The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-29
Report of Agricultural
Department.
FUSION ARRANGED
Between Republican and Populist
Committees-Railway Commission TO
Settle Raleigh and CASTOR Railway
Funds for Agricultural Colleges
Death of hom ID. Turner-The
First Regiment 60 go To Porto Rico.
Messenger Bureau.


Raleigh, y. -, July -
The state crop report for July was
issued by the agricultural department
today. 1t gives the following per cent
ages OF condition OF crops: Cotton,
S612; tobacco, 81; corn, 94a; peanuts.
S7E, rice, 80: Irish potatoes, S2iR:
sweet potatoes. 9oA; peaches, "A; APP
pies, 76; grapes, S4A; gardens, S2&.
Senator Butler arrived here yester-
day afternoon for the purpose az hav-
a conference with Cyrus Thompson,
populist state chairman.
The poulist state committee and the
republican state committee are given
full authority to arrange all the de-
tails of fusion; the preliminaries hav-
ing already been arranged.
At the meeting Of the railway COM
mission day after tomorrow the mat
ter of reducing the passenger rates on
the Raleigh and CASTOR railway comes
up for settlement. Attorney John w.
Hinsdale, who represents the governor
in this matter, will attack the state
ment made by Nice-President St. John,
of the Seaboard Air Line, that the
81, from III SAFE % ne IISl
bonds of the Raleigh and CASTOR road
were used entirely for equipping the
Raleigh and CASTOR. Hinsdale will
contend that not a dollar was so used.
but that it was put into the Raleigh
and Augusta and the Georgia, Caro-
lima and Northern railways n $780,
900 used in buying bonds of the Sea-
board and railway.
The Pullman Car Company will o
fond thn MO n ~ pofccinp hnc No
legal authority to assess its property
for taxation, but that only the state
auditor has that power. The company
therefore, resistS the assessment re-
Gently made by the commission, on the
ground of lack Of jurisdiction.
This ear of the s24, 900 allowed this
state for agricultural and mechanical
colleges by the United States under the
Hatch bill Git being $1,000 more than
in 1880 the Agricultural and Mechan-
cal college here for whites is allowed
SIS, 5S5. go, and that at Greensboro for
negroes So, 404. 40.
There is no doubt that Judge Adams
will accept the republican nomination
for congress in the Fifth district. He
admitted as much to your correspond
ent today.
Thomas D. Turner, q widely known
and popular travelling man, died in
the Rex hospital here this morning of
malarial fever, contracted in Louisi-
ana. He had been sick three weeks at
HillSbOrO, his home, and was brought
here last Sunday. He was Az years
old, and was a son OF Hon.. Josiah
Turner, Of HillSbOrO.
A son of Sheriff NJ. w. Page, Of this
county, was this morning at Norris
vile badly gOred by a bull. H had
a narrow escape from death. The bull
was brought here today and killed.
A public man here says that upon
a showing of hands" it will be found
that nine persons out of ten favor an
nexation of Cuba and Porto Rico to
the United States, and that a large
proportion favor holding on to the
Philippines.
1t is now asserted to be certain that
the First regiment, North Carolina
volunteers, will be sent to Porto Rico,
and also that the six companies Of the
Second regiment remaining here will
quickly go to Chickamauga or else to
several posts.
The odds are that w. F. Stroud will
never be renominated for congress in
this district.
Work or the Cape Fear North
ern railway began at Holly Springs,
this county, today. It is asserted tina
this road will extend from Raleigh to
Fayetteville.