The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-12

4 sarprfsing Change i'm It's Reorgani-
~zation-The Grand Lodge Of Odd FeiA
iows-One More Case of Smallpox.
Protest of h Federal Prisoners.
Messenger Bureau,

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. G, May 9.
AS outlined in Saturdays special.
there are sweeping changes in the state
guard. The Second regiment Gin the
wes1) becomes the First, so as to max
it conform 10 the First regiment OF
volunteers, lately mustered out. The
Goldsboro company and the Lumber
ton and Maxton companies are put in
the Second. Joseph F. Armfeld will be
the colonel Of the First. AT all points
wh4re there are provisional companies
which took n places of companies
which were in the First volunteers h
PROFESSIONALS viii retire and the old
companies resume their places. The
First regiment viii have twelve COM
panies. These will have the same let
ters they had in the First volunteers
The new Second regiment will be
composed Of companies from Colds
boro, Clinton, Wilmington, Wilson,
Scotland Neck, Tarboro, Plymouth,
Washington, Edenton. HEREFORD, Max
ton and Lumber Bridge-tweIve COM
panies. The Goldsboro company was
one which does not remain IN the new
First regiment
The Third regiment-tWelye ccmpan-
ies-is not changed at all.
AS to encampments, il is only known,
as yet, that in all probability the Sec
n Third regiments Will encamp at
Wrightsville or Morehead City, or that
! the First viii make a practice march.
The government has issued 500 blan-
kets to the guard, replacing some taken
by the volunteers.
! The grand lodge of Odd Fellows met
this afternoon in Odd Fellows hall.
There were present the following Off
1900. 49, z---%
| Deputy Crane Master John 4. Stevens,
Grand Warden NJ. w. jacob, Grand
Secretary B.. H. Woodell, Grand Treas
| urer r. j.. Jones, Grand Representatives
| to Sovereign Grand Lodge John F. Bru-
! ton and James P. Sawyer, Grand Mar
shall r. n. Hackett, Grand Conductor
| l.. L. Brinkley, Grand Herald E. l..
Vaughan, Grand Chaplain Rev. George
! A. Page.
There are 10Y 10S lodges, with 4,425
members. During the past year S7,5lS
was paid out for relief. Officers will
be elected tomorrow. The grand lodge
will consider the matter Of holding all
| it's meetings here, as the Masons do,
because of the eXcellnt railway and no
tel facilities, and also from an econo-
mic point of view.
! Reports came in today Of severe hail
/ storms in Richmond, Arson and Vance
i counties. 1t is said that young cotton
| is badly u in Arson. At Henderson
! the storm was one Of the seVerest on
; record.
, One case of smallpox was found in
Raleigh today-the first since Thurs
| day. Sixteen patients were discharged
from the pest house and twenty-four
| from the detention camp. The officials
! say they do not think any of these in
the pest house will die. So far, not
one has died there.
There was an effort made by some
PRISONS whose obstinacy is only equalled
by their ignorance, to defy the law
against compulsory vaccination and
they went to the length of employing
counsel Today their attorney a he
found HAT under the act of 1898 they
had no ground to stand on; that 1t is
a sweeping act and gives full author
ity.
While a part of the wall of the OLD
First Presbyterian church here was
being undermined yesterday, it sud
denly fell. Rev DR.. Eugene Daniels
the pastor, saw the movement barely
in time ITO give warning and thus saved
his own life and that of the contractor
and two other workmen. One OF the
latter fell and was half covered by
(, falling bricks and mortar.
The United States convictS in the
penitentiary here, or some of the mos
turbulent ones of them, have sent t6
Washington a complain of cruelty. Ca.
tain w. H. Day, penItentlary superb!
tendent, gives me the facts, and War
den Russell confirms them. Months agt
the United States prisoners planned {
revolt. They were led by an Irishmar
and a negro preacher from Alabama
They defied the authorities, saying
they could not be whipped or punished
The state convicts were then under
! control; the federal ones not. Day says
when he went in, the penitentiary wa
vilely kept. He had it cleaned. He saw
the federal convicts were mutinous
T~hirty-five Of them We're ordered t
work in the brickyard, within tn,
| grounds. Six swore they would not go
Captain Day found that they Were
amenable to the same discipline as thu
state convicts. Tha settled it. Tht
Irishman and h negro preacher go
each eighteen strokes Of the lash, tn
others three to six. Day says they ar,
now all right N say they deserved
what they got.