The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-09
MOVEMENT FOR REFORMA1ORY
DIRECTOR 9EaRR WILL PRESS
TIE ESTABLISHMENT.
Two Men Who Raised Money Orders
Are 1 Custody-Centrnl Heating
Plant for the 4. 6 M.-Escape of
a Convict-Governor Aycock TO
Make an Educational Address in
Florida.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. ". c.. December 6

Z Raleigh, N. c., December 8.
director john P. Kerr OF the peniten-
tiary board says he intends to press
the matter OF the establishment OF a
reformatory for young criminals, of
which project he yesterday spoke at the
board meeting. He says that owing to
the attitude OF some Of the members OF
the board he does not feel as hopeful
as he would wish to be, but he thinks
this is the one chance of establishing
such a r~eformatory and as the peniten-
tiary has the money available he de-
sires 10 seize the present opportunity.
In other words he desires that the pres
emf board shall be the originator and
the founder, 81 to speak, of a reforma-
tory.
Governor Aycock will leave here for
Florida on the afternoon of Christmas
day, taking with him his sons Conner
and John, and will visit his brother at
Melrose. He will on the Goth address
the Southern Educational conference
at Jacksonville, his subject to be 1.-THE
Education of the Masses 1t is the
only engagement to speak which he has
made before the end of his term.
The special committee appointed by
the Board of Agriculture to report upon
the needs of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college here has prepared it's
report which will be aid before the
board tomorrow at the -semi-annual
meeting. This report will recommend
the establishment of a central light,
: healting n power plant to cost about
$50, 600, the location to be alongside the
Seaboard Air Line and Southern Rail-
: ways, in the valley southwest of the
college, in order that coal can readily
be delivered and also in order that wa
ter used in the different systems will
return by gravity to the plant.
Among today's arrivals were C. D.
Bradshaw, New Bern; Charles A. Webb
! and Charles A. Moore, Asheville; hos.
/ c. James, Wilmington; w. W.. Horne,
Fayetteville; r. II. Patterson, Wilson;
W. E. M~urchison, Jonesboro; William
Dunn, New Bern.
Three postofice inspectors are here
to attend the present session of the Fed
eral court, one of these being James
B.. Robertson, who has recently been
assigned to the northeastern division
of the state, with headquarters at We'll
! don. He says he finds the field pretty
! clear of trouble. Inspector Davis, now
in northern New York, but who was
formerly in eastern North Carolina and
who is now here as a witness, remarked
with a smile to Inspector Robinson that
he had cleared out the bad material
from the district and left him a fine
field. Inspector Buck says all the mon
ey order Spenders who raised orders to
large amounts, and who worked his
State last year, have been captured.
: One of them has confessed to every one
OF the swindles except two, which he
charges to his pal, Who'll is now under
! sentence of two years in the peniten-
tiary in Atlanta. There is an indict-
ment against the latter man at Will
mington, and he will be re-arrested
upon this charge as o as his term
ends. The other man who is in jail
in Georgia, is to be brought to Will
mington for trial, an order to that eff
feet having been signed by Judge Speer.
These men passed about s., 1000 of raised
. orders in a year, in North Carolina and
in nearly all the other states in the
south.
The city physician said no new cases
of smallpox nave developed here In a
week, and that there are only two caseE
within the city limits and four in the
suburbs. Editor Caddell of The Even
| ing Times, who is sick at Wake Forest
| had a mild case. The type is not very
! Ia de mild case. The type is not very
! severe in this, vicinity. Vaccination is
not compulsory put the city physician
says many persons are being vaccinat-
ed.
Senator Simmons and his private Sec
rotary, 4. d. Watts, left this morning
| for washington. Mr.. Watts has been
on duty at Democratic headquarters
here some three months.
john W. Thompson of Raleigh, ex-
Secretary of the Democratic State
| committee, frightened an intending
burglar, a negro, from the roof of a
! porch at his home here. Burglars have
| been very daring here recently.
Mention a been made of fact that
; the Code Commissioner had finished the
first of the two volumes Of the new
code. The price of this book will be
/ $500, while the second volume will sell
/ for 500 and will be ready in about ten
I days. The work Is not known as the
code, but as the Revised Statutes. The
first volume contains 1900 pages, o n
tanning all the general statutes. Elk
cellent arrangements have been made
for keeping the type from which the
work Is printed. There are to be $500
copies of the first volume and 1,5o0 OF
the second one.
The penitentiary officials give notice
that Grady Best. a lconvict, escaped
from the camp near Wilkesboro on No
vember 30th. For his arrest they will
pay a reward of ten dollars $4,000 and
all necessary expenses. Best is a color
ed boy about Is years Did, sentenced
from sampson county in September.
1902, for a term of five years for house
breaking. AT the time Of his escape
he was a trusty aroun the camp Has
one front tooth out.