THE SEMI-WEEKL- Y MES3FKGER: TUEDW. FEBRUARY 22, 1898. inc F RCSr FIRES. TERRIBLE FOREST FIRES. HE RAILROAD COMMISSION hin any NEW STOCKS. 500 DAGSC0FFEE DARRELS FL0UR 1200 BARREL,S SUGAR' 300 BDLS NEW CR0P MOLASSES 500 DARRELS rice- '- 200 300 KEGS CAPE FEAR MULLETS, 500 CAES RAKING POWDERS," 500 BOXE3SOAP' 600 CASE3LYE- - MOTTO ! TUB CONSUMER'S TRADE BELONGS BY RIGHT TO THE RETAILER. WE GUARANTEE THIS PROTECTION TO THE RETAILER IN HIS DEALINGS "WITH US. J. C. STEVENSON X III feb 5 A CHANGE. Southern Is acted on. Chairrnaa C3S well drew the following order, "Whereas. St. John, of the S'iltflr Air Line, and President KIlloU. of C2e Atlantic Coast Line, in vursuaaor T notice duly erved have apix arvil fore and filed rheir answer ami jHcnJ fied willingness to produce all frne en-deadh- ead pa?3 over aki lineup lt have asked that su5? production or sueh passei Je postponed until question of power of the board. m-ti- c Is now pending with another comrasay Is decided in favor of the exetxi otf this power; Therefore It U "Ordered ifrat .production of nscl passe 1n postponed until further wv-ric- e. by order of thi toard." Crossweil. of the Southern Kxpnfraw . Company was the next witne. jatwJ was asked as to whether pam li ti Governor Itull had ben d.adhMJ-e- d. He replied: "yes. lastyear; ivnoe this year; th.tt two or throe a numth were sent frm Wilmington to Kak-vct- a and some from Morehvad City; ttnst. uch courtesy had alwayj Uen Kha the governors, and other state cflkv-rv- . and th railway commissi. :er tn. but not the present commission, in T to nobody this year; that t.e govt-r?-d- id not request deadheading; that 2ms was very modest in his shipment a compared with other governor. The last matter taken up re- garding the order fixing telep'iume-rate- . Senator Daniel, wh m-J- tt Meany, of New Jersey, and Stfxmj. appeared for the RW1 Telephone Oasn-Ia- ny made one f the cleverest mmQ most jvnverful arguments ever ftwana here, it was directed at Caldwell. mrQ Pears.m. ami hi master mind tirty played around his victim. InJ wanted to know what he wa i!linc with; that the last time he npvtrra efore the railway commission it belil it was a court of Judicature, so iut.r-pretir- .g the supplemental rvmmUrwm act f 193; but that wince th- - n tin- - court in the cases of H WiL had held the commission not a Juki- J- A State Onard Company Make KequIiFJ tlon far Overcoats so as to bo Kady to Start for ICuba Reports of Dnlldit g and Lota AsocIl!ooa A Salt to Annul m Marriage lie t ween Parties Cndr A(d New Style of Preparation for Office Hold- ing Messenger Bureau, Raleigh, X. C, Feb. 17 Charles J. Parker resigns as secre- tary of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly and it la thought probable that "W. T. Whitsett will succeed him. The damage by the forest fires is even greater than was expected. There were - fires in over a dozen counties Tuesday. So far no loss of life is re- ported, but there was considerable loss of farm buildings. The towns of Pine-hur- st and Southern Pines had a nar- row escape. The state today chartered the Drug Company, of Greens- boro, capital $10,000. At the adjutant-general- 's office to- day there was a good deal of laughing. A company commander sent in a requi- sition for overcoats from the arsenal so his company would be ready to move on Cuba at once. One of the officials re- turned the requisition, with the sugges- tion that only the lightest garnvints can 'be worn in Cuba and suggesting that nightshirts be requisitioned for as particularly suitable. Last year thirty-fou- r building and loan associations made reports to the state auditor. So far this year nine have sent in reports, and the Pruden- tial, of Cabarrus, leads, with loan ag- gregating $65,000. Yvheeler Martin very promptly ac- cepted the appointment as solicitor of, the Second district. The damage by Tuesday's storm here was only about $50, due to the fall of a chimney, which broke through a roof. Farmers say rain is needed. The ground is remarkably dry for the sea- son of the vear. 