The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-03-27
MEMS LETTER FROM RALEIGH
investigating The Attack on Rev
enue Officers
Fruit Damaged by Frost-I1tereStinR
Trial in Superior Court Thursday.
Ihe Anti-frohibition League
Euney Troubles Have No Effect
sa building Operations
Messenger Bureau,

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, ~. T.. March %.
Caief Engineer Ludlow OF the North
Carolina National Guard Is here today
Il his way to Camp Glenn. the per-
maneaG camp grounds near Aorehead
City, 10 look alter the water supply
Anl various other matters
The secretary OF the state board OF
p-blic charities is Hotihed OF the death
vi its oldest member, WE. Craig, OF
aarion. his age was 80 n he serv-
&c six years. In politics he was a re-
g1-iicaa. Some OF the members OF
l1ls board will attend the national
prison congress-, which is to be held AT
HIca.nond next September.
= charter is granted to the North
Carolina ChuTnless Butter Company,
Ci Greensboro, capital stock $4,000.
Marshal Dockery has been TO San
fu4G TO see Henry c. Reese, one OF his
equities who was shot near Spout
Springs Friday afternoon. Reese's ag1
is about so years OF age AT h-s WOMB
IL a serious one. being through the
upper part OF the left lung, the rifle
bullet having passed entirely through
his body. His doctor says that his
condition is as favorable as could be
expected Deputy marshals and rev
enue officers are making Investigations
a. to the shooting and are after the
G negroes concerned in il who es-
cared. 1t is found that ii was the
pan OF the negroes all of whom were
we'll armed, to hide behind an cid tar
kiln and from this place shoot the
| deputy marshals VINO they expected
would pass there in a carriage. 1t
happened that Deputy Collectors Rabbit
and ROsser got into a carriage to
drive to the road where Deputies
E.aesc, Holland and Pool were 10 meet
them, SO that only the three latter
went towards the tar kiln. A negro
stepped out with a gun and Reese
called to him &c bring him the gun.
Instantly the mar fired, shooting Reese
and trying to shoot Pool, who shot
him and then Holland seized this man
and they fell to the ground, Holland
attempting to shoot him but he faile'
owing to his pistol being in his lie
coat pocket. The man broke away
and was shot at by Pool and Holland.
Pool covered another man with his
revolver and while Holland was dis
arHing the latter, the others got away,
so that only one of the six was TAX
en-.
Next Thursday in the superior curt
here there Will be an ~interesdn- trial
that Of Engineer Rippey and Conductor
Oakley of the Southern railway, OF
The charge Of criminal negligence Sr
causing the fatal railway collision "a
Auburn, ten miles from Raleigh, 3SSt
autumn. Attorneys Argo, AycOck and
Clark appear for the defendants. There
are two other men Train Dispatchers
Ketchum and Garvin of the Southern
railway, who are TO be tried on the
same charge
A. H Boyden, Of Salisbury, the
! chairman of the North Carolina anti
pt Prohibition league is here and had a
conference today with Walter Murphy
j. G.. Mcneil, and other leaders OF
that movement, including some loca
people. He says there is to be organic
alton 2l owe the state and that he
proposes to conduct his campaign or
a high plane with no sinister purpose
He say that the Watts and Ware
laws were serving their purposes very
we'll That some places wanted to stay
wet and that the legislature enacted
laws in defiance of the wishes of the
people. He declares that this is 6
moral question and that they have
~ 4 NA0N In Ioh4 CA
will be carried on in an e%ducationa
way, and without any prejudice.
The fight against the Aldrich cur
1ency bill, ROW before congress is Ger.
tainly a great one and the various or,
carnations such as the chambers OF
commerce are receiving daily all sorts
Of appeals to join in the fight against
this bill which, indeed, seems to have
very few friends among the general
public New York people are especial.
ly active in opposition to this measure
This list of opponents of the bill is
certainly a long one.
While the headquarters of the anti.
prohibition organization will probably
be at Salisbury rather than Raleigh
Chairman BOyden remarked today
there will be what may be termed a
branch here in Raleigh, this to be in
charge Of a Raleigh man.
During the past few days your cor
respondent has visited every part OF
this city n finds that the facts fully
bear out the statements that building
operations here have progressed very
steadily in spite of the money troubles
A Raleigh man who arrives from New
York today says that conditions here
are many times better than they are
! nthat city where crime has increased
100 per cent since the panic began
and where conditions are worse than
since 1872, the bread line being longer
than since that year, when the famous
BLACK Friday occurred, which mark
ed the ruin of so many people. In
fact Raleigh and North Carolina have
every reaso to be satisfied in the man
ner in which they have weathered this
storm. OF course it is not yet over
an dthere seems likely to be more or
less trouble until this year comes to
an end, but very few people can be
found who will not say that the worst
has passed.