, returned
here today from Santa Fee. New
Mexico.
j. b. Barnes, the white man. Of Will
son. charged with rape. who is in Jail
here for safe keeping, is called by the
sheriff the star boarder," as ne LITERAL
ly wants everything. He Is in the cor
ridor with w. s. Browning. who has
the measles. Barnes yesterday swore
II he was not let out Of this corridor
he would break out Of jail. He was at
once put in close confinement.
Senator Butler was here yesterday
for a few hours, on his way TO Wash
from Minneapolis. He came to-
see something about his newspaper.
Raleigh is designated as the official
residence of Claude Bernard, clerk OF
the United States district court.
The Charlotte Mechanics Building
and Loan Association made report to-
the state auditor today, showing $685.
sol assets, with only $500 borrowed mon
ey. 1t "a 800 state tax. and is the
In the state.
The cotton mills here are now run
ming seven and q half days a week.
witt riders for all products.