'A suit is brought here to dissolve the marriage of Walter Lee, under 17 years of age, of Harnett county, and 'Mis3 Denning, under 14 years of age, of E&leigh. An effort is being made to procure for the state library every book relat- ing to iXorth Carolina. The present collection is far from complete. Ruff. Henderson, the republican who got $300 for withdrawing from the can- didacy fr state auditor in favor'of H. W. Ayer, is now preparing himself for a $2,000 government position by sober- ing up. He says he has been indulging far too freely in corn whiskey. B. F. Park, for years well known in the1 planing mill business here, is dangerously sick at his home in Ra- leigh, i ' , . "In a minute" one dose of Hart's Es- sence of Ginger will relieve any ordi- nary case of Colic, Cramps, or Nausea, An unexcelled remedy for Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus, Summer complaints and all internal pains. Sold by J. C. Shepard, J. H. Hardin and H. L. Fen- tress. Con federate Veterans The confederate veterans comprising the 'North Carolina Division of the United Confederate Veterans, at their meeting in Nashville, Tenn., during the last re-uni- on, decided 'to hold a re- union in the city of Charlotte on Fri- day, May 20, 1898. (Major-Gener- al W. L. DeRosset, com- manding, through his adjutant-gener- al and chief of staff, 'Colonel Junius Da- vis, has issued orders in which he says: "As this will really be the first re- union held by the division, the com- manding general earnestly trusts that every camp in the division will there ibe represented, by at least three dele- gates, and may he not hope that every comrade belonging to the command will be present if possible. He also ex- tends a cordial invitation to every worthy confederate, whether a mem- ber of the United Confederate Veterans or not. The chief quartermaster, Col- onel WV J. Woodward, of Wilmington, is hereby charged with the duty of ar- ranging transportation, and with the assistance of the brigade quartermas- ters, will disseminate all information obtainable as to rates from the several points in the state."' Mecklenburg Camp, at Charlotte, are preparing to give the veterans a grand time. Committees have been appointed and all arrangements are being perfect- ed. The leading hotels will charge usu- al rates, $2.00, $2.50 arid $3.00 per day, while other hotels will charge $1.00 per day. Arrangements will be made with 'boarding houses for reasonable rates for those who prefer to pay, but sleep- ing accommodations and board will be furnished to all those" who will accept of the entertainment of the good peo- ple of Charlotte. Comfortable cots and good substantial food in abundance will be secured at as low a rate as possible. The railroads have been asked to make concessions to the veterans, and it is hoped low rates from all points will prevail. Didn't Kecognizrlt Smith "Brown is getting to be quite absent-minde- d of late, isn't he?" Jones "Why, I haven't noticed it." Smith "Wrell, he is. The other day he happened to look in a mirror at home and he asked his wife what she was doing with that fellow's picture in the house." Tutt's Pills Cure All Liver Ills. To those living In malarial districts Tutt's Pills are indispensible, they keep the system in perfect order and are an absolute cure for sick headache, indigestion, malaria, torpid liver, constipa- tion and all bilious diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills Hundreds of Mile of Timber Lands Swept by the Besom of Destruction The Con- flagration the IVorst In Fifty Years Loss of Life and Property From all sides come reports of the de- structive forest fires that have been rag- ing in several counties around Wilming- ton. In some localities the besom of de- struction spread Tor twenty-fiv- e or thir- ty miles. Since Tuesday the wTiole heav- ens have been full of smoke and even the streets of Wilmington by clay and night "have been full of smoke, although the fires were many miles from 'here. The smoke was plainly emelled in the city ami some times the smoke in the skies was so dense that it shut out the sun. LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. A correspondent of The Messenger writes as follows from Bladenboro, Bla- den county, undtr date of February 15th: "A severe forest fire which originated in Robeson county, .has been doing con- siderable damage to the people in gen- eral in Bladen county. The wind was blowing a gale land the fire did not halt at large swamps. It just swept right through the Big Swamp and was on the people here before they hardly knew it. It swept things clean as it went, burning