The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-05
Will Reduce Passenger
Rates on One Road
A DELIBERATE MURDER
1T. HOWE Killed by a Negro in Moore
County.Seeoad Regiment Officers De.
tailed 10 Learn Heavy Artillery Prae-
tice-Butler EulogfZes Russell and
Takes Clark.s Part in His Fight With
kilgo-Fine State Farm Crops-The
Negro Volunteers.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., June 80.

RdlelSn, n. u, June oV.
1t seems to be reasonably safe to
say that the railway commission will
not grant h governors request for
reduction Of passenger rates, SO far
as the North Carolina and the Ra-
leigh and CASTOR railways are con-
cerned, but may grant it as to the
Wilmington and Weldon, on the
ground that the last named is earn
ing so much more than the other
roads. The Wilmington and Weldon is
not earning over 10 per cen on its
capital, but it is the claim hat it is
earning over that on it's valuation. 1t
is by far the best paying road in the
state and is splendidly managed.
Six officers were at first detailed tc
go from the Second regiment to Sulli-
vans island, to learn heavy artillery
drills, but only two have gone. 1t is
not thought any more will be sent.
It is the opinion of the officers of
some Of the immune regiments that
after the wal they will be transferred
TO the regular army.
The negro volunteers ordered to Fort
Macon for the Third regiment passed
here today. There were 548. Next
Saturday, or perhaps next Monday,
500 more will go. The adjutant gen.
eral decided that forty shall go from
Wilson.
DR.. Melchor, of Fayetteville, rendered
the position of surgeon of the Third
regiment, Declines.
Senator Buffers paper today edi-
torially %eulogizes Governor Russell,
saying he possibly makes mistakes
some times, but hat they are made
while he is trying to do right.
Senator Butler comes to the defence
Of Judge Clark in the controversy
with President Kilgo, of Trinity col
lege, and makes some sharp thrusts
at the latter college, as kept up by
trusts He says the trusts tried to
capture another North Carolina de-
nOminational college.
United States Marshal Henry Dock
cry says his brother Oliver will get
5000 majority for congress in the
Sixth district at the hands Of repub-
licans and populists. He says he does
not believe r. M. NOrment will re-
main in the field as an independent
candidate.
The a%djutant general says the num-
Der of negro volunteers is SO large
that he could quickly raise four or
five regiments, upon call.
Some of the regular army officers
express the belief that the permanent
garrisons of Cuba and Porto Rico
will largely consist of negro troops.
Several letters were today sent from
here to far away Manila, to Raleigh
men who are in the army of occupa-
ton.
superintendent MeWboorne, of the
p~enitentiary, says the wheat crop at
the state farms on the Roanoke is
the finest he ever saw n will aver
age on $50 acres, twenty bushels,
while the 1900 acres in oats will av-
erage thirty bushels. The corn crop
is magnificent, cotton good, consider
ing the fact that there were two cloud
bursts.
| Twenty miles from Aberdeen, on the
line of the Moore County and Western
| railway, J. T. HOWE, a we'll known
railway contractor, of Monroe, was
shot through the heart and instantly
killed by a negro who a been a
laborer on the road, but who had
been discharged. The negro has fed.
BlOodhounds are after him. The ne
gro had been ordered to leave the
railway shanties. He returned and
was again warned. HOWE started in
the shanty after him, when the negro
shot him twice.