The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-03

provfng-The Methodist Orphanage.
An Ex-Convict as a Public school,
Teacher
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., September 80.
Today United States P~ostofice In
spector Hunter arrived here from Kan
sas City to see Secretary of State
Thompson about a great fraud which
a swindler named B. III. Morse has per-
| petrated upon the people Of the west.
Morse represents the "A1aska-Klon-
dyke Improvement and Manufacturing
Company, capital $500. 900. incorporated
under the laws of North Carolina" and
has victims by the hundred M
| stock certification beautifully engrav-
| ed, the work having been done by Nit
cheIl e. Co., of Chicago, anC are or Slo
| each. Morse is in Jail at Kansas City.
Hunter came here to see II any SUCH
company had ever been chartered mere.
Of course he found that it had not. He
! desires that Secretary of State Thomp-
son shall appear as a witness against
Morse. Thompson said that IL he DID
| not appear one of his clerks would.
Hunter says the government is par
ticularly DESTROYS of convicting Morse.
The latter has victimized many wlo-
ows. He lie a big business in the way
Of registered mail.
Governor Russell has received the
resignation of Lieutenant s. o. Smith,
Of the Asheville Light Infantry, VINO
| becomes a lieutenant in the Forty-sev-
enth regiment.
Rev. William S. Lacey, formerly pas
| tor of the First Presbyterian church at
Norfolk, and whose life has been de-
| SPARED of, is back here at his birth
place. 1t was thought he would die at
| Baltimore on the way here. He is bet
| ter now and more hopeful than at any
| time within a year.
The state veterinarian was today ad-
! vised of an outbreak of splenic fever
| in w L. TayIor's herd of cattle IN
! Granville county, and that five have
died.
The aldermen here have waged a sue
cessful campaign against street signs
which overhang the ano
have now begun n against the tele-
graph, telephone and other poles, which
are so thick as to cause danger.
The supreme court advances the case
in which r. S. Mccall sues the county
solicitor in the ten counties comprising
the western criminal circuit, claiming
that he is by law entitled to be solici-
tor in all. The case is to be argued
Monday.
President Alderman, of the university
of North Carolina, is here. He is de-
lighted at the large Tendance There
are nine young women students.
The state board Of education was in
session today and granted life ~certifii
Gates to five teachers.
Today the executive committee of the
trustees of the Methodist Orphanage
here accepted plans for the cottages
which are to surround the centra
building. Each cottage will accommo-
date a matron and twenty-five children
The building will be of brick, stone
trimmed. Work on the first one will
begin in October. It will be some time
before work begins On the main build
ing.
The supreme court today heard argu-
ment in the damage suit in which the
Seaboard Air Line by the failure of its
attorneys to file appeal in time lost the
case in which the lower court gave
$21, 900 damages against it because OF
the alleged burning of ar ice factory
here by locomotive sparks. The rail
way claims that it must not suffer be-
cause of negligence of attorneys and
hence seeks to get the case on it's feet
again in the supreme court.
It is asserted, in statements to the
superintendent Of public instruction
that a negro teacher at the cOlored nor
NAL school at Plymouth is an ex-cOn-
Vjct.