The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-14
Messenger Bureau

Mrs. Rosa Ashe-A Mask Ball at the In
sane Asylum
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., January 10.
One Of the interesting questions which
arises regarding the arti-free pass cru
sade which Governor Russell, Senator
Butler and the new railway commission
ers are ~inaugurat1ng is whether the COM
mission has any authority as concerns
passes issued on lines which run into
other states. A federal judge says that
in such cases there is no Jurisdiction, the
Interstate m law coming in.
The railway people think the railway
commission began to see saturday after
noon that it's position was ticklish. The
chairman says that in the test which is
in progress the power of the commission
act is being strained to the utmost.
The railway commission office is yet
being constantly guarded, day and night,
by DR.. Motifs son James. 1t was the
governor who ordered the keeper Of the
capitol to put on the guard. The keeper
frankly admits that he can't see any rea-
son for putting on a guard, but that he
simply obeyed orders.
The state grants a charter to the Red
Springs Land and Improvement Com
pany, composed of r. z. Livermoore and
Others.
Colonel E. A. Osborne, of Charlotte, the
last commander Of the Fourth regiment,
North Carolina state troops, has writ
ten to Adjutant General Aging, OF
New Hampshire, for the captured flag
of that regiment, which Mrs. Persis F.
Chase has placed in General Aylings
hands. Colonel Osborne says he desires
the flag as an interesting relic for the
pleasure and satisfaction of the Survi-
vors of that once splendid regiment.
General Aging says that Mrs. Chase has
left the matter of the return entirely in
his hands and that he will be happy to
return the flag upon an authorization by
the adjutant general of North Carolina
that Osborne may receive it. This au-
thorization was given today
Thomas b. Womack, chief clerk to
Revenue Collector Simmons, is appoint
ed assistant general counsel of the Amer
lean Tobacco Company, with h~eadquar-
tiers at New York. He will assist Gen
eral Counsel w. w. Fuller and his spe-
cial duty will be to go to points where
there are suits to assist local counsel.
Wake superior court today began a
criminal term, with 1R cases on the
docket. Two are for murder. One de-
PENDANT, Groves, gets a new trial. The
other, Chavis, alias Booker, will as
suredly be hanged for the murder of a
Rear Admiral kirkland. United States
navy, of Hillsboro, N. c., the ranking
officer of the navy, %retires this year.
1t is found that the cost of county con-
victs on the public roads here is only 81
cents a day each. this including food,
clothing. medical attendance and guard
ing. 1t is cheaper to work prisoners on
the roads than it is to keep them in Jail.
Mrs. Rose Hill Ashe died last night
at the home of her kinsman, Captain S.
A. Ashe. She was born in this city
William H.. Hill and Eliza K. Marshall.
the latter being the first white child
born in Raleigh. She was a kinsWoman of
Chief Justice Marshall. William H. Hill
ruyac tho of r,Onnrah1p William II
Hill and Eliza Ashe, daughter of Gen
eral John Ashe, whose home was Hilton,
near Wilmington. November q, 1857. Miss
Hill married her cousin, Thomas H.
Ashe, brother of the late William S.
Ashe, of Rocky Point. They had one
child, DR.. Alexander S.. Ashe, who died
in 1866. Her husband died in 1859. About
1869 Mrs. Ashe became matron of the
Home at Wilmington and remained there
until 1875, when she came here: She
leaves two sisters, Miss LOSSie Hill and
Mrs. Fannie D.. Waddell.
Since the new year began twenty-seven
new students have entered the state uni
versity-an unusually large number.
At the insane asylum Friday night
there was a New Years ball. in mask
and costume, in which 100 of the inmates
and attendants took part. Not a few Of
the costumes were remarkable for their
cleverneSS.
1t is the opinion of a majority of the
populist state committee that Senator
Butler is losing ground in the state.
Such is the declaration Of r. A. Cobb, of
that committee.
DR.. Abbott, Of the railway commission,
says there is nc possible excuse for Gov
ernor Russelrs statement that "if Abbott
bothers me l will jump (meaning sus-
pend) him." DR.. Abbott says he has al
ways notified the governor frankly of his
views and purposes.
Mitchell Byrd, aged ~ years, is the
last arrival at the penitentiary. He is
to serve ten years for murder. In Mitch
ell county there are no legal executions
for murder.
There is positively no smallpox in this
state, despite sensational rumorS.
General Secretary John G. Drewy left
today to attend the grand lodge of Ma
sons at Oxford. He tells me there are
29S lodges, total membership being II 500.
The gain in lodges was eight and Of
members 400 last year.