The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-17
THE CUT IN INSURANCE. RATES
Aimed at state Companies Not BELONG
ing to the Associatfon-Heavy Federal
Court Docket silvey's Petition or
Pardon-Deaf-Mute and Blind Child.


Raleigh. N. C. November IA.
There are $50 fire insurance compan-
les doing business in the United States.
of which sixty do business in North
Carolina. There has been profit in the
business in this state. though not great
(an average OF : per cent. for seven
teen years. but now under the new
laws 1t will be greater. The South
eastern Tariff Association claims that
il is by reason OF these laws that the
big cut in rates Is made-of - to IS Ia
per cent. But the insurance companies
chartered by the state which do not
belong to the association. and which
are paying dividends. claim that IL is
aimed at them directly. An agent here
says that there has been some ad-
verse legislation in Georgia and that
the reduction Is made TO show the
Georgians that II they enact favorable
legislation the companies will reduce
insurance rates there also. The same
agen says that rates in North Caro-
lima are by this reduction made lower
than in n other state I'm the south
or west.
The corporation commission room is
being enlarged and made into a regular
court room, so as to give space for
persons interested i'm the hearing OF
cases.
\ very fine show Of fifty varieties of
apples, all from Yancey county. is
made at the state museum. The ap-
pies are specimens OF those hic 40
to Paris.
The state treasurer reports that the
cash balance in the treasury Novem-
Der lst was SS9.074.
Lieutenant Colonel Jack Hayes. OF
the Fourth cavalry. when on his way to
the Philippines said he expected to
capture Aguinaldo. He has not as vet
that. but he has captured his
private secretary.
Practically all the cotton in the
state is now picked. There is "a little
OF the top crop left here and there.
il is stained and bleached and
worth but little. Never before has the
crop been picked so early.
Deputy Revenue Collector Adams
night captured two large Illicit dis
tilleries in Johnston county.
Judge Purnel last night removed
Julius b. Fortune as clerk OF the dis
trict court and today II. l.. Grant ar
rived here 10 take that place.
There are now over $50 cases on the
docket of the United States district
here. Two weeks yet remain In
which commissioners may send IN
cases, and SO there will be many more.
Il ' - ihEtC " NouIAtI-
feting. The district attorney said to-
day that if he could get the witnesses
here the case of Lawyer a. j. Marshall,
Of Wilmington, charged with counter
would be heard at this term,
or if not in December then at the adj
journed term in January. which is
made necessary by the great volume
Of business. There are two counter
feiting cases from Harnett county.
The petition Of Silvey, n young man OF
Wilmington, convicted OF counterfeit
and now in the penitentiary, ask
ing for pardon, is in Washington. IL
learned that several Of the our Of
ficials signed ii. Silvey is a plumber
and is a very valuable man to the peni-
tertiary.
Portraits OF John Haywood. who was
for forty-three years state treasurer,
and of DR.. Z. Burke Haywood are the
latest at the state library. A painting
of the old state capitol, by MarlinE,
and the only one In existence, has also
been secured for the library, but lis in
such a condition that an artist will
to clean and retouch IL.
There are now 315 pupils at the white
for the blind and the negro
institution for deaf-mutes and blind
here. This week the only deaf-mute
and blind child in the state will be re-
ceived. She is Buelah Templeton, OF
New London, Stanley county. IL is
hoped to make a second Helen Kellar
OF her.