The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-02
NEW COTTON MILLS.
Names and Locations of Those Char
tered This Year Insurance Com
panfes Returning to the State-The
States Debt and Income.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, N. c., December IS.
The following are the names and To-
cations of the thirty-one cotton mills
chartered by the state this year: Revo-
luton, Greensboro: Tolar. Hart & Holt,
Fayetteville; Bala. Cabarrus county:
Fountain, Tarboro; Robbins, Colds
boro; Glencoe, Alamance county Del
gado, Wilmington: Daniel. L~incolnton;
Patterson, Halifax county: Shelby,
Shelby; Massclesfeld, Tarboro; San
ford, Sanford: Avalon, Rockingham;
Indian Creek, Lincoln county: Scot
land, Richmond county; Carolina and
Alamance, both in Alamance county:
Winston, Winston: Central. Davidson
county; Lula, CASTOR county; Kinston;
Kinston; Tuscarora, Caoarrus county;
Winderenere. Stanley county: Neuse
River, Wake county: Catawba, Cataw-
ba county; Royal, Wake Forest: Eliz-
abeth City, Elizabeth City; Pembroke:
New Bern; Gibson, Concord: Melrose,
Raleigh; National Finishing. Green's
boro.
The commissioner of insurance says
the indications point TO the returning
to this state CT nearly all the insurance
companies which left because of h
enactment of the Craig "domestica-
ton law He says the companies
which left are. "softening" greatly in
lI[ci Nlc"S, d. iSllcIS SlOW.
Snow began falling late yesterday af-
ternoon and made the ground white,
and there was some sleet. This morn
ing there was another snowfall, but a
slight one.
The state granted a charter today
to the "Nationl Ex-Slave Mutual Re
lief, Bounty and Pension Association,
of the United States in North Caro-
IA" Its headquarters are at New
Bern and Elijah Dudley n others are
its officers. The harte says its OBJ
ject is to are for ex-slaves and to
unite in favoring pension legislation
for them A char ter is also granted
the Warlick Lumber Company, of Ca
tawba and Rutherford counties.
Today the sheriff of Haywood county
brought to the penitentiary Burt
Smith, white, aged 20 years, who gets
twenty years for o%utraging the Swear
old daughter of his brother. 1t will be
remembered that last August troops
went on duty at Waynesville to save
from lynching. The sheriff
brought him here quickly, so as to pre-
vent any trouble, as feeling against
him is high. He says Smith is con
cerned at the enormity of his crime,
which richly deserved death.
Almost all the tCbacco-growing coun-
ties in this state are by law given I'M
til May to settle state taxes. The state
treasurer says 1t Is a great mistake 10
have such a law and that it is an in
justice ITO sheriffs. The same extension
Of time is given some of the western,
cattle-selling counties.
The states debt is now Sc, 501, no, the
annual interest charge being 1905, lis.
The market alt of the states invest
ments consisting almost entirely of
stock in the North Carolina and Allan
tic and North Carolina railways, SIS, 1885,
III, and the income from investments
is $225, S15.
But few people Of those who escaped
vaccination last spring are now being
v~accinated. There are AT least 5000
such.
The executive committee of the
North Carolina Tea cheers Assembly
met here today, w. H. Ragsdale, of
Greenville, presiding; w. T.. Whitsett
secretary. The last session Of the as
sembly was remarkably successful.
Ex-Sheriff Sturgill, of Ashe, who
failed to settle state taxes for 1898,
promises to make immediate settle
ment. The treasurer had sued him.