The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-12

Me..eugcrss Raleigh Corr~~pos trat
Has Interestfng Interviews With
senator simmons
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, " -. sept. y
Manuel Robinson. colored. aged -
was brought here from the country to-
day and placed in jail without bail
privilege. charged with the murder of
Loomis Debnam. a negro a few years
elder. The killing was done at a fEat
last night. Robinson with large 20 set
knife cut Debnam's threat and deash
resulted At once.
Arthur Deviin. FOR some time cap
tain Of the foot ball team of George
town university and later a prominent
member OF the base bali teams 81 VIII
mingion and New Bern. is here 10 train
the foot ball team OF the Agricultural
4 Mechanical college. n latter
team IS a quite promising one. Their
was more material than ever before
f:om which TO select il.
Today Corporation Commissioners
AcNesll and Abbott left for Charlotte.
TO inspect the Carolina Central railroad
between there and Rutherfordton.
Among today'S arrivals Were: JuaiuS
Davis and J. .. Carr. OF Wilmington,
H. G.. Conner. OF Winston: A l.. Ward,
OF New Bern.
The supreme court will devote this
week To appeals from the Third Dis
trict.
Henry f. LItchford. cashier OF the
Citizens National bank here. who has
been in Europe three months. returned
today.
The STAKE tax commiss on decides
that state judges must list their In
comes for salary for taxation. The
commission has written a short letter
10 Judge Purnell. in reply TO his open
letter in which he criticised the COM
mission for it's effort TO tax Incomes of
federal judges from salaries. The fed
eral officials will have something TO say
this week about this matter Not a
lawyer has yet been fouad who Will
say this tax can be collected from
Judge Purnell.
Forty state ~convicts are at work on
the Wilkesboro & Jefferson turnpike.
Today the state paid the penitentiary
81, 900 for convict labor on il and took
from the turnpike company alike sum
in bonds.
Democratic State Chairman simmons
said to your correspondent today that
he was particularly pleased at the poll
teal outlook in the state and regarded
the party as now ronge than ever
| before. So far as. he Is aware there is
no independent movement except in
four counties and in each case IL is
II NuN ! w =" "N-1 ~ S1.@
| there is no head 10 1t. He regards ex-
| Congressman j. W. Atwater as an
| emissary. going about seeking TO de-
| velop and oster any independent move
ment. Chairman Simmons says that in
1 an extreme western county a promf-
| lent republican went to one of three
| democrats who had failed Of nomina-
! ton and assured him that il he would
run as an Independent ali his expenses
| would he maid. Thu senator SAYS he
has no idea that the democrats Will fail
tc carry all the congressional districts,
and any statements or hints that the
republicans will carry the Ninth dis
trict he characteriZes as absurd.
AS to the Legislature Chairman Sim
mons says he believes there viii fewer
republicans in that body than there
were at the last session.
1t is asserted With much positiveness
by some of the democrats who took
part in the Independent convention Of
this county last Saturday hat If re-
publicans are gong to figure in * they
are don
1t is a significant fact that republi-
cans attended this convention and did
a lot of the cheering. One negro who
led in this applause was a delegate TO
the republican state convention. but
did not go there. Had he gone he would
ave been ouste1. as that was part Of
the sharp scherae OF the republicans
to make IL appear they nave finished
with the negroes. Yet this particular
negro applauded the speech OF ex-
Congressman Atwater here Saturday
at the Independent county convention
and this is taken as proof that he Is
in line with republican views. and that
the ousting OF the blacks was all a
sham.