The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
CABARRUs CONVICT ESCAPES
Makes Dash For Liberty While on the
Way to the Penitentay.
Trial of Henry Clark Will be Held
MOnday-Two Railway Inspections
i'm Progress-Record Breaking Re-
ceipts at the Dispensary-Gifts to
the Presbyterian Synod-The Ten
derIoin Again i'm the Lime-light.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c.. November 1.

Raleigh, N. o., November l..
Sheriff Harris of Cabarrus brought
here last evening a negro convict,
Ernest Scott, sentenced to ten years in
the pe1itentiary for attempted felon-
ious assault upon a negro girl. The
sheriff walked With his prisoner ou. the
rear Of the Union station, to take him
to the ~penitentlary, and when they ar
rived 1T a field between the two points
where there are many weeds and some
bushes and trees, the negro made a
dash and got away. The sheriff chased
him, out had no revolver and only
saw the man for a little distance. The
sheriff was entirely unfamiliar with
the city and It's suburbs. Al the
office of the sheriff it was said this
morning that the force there knew
nothing whatever Of the escape unit!
his morning, ard that no notice had
been given Of it by Sheriff Harris. 1t
was stated that had such notice been
given the force would have taken up
the pursuit. The police said today
that nothing more had been heard OF
the negro, who was h~andcuffed, a chain
eight feet in ler3th being attached 10
the handouts. Of course there are
plenty of hiding places around Raleigh
and many ~eX-cOnvicts in this section
who would aid any such escaped man
to hid and get away.
Four new rural free delivery mail
routes are established, as follows:
Cooper, o. F. Low, carried; Edenton,
J.. E. Woodland; HartshOrn, S. J. Buck
ner; Pee Dee, D.. S. Lyles.
James Ewart, a son of eX-Judge Ew-
art Of Hendersonville is sick at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
with typhoid fever. The complete dag
nOsis and meteorological examinations
were not completed until last night but
the treatment ali the time had been as
for typhoid fever.
The cartridge hunting season began
today and despite the fact that much
rain had fallen many persons were OFT.
There are plenty of birds, as reports
from various sections state.
John ". Aiken, the lightning rod
man who shot his partner S. l.. Linden,
in this county. was captured at Dunn,
and brought to Jail here, has given
bond in a thousand dollars for his APP
pearance next Monday for a prelimina-
ry hearing.
The trial Of Harry Clark, alias MGR
ris, one of the two men charged with
the shooting and murder of Charles
Smith, the young Petersburg man, will
not be held by Police Justice Badger
until Monday. Not until after hat
trial will be announced his decision in
the trial of Bob Lilleston, the other
man under charges. The plea made by
counsel for LillistOn is that he was act
ing in self defense, in shooting at
Clark, who had ired first, after threats
to murder him on sight. The hearings
in this case have attracted a great
many people and the lawyers are work.
ing hard to ave their men.
A charter is granted the East Caro-
Llama Farm and Improvement COmpa
ny, of EdentOn, with authorized CAPT
tai stock amounting to $4,000. The
company will do a general real estate
business, the stockholders being G.. H.
Tanner, of Henderson, j. N. Pruden
and Isaac Layden of Edenton.
The returns o. the value of proper
ty as made to the state auditor show
that the value of property owned by
negroes in the state amounts to almost
$16, 600. 900.
A good many colored people came i'll
today 20 attend their state fair. The
great day at the white state fair was
Thursday, while at the colored fair it
was Friday. It is generally the case
tina there is rain during the fair and
One old Raleigh negro a year or two
when asked when the state fair was
hold c,iI GEIhn fret rainy- wool oftnr
the white fair"
Two railway inspections are in prog
ress, hat of the Atlantic and Yadkin
division of the Southern railway by
the corporation commission and that
of the North Carolina railway by Gov
ernor Glenn. The governor has in
tended for some time to take a "trip
over the latter road.
Elvin Buffalo, the fifteen ear old
boy hurt at the fire at the Catholic or
phanage has been transferred TO Rex
hospital, and is doing very we'll i'll
deed, despite several injuries.
Governor Gleln's views on the 1ues-
ton of wages are very plainly express
ed, he holding that wages are too low
and have not kept pace with the cost
of living.
The receipts at the Raleigh dispense
~ during October were almost $4,000,
this being recol d-breaking for any
month during the twenty two months
since the d~ispansary was put in OPP
Grafton.
A comittee of the Presbyterian synod
IS considering how to divide the $4,000
which William ". Fuller, of New York,
has given to the synod, for use as it
sees best, for development. George w.
Watts, of Durham, gives 81, 200, for the
new building at Red Springs, upon con-
dition that the synod raises S6. 900.
Prominent Presbyterians say that there
will be no trouble in qquickly raising
his sum.
In the superior court here the trial
is on Of the case of the widow of En-
gineer G. A. Stewart VS.. Seaboard Air
Liue. Stewart Vas killed in June, 1905,
at Niagara, lear Aberdeen. 1t is a ne "
trial, granted by the supreme court,