The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-24
A STATE %REF0RMAT0RY
The Universal Demand for Such an
Horse Stealing Case.
Growth OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
dfdares for Speaker ofJhe House.
Messenger Rnreau-

Raleigh, n. c., August Is.
Captain c. B.. benson, secretary of
the state board of public charities, says
that he is now compiling matter on
the subject of a reformatory TO submit
TO the legislature in 1t is
confidently predicted that such an in
s%titutiOn will be established. Most Of
the religious denominations are urg-
ing ii, the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, Farmers Alliance and
other orders have passed resolutions
for it, n the judges of the state, no
tably Judges Moore, Brown. Bowman
and Timberlake, declare a reformatory
the crying need OF the state.
Information was received today that
the horse and buggy at Mr.. w. K.
Eatman, stolen here July 18th, were
sold to a man at PAGES, Va. An officer
has been sent for them. Billy Mccain, a
white man, was arrested in Norfolk
and brought here charged with the
crime. The fact has since developed
that he broke jail some six years g
in Person county, and an effort is now
being made 10 have Governor Russell
pardon him.
The scaffOId for the execution of
ION Jones Will be erected next week.
Jones murdered an entire family OF
six. He was seen by your cOrrespon-
dent today, and he shows signs of COM
pletely breaking down. He says that
ne tries not TO think about his crime.
His finger nails have grown out like
bird claws and he is thin and weak.
The growth of labor organizations
during the past six months is phe-
nOmenaI. Every Tanch of labor, ex-
Cept the painters, Is organized here,
and there are two general OrganiZa-
tiOns, the Confederation of Labor and
the Allied Labor Union The second
IS regarded largely as political since
Il has as an object passing on the fit
ness of candidates for office. The labor
organizations are wen stronger here
now than in rhe great knights OF
Labor craze a few years since. As yet
the cotton mill operatives in Raleigh
have not organized, but in West Dur
ham, it is earned, thirty employees
in one mill worked out their quit no
tees today because of membership in
a union. The operatives at Randleman
and some at Burlington have also or
Sanized. \ man from Indiana visited
the Pilot and CarOleigh mills here and
applied for permission to go through
the mills and talk 20 the operatives.
In both instances he was denied admis-
sion. 1t was lea ned afterwards from
employees who talked with him that
his purpose was TO organize unions.
What will Governor Russell do with
Tom Smith, the Johnston county negro,
under sentence of death in Jail here
for the murder of two white men? The
supreme court refused him a new trial
but recommended that the governor
commute his sentence TO Imprisonment.
Tha was in une and as yet the gov
ernOr has not done So.
Representatives Walter Moore, 5. M.
Gattis, of Orange; Justice, of Mellow
ell, and Craig, are mentioned for speak
er of the next house. The speakershlp
will go west. If an eastern man could
be chosen no n would be more pop
ular than George ROuntree, Esq, OF
New Hanover.
The Franklinton, TarbOro and Colds
(5Oro military companies n New
Bern laval reserves are among the
latest to signify their intentions OF at
tending the unwilling.