The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
BARNES, MURDERER.
Taken to Wilson for Trial-Democratfc
Editors to Meet To Protect their
Cattle Against exa Fever-Pbar-
macists License - Father and Son
Sent to the Penitentiary Together.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c.. October II.

Raleigh, n. G., October L.
AT 8 o'clock this morning John j.
Jefferson, the self-confessed murderer
Of Captain Calvin Barnes, of Wilson
county, was taken from Jail here by the
next Monday will be put on trial. For
nearly two months he had been in jail
here for safe-keeping, as lynching was
imminent. He was not informed until
2 o'clock that he would be aiken away
and said he was glad to go. He Is the
last of ten men sent to the jail here
during the past two years to save them
from lynching. There were two from
Vance, two from Pitt. one from Gas
ton, n from Johnston, one from Dur
ham and one from Alamance.
The democratic editors of the state
meet here, in the capitol, Tuesday af-
ternoon next, October 18th, to form
their state association and elect Of
ficers.
The republican state executive COM
mittee is called to meet next Tuesday,
at Statesvilie.
1t is quite well understood among
politicians that republicans in this
state are promised in advance much
money from the national committee of
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campaign in North Carolina; perhaps
as much as they were given in 1896.
| The commissions of agriculture says
the state cotton-growers' convention
will be held mex Wednesday evening
ct 8 o'clock, at the capitol.
! The agricultural department is adj
vised of the organization by the farm
ers of Macon county to protect their
| cattle from the Texas fever. This
means they will cooperate with the
| United States government and the state
| in keeping out t~ick-infested cattle.
| The revenue collector was advised
today Of the seizure of four Illicit dis
tilleries.
| Rev. o. L. Struggled, agent for the
Baptist female university and widely
known in the state, has been critically
sick with typhoid fever at a hospital
here. Today he was pronounced out
of danger.
The state board of pharmacy grants
license to the following as pharma-
cists: w. NJ. Tucker, Reidsville;
George Y. Watson, Southport; r. w.
FAIRIES, GoIdsboro; Samuel M. Riddle
and Edward H. Smith, Raleigh; Hiram
Grantham, Smithfield; John H. Harris
%(colored), Charlotte.
AT the Roman Catholic church here
yesterday afternoon Miss Margaret
McCaull, daughter of the late Colonel
John A. McCaull, who was for man
years so widely known as an operate
manager, was married to Mr.. w. d.
Carmichael, principal of one of the
public schools at Durham.
Work begins next week on the North
Carolina Home Insurance COmpany'S
building here, 55xSO feet.
A father aged 65 and his son aged 10,
arrived at the penitentiary yesterday
from Mitchell county, for murder. 1t
is the second time the father has COM
mitted that crime and served a term.
1t is the youths first offence.
The annual horse sale Of home-bred
animals was held here today.
Considerable interest is felt here in
the news of the diamond robbery at
Colonel Julian S. Carr's home at Dur
ham,. Three negroes, who were sus-
pected, were arrested at Cary, but were
discharged.