Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-10
Senator Butler Accompanied
Home by Heavily Armed Guards.
is AFRAID OF RED SHIRTS.
Chairman Simmons Pays Just Tribute to
tho Press-A Railroag Case Removed
From tho state to UNITED States Court
Health Exhibit Rrado by July Bulletin
OF the State Board of HeaIth-Domo-
cratic State Hoaiqua utors Closed Up
Hallway Tax Case.

hallway Tax Case.
Raleigh. N. c.. Aug. ga special
from Wilmington, dated yesterday.
says:
Senator Marion Butler visited East
ern Carolina yesterday for the first
time since the franchise election
amendment. He came down to War
saw and went to his home. in Sampson
county. He was accompanied by an
escort of seven heavily armed men.
-Four men well armed came to Warsaw
Tuesday. staid about town with no ap-
parent object, no one taking any spe-
cial notice of them or having any idea
as TO their purpose until Wednesday.
When Senator Butler stepped off the
train, accompanied by several other
armed men. and were met by them, the
entire squad proceeding across the
country to Senator Buffers home 1t
Is thought in Warsaw that the object
OF the advance squad in coming there
was 10 investigate as to what risk
Butler would run in coming East. and
make sure that no Red Shirts or others
We're in waiting for him. 1t is con-
coded that had it been known that
Butler was coming he would not have
'NSii oiOWSn " sup IL w dIStlW. AS
1t was. before his presence became
noised around sufficiently to result in
any united action he and his body
guard had passed out of town and
were well advanced on the road to the
Senator's home.
A LOYAL PRESS.
Democratic State Chairman Simmons
says that Charles b. Aycock's cam
paign was 1.-The most wonderful ever
made in this State ad6ad That
there never was n campaign in which
the press rendered such magnificent
and efficient service"
BREVITIES.
Democratic State headquarters were
closed yesterday afternoon, not to be
reoDened until September LIST.
The papers during the past forty
light hours show that there will be
lively fight growing out OF the attempt
OF one paper to make the color line"
an issue in national politics in North
Carolina during the coming campaign.
The fight is already begun. in fact.
and will be to a finish, it Is safe to
say.
The hearing OF the railway tax as
sessment cases before Standing Master
James Z. Shepherd will be resumed
next Tuesday at Charlotte. The coun-
sci for the three great railway sys-
TENS say they will be ready.
State Board of Agriculture has for
mally accepted the great annex of the
State Museum. AS yet the contracts
for furnishing 1t are unawarded.
Another hot wave is making itself
felt and the temperature yesterday
and to-day was very near the 100 de-
gree mark.
RAILROAD CASE REMOVED.
The Southern Railway has secured
an order from Judge Purnel removing
from Durham county Superior Court
to the United States Court the case in
volving the Southerns right of way in
the town of Durham. This case is a
noted one. 1t is another phase of the
long and bitter fight between the
Southern and the Seaboard Air Line
The Southern owns the Oxford and
GAINESVILLE Railway, the Seaboard the
Durham and Northern. The latter
lately bought the Durham and North
ern stock held by the town OF Durham.
The Southern said in its petition for
removal that from prejudice and local
influence 1t would not be able to OBJ
tain justice in Durham Superior Court
or any other State court TO which it
had the right under State law to re-
move it.
HEALTH REPORT.
The July bulletin of the State Board
of Health was issued to-day. 1t says
ties-in all, 1875 cases. Measles is cpl
demic In about ten counties. Typhoid
fever is in forty counties-New Hano-
yer having twelve and Wake fifteen
cases. A case OF hemorrhaSic fever is
reported in Cabarrus This disease is
more deadly than yellow fever. but it
is not contagious. Hog cholera is re-
ported in only four counties.
1t is the remark of cotton growers
in this section that they have seldom
seen the crop finer, and never more
fully fruited. Another feature Is the
exceptionally large size of the bolls.
A CARD TO BUTLER.
The Wilmington Messenger this
morning published the following card,
regarding the recent Bellamy- Butler
incident, in which Butler took Bella
my to task for saying in a campaign
speech that he (Butler) should be
driven from the State:
Hon. Marion Butler, Strive have
seen your challenge through the pa
pers to our beloved and honored John
d. Bellamy. Mr. Bellamy is too high
in the political arena and too much
and he is too pure. in the estimation
of 10000 constituents to have n per-
sonal encounter to reply to your BAN
ter or to serve you in any purpose.
There are 10000 good people in Bella
mys district who will meet you, man
to man. and settle all challenges that
you may give out. have farm that
employs fifty good men, ana any yellow
niger that l have says that he will
match you as to a personal encounter.
They say you have betrayed them in
every trust that they confided In you.
j. C. STANLEY,
For Forty Tenants"