The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-02
Says the Capitol Keeper
to FuSiOniStS.
ASSIGNMENT OF SEATS
Angers these Legislators-Farm Statis-
ties for the Year-Indignaiion over
Ru~sell'. Political Army Appoint.
menis-Tbe Governor, Treasurer aud
Auditor In q Snap About State Funds
Expended in Mobilizing the Troops
Coal. Tale and Corundum Mining.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, \. c., November %.

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state treasury for s23,l77.S4 for the
mobilization of the state guard and
others for the volunteering. The state
paid this with the understanding that
| the general government would refund
| it, as the government did not recog-
nize individual claims but only those
made by the state. The warrants We're
! drawn during August, September, Oc-
, tOber and November.
Regimental Adjutant Alexander. OF
the First regiment, came here special
! ly on behalf of the regiment TO invite
! Governor Russell to be present at the
| review of General Lees corps at Sa-
! vannah, December 18th. Governor
! Russell said today that he expected to
! attend.
{ The populist rank and file are now
saying that the cause of the collapse
! of their party November Sth was the
action of their leaders in fusing with
t the republicans, when the populist
state convention had not authorized
any such course.
| The Willardville hosiery mill, the
! plant of which was removed here from
Alamance county, will start up tomor-
row. The machinery has been tested.
r, The mill employs 100 persons.
| Today a board of state guard Off
| GERS composed of B. S. Royster, 5. 5.
! Bachelor and H. F. Brown, met to
assess the value of the property of the
guard which was taken into service by
! the volunteers This has to be done TO
! Straighten the account of the govern
| ment with the state for state guard
I property and to get allowance for the
! property used so now supplies can be
l,.ox So, tlos o1 ny~1
Jim Booker, the negro murderer un-
der sentence of death here, made an
| other almost successful attempt at
/ escape. With an iron ventilator he
| broke away bar seven and one-half
| feet long from the inside of the cell.
, He is in the day time in company with
! eighteen prisoners and at night with
five. There is no solitary cell and no
death watch The chances are he will
escape. The arrangements at the jail
are very poor for the keeping Of con-
demned prisoners.
Last night Burton. the flim-lam
man who worked his game in Richmond
| and Norfolk, nearly died in jail. He
| is a morphine eater, but yesterday
took no pills. A physician had to be
sent for at 9 o'clock this morning and
| barely saved his life.
The United States district court meets
| here next Tuesday. Judge Purnell pre-
| sizing. mere are SDIlt ZoD tdStS Oh!
the dOckets. OF these 100 are new
cases for "mOonshning. The most
interesting case is that against Reid.
| Wright and Miller, who are in Jail
here, charged with pOstoffice robbery
and safe-cracking. They were unable
to give 81, 900 bail each. They are be-
lieved to be professionals from Ohio
and Illinois. One has served a term
in Joliet prison. Postoffice Inspector
Gregory has had twenty witnesses
summoned in this case.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c.. November 80.
The states fiscal year ended today.
Most of the reports of departments are
partially complete.
! The bond of officers which is
Strengthening the state guard clothing
accounts finds them greatly mixed.
The state labor commissioner says
he finds that the average size Of farms
in North Carolina is 120 acres. Hired
labor is on an average employed on the
farms eight months in the year, the
rate of wages per month averaging
1915 in summer and $40 in winter.
He asserts that crops of most kinds
were produced this year more economi-
cally than heretofore.
There are eight coal mines in the
state, five Of these being in Chatham
county. but only one appears to be
worked-that at Cumnock. The out
put of the latter for August. September
and October was 2,52S tons.
The keeper of the capitol, who is a
populist, has made the republican
members Of the lower house rather
angry by assigning them and the pop
ulists-twenty-six in ALTO the rear
row OF seats. Some OF them wanted
TO get front seats, and others to sit
| in q bunch"
The legislature will be asked to add
six more companies to the state guard.
making thirty-six in all-three regi-
| ments OF twelve companies each-and
TO appropriate 5000 annually for the
proper maintenance Of this very val
| liable force
The appointment by the governor of
Oliver H. Dockery. Jr., to be second
! lieutenant Of the Raleigh company of
the First regiment Of volunteers is
| raising a storm of Indignation The
first sergeant Of that company, who
| ought TO have been promoted, is one
| OF the best men in the regiment The
appointment Of Andrew d. Cowles to
the captaincy Of the Durham company
! Of the regiment is another Of the gov
! ernors great mistakes.
]. c. L. Harris is in Washington TO-