The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-12
A DAY OF
For the Citizens OF -gh-EuI erals
of the Youths Who Were Drowned.
Corporations-Elopement and Deser-
ton of His Family by /? Wake Count
Man.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, N. c., January s.
Yesterday was one of the most sor-
rowful Sabbaths Raleigh ever knew.
Grief at the drowning of the three
school boys, Mial Williamson, Edwin
Lee and James linton was general and
profound. AT an the churches the pas
tors alluded to the accident. The flu
neral of youngWiniamson and Lee was
held from Edenton street Nj. z. church.
yesterday afternoon The tendanc
was the largest ever known here. ALI.
the pastors We're present. The caskets
We're borne by schoolmates of the dead
boys and all the Students at the Raj
eigh male academy We're present as a
body. This morning The funeral of
young Hinton was held at his fathers
home in the country. Many persons
from Raleigh, including most OF his
school mates attended
The state charters the HEREFORD Nam
ufacturing Company, Of Hag tford, cap
ltal $15, 600, to mak buggio5 and wag-I
onS; the Scott-Mebane Manufacturing
Company, of Graham, capital s45, 900,
to make overalls and leggins, stockhold-
ers l.. Banks Holt, H. w. Scott and
James K. Mebane;. the Flannigan-Har-
ness Company, of Statesville. capital
$1,000, the Snow Hill Land an improve
memo Company, capital Sc, 200.
There is a sensation among the pop
ulISt in Wake county. One OF them,
wink was a candidate for office in the
last campaign n who is a farmer
with a wife and four children, has
eloped with a daughter of another pop
ullSt. The young woman is a school
teacher. The man who elJoped with
her said he was going to take her
home. Instead OF doing 50 he brought
her to Raleigh. and they left on the
train 1T is believed they have gone to
the far south. He had old or mort
gagged his property and took with him
the money thus raised, leaving his wife
penniless. Her father SwearS he will
shoot him on sight.
The ~penftentiary contra cts TO furnish
the Go~ldsboro-Snow Hnl railway 100
convicts to do grading, and the Aber-
deem and RockfiSh railway fifty. The
latter road is going to the big cotton,
mills on ROckf1Sh creek near Fayette-
vile. 1t connects with the Seaboard at
Aberdeen.
The Raleigh military returned early
yesterday morning from LumbertOn.
where they had been guarding the jail.
They are delighted at the hospitality Of
the peopl of that tcwp. Colonel Il. Z.
Smith, who went with the troopS made.
by the governors order, a reful in
vestigattion into the matter Of the in
nocence or guilt of Reuben Ross. the
condemned negro, and is thoroughly
convinced OF his guik and 50 reports
to the governor. Unless some very
strong evidence in Ross favor is pro
duced before Friday he will be execut-
ed that day. The governor has given
n case extremely careful attention.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has sent out inquiries TO all
the mayors of towns OF 1000 popu,ation
and upwards, asking them questions
regarding their public schools. The
mayo of Henrietta in Rutherford
county, where there are the largest cot
ton mills in the state, says the mill
company pays for the public school or
keeps it open ten months in the year
and that there are SIS scholars.
The sheriff OF Wake county today
made full settlement OF state taxes
He is the fifth sheriff TO settle for 1893.
Under an old law confederate soldiers
who lost both eyes, both legs or both
arms, in service are given $120 pen
sion yearly; Of these there are thirty
four. The last legislature Allowed this
pension to soldiers VINO have become
blind since the Fifteen have ap>
piled under this taw and eight r
granted b pension.