The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-02
In the Federal Court of
EmbeZZIement.
MORE OF THE CRAIG LAW
More CemPanfe, Domestieate There.
under-A Case Agreed Made ap ON
Application tor Withdrawal o 4 Char.
ters-A Company Refused Return .f
its License Fes-nr. Arrfnston's Ana
wer I'm the Suit Of His Divorced Wife
10 Recover Alfmony.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, y. c., May 30.-Members OF
the board of agriculture say John
Thompson will be elected commissioner
OF immigration Thursday without oppo-
sition- They also say that J. L Ram
sey will hold the place as secretary'
until June 18th and retire with joan
r. Smith.
m~esticates itself; SC doe the Virginia
Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
Last month in the superior court here
Mrs. Pattie Arlington sued her ex-
husband for s7,s3S, claimed due as ali
mony. Today he filed answer to her
complaint, pleading the statute of limi-
tations, and saying that twenty-one
years ago., being determined to wreck
his happiness, she left his home with
her children and for years kept their
residence secret. they being in Illinois.
Then he says: For wrongs and inju-
rieS existing only in her distempered
imagination, she has relentlessly pur-
sued his defendant with WritS and
warrants, bench warrants and capiases
until he has been crippled financially,
and IN his old age, he is not even al
lowed the peace of being left alone"
Two cases against postmasters for
embezzlement were tried in the federal
court and in both there were convic-
lions. j. M. Pittman, colored, late post
master of Halifax, was convicted Of
taking money from the money order
department. w. d. Baker, ex-postmas-
ter at Lewiston, pleaded guilty. 1t was
shown that the honey he had taken
had been repaid n there was also a
physicians statement hat he was in
feeble health. Judge Purnell suspend
ed judgment and discharged Baker.
The following insurance companies
today domesticated themselves, under
protest: Mutual Life, of New York;
Hanover Fire, Of New York, and Penn
~Sylvania Fire. Other companies filing
charters were: The Fidelity Safe De-
post Company, of Baltimore, and the
Greenwich Fire.
Your correspondent specially inter-
viewed the secretary of state today as
to what he proposed to do with the re-
quest of the Northwestern Life Insur-
ance Company, that he return it's char
ter filed last week under the Craig law.
He said he could not return it unless
the courts ordered him to do so, and
high courts at that, not lower thar the
United States circuit court of appeals
Or the state supreme court.
He was hen asked if companies could
file charters for limited time, and re-
piled that he knew of no authority fol-
their so doing; that there was no al
thority for latitude as to time. This
is a question the courts will have 20
pass on. A cas- agreed is made III
between John w. Hinsdale, represent
ing the Mutual Reserve and Attorney
General Walser, but the courts will
hardly pass on it before October. The
Connecticut Fire notifies the commits
sioner Of insurance it will withdraw and
asks that the unearned part Of its IL
cenSe be refunded. This cannot bs
done There is no law for it.
The commissioner says he believes
all the fire companies save about
twelve will domesticate and expresses
the belief that in sixty days three.
fourths Of the life companies will do So