The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
THREATENED WITH LYNCHING
Two Negroes Who Rob N hoo a Man
IN the Highway Brought to Raleigh
for Protection-SensationaI Accident
at n wedding.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., December q.

Raleigh, N. g, December q.
The state auditor declines to issue a
warrant for the $40 fee of each court,
claimed by solicitors of riminal courts,
until the supreme court decides it to
be legal.
The sheriff of Rockingham county
who yesterday brought A. G.. Flynn,
the recaptured murderer, back to the
~penitentiary, did not get the $50 state
reward, but got the $50 penitentiary
reward. The supreme court say sher-
ifs cannot be paid state rewards for
captures; that such things are part of
the duties of their position.
The state geologist, Professor Holmes,
who is looking into the matter Of oyS-
ter bed inspection in Pamlico sound,
says that in order for the steamer
Fishhawk 10 get into Pamlico sound
she must go all the way to Norfolk
and thence through the Albemarle and
Chesapeake canal. Ordinarily the tolls
n tonnage would cost $500, but in
view Of the great Importance of the in
SpeCtion the canal and towing cOmpa-
MES make nc charge saw for fuel used
on the tug. There is no way Of getting
the FishhaWk through an inlet, though
she draws only Sh feet of water, as
tNtl ut WI IJ' liz 10 mr.
eight feet at the best stage. The water
is too shallow in the lower sounds 10
allow her to go nOrthWard from Beau
fort, where she now is, so she Will have
to go out to sea and round two capeS.
The annual session of the state geo.
logical board was held today at the
executive office.
At a marriage at LCuisburg, in the
Methodist church yesterday, there was
a great sensation. Some of the decor
atiOns caught fire and, falling, ignited
the dress of q bridesmaid, a young lady
Of Raleigh, and her skirt was nearly
burned off. She was not injured. The
officiating preacher did not interrupt
the service.
Adjutant General Royster, Quarter
master General Macon n Colonel
Charles McNamee, aide-de-camp to
Governor Russell, were here today in
conference with other officials in re-
gard to the removal of the old arsenal
from the capital quaTe and the build
ing Of another on a let lately purchased,
S. l. Hart, member of the lower
house of the Legislature from Edge
combe, who died last week, was a men,
Der Of the joint committee. on the Vance
statue.
Quite q number of Christmas gifts,
mainly in the way of d~elicacies, are
being received at the Soldiers Home
here.
The state charters the Lumberton
Telephone Company, E. K. Proctor and
others, owners; capital $4,000.
At 2 o'clock this morning two young
negroes who yesterday afternoon way
laid. shot anr robbed Robert Hester, a
prominent faImer, near Rocky Mount,
were brought here to jail, for safe keep
ing. Hester had sold his tobacco. They
made him give them the money and
.I~- .LnA I;~1 hrAn tipnnc nnI 1nff
him lying in the road. The negroes are
John Taylor and Robert Fortune. They
had gone nine miles before they were
captured. Sheriff Walker, of Nash,
and a posse captured them and at dusk
yesterday were halted by a mob of for
ty men, who wanted to lynch the pris-
oners. Some Ct the leading citizens
begged the mob not to lynch hem. The
prisoners confess and say they shot
Hester for Fis money.
1t is said the real name of the two
young white men in Jail here, charged
with burglary, is Thompson. 1t is pos
itiVely known that they are from Will
mington. One was in the First North
Carolina regiment in Cuba and after
m~uster-out enlisted in the regular SER
vice. 1t is said that he is a deserter.
The status of the other is not so GER
tain in this respect. The men claimed
they a worked in a cotton mill here.
This is untrue.
The adjourned term OF the United
States district court here begins jan
uary End.
Intense interest was felt here today
in the meeting of the stockholders OF
the Raleigh and CASTOR railway. w. H
Page. of New York, Groner Of Norfolk,
and Rufus H. Morrow, of Jersey City,
were on hand as representatives of the
Rryan interests. These Ryan represen-
tatfves have attended all meetings.
They have had a rough time, have
been denounced and told plainly they
told falsehoods. Here they were de-
nounced by John Shelton Williams, and
at Portsmouth Tuesday eX-Presiden
Hoffman said he would hold them per
sonally responsible if they said another
word regarding his statement as tC
proxies. He wen entirely across the
room to tell them this. The Seaboard
Air Line people have known all the
while thai the Southern was back OF
Ryan