fences, faouses. etc. "M. T). L. Singletary sent "his youngest son, Cortez. about 13 years old, to notify (his neighbors that the fire was upon them and to look out. While young Sin-gleta- ry was making his way back to his father's the fire drove faim Into a bay, and 'he was "burned to death. He left his father about 7 o'clock p. m. on the loth 'and was found about 9 o'clock on the 16th. "The farmers are left in a bad condi- tion now, wit'hout fences around their farms. Among the losers are H. Ed- wards, J. N. Kelly, D. L. Singletary, near Bladenboro, and J. H. Thompson, Frank Averitt and Joe Thompson, near Abbottsburg." WORST CONFLAGRATION IN FIFTY YEARS. Mr. J. M. Turner, of Asliton, Pender county, was in the city yesterday. He says the forest fires have swept over a very large area between Rocky Point and Burgaw. The flames swept through the forests, reaching the tops of tall trees, and fences, timber and turpentine lands have been damaged to an extent almost incalculable. 31r. Turner says the fire has been the worst in fifty years. The pine straw in the forests has been burned and the strawberry growers will be put to a severe test to get something with whic'h to cover their strawberry plants. As is well known, the farmers have made .use of pine straw to protect their berries from the frosts. DESTRUCTION IN ROBESON COUNTY Mr. J. M. Pope, of Red Springs, writes Mr. R. W. Hicks that on Tuesday forest fires swept a large area in that part of Robeson county. He says under date of February 16th: "We are congratulating ourselves t'his morning that we are not all burned out. I have none of the particulars as to where the fire started, but beyond Floral College, a the trestle on the railroad was burned there, the fire taking everything in its path. Considerable fencing and some fodder is reported 'burned, and for a while we thought every house in town would burn. The fire was taken by the wind and carried four or five Tiundred yards. The mills shut down, the mer- chants closed 'the stores, the doctors and prea'chers left their peaces and everybody fought bravely. We stood guard all night and if the fire kept going as rapidly as it vasi when it passed here, it is down at your place by this morning. I have never seen anything like it." THE FIRE RAGED AROUND SCOTTS HILL. Captain G. W. Huggings received a let- ter yesterday informing him that the for- ests around Scotts Hill 'have been on fire for three days. Large timber tracts have been 'burned and turpentine farms have been greatly damaged and in many in- stances destroyed. Fencing throughout a large section of the country has been burned. The fence between the planta- tions of Captain Iluggins and Mrs. L. Toilers was destroyed and also a large amount of fencing on Mr. R. K. Bryan's place. The loss of fencing alone is esti- - mated at $150 ris'ht at Scotts Hill. The damage further up the country cannot be estimated. The fire came from the direction of Rocky Point, where there has been destructive fires raging for the past three days. MILES OF COUNTRY BURNED. Mr. Simon Smith, of Parkersburg, was here on business yesterday. He brings news t'hat since Tuesday the forests for ten or twelve miles around Parkersburg, Sampson county, have been devoured by flames. There has been great destruction of turpentine farms and valuable timber, and several farm houses have been de- stroyed. One farmer lost a large number of fattening hogs that he had in a pen. The fire swept down on him at dead of night, and there was hardly time for the family to escape. The damage is es- timated at not less than $50,000. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES ALONG THE RAILROADS. The Fayetteville Observer of February 16th says: Forest fires enveloped both the Wil- mington and Bennettsville branches of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail- road for miles yesterday. On the Bennettsville branch the Lum- ber river bridge was discovered in flames when the afternoon train, going south, approached it. Captain J. M. Walker and his crew, after a desperate fight for several hours, succeeded in saving the bridge, but sixty feet of the trestle was burned. The train had to remain there all night (the pas- sengers walking to Maxton, a distance of three miles) and return to Fayette- ville this morning. The connection was made by the freight from Bennettes-vill- e. The track is now clear. The freight train. Captain Gregerson. frcm Wilmington, due here at 11 o'clock last night, nud a terrible experience. Be- tween Parkersburg and Garland the train ran a distance of two miles, surrounded by flames, from a forest fire. Several panes of glass in the passenger coach were cracked by the heat, and one of the box cars caugiu on fire. 