The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-16
THE INHERITANCE TAX.
THE STATE T.i EASURER,S cox
sTRUCTION OF THIS LAW.

Halifax County Commissioners Ref0oo g
Order an Election on Local School Isx.
The Mystery OF the Killing Of Mr.. Banks
Stili Unsolved-The Southern Railvsy
Preparing for . Coal Fsmine-AKHesi-
surAi De parfment Matters
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, n. c., July II.
j. F. westmoreland. ex-state scna-
tor from Davidson county. and janitDr
of the supreme court, is stricken with
paralysis. He returned from home
Sunday and felt badly. He thought
he a a bilious attack. The paraly-
sis is OF the left leg.
H. A. Foushee, Of Durham, wrote
the state treasurer asking whether SEC
tion Al of the new revenue act applies
to estates OF persons who died before
the passage of the act, but which VET
not then settled. or only to estates
which have descended since it's passage
He also desired TO know the conStruc-
ton of the word inheritance" The
whole inquiry concerns the tax IN IN
heritance. The. treasurer, after refer
ring the matter to MacRae IND Day.
his attorneys. replies that it is held
that such a tax is not retrospective in
character, and that the word 'inheri-
lance" applies to real estate, ZEAL
anything of that character which de-
scends from ancestor or heir.
The county commissioners Of Hall
fax also decline to order the public
school special tax election for August.
Governor Russell arrived here this
morning and called the council Of state
to meet to act on the request or the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton that the supreme u at once
be asked to decide whether the act or
dering the election passed the legisla-
ture properly and is constitutional.
The hearing of the case OF Marcus
NJ. Smith, book dealer, to restrain the
secretary of state from making the
book house Of Alfred Williams & Co.
the depository for the sale of supreme
our reports is being heard here, be-
fore Judge Robinson at chambers. VIII
Jams & Co. have. almost all the books.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany gives $14, 1873 as it's net profits last
year in North Carolina.
Twelve of the criminal insane from
the Western hospital at Morganton
were brought to the penitentiary last
night, and there are now in the latter
twenty-four of this class of prisoners.
1t is said the Southern railway is
laying in a great supply of coal so as to
be prepared for a famine"
The name Of the "sheriffs'
ton at Morehead City is changed to
the County Officers Convention" and
it is to be a much larger affair than
was at first expected.
In a few days work will begin here
on the $25, 900 club house of the Capitol
Club. The site is now occupied by a
building containing lawyers Offices
and another building is being prepar-
ed for these.
There are calls for a large attend
anc at the state confederate veterans
reunion at Wrightsville in August.
The armory of the Governors Guard
was draped in mourning today m &C
count Of the death of Private Jack
Banks, who was killed last night at
Pullen park while the company was
engaged in a sham battle. Captain
Crawford says every cartridge WAS in
spected by himself, a lieutenant and
the first sergeant. The bullet, which
did not make it's exit from the rear
of the skull, is fattended. It has the
appearance of a pistol bullet. Captain
Crawford says that at a sham battle
a month e some citizen fired a pistol,
that a lb'''iet passed near him and
struck = iwelling near by. 1t is also
stated =. 1t the bullet was from one of
the gallery target practice cartridges
used by the army n the militia
The agricultural department has not
yet given out it's printing. 1t will wait
until the question OF whether the bud
letin Is second-class matter is settled.
The commissioner say he will not, I'm
less h courts force him, pay z,Ooe
which Stewart Bros, ex-state printeu,
demand for printing fertilizer tax ta9B,
but that he will pay the $225 to which
they are properly entitled.