The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-01-10
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. Jan. 7.

Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. Jan. 7.
The current comment Is today that it
looks like the prohibition question
Will be as prominen. as the railway
passenger rate matter before the spe-
cial session Of the legislature. which
practically everybody seems to take It
for granted will be called.
The penitentiary authorities an
nounoe the escape OF four cOEVlcas
from the camp near Washington
Ttese are Charles Musgrove, colored,
age 80, sent from Wayne eleven years
ago for life for burglary; Lane Morg-
an. white, sent from Montgomery five
years ago for 80 years, murder in sec
ond degree; William Monroe colored,
sent from Moore three years ago, Tor
Is years for attempted felonious as
kault; Samuel Johnson, cOlOTed, So
years old, with an ugly scar above the
Aeft eye and nose, sent from Ne"
Hanover two years ago for twenty
Ave years for burglary. A reward o.
SIS and all necessary expenses Will
be paid for the recaptuTe OF each or
these men.
The National Guard men are N"i'
much pleased at the cOnVentoA NE.
held Yesterday and until late las, uiShI
thQ}.h the attendance was not hearly
80 large as was expected. /Ihc asSo-
citation feels that more money is nee"-
ed for the force and that enlisted men
should receive a dollar day while on
duty in camp, this being rule IN
number of the states.
Cotton Mill Superintendent A. "A
Thompson, speaking about the hha'-
ciaI situation today remarked tnat the
American people never did anything Wy
halves. and so when they have a pahl'
it is a big affair. He says IL Is ao-
surd that business should have Deeil
90 good six months ago before money
had come in from the crops and no"
after bundreM OF millions of dollars
lad come it conditions should De a7
they are.
Daouty Insurance Commissioner
Scott has returned from a VlSit -
Rowan county, where he secured 'h'
binding over Of Calvin Earnharol' i"
white man, who stands charged vita
burning the barn OF Mrs. Clemelltiilo
BRADY. he also looked INTO sever a
Cttp,, cases while away
charter is granted the 1fah9o"-
Murphy Hat Company, at GreehSpo1o y
caDita! stock 100000, to manul@ct"i Z
hats. umbrellas, etc, and 10 ueaI l."
the same at wholesale
Another chqrter to the Home Con-
struction Company at Wilson, 10 40
a general building business the caP'-
~ ock being $4,000
~ national guaTdsiEou az" very II
diaHant. they say, because the camp
AT Arorehead City has not been maze
what it ought to be, and they say the
railway and the town have talled 10
keen pledges made when the camp
was established at that place,
Susan c. arrett, of Windsor, has NO"
q petition in bankruptcy, with haDlh-
ties totalling $500, and assets $I,iOe.
DeDuty Collectors Adams and Ben
nett have returned from Il RAID IN
Johnson county, where, near Benson,
they captured an so gallon illicit dis
tilIery in operation. Deputy Adams
SAYS that Johnson county is very far
in the lead in moonshining in this
district. He can give no reason for
this or why Wake has so few moon
sinners. Once in a while some one Of
the latter get at work in this county,
then suddenly stops. There has never
been much moonshining in Wake,
while for at least 10 years Johnson
county has led every county in the
district so far, Franklin perhaps COM
ing next. Orange and Durham follow
ing.
1t is not of course yet known when
the states gift to the cruiser North
Carolina will be presented at Cape
Lookout, but it will probably be some
time in the summer. This will give
opportunity for a very delightful visit
to the seaside. The silver ware for
the gift is now being made by high
class artists, and is to cost $4,000, a
thousand dollars having been prI-
yately raised and added to the $4,000
wHch the legislature appropriated for
this purpose. ~ET