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This order to take effect on and after the 22nd day of February 1898." The governor wrote the following to the directors of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railway: '"Robert Hancock has this day been removed by this board from his office of director of Che Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad on the part of the state, this removal to take effect m the 22nd day of February 1898, this being the day on which your board of direc- tors is to meet. This action is taken by the board of internal improvements under authority upon thfn conferred by section 3 of amendments to the charter of the Atlantic and North Carolin'a Railroad Company. It would seem that the removal- - of Hancock as director will operate as removal from his office as president of your company. But If you concur in the action of the board of interal improvements, it may Ibe well for you to pass an order of your board dismissing him as presi- dent by virtue or powers granted to your .board by section 4 of 2nd article of by-la- ws of your company. These letters are signed by Gover- nor Russell as president and J. E. 'Alexander as secretary of the board of internal improvements. Hancock told the governor today that if the board of directors of the At- lantic and North Carolina railway asked him to resign, he would fight; whereupon the 'governor told him he would remove him at once. Hancock then walked out of the executive of- fice. There are three little things which do more work than any other three lit- tle things created they are the ant, the bee and DeWitt'3 Little Early Risers, tl "ast being the famoun little pills fov stomach and liver troubles. R. R Bellamy. The Fusionists "Wis Minneapolis. Minn., February 17. The populist convention here has come to -- an end with the victory for the fusion force. The state convention was set for June 15th and the middle-of-the-roade- rs who, desiring an April convention, found it- self so much in the minority that it made no struggle. It will make an effort to control the convention. Senator BuUer in his speech at the mass meeting took a shot fit the admin- istration. Some one called out "How about the Maine?" lie replied, pointing tiis finger solemnly at the interrupter: "I don't know how about it. but if we had a truly American administration I know that we would know about it soon." Don't annoy others by your coughing, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. R. R. Bellamy. Fla8 Ht Half Mast on Account of the Tragedy at Havana The frightful catastrophe that occurred to the United States batttleship Maine and the awful loss of life by the explo- sion in the harbor at Havana Tuesday night, created a profund impression in Wilmington. Since the occurrence The Messenger has been daily and nightly beseiged for news. The flags on the postoffiee, the custom house, the United States revenue cutter Lot CM. Morrill, and the court house are at half mast. Telegrams were received here from "Washington ordering the flags to be placed at half mast on the postof-fic- e, the custom house and the cutter. Called to the Pastorate of St. Paal'a Eph-.cop- itl Charch Rev. Thomas C. Wetmore, of Asheville, has been called to the pastorate of St. Paul's Episcopal church, this city, and now has the matter under consideration. The young divine is one of ability and spnt quite a while in this city about ten days ago. He conducted services several times at St. Paul's church, and it was after hearing him preach that the vesiry of the church offered him the pastorate. Rev. Mr. Vetmore married a niece of the late Bishop Lyman. The NoalU Carolina Society The committee of arrangements, Messrs W. R. Cox, Sterling Ruffin and J. B. Lloyd, have The Messenger's thanks for an Invitation to a reception to be given this evening by the North Carolina Soci- ety at Confederate Veterans hall, cor- ner of Eleventh