The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-26
Soon to Pass Into Dem.
Ocratic Control.
QUESTION OF STATE PROXY
The Only Controversy Betwecn b
P~arues-stase Cotton Growers' Con-
vention Called Fight w the New
England Mutual Fire insurance Com.
panies-Deputy Governor HARRIS Ex
peesed TO Receive Many Applications
for Pardous

Raleigh, -. G. September -.
On the 2sth instant the stockholders
OF the Atlantic and North Carolina
railway meet and President Patrick
and the other fusion officials Will retire
and President James A. Bryan and
other democrats so in. The only con-
troversy is as to the state proxy. The
private stockholders. under an agree
ment with Governor Russell, will decide
who they Will accept as state PROXY.
w. t. Dortch was elected by the state
board OF internal improvements TO Ina.
position. Governor Russell has not as
yet his appointee.
Today the commissioner OF agricul-
ture called the state cotton growers
convention to meet here October 2ist
This was done a the cques OF John
s. Cunningham, OF Person, chairman
OF the board OF agriculture.
Revenue Collector Duncan has begun
20 ak quite freely about The franchise
amendment to- the constitu Ion and
said today he had not the slightest
doubt hat It would be defeated. He
says: Half dozen interests which last
year aided are 10Y determined IL snal
not be ratified"
I Lieutenant John W. Gulick, of Colds
| boro, now in the volunteers, ask for
| one years leave OF absence from III
1 SNaAG SudAN SA
this city, OF the volunteers. resigns his
| captaincy in the guard.
The state charters the Catawba cot
ton mill. at Newton; capital SIS. 600:
owners John p. Yount, r. b. Knox and
E. p. Shrum. 1t will spin yarns.
Grand Secretary b. H.. Woodell. OF the
Independent Order OF Odd Fellows. goes
| "a Mcrganton next Week 10 install the
officers Of a new lodge.
| The fight IS on between the New
England Mutual Fire Insurance Conn
panies and the companies doing business
here d the Craig law and the gen.
eral Insurance. law. The question IS:
Can the New England Mutuals come In
and reinsure the risks taken by a home
company, and without a license or tax?
Insurance Commissioner Young rules
that they cannot do SO. He declines
to reopen the matter. He has snot yet
called ION the attorney general for an
opinion, and it Is a question whether
If he did so the attorney general would
give ii, as 1t is a question OF policy
rather than OF law, the attorney gen.
eral says. The discussion has been warm
for months. The outsiders are trylng
to get the attorney general to give an
4 opinion. IL he a " 1t, 1t would amount
TO nothing, as Commissioner Young, thu
head OF the department, has not called
for 1t. 1t is said a good many of the
AAhAlA AAh@AA - Az ANNn AAAk
lands thus admitted. N the ground that
1T cheapens insurance.
The owners OF the Henrietta cotton
mill, in Rutherford county, and the au-
thorities of the county cave IL to the
| attorney general to say what the tax
shall be. The mill is the largest In the
| state. 1t cost over 81. 200, 900. The law
as TO taxing cotton mills is rather in
| distinct.
This evening twenty-five men for the
Forty-seventh regiment, at Camp
| Meade, Pa, left here I'm charge OF
! Go1dsboro. Four OF them were in Cap
tain Bain's company in the First North
| Carolina volunteers.
The state charters the Watch-Tower
Publishing Company, ait Washington. Il
will publish the organ Of the Disciples
Of Christ.
governor next week IL Is conjectured
that he will receive a good many appli-
cations for pardon, as he is SO kind
hearted. The lieutenant governor Grey
nolds) will not be here. There IL no
love lost, as all know, between Russell
and Reynolds.
ernor's staff have notified him they viii
go to New York.
There are now 125 members or the
freshman class at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college here.
This city's white public schools viii
not open until October, owing to the re
pairs, new heaters, etc, not being We
complete.