The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-24

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, ~. c.. November %.
The state charters the Banner tobac-
CO warehouse. at LaGrange, capital
$500. the Niche Bayonet Shovel Com
psany. CO Durham. which win make
~entrenching tools. capitai slo.o0o. Julian
> Carr. j. c. Niche and w A Guth-
RE stockholders: the Pemoroke Manu-
featuring Company. OF New Bern. cap
ital $4,000. to make goods OF cotton.
WOOL silk or fax. w. A. Dunn and
others Stockholders. and the Carolina
Furniture Company. M Durham.s w.
]. Christian president
Tomorrow the supreme court win
Sin the cal OF Ninth district apDeS
Ihe noted case OF the HYGIENE N
Company against the Seaboard A.
L&ne Tor the burning Of an ice faccoryA
mere val be heard this week. Both l
sides ntroduc startling afidayirs.
Inc main point appears TO be as to the
evidence given by Dennis Rowe. N ne
gro detective o. Richmond, that he was
tod by persons who were Witness.
that the factory was set or fire by an
employee. There are aiiidavtts as to
iSoWes lack II character. Today 9TH
ers were flied, signed by a dozen or
more business men M Richmond, that
MS Is good. Other afidaN "a
are from Wilson and other po.ntS N
the effect that juries had believed
evidence in other cases ard thar
convictions a resulted.
There is yet discussion as TO the sign
ing Of discharges in bankruptcy by tx
Clerk Fortune. of the United StaIe~
district court here. He signed twenty
two which 1t is asserted ARE worthless.
There is an issue OF veracity between
him and Judge Purneh. Fortune as
serts that he allowed the prescribed
forms and was directed To sign In al
cases where there was no dispute.
Work goes on day and night on The
Cheraw link OF he eaboard Air Line.
Electric headlights are used. The
grading Is complete and the tracknayers
are at work. A big engine is kept at
Cheraw, in a few ard OF the point
where the Seaboard Air Line built it's
track across the Coast Line track, 70
that III the latter tries to tear UP the
crossing the engine viii be run on At
and hold il down.
In proof of the statement that the
cotton save in very heavy lands IN all
gathered, in may be said that cotton
lands are in a number OF cases being
ploughed up INK put in oats n
wheat
1NAN @DIa WA IA "SA1 ~ ~
today ait the receipt of the long-expect-
ed $205, 600 of penitentiary ms OF
these $4,000 are to pay the debt of
fusionists contracted and s95, 600 TO pay
for the Caledonia and Arson farms.
The American Banknote Company,
which printed the bonds. and which
was SO slow in doing the work. sent q
receipted bid for the $3.50 for the print
ing. 1t will be emembered the bonds
were to have been delivered last sum-
mer, and that a member of the COM
pany whose mind is not sound made
the promises that the bonds were near
ly ready. AS the state had bought the
farms ut had to pay interest on the
money until the bonds came. The
treasurer was on the point OF bringing
suit against the company for this
interest, but it agreed to pay IL. The
$3.50 is in lieu of the interest. The treas
urer says the company behaved very
we'll in the matter.
The negroes are to build a large
Baptist church at the southeast corner
OF the capitol square. 1t appears that
they are extremely DESTROYS to have it
there, as they declined to sell the lot
ait any price whatever. The state made
a great mistake in not buying the prop
eu,ty.
Two deaths from typhoid fever have
occurred among the student of the
Normal and Industrial college tor
! yOuIlS NOInen DIT 1TtcnSDOTO. Inc
student was from Wilson, the other
from Rutherfordton Two others are
very i'll. Notice was given Of the pres
ence OF the disease and the students
were given leave to go home IL they
desired to do so. 1t was said here to-
day that many had gone home and
would not return until January. Some
persons brought here Wild reports OF
there being a number of cases OF sick
ness, in fact as many as 100, but the
state superintendent OF public instruc-
ton said he did not credit these reports.
Last night A. W. Shaffer, OF the state
board of health, Professor Massey and
Mr.. Robbins left here to investigate
the causes OF the outbreak.
At the state treasury ii is said that
the local telephone companies are pay
ing their taxes quite rapidly n Q
The sheriffs gave to the treasurer the
names OF seventy-one of them Of which
nothing was previously known here.
immigration Commissioners Thompson
has returned from a trip to western
Pennsylvania, in the interest OF his de-
partment.
The democratic state committee viii
meet at the Marlboro house here at 8
O'Clock p. m. December 18th There is
nue. work before ii. The republicans
are making plans which viii be check
mated.
New York scene printers Saturday
night attached all the property, In fact
even h personal property, Of the
"MerTymakers' who played here all
last week. The amount was s12s. This
morning the case was heard before a
magistrate. The company claimed that
there was an agreement that IL the
scenery did not suit and was returned.
there would be no charge. and hat It
was 50 returned An the personal bag
gag was seized and the company had
a lot OF Inconvenience.
Grand Tyler Robert II. Bradley, OF
the grand lodge Of MaSons, left for
Wilmington today, to participate in
the exercises at the temple.
MANY n Lover.