The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-12

November. Il was thought he went to
Nash county and a supreme court jus
tice issued a bench warrant for him.
but he could not be found. Now he
has turned up and has counsel. He Is
to be tried In Northampton county. Hfa
lawyers got a postponement OF the
cas- this week. On the ground thar
public feeling was too strong against
their client.
All the attorneys who are TO appear
for the corporation commission and the
governor in the great injunction case
at Ashevilae next Wednesday. involv-
ing the SO. ooo, 900 additional assessment
ference. They will also confer Mon
day. and Tuesday afternoon they leave
for Asheville. Chairman Mcneil. OF
h corporation commission, said this
morning that there were affidavins In
hand from all the counties IN the state
to prove that real estate and the prop
erty Of the general public was taxed to
its full value and not. as contended by
the railways, OF oniy 60 Def cent OF its
true value He said there Were great
numbers OF these affidivits and added
They seem to me TO be ample proof
TO sustain our commission in its action
in increasing h railway assessment"
The railways, on the other hand. have
collected a mass OF evidence In support
OF their contention that they are over
assessed and that taxation is excessive
and unequal so far as they are con-
cerned.
It is found that il was the plan OF
t~wenty-one convicts to escape from the
penitentiary last month, but only six
made the dash and got away. The
shooting at these deferred the others.
All are desperate men. nearly all OF
them federal prisoners.
IT, -
$50 are now made a week. Sales are
made ali over this tate. This week
500 have been shipped.
The state treasurer is advised that
Admiral Theophilus White, of the
fusion oyster navy, has charge OF the
oyster patrol yacht Lily and is having
her put in shape for cruising.
So great is the rush of students at
the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege that new dorrnftories will have to
be built. hose now built are full TO
OVERLOOKING.
The heating plant OF the government
building here was inspected today. AT
least so men are at work refitting and
painting and decorating the building.
for the first time since il was complet-
ed, in 1878.
Much interest is expressed by rail
way peopie here in w bits of news
one that the Southern has bought the
narrow-gauge railway from Elizabeth
town, Tenn, to the Cranberry iron
mines in this state, to head off the Sea-
board; the other that the Seaboard has
acquired what used to be known as the
Chester and Lenoir narrow-gauge, for
it's proposed line from the coal and iron
mines to Wilmington and Southport.
j. c. L. Harris, Governor RusselTs
r~lght-hand man, who is violently in ia
vor OF the constitutional amendment
limiting the negro franchise. says he
opposes a state republican ticket next
year, blu thinks "populists and anti
amendment democrats" should be given
h nominations; and that Senator But
Ter ought to be the nominee for gov
ernor. Nobody knows what are Sen
ator Buffers views. Three months ago
he said openly he favored the amend
ment and at the proper time would so
declare in his paper. Yet in his paper
for the last two or three issues there
have been bitter denunciations of the
new election law and covert thrusts at
the amendment.