The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-20
Messenger Bureau

Haici6u, ~ -, Apfli 10.
Shortly after midnight Saturday
night Southern railway telegraph
strikers cut all the wires of that road.
Western Union Telegraph Compa-
ny and the Bell Telephone Company
west OF here one mile. Pullen park.
Eleven were cut. The wires We're cut
by an xpert lineman or linemen, in
such a way that they would fall across
the trolley wire of the street railway.
As a result when the current was put
on yesterday morning, a number of
telephones were burned out here as
well as telegraph instruments west OF
here. 1t was a deliberate piece of dev-
iltry and has not only put diScredit
upon n strikers, but has made the
Western Union telegraph and h tel
ephone people furiously angry. 1t is
known that the strikers have with
them some expert linemen and that
h latter also lid the cutting We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday nights
between here and Selma. Other line
men have made this discovery.
Asheville is yet cut off from the
world. The strikers cut the wires in
wild places in the mountains. There
are only Western Union and Southern
wires there n not a word can get
through. Selma "a in some trouble
yesterday, but last night and today
was all right. At the Southern office
here IL was said that passenger and
freight trains were running all right.
There was a vague rumor Saturday
that the engineers and firemen would
strike. Nothing of h kind has hap
pened. The strikers on Saturday hint
ed that there would be big develop
ments by Sunday noon and that they
would get unexpected aid.
This morning Democratic State
Chairman Simmons, Charles B. Ay-
cock, nominee for governor; B. R.
Lacy, nominee for treasurer; S. L..
of agriculture, and Franklin Nc
Neill, nominee for corporation commits
sioner, left here on what is known as
the ratification tour" The other
nominees on h state ticket met them
at Burlington, where the first meeting
was held this morning. The tour will
be a wide one.
The republicans and populists are in
quite a state of mind. Their leading
wire pullers met at Washington Friday
and at first agreed, or thought they
a agreed, to divide the ticket and
fuse, the republicans taking governor
and lieutenant governor and the pop
ulists the remainder; but a kick fol-
owed. Saturday it was decided to let
each party put up it's own ticket. 1t
was Thought that in this way the pop
uliStS could keep more of their own
people from voting h democratic
ticket, n thus give more aid to the
republicans. The republicans here who
will talk with any degree of frankneSS
admit that their party has made a mis-
take in taking the side of the negro
against the white man in the matter
OF the constitutional amendment. DR..
Abbott Crepublican) corporation COM
missioner, said today, with a wink,
1.-The populiSts think they can carry
h state. The FAC is the republicans
and populiSts lave not a ghost of a
chance.
State auditor Aver, who presided at
the populist county convention here
Saturday, made the absurd state
ment that no intelligent and honest
man would vote for the amendment,
saying some honest men would vote
for it, but they were not intelli-
gent and that some intelligent men
would but were they honest?
The supreme court will this week
hear appeals from the Eleventh dis
trict. Among the attorneys here are
E. K. Proctor, of Lumberton; Frank
I. Osborne and P1att D. Walker, of
Charlotte, r. B. Redwine, of Monroe.
Easter was a glorious day. The dis
play of costumes was gorgeous. In the
afternoon Bishop Cheshire confirmed
eleven persons at ST. Mary'S school
Today was also perfect. In accordance
with a very Die custom great numbers
of persons went fishing.
The auditorium committee here
meets next week and will get a char
ter. The capital stock is to be SIS, 900.
DR.. Richard H. Lewis, secretary of
the state board of health, says tina
owing to the large political gatherings
this year he expects an increase and
wide spread of smallpox