The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-21
TWO CONFEDERATE VETERANS
OF wake COUNTY Pass Away-To Build
Boulevard to National Cemetery
Light Sentences on PRISONERS.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., March II.


Raleigh, n. c., March II.
Two confederate veterans well known
locally died here yesterday, ]. I.
Watts and P. &. Hardie. The former
had for twenty years been a magis-
trate in his city. During the civil war
he was in the confederate service in the
Crescent regiment. from New Or
leans. He was utmost IS years old. He
was a member of L. OBJ Branch,
camp, u. G. ", n at his special re-
quest was buried in its uniform MIR.
Hard1e was a native OF Raleigh A
few days after his birth the house OF
his parents. which stood where the
city hall now IS, was burned in a fire
which swept that part OF the city. He
was rescued oy State Senator Pinck-
ney Caldwell, and in memory OF this
the latter's name was given him. Be
fore the civil war he was in the ex-
press service and left it to join Com
any K of the fourteenth North Car
DINA regiment, of this city. He be-
came a lieutenant in that company.
After the war he was again an ex-
press messenger between Raleigh and
Norfolk. For the past ten years he
had been on the police force. His age
was 20. He also was a member of l..
OBJ Branch camp. His death was
very sudden and was due TO heart
disease. Two Of his sons are locomo-
tive engineers, one living in Richmond.
A survey is III progress for a boule-
ward from the capital to the national
cemetery. out New Bern avenue and
by the soldiers home, thence south
ward to the cemetery Part of the
work has been done by the city. The
government is expected to do the re-
mainder.
The Christian EndeavorerS now hold
services at the penitentiary every Sun
day morning. The convicts par
ticularly like these services because
they are permitted to make talks.
AT the office OF the state superinten-
dent of public Instructions it was said
today that in all probability the war
rants for the public school money
would this week be sent to the needy
counties
State Treasurer Lacy will attend the
state Sunday-schoOl convention at
Fayetteville thi5 week.
A new lodge of Odd Fellows will this
week be formed at Salisbury. 1t will
take the name North State, No. 26,
that of a lodge which ceased to Exist
Fifteen years ago.
Col. A. B. Andrews, of the Southern
railway has been in~disposed at his
home here for several days. Acute in
digestion is given as the trouble.
Two negroes, John Knots and his
wife, were brought to the p~enitentiary
today from Union county. They sub
mitted to murderer in the second de-
gree. The was a cook in the
family Of DIR. Love and was charged
with putting arsenic in food and coffee.
BY this a number of persons were
poisoned, but all save DR.. Love re-
covered. This occurred in h summer
OF 1900. The case has attracted much
attention. The charge was that Knots
melted his wife to use the poison. She
gets ten years and he gets five. The
sentence is really a compromise, as
both sides were in some doubt about
proving their case
The international field secretary of
the Sunday-schoOls wade two address
es here. one Saturday evening and one
yesterday afternoon. He left today for
Fayetteville.