The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-13

Raleigh, y. c., July 9.
The stockholders Of the North Car
DINA railroad met at Greensboro yes
terday.
John NJ. Morehad was chairman.
Hugh McRae secretary; 6,152 shares
were represented, owned by 2i6 stock
holders.
James II. Chadbourn, Jr, presented
his credentials as state proxy.
Retiring President S. Il. Alexander in
his report recommended that its pres
cnt condition be unchanged.
The commissions for the new direc-
tors, r. VI. Norment, Virgil Lusk, Vii
liam Gilchrist, A. c. Avery, j. ). Arm
strong, j. a. Smith, II. u. Buffers,
JOhn Graham, Were filed.
The following We're elected directors
char Cameron, r. f. Hoke, H. w.
Fries, Hugh McRae, A. w. Graham,
Lawrence Holt and j. p. Allison.
The new directors made Avery
chairman, with McRae secretary, and
the following officers were elected: r.
NJ. Norment, president; e. s. Walton,
secretary; Chas. A. Cook, attorney; T.
S. HOgg, expert.
The National Bank of Wilmington
was designated as the cOmpany's de-
pOSitOry.
Papers were today served on the
secretary Of state in a suit against the
United States Life Insurance Company.
This company has no general agent
and therefore no license in North Car
DINA, though it has paid the fees, and
therefore the suit is brought against
the secretary of state.
The discovery is made that the
sword of Major Burrage, L.. s. A, taken
by Lieutenant league near Petersburg,
in 1864. is now in possession Of a Ma
sonic lodge at Bolton, Cass, county,
Mo, to which league, who moved there
from this state, gave it. This is the
sword about which Governor Russell
has been in correspondence.
Wake Farmers Alliance met yeSter-
day and elected j. w. Denmark its del
cgate to the annual meeting of the
state alliance at HillsbOro next month.
This is an endorsement of Denmark's
views. He opposes the use of the bus
mess fund Of the alliance in equipping
or operating the tannery and shoe fac
tory at HiIlSDOrO. He says 500, GOO has
been taken from the business fund for
this purpose and for the purchase of the
buildings and grounds. The approach
ing meeting of the state alliance is
apt to be q stormy one. as some Of the
members are greatly dissatisfied.
The material from the office of the
defunct Daily Tribune was removed
today. 4 resale was made yesterday.
Nearly everything was bid in by y. y.
Thompson, the former purchaser.
IT is the purpose of the secretary of
state to get the printing Of the supreme
court reports done at a Very low figure.
This is the reason for asking for bids
in Richmond as well as in this state.
He wants the work done in this state.
The following appea to be the facts
as to tn" killing of a Brown, of
charlottesville, Va. at GreystOne, near
Henderson. He and another young
man We're sitting on the end of a
freight car, beating their way on the
Seaboard Air Line. Brown was asleep
and fell off. Both legs were cut off
below the knee and he died in eight
hours. Mrs. Lucy Brown, of Char
lottesvilIe, is his mother and Miss Flo
Ia Brown, of South Boston. his sister.
He graduated this summer and was
we'll dressed. He was no tramp and
the reason why he and his friend We're
thus travelling is not known.
Returns from lightweight cotton
mills to the bureau of labor statistics
show 1921 looms and $40. 9S2 spindles.
]. G. L. Harris, Jr.. of Raleigh, is
elected assistant engineer at the in
sane asylum here.
The commissioners of Craven county
adhere to their determination not to
order the August public school elec-
ton. The state Will force them &c
hold it. The anti-school tax fight is
growing.
DR.. j. H. Tucker. a we'll known
Henderson physician, and an ex-presi-
dent of the State Medical Association
is dangerously sick.
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Newborne. just returned from a tour
in the east, says the crops are very
fine.
The grape crops in the vineyards
near here are the finest ever seen. The
intensely hot weathe did not injure
them at all.
Raleigh has been very fortunate this
wear in the matter of fires. The tota
loss is only a few hundred dollars.
J. D. Abbott. the chool chart seller
who is accused of v~iCtimizing Rich
mond county to the amount of s1,1OO
has been arrested in Onslow.
One of the four oldest stores in this
city is being torn down to make way
for a modern building.
Road Supervisor McMackin desire:
each owner of a bicycle to pay volunta
Tily 81 a year for the building of {
bicycle path alongside each macade
mixed road.
Referee Kerr Craig will on the 27tl
instant, at Salisbury. hear teStlmon.
from Governor Russell, Attorney Gen
eral Walser and the new directors o
the North Carolina railway, if the.
have any. on the issue of fraud in tn
lease of that road to the Southern. TIL
burden of proof is upon those abov
named.
The railway commissioners, unde
the new law as state board of ia.
equalization. is sending out the ney
blanks TO the commissioners of eac1
county,. The returns Will be of farm
ing. timber and mineral lands. tow
lots. horses. cattle. bicycles. all othe
property. credits including interest un
collected. shares of stock, and gros
income.
Fatal Casualties.
Macon. Ga. July 10.-A special to II
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