The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-13
CARR UILOisG AZ UNIVERSITY
The Contract for It's Erection Award.
,ed-The Alumni Hall and the Water~
works TO be Completed - Rushing
Work on Ibe Seaboard. Shortcut.
Desperate Fight with a Mad Dog.
Severe Hail storms.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, \. c., June 10.

Raleigh, \. c., June TO-
The executive committee of the trus-
tees of the state university awards. to
Zachary & Zachary, of Raleigh, the
contract for erecting the Julian S. Carr
building. Work begins next week. It
plete the alumni building shall be
awarded June 18th. The foundation
alone is completed. The plans have
been accepted. The contract for water
works will be divided between two
firms and the work will be under way
by the end of of this month The
committee gave Professor J. w. Can
ada twenty-five year lease on an
acre Of the university land at Chapel
Hill, for a school site.
The secretary Of state today received
letter from the Equity Life insurance
company, of Staunton, saying it de-
sired to domesticate itself in North
Carolina
The secretary of state and the insur-
ance commissioner have made up list
of companies domesticated' to this date.
There were licensed under the insur-
ance law 126 and of these 103 are do
mesticated.
Of life companies thirty-four are Ii
censed and twenty-four domesticated; !;
two of the latter now desire to with
draw, five say they will not domesti-
cate and three are considering the mat
ter.
Of fire companies seventy-nine are
licensed and seventy-two have domes-
of u-hi tn Wi h
draw, three say they will not enter and
four are considering the question.
OF accident and surety companies
thirteen are licensed and seven have
domesticated. Nothing has been heard
as to the other six,
The Bankers Association is invited
to meet next year at Wilmington, Ashe-
Vile, Newbern and Winston.
There is great activity at Ridgeway,
in connection with the work on the
new 'short-cut" of the Seaboard Air
Line-that is, the Richmond and
Ridgeway railway. There are 900 mules
at work along the line; forty cars of
rails arrived yesterday, and the juno
ton of the two roads is completed.
Persons who came here from Vance
county today brought news of an exclt-
ing occurrence there yesterday. A mad
dog ran on the premises of Frank Ful-
ler, bit his horse, COW and hogs and
then attacked his wife and children.
He ran to the rescue of his family,
armed with a hatchet. His wife and
three little children got on a bed while
he fought a desperate battle with the
brute. He was covered with blood be-
fore lucky blow split the dogs skull.
Wife and children were unhurt, though
their clothing was torn.
A letter from Thomasville today says
that yesterday morning hailstorm
swept through a belt Of Davidson coun-
ty three miles in width, and played
havoc with all growing crops, literally
destroying wheat, etc. In the town
great numbers of windows were brok-
en-, some small buildings were unroof-
ed and two or three were upset.
There is no doubt that at the election
next Monday the vote in favor of the
issue of street improvement bonds au-
thorized by the legislature will be
ten to one.
A negro plasterer here late yester-
day afternoon fell thirty-fve feet, strik-
ing on his head on a wooden floor. Not
bone was broken. There was small
bruise.