The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., October a.
A letter from the commissioner OF
insurance, who has been very sick at
Henderson, says he expects to be In
his Office here next week. His office
has been refurnished, as has also been
that of the labor commissioner, who
reoccupfed it today.
Walter H Page, of the Harper-Mc-
Cgure Publishing Company, New York.
is here at the bedside of his father, the
venerable Mr.. A. T. Page. All the
nearest relatives are here. One of the
sons said today that his fathers death
seemed to be a question Of hours. he
is failing fast. The brain is now affect
ed. There is NO pain, but complete un-
consciousness.
Burglars made a rich haul here last
night, having entered the A. B. Hawk
fns, Bailey and Higgs residences. There
is no doubt that they are professionals.
They took only expensive jewelry,
among osher things four diamond
rings and half dozen watches. Some
persons believe the gang is the one
which plundered the Julian S. Carr and
Winston houses at Durham.
A new annex at the insane asylum
contains eighteen rooms.
Since the cotton market began to de-
cline the receipts here are increasing.
Farmers will not sell on a rising mar
ket, but will on a declining one. But
little cotton is being stored in the
farmers warehouse here. The farmers
are keeping their cotton at home, as
rule.
T. J. Robinson, for six years the
INIT tor of ami
here, is removed by Collector Duncan
and Wiley J. Latham, colored, succeeds
him. Tt is a civil service place and
Latham was on the eligible list.
Judge Purnen left today for Eliza
beth City to hold term ofcourt. !
A queer case is before the supreme
court from Granville county. A negro
sues the Atlantic Coast Line forS3, 600
damages for false arrest. He says that
the sheriff of Cumberland county was
on the lookout for three negro murder
ers; and that ait Fayetteville a Coast
Line conductor pointed him out as one
of the men wanted; that he was ar
rested and Jailed and that a lot of
armed came in the car and took charge
of him.
Claude Broughton, the lieutenant Of
of Company B, Third regiment, here,
who is charged with embezzling $45 of
funds he collected from citizens to
pay the company's expenses to New
York, was lodged in Jail here late last
night in default of bail None OF his
people would put up bail for him. Tt
was said he was arranging to leave
here last night. He was in the hos
pital, after taking poison, but strange
to say, was discharged from there
without any notice to the county au-
thorities.
w. HI. Parker, Of Pitt county, an in
mate of the soldiers home here is at
the point of death.
The police here say they believe last
nights oul ga1ies were the work of ne
gr'oes. They also think that negroes
robbed the residence of Mrs. Parker
Thursday and also committed the
Durham burgaries. The burglars en-
tered J. A. Higgs' home Thursday night
and last night.
Octavius Coke. oldest son of the late
secretary of state, has gone to Manila
to serve in the Fourth cavalry.
No less fthan lis of the students of
the Agricultural and Meche nical COL
lege are self-supporting. Military dis
cipline begins there next Monday. The
freshman class will in future devote
half it's time to shop work and draw
ing. The college takes entire charge
of Pullen park.
Governor Russell is being criticised
severely for his pardon of Calvin
Barnes a white man of Wilson. con-
victed of an attempt to outrage white
girl.
The number of pupils in the Catholic
orphanage here has reached fifty.
The State Dairymen's Association
meets in annual session here next Mon
day.
An unusually large amount of work
is in progress at the state fair grounds.
AT least 200 people were there yester-
day. The horses-runners, PAGERS and
trotterS-have arrived.
The supreme court will next week
hear argument in the case which will
test the right of d. H. Abbott to a
seat on the corporation commission.
Another case to be heard is the one to
test the question whether penitentiary
debts incurred after March 1st shall
be paid out of the funds derived from
the sale of the $110,0O OF debt bonds.