The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-01

the Columns of q Newspaper.
The West for the Franchise Amend-
ment Greensboro Normal schoo In
spected by a Sanitary Engineer.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. y. c., November q.
Locke Craig. one of the democratic
leaders in the legislature. arrived to-
day from AsheviIle. TO appear before.
the supreme court, together with E.
J. Justice, of Marion. also one of the
most prominent house members, in a
railway damage suit from Mcdowell
county. Craig said: The franchise
amendment. will be ratified. In my
district (the NINTH there will be a
great fight Yer it: in fact hat is the
district where the contest will be made.
Some republicans there will vote for il.
but as a general thing they are now
against il. There are no popuIists in
the district"
The supreme court devotes this week
to appeals from the Tenth district. The
docket is a light one.
The local sensation here yesterday
was a newspaper letter attacking As
sociate Justice Walter Clark in the
plainest language, terming him an
anarchist, a seeker after office and a
man who had sought the ruin of the
democratic party Many guesses were
made as to the identity of the writer,
a lawyer. The letter caused much talk
among members OF the bar.
Yesterday afternoon n. S. Mosely
died suddenly at Rockingham, where
he was the proprietor of a hotel. He
was a native of Warren county and
was a first lieutenant in the confed-
crate service. For twenty-five years
he vas in business here. His remains
were brought here and the funeral was
held this afternoon from the First Bap-
fist church. l.. OBJ. Branch Camp,
Z Confederate Veterans, of which he was
a member, attending.
Senator Butler returned yesterday
from Asheville, where he attended the
Interstate meeting in the interest of
an Appalachian national park in the
Blue Ridge in western North Carolina.
He expresses himself as pleased at the
prospect of the establishment of the
park by the government.
Revenue officers last might made
seizures of illicit distilleries in John
stOn and Franklin counties. Three or
-four registered distilleries were closed
last week, for irregularities. One at
University Station has reopened until
the case is heard.
The Southern railway has paid the
81, 800 judgment for damages against
the University railway and the matter
of appointing a receiver for the latter
comes to an end.
The term of the federal court here
begins December 9Th. The district court
docket is heavy and on the docket of
h circuit court there are some large
| cases.
The state charters the Elm City
Drug Company, of New Bern, capital
$4,000.
D.. H. Senter, a clerk in the office of
the secretary of state, returned today
from Kansas City, where he went to
appear as a witness for the United
States against Benjamin H. Morse, a
swindler, who sold shares of stock in
the Alaska-Klondyke Mining and I'M
provement Company, the shares saying
on their ACE that the company had
a North Carolina charter. Morse got
his case continued, and in order to do
this admitted all Senter's evidence and
that there was no charter in North
Carolina or any where else. Silver
Dick Bland wife, who was one of
Morse's man. victims. caused his ar
rest.
DR.. Richard H. Lewis. of the state
board of health, is at Greensboro, ex-
aiming the sanitary conditions at the
State Normal and Industrial college.
]. L. Ludlow, sanitary engineer, made
an inspection Saturday and today sub
mitted a report to the trustees.