The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-16
THE ODD FELLOWS.
THE CLOSING SESSION OF THE
GRAND LODGE.

THE CLOSING OF THE
GRAND LODGE.
Another Judicial T~flt-Judge Douglass
in an Opinion Undertakes to Read
Lecture TO an Associate J~udge-Sight
of the Cannon Presented TO Raleigh
Stolen-The Ned Men Hold Their
Grand Council.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., May II.
The insurance commissioner is pre-
pairing his first statement Of companies
licensed under the new law to do bust
ness in his state. 1t will show Thir-
teen accident and surety. and -four fra
ternal-the latter being the Royal Ar
canum, American Guild, National Un-
ion and knights and Ladies of Honor.
The Prudential Company, which has
not as yet accepted the provisions Of
the Craig bill (Which requires do
me~stication') has taken out license
and has until June 1st to accept the
Craig bill, the latter going into effect
that date.
The grand lodge OF Odd Fellows ad-
journed this morning, to meet next
year at Winston, after having installed
the following officers: DR.. John a.
Stevens, Of Clinton, grand master; NJ.
w Jacob, D. G. NJ; r. W. Murray,
G.. w; 3. H. Woodell, of Raleigh, G.
s.; Richard j. Jones, G. T; Plate Col
Inns q NJ Darr;r D,,cIoO ~
A. Palamontain, G. c.; J. ]. Hopkins,
G. H; Rev. w. H. Swindell, of Colds
bOro, G.. c. Charles F.. Lumsden is
elected a trustee of the orphanage for
five years, succeeding w. G. Douglass.
Past Grand Master Beverly S. Register
is elected representative to the SOW
ereign grand lodge.
The initiation fee is reduced from
$40 to 81 when as many as ten candi-
dates apply at once for membership,
and the degree fee is reduced to s..
Each lodge will in future have one
district deputy. The per capita tax Is
fixed at so cents this year; so cents
for the orphanage at G%oldsboro, and
lodges are allowed to set aside 5 per
cent. of income for charities. A must
Gale in compliment to the grand lodge
was given at Peace institute, the grand
lodge attending in a body. Grand
Treasurer Jones begins his forty-fifth
ear of service. He began his duties
in 1854.
The captured cannon from Manila
is to be placed in the state museum. It
will be enclosed in glass to protect it
from relic hunters. The sight of the
gun was stolen last week while it was
being brought up the Cape Fear river
to Wilmington.
The second grand council of Red
Men Of this state met here today, about
lift " 'Ihra UpC' hQinO in otfp MD mo
Grand Senior Sycamore j. r. Davis,
Of Wilmington, is presiding. Seventeen
tribes have representatives. Hill E.
King delivered the address of wei
come. This evening there was a ban
quet at which a number of the
ent. Charles c.. Conley, the great chief
of records of the order in the United
States, is an honored guest Of the
North Carolina council.
j. R. Davis responded to Kings well
come. The election Of officers was
held. j. R. Davis was elected great
sachem, Hill E. King, senior sagamore;
E. T. Smith, junior sycamore; J.. T.
Anthony, great prophet.
Smallpox made it's appearance here
February 10th. A negro train hand
from Norfolk brought it. The house
vas ~Quarantined, but was not burned.
The negro vas the means of spreading
Tile OIScdSC wv Ollltl 1SSIOSS dIu d
white man also brought it here from
Norfolk. During the three months
there LAY been siXty-seven cases, six
of them white. Yesterday afternoon a
white woman was found who had had
the disease several days. Her husband
brought it from Norfolk, where he
drove a pest house wagon. He was
not ~Vaccinated.
One of the new steel fire escapes is
being put up at the criminal insane
wing of the penitentiary.
The corporation commission over
rules the exceptions of the Seaboard
Air Line and decides that the order
making ten tons the minimum car load
of fertilizers shall stand on all roads
IN the state.
Professor w. 2. Massey, of the ag-
ricultural college, went to New Bern
today to investigate the new aphisor
plant louise which is so rapidly Destroy
ing peas and pea vines in that section.
and thereby doing the truckers
much damage.
The trustees of st. Mary's female
school here meet at Tarboro next week,
and it is said will in all probability
elect a rector to succeed the late Rev.
DR.. Bennett 'Smedes. The Episcopal
diocese of South Carolina makes St.
Mary's its church school.
This has been a stormy session Of
the supreme court. 1t was made clear
Tuesday that there was no love lost
between Judges Furches and Clark.
Now it is plain, in the opinions in the
Rhyme case, that there is no tender
feeling between Judges Clark and
Douglass. In the Rhyme case Judge
Clark referred to the threatened lynch
ing in CASTOR. Judge Douglass a y IN
his ~cOncurring opinion, which gives
Rhyme a new trial: Il am unwilling
to rest under the charge that the in
crease Of lynchings is caused by the
inability of the courts to protect So
ciety from murderers. In the first
place, l do not think there has been
any increase of lynching in this state,
where it has always been extremely
rare, and even if our courts are in
efficient, which I emphatically deny, l
do not see how our alleged laxity should
increase lynchings in other states
without having any such effect in our
own. Such suggestions do great injus-
tice to our state and may do great harm
by encouraging the very outrages they
profess to denounce. In any event,
they tend to weaken, especially when
coming from such a source, the respect
Of the people for the administration of
justice, which is the foundation of So