The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-13
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. C.. September


Raleigh, ~. c., September s.
President Winston, OF the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College. said TO-
day that everything was quiet there.
The ~ seniors who have made the
trouble and stirred up the under
classmen. were told that they could
not remain at the college, as they were
making. speeches. going through the
mess hall cheering and shouting.
Twelve Of them remained at the col
lege last night. The others remained
in the city and are yet here, saying
they think the board OF trustees Will
One senior says he believes the
board would give way to The demands
of the seniors. but admitted that if
dent. The juniors and sophomores
had a secret meeting this morning In
the park. Four of the seniors hav
been expelled, but these yet remain
here. 1t vas said today by some stu
dents that they had written TO the
State University and to Clemson Col
lege, sc, and that they were told
they would be X in al either OF
these institutions. but that they do not
know whether is true or not. The
trouble about the matter is that the
oaths have been taken by not only the
seniors, but the under classes, and that
the students regard these foolish "a
ures as binding. They are told that
if their demands are allowed. it would
demoralize all college life. They want
all sorts of liberty at night. That is
the main trouble.
The ~penitentiary directors will soon
move all the %convicts from the gang
that works on the Raleigh and Pamli-
co Sound railway, the roads OF Gull
ford county, the lumber cutters at
Dover and the Ives gang, to the state
farm, on the Roanoke river. in order
to gather the great cotton crop there.
This work will be pushed, and as soon
as it Is done, all these ~convicts, at
least $50. will be put at work on the
Raleigh and Pamlico Sound railway,
so as to push it as rapidly as possible,
as it is felt that it is best to build the
railways which develop the state rath-
er than to hire convicts to private per-
sons. Penitentiary directors say that
If the present plan of sending feeble
convicLs to the pe~nitentiary continues
for two years longer, the institution
will not be self-supporting, but will
nave to be turned into a hospital.
Sellers and Brown, the negroes who
are from Bladen county, held i'll the
penitentiary for safe-keeping. are
scared to The limit. Sellers is stated
by Brown to ave made threats re-
garding the dead woman. but Sellers
says that Browns statements are lies.
The state charters the Moffitt Iron
Works, at Sanford, capital stock $685.
coo; also h High Point-Inter Urban
Street railway, with leave to operate
railways, telephone and telegraph
lines anywhere within a radius of so
miles from High Point. The capital
stock is $500, 900, and w. A. Heller,
of Danville, Pa, owns most of the
stock. the other stockholders being r.
A. White and r. H. Wheeler. of High
Point.
Governor Aycock and Francis D.
Winston left this afternoon for Maine,
where they make twelve educational
addresses at the request of that state;
then the Governor goes to Vermont
for a little visit to a prominent man
there whom he met in this state.
President Charles D. McIver, of
the state Normal and Industrial Col
lege-was here today n said that the
school would open with $50 b~oarders
in the dormitories. SO in private fami-
lies and about 60 students from
Greensboro, making about $50 in all.
The dormitory is one of the finest in
the country.