The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-15
FIGHT WITH nooNsa,SEas
revenue Raider fn u Tight Place.
Cattle from ghis state spread Sptenic
Fever In virginia-tbis Disease In
Other Parts Of Our state New Ques.
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Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, n. G., August 10.
The revenue collector Is advised OF a
lively battle with moonshiners in Rich
mond county. in which Deputy Col!ec-
tor Mcdonald. Deputy Marshal Cooper
and three moonshiners participated.
Mcdonald had captured an Illicit still
at night AS he was driving away the
moonshiners opened fire. striking the
horse n buggy three lines. II was
ten miles 10 Rockingham and on reach
ing there the horse fell dead.
The collector is advised of the seizure
Of two Illicit stills near R~ougemont, Or
ange county. and the capture OF the
three men operating them
The state today chartered the Ban
den county, G.. H. Currie and others
owners.
Governor Russell has received a let
ter from Chincoteague. Va. stating
that E. P. Timmons. in violation OF
both federal and state laws. took some
cattle there from eastern North Caro-
lima; hat these cattle were ''ticky'' and
that as a result the Virginia cattle have
been infected with splenic fever and, as
the letter writer puts il. are dying like
hogs with the cholera" He speaks of
the disease as "the merne," by which
he means murrain. Governor Russell
referred the letter 10 the state veteri-
marian, Cooper Curtice. It is found
that the cattle We're shipped by water
from one Of h eastern North Carolina
counties and were not inspected. This
shipment was made last May by Tim
mons. The state veterinarian refers the
whole matter to DR.. Salmon, the chief
of the United States bureau Of animal
The state veterinarian was today ad-
vised of outbreaks Of splenic fever at
two points in Arson county, ear
W~adesboro. and also Of three cases near
Raleigh. Here one COW died yesterday
of the disease.
Lee Summers, a convict now in the
penitentiary, was sentenced for life.
Governor Carr, COMMITTED his sentence
to fifteen years Imprisonment. Sum-
mers has been in the p~enitentiary thfr-
teen years. He is entitled to good
conduct time" this to be deducted from
him term. But as to when this time
began there is a hitch and a novel suit
is the result. His attorney claims that
it began thirteen a ago, when he
was imprisoned; the penitentiary SUI
perintendent claims hat life prisoners
are not entitled to such time and
that, therefore, it began only four years,
ago, when Governor Carr communted
the sentence. Summers attorney went
to the penitentiary and demanded that
his client be released August 29th, on
which date his term would expire If
good conduct time were allowed for the
thirteen years. The superintendent
said Summers would not be released
on h 29th. The attorney then gave
notice that on the 30th he would insti-
tute habeas corpus proceedings to test
the matter. The attorney says the time
allowance is an act of grace and that
the courts will put a liberal. construc-
upon it.
Greensboro has in the person of j. A.
Pritchett the longest term magistrate,
he having served continuously forty
years. He is 73 years of age. Raleigh
has the one with the mex longest term,
Wesley Whitaker.