The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-12
GROSS NEGLIGENCE
Permits the Escape of
COnvicts.
SUPPLIED WITH TOOLS.
Only Twenty Recruits Needed by the
Second Regiment-Marriage Of One Of
the Privates-Populist Candidates for
Congress in the Raleigh District
Railway Commissioner Caldwell Re-
fuses TO Pay Tax on Telegraph Mes-
sages.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., July 8.


The escape of Gettings, alias Mer-
ritt, the PetersburgR gRaleighAtlanta
burglar, and of Aaron Cox, the wes-
tern North Carolina moonshiner,
from the penitentiary here night before
last was due entirely to carelessness.
A raw guard permitted Gettings to go
to Cox's cell. The men then cut off
two 5 inch steel bars and bent these
upward. They got out Of the open
ing 9xl6 inches, thus made, and thence
through a trap door to the roof. They
evidently had several saws and jim
my, two saws were found. No doubt
they had money and citizens clothing
near at hand.
w. w. Ashe, state forester of the
geological survey, has gone to the
AdlrOndackS, n. Y. state, to do spec
lal work for several months.
The Second regiment now lacks only
twenty men Of having full compile
ment. Tomorrow fifty more recruits
are expected.
Rev. Baylus Cade, Governor Rus
sells private secretary, is a populist
and has an intense desire to get the
populist congressional nomination
from this district. Other populists
who are talked of in connection with
the nomination are Congressman
Strowd, Sheriff Jenkins, of Chatham;
John F. Mitchell, of Franklin; Otho
Wilson, of Wake; Zach Garret and
James Amos, of Vance. 1t is under
or hirh o,-tS hot
nor Russell is using his influence with
Senator Butler to induce the latter to
get the populists to concede to the re-
publicans this district and to permit
J. c. L. Harris to get the nomination,
on the ground that Harris will have
great influence in congress as the
friend of republicans and of Butler.
Chairman Caldwell of the railway
commission notifies the telegraph
companies that he will not pay the
l cent tax on messages.
The adjutant general today complet-
ed the negro regiment at Fort Macon,
by ordering there forty men from Ashe-
vile, forty from Chapel Hill, twenty
from Oxford and sixteen from Green's
bOro, the latter being the band. The
rifles for the first contingent of the
negro regiment (226) arrived yester-
day.
A white tramp was brought here
today from Cary and placed in Jail.
Yesterday while he was riding on
freight train there, he drew revolver
on a brakeman. The latter fed, but
the town constable captured the hobo
and the latter will get at least a year
on the public roads.
| Private A. Boone of the Nantahala
company OF the Second regiment, was
| married here yesterday to Miss Jane
| Graham, of Philadelphia, who came
! here to become his wife.
Company X, of the Second regiment,
| from Wilmington, yesterday afternoon
had a rifle match for gold medal Of
fered by the reserve corps. David w.
| Green was the winner.
| The fund for a monument over the
| grave of Ensign Bagley is now $1,000.
| Strange to say, no news comes as to
| the departure of the Second regiment
! from this point, nor has the paymaster
| arrived Washington kilograms last
| week quoted the secretary of war as
saying the regiment would certainly
| be sent away this week. Officers and
men are ardently desirous to go.
It is said that the flags captured by
the cruiser Raleigh, from the Spanish
| admiral at Manila, are to be sent to
Mayor Russ of Raleigh, as memor-
ial.
The new Carrollton hotel here is tc
open on the 10Th instant.