The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-25
Messenger Bureau,


Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., January 20.
Major ]. w. Wilson is s-ubpoenaed
TO appear next Tuesday before the
railway commission to give evidence.
II appears tia though hes subpoe-
mas are ISSUED by the clerk of h COM
mission news as to their issue IS not
give out by him. In this case it ap-
pears the subpoena was issued by him
to the sheriff. Major Wilson is not
here. The commission or rather the
two new commissioners, for DR.. Alb
bolt is no party to the proceeding, will
catch a Tartar when they meet Major
Wilson.
AT Greensboro today the U~nderwrIt-
ers Insurance Company was organiz-
ed, with 800, 600 capital. There is
quite a strong movement for local com
panies.
Governor Russell, when asked by
Rev. DR.. Babb VIII the latter was dis
charged said he was not to find
places for Skinne. men."This was
a hit at the Skinner and the "Pritch-
ard populists." 1t is the reason why
Clerk Pagan of the labor bureau was
bounced without a hearing.
Republicans say that Governor Rus
sell viii make a nva OF the state.
The president of the republican league
says the governor last year promised
he would make the
III negro politicians insist that the
governor has made all his plans 10
aid Senator Butler in forming a new
party.
The penften tiary leases the Tillery
farm in Halifax on the terms agreed
on two months ago; a division of prof
its with the owner, who furnishes
| everything save the convict labor. AT
| each of the state farms a cOuplA of
acres of sugar beet will be planted, as
| a test.
The populfsts are after federal Off
| ces. A. S. Peace, of the pOpulist state
| committee, asked that A. j. Daily
populist, of Granville, Uaigiven aGdeputy
| m~arshal's place. DIR. Fox Pearson
of Wayne was also a seeker after a
| place.
Mrs. ALBERT Watson. who died night
| before last in the Johns Hopkins hos
| pital, was buried here today. She was
i OllIy 10 yOoHo III "SC, ol-u Al
! Wtho shot her and then blew out his
| own brains, was but a few years old
| er. The unfortunate young woman
| was soon to become a mother. Her
| life was a beautiful one and she was a
jealous church member.
Senator Butler says the evidence
all points to the guilt of Robert Han
cock. It is expected the governor will
remove Hancock this week. Some
one asked how this could be done, as
the directors OF the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway elected him presi-
dent for a year. Blu the governor a
depOse him as a rectO and that
would carry the office with it.
Governor Russell pardons two of the
men who were engaged in the noted
graveyard insurance. sWindle in Car
teret county, with headquarters at
Beaufort. Those now ~pardoned are
Selden d. Delamar, white, who was
serving a W. years jail sentence at
Beaufort, and William Fisher, colored,
who was serving a five years sentence
in the penitentiary. Each has serve
about a rear. Delalnar was convicted
of conspiracy to defraud, and Fisher
of forgery to defraud. Some time ago
DIR. T. B. Dela1mar another of the men
convicted, was p~ardoned. One man is
yet in the penitentiary and three in
Jail. The pardons were granted be
cause of the reported poor health Of
the criminals.
Lawyers do no appear to relish the
idea that Judge Ewart may get Judge
Dicks place on the federal cour
bench. They regard him as a bitter
partisan.
The emark was made today by an
eminent lawyer here that Judge Rob
inson only charges a grand jury
against free passes when he is holding
court in a county along the line of the
Southern Railway; that he learns
when on the line of the Atlantic Coast
Line he makes no such charge.
A good deal of public spirit is being
now aroused against the Mormon mis-.
sionaries, w7ho are crowding into the
state. The Mormons say they have
got a foothold now.
Apropos of the departure of the
Lynchites from Southport, which it is
liz is o. to occur, the question IS
asked now whether they are going
back to Virginia waters.
superintendent Mew1boorne finds
that there is 5000 o. the penitentiary
fund, the accumulation of severa
years.
Next Monday Gilbert Ward, The
white man who 50 brutally murdered
Maggie Dinkins in Wayne and who il
in Jail here, will be taken to Colds.
boro for trial, but will try to get tn
case removed to another county.
Mrs. NJ. B. Ford, Rudde7l's, ILL.,, sui
fered for eight a from dyspepsia