The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-02
FREIGHT RATES
Proceedings Before the Railway Conn
missiOn-Some second District Popu.
lists to Vote For a Negro Candidate in
Preference TO Their Own Nominee.
Mr.. 8~arrfnger's Good Luck-Nor-
ment's Argument Against Doekery.
Railway Free Pass Reports.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c., August 30.

WIN - ~ AC1S IIC3I 1IuESOdE
in order that they may confer and
agree Upon complete fusion, the TAX
ing down of various candidates, etc.
The republicans at headquarters kept
the matter of he call for their COM
mittee meeting secret, and it was
learned from other sources.
The minority or anti-Butler popu-
lists are rejoicing because in the di-
vision of spOilS with the republicans
they are getting more than the Butler
populists. They profess to believe that
the latter will all fall into line later.
The railway commission met today.
Just before it met there was served
upon Chairman Caldwell the bill OF
injunction asked for by the Whining
ton and Weldon railway in the United
States circuit court here by the Will
mington n Weldon railway to pre-
rent the commission from reducing
the rates of passenger fare to 2k and
2 cents per mile. The injunction mat
ter will be argued the first Monday in
October and meanwhile a restraining
order is in effect.
This means a suit in the highest
courts. The commission had made
up it's mind to reduce the rate to the
same figure or the Raleigh and Gas
ton railway, but decided to continue
this matter until the courts pass up
on the Wilmington and Weldon case,
giving as a reason that one case would
decide all, and that it was bad policy
to incur the expense of attorneys
fees and costs in another case. An
other matter which enters into the ac-
ton of the commission in continuing
is that the Raleigh and CASTOR is, with
the exception of the Seaboard and
Roanoke, the only division of the Sea-
board Air Line which makes n mon
ey. 1t is asserted hat all the others
are losing.
Before the commission today the
Wilmington Tariff Association applied
for a 1000 miles railway ticket at $40,
Interchangeable on the leading rail-
ways of the state.
The distilleries in this state are
more numerous than in any other
state. Nearly all make corn whiskey.
Wilkes leads with 81, Iredell has so,
Yadkin 80, Mcdowell 80.
A republican says that there are
not now over 900 populists west of the
Blue Ridge, and that in several
ties, perhaps fifteen, they have no or
ganiZation at all.
It is said that as yet there is very
| little political talk in the extreme
west. The Georgia and Tennessee pa
pers circulate three or four times as
largely as North Carolina peapers
The report on the lumber mills in
this state is nearly completed. In the
eighteen principal eastern counties
there are ninety-eight great mills,
with capacity from 10000 to 200, 900 feet
a day, these being all bandsaw mills.
There are $50 smaller mills. There are
in hand reports from 300 mills in the
west. Most of the latter are small.
DOckery, republican-populist nomi-
nee for solicitor in this district. re
| signs as cashier in the revenue office
here and is succeeded by Collector
| Duncan's brother, David, while w. CT.
| Pool, of Elizabeth City, succeeds the
latter as clerk. Dockery claims that
his election is certain. His confidence
| is assumed, however.
J.. w. Fry, of the Cape Fear and
| Yadkin Valley; H. W. B. Glover, of
the Seaboard Air Line, and w. J.
Crosswell, of the Southern Express
| Company, were before the railway
} commission today. The latter took up
| the matter of REVENGE stamps on eX-
( press receipts.
The First district democratic con-
gressional convention was held at
| Edenton today.
Republican leader and populist ma
| nipulator, Carl Duncan, say the re-
publicans are having less trouble with
the pouiists now than in either 1894
/ " 1ooo, tLdL lItIe Is d USllcI Ulutl-
| standing.
The state charters the North Caro-
lima Tale and Mining Company, of
| Swain county, Francis M. Hewitt and
others stockholders.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., August 81.
The claims OF the various railways
for transporting volunteers to the
camps here and at Fort Macon are
coming in. That of the Southern rail
way is for $500.
The republicans are circulating a re-
port that the democrats will make no
congressional nomination in the Sec
Ond district, but will endorse J. b.
Lloyd, the populist nominee. There are
populists in that district who will not
vote for Lloyd. but who will vote for
George H. White, the negro republican
nominee, so firmly are they united to
the republicans. A populist state COM
mitteeman is authority for this state
ment. United States Marshal Henry
G. Docke-y said today: Il say in my
speeches that the republicans and pop
ulists are half-brothers."
The railway commission today re-
duced the rate of freight on cotton on
the Raleigh and CASTOR railway, so as
TO make it conform to that on the
North Carolina railway. The join,
IrelSn rates on the Rdlelgn ana Gas
ton are higher than On other roads
and later these will be reduced. it is
stated by the commission.
A letter from Senator Butler says he
is now in Montana.
Henry NJ. Bagley. who has been city
editor of The Press-Visitor here. leave
tomorrow for Washington, d. c., Il
become one of the correspondents OF
The Providence Journal.
The k~ilgo-Clark controversy is at
tracing much attention once more
The regular hearing began at Durham
last night, in the presence Of twenty
six out of thirty-six trustees of tn
college. The evidence chiefly introduc
ed was to prove that while in Soutl
Carolina DIR. Kilgo vas a wire-pulle
and manipulation of Methodist confer
enceS."
The argument Of DIR. R. NJ. Nor
ment, independent republican nomine
. for congress in the Sixth district,