and B streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. The officers "of the North Carolina Soci- ety are as follows: President Dr. W. C Murphy. First Vice President-n- J. B. Lloyd. Second Vice President J. S. Tomlinson. Secretary F. M. Little. Treasurer David Anderson. ... .. GOES INTO MATT Kit OP PASSiS AND FREIGHT HATES. Witness Summoned by Mr. Abbott I)!r-charg- ed Answers r President Elliott and Vlee President St. John astoTr Passes Oocstion of Kates on Cora end Fertilizers-Deadhe- ad Express for fiov-erno- rs Senator Danil Ileforo the Coin, mlssl on the Telephone Itts Case (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh. N. C. February IT. The event today was the meeting of the railway commission. There was a notable gathering of railway men and attorneys Andrews. Turk, Finley. Culp. Munson. Charles Price. Fairfax Harrison. W. A. Henderson and Bus-be- e, of the Southern; St. John, McBee, Glover and Watts, of the Seaboard Air Line; Elliott and Emerson, of the At- lantic Coast Line; Hancock am! Dill, of the Atlantic and North Carolina: Mingea, of the Norfolk and Western; F. D. Jones and Guthrie, of the Char- lotte and Durham; Fry and Kyle, of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley; General Counsel Flemming "Dubignon and Superintendent Crosswell. of the Southern Express Company, and Sen- ator J. W. Daniel, of the Bell Tele- phone Company. Among th? other witnesses were J. W. Wilson and J. P. 'Massenburg. of Henderson. The first thing done was the adoption of the following resolution offered by Pearson: "That Charles St. John. J. 'M. Jam!, son. W. H. Day. S. L. Dill, C. Alkn. William Moncure, II. S. Leard. J. P. Massenburg and John T. Patrick are hereby discharged from attendance on this commission, as there is nothing under investigation t require their at- tendance." These were witnesses subpoenaed by Commissioner Abbott, but the latter in a few minutes put Caldwell and Pearson on record by offering a reso- lution that instanter summons be is- sued for all the above as witnesses. Pearson anl Caldwell voted this down. Abbott said he wanted to see whether a commissioner had authority to sum- mons witnesses. Caldwell said yes, un- der certain circumstances, but that it required commissioners to examine the witnesses. It was tfie comment that A1bott had scored a point. Railroad people say so. Republicans are saying the commis- sion's decision will 'be used in the com- ing campaign. Caldwell stated that the witness had not been summoned by resolution. Ab- bott asked if other witnesses had not been summoned without resolution and the chairman admitted that they had, 'but said it was done 'by consent: that the witnesses Abbott had brought here had not been subpoenaed by consent of a majority of the commission. Ab- bott said he knew he was at the mercy of the majority, but he defied them; that he had these witnesses here to investigate, a matter which had come tbefore the commission in regard to one railroad, and he wanted to treat all alike and see if 'other roads had 'been doing the same thing. The resolution adopted by Pearson and Caldwell prevented 'W. H. Day from testifying. He had been specially summoned to state whether he issued Seaboard passes in the governor's of- fice during the last session of the legis- lature, as has been charged. The next matter taken up was ferti- lizer freight tariff rates in car load lots. Emerson, Gulp, Glover and Guth- rie contended there was no state sche- dule in operation for fertilizers from which to make reduction of 16 1- -3 per cent. C. E. Bordon, for the Navassa Guano Company, asked that the same rate be made in this state as in South Carolina, it being still lower than the ordered rate would le. The commission appointed Emerson, Glover, Culp and 'Borden a committee to examine and report to the commis- sion tomorrow a recommendation for a state rate from which a 16 1- -3 per cent, reduction can be made. Emerson asked Borden if it would be satisfactory to make 30,000 pounds a minimum car load. The reduced rate ordered on corn was discussed. Glover said it in some case was a reduction of 33 per cent. Vice President St. John was called on to give evidence as to passes Judge Watts read an answer from him say- ing last year he had issued 75,000. 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