The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-25
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, N C- May =:
News of the explosion at the Cum
mock coal mine, about fifty miles from
here. came about midnight last night.
but not until 3 O'Clock this morning
did the accurate news arrive. II was
taken by courier to Sanford. At frs
it was said fifty men had been killed
II turns out that Mine Boss Connolly.
who was from Pittsburg. Pa. and
twenty-one miners were killed. There
were twenty-seven in the east level and
of these only five were saved Those
in other ports of the mine, some TWEEN
ty-five in number, were uninjured. The
output Of the mine a recently been
about 100 tons a day, the Seaboaro
Air Line taking most of this. This is
the fourth explosion. There was
in the early sos and another about
1859. The third was in December, 1895,
when forty-three men were killed. The
last explosion was due primarily TO
dynamite, of which 200 pounds were
stored in the 2O0-foot evel. This set
off the gas.
The explosion yesterday afternoon
was due to the broken gauZe on a
safety lamp. The mine was not in
spected by the state last year. The
legislature OIL 1881 cudSlSu d law &
Quiring such inspection, but failed TO
make any provision for pay for the
work.
Colonel Julian S. Carr finds that he
cannot deliver the address at the ded-
ication of the TO the mem
DRY of the confederate dead in the
cemetery at Winchester, as he has to
be at Chapel Hill then, at the dedica-
ton of the Carr Memorial building,
which is his latest gift to the univer-
sity. The date Of the dedication of the
monument is Inc 9Th. AT Colonel
Cars request Captain Claude b. Den
son, of Raleigh, will deliver the ad-
dress. Several veterans from here will
accompany him to Winchester,
among them w. C. S~tronarch, super
intendent of the soldiers home.
The state today chartered the South
ern Golf" Publishing Company, of
Asheville, capital $1,000, B. S. Smith
and others stockholders. 1t memo
the charter of the Double Shoals cot
ton mill in Cleveland county, so as to
make it's capital $50, 900, with power to
increase it to 100000.
The supreme court has at last de-
cided the apparently very knotty case
of TheOphilus White, the fusion oyster
commissioner. This case went over
from the last term. 1t is the last OF
the state cases" involving terms of
Office, etc., Ol Which, lHcIc were dUOul
a dozen. The court decided on party
lines. The republicans found for
White. The democratic legislature Of
1899 sought to GUST White and created
a shell fish commission of seven men,
bers. at s400 salary each. White was
decided at the las term to be still in
office. Then he wanted to be given
81, 500, that is, the salary of all seven
commissioners. The auditor and treas
urer refused to pay this. The court
now say they must pay him $500 a
year Notwithstanding act of the legis-
lature of 1899 prohibiting any amount
being paid him. There were no less
than four opinions filed in the case.
Jutices Clark and Montgomery dis
sent and the former scores the court.
The majority opinion puts the court
far above the legislature in point of
authority. State Treasurer Worth
sale today: lone judge says if you
don't pay the salary to White the court
will commit you for contempt, while
another says if you do obey the court
the Legislature will impeach you. The
court, or rather its majority, is GER
tainly at cross purposes with the dem
ocratic legislature.