The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-10

Isslaed by the yer for One Day.
Four for the Postomce Burglary In
Buncombe County.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N. e., aJnuary 6.

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Raleigh. N. g.; aJnuary s.
Governor Aycock today had TO issue
death warrants for six condemned men.
upon certificates from the supreme
court that it had affirm Judgment In
he various cases. The six cases are
those of the four mea who committed
burglary at Emma postoffice. Bun
combe county: Andrew Jackson,
glar. OF Lincolnton. and Ross. OF Will
son. for murder. Ross assassinated a
man who he waylaid.
Governor Aycock ixes Wednesday,
10Th as the date OF xecuIi OF
six men. All these executions are to
be private. as the law enacted this yea
REQUIRES OF the criminals thus ordered
executed our were concerned in the
burglary Of q postofice at Emma,
near Asheville. these being Dudley
ohnso and Russll Gates, white. Ben
Foster n Harry Mills. colored. They
called Samuel Alexander. postmaster. TO
the door at night and while the egroe
watched the building the whites forced
him to take them TO his room. took his
revolver. made him open the safe. but
one STOPPING to take the money put the
revolver m the table. Alexander seized
it. and shot one. They shot in the
course of a desperate fight, but he put
them out. The supreme court .aid the
case was clearly burglary.
Thomas Patten, of Asheville. came
here to see the governor to urge him 10
commute the death sentence, particular
ly of the two negroes who were outside
the building.
The other two men for whom the
death warrants are issued are Andrew
Jackson (white) who in Lincoln county
burglarized a house whose only inmates
were two women whom ne attacked and
nearly killed with a knife, and John
Henry Rose, who also in Wilson county
waylaid and shot a neighbor whom he
believed had informed revenue officers
of his being a m~oonshiner.
The state charters the Carolina Com
pan Of Wilmington, with 81, 200, 600
capital. w. E. Worth being the largest
stakeholder. The company will con-
struct railways. sewers. canals, shafts
of mines. etc
an invitation to address the Daughters
of the Confederacy at Durham on the
18th instant. Lees birthday.
Announcement is received here that
the Interstate gun shoot at clay
pigeons will take place here June 18th,
and 26th. Elmer Z. Shaner, of Pitts
burg. is manager.
NliC1ll lcl VA I'm
commission, went to Fayetteville today
to confer with the county officers-and
commissioners regarding tax matters.
Miss Eula Dixon, the first female
student to enter the Agricultural and
Mechanical college here. has arrived.
She is from Greensboro.
Claude Bernard, United States dis
trict attorney, left today for Washing
to look after his place, for which Harry
Skinner is making a fight. Both OF
these have filed charges and counter
charges, involving character and every
think else. 1t is the idea of some OBJ
servant, people here that. after all,
neither Will get the place. but that
Judge Timberlake Of the superior court
will get it.
On account of the continued illness of
Judge Henry E. Bryan. OF the superior
court. who, is for this reason unable to-
hold the courts of Franklin and Wilson
~cunties. Governor Aycock today direct
ed Judge Justice to hold the former. be-
ginning January Goth. and Judge Coun-
ell to hold Wilson court. beginning Feb
ruary 3rd.
The reports from miscellaneous facto-
ries in this state to the commits
sioner show that there are 1l.io6 m
In this list cotton and WOODEN
mills are mott included. The average
work is 1912 hours: Sc per cent of
the employees LIZ pdlu "eChy' :" ~
cent report increased wages; AZ per cent
report financial condition of employees
good; 63 per cent oppose employment of
children under IA (of whom there are
now only 1927: So per cent of adult en-
ployes can read and write; 6f per cent
report improvement in education; Al per
cent report improvement in morals; 50
per cent favor compulsory In
this connection it is interesting to
know that So uer cent of the farmers
favor compulsory education.