The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
IMPORTANT INSURANCE CASE
ArTHed before state supreme Court
Western Union Tax Case-Thc Vance
StaSsc Unwilling.
Messenger Rureau.
Raleigh. y. G February az

Raleigh. y. G. February e.
The Western Union Telegraph Conn
pany appealed TO the United States
court from the order OF the corporation
commission in the tax assessment
case increasing its assessment Judge
Simonton has made an order placing
the matter AZ the hands OF Standing
Master James E. Shepherd. to take
testimony. as he will take It in the rail-
way cases. The Western Union two
Years < appealed To the United
states cou from the order OF the
railway commission reducing the rate
per message in this state from - cents
10 10 cents for ten words. The legis-
lature abolished the railway commis-
sion and the corporation commission
thought that this case would ah1te.
Hence IL took no step regarding it
The corporation commission made the
rate p cents. 1t meets March end and
Will take up this matter. Ii ~ mere
than probable that the suit win be
dropped SO far as the commission Is
concerned.
y New York company which will
raise sheep has his week signed the
paper for the purchase Of 81. 900 acres
in one of the piedmont Counties. for
a sheep ranch. II will be the largest
in the state.
1t is impossible TO fix the date Of the
unwilling of the Vance stature until
the committees go 20 Washington
about March 1st. May Goth is the date
most favored The opposition To IL is
because 1t falls on Monday and that
many people might object To travel
ing on Sunday to get here. For his
reason some favor May 10th. " hich falls
in the middle of the week.
The editor of The Progressive Farm
er has not vet declared his position on
the constitutional amendment. He
said today he had not yet fully decid-
ed.
the trustees OF the Methodist orphan
age here that they will each support
an orphan. This is equivalent to 81. 900
endowment.
The North Carolina Methodist Epis-
copal conference has raised S4.O67 for
the Twentieth Century fun" The
latter is applied to Christian education.
at the direction OF ;he giVers. 1t is di-
rected that 1922 shall go to Trinity
college, S415 to Vanderbilt university.
$50 to Littleton female college. $50 to
| education in Cuba and $3.50 is not di-
| rected but will be applied by the board.
| Attorney General Waiser accepts an
invitation to deliver an address before
the students of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college here, on the sub
ject OF The Three Departments OF the
Government and the Practical Work
ings thereof"
The review of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college cadet battalion yes
terday at the executive mansion was
largely attended.
Charles Il. Aycock appeared in the
supreme court this week as counsel in
! a very interesting and important case.
The store of a man named Strauss in
this state was burned. There was
about S20, 900 insurance. Some OF IL
was paid. A Philadelphia firm gar
nisheed $50 300 insurance in the Etna of
Hartford, Connecticut. The courts in
Pennsylvania hold that his is a good
garnishment. Aycock contends hat
the plaintiff owned nothing in PennsyI-
vania and that the insurance
owed him nothing in that state to at
tach and thereby give the court juris-
diction. The case affects insurance
matters largely. [ present there IS
great uncertainty in the law on this
subject and a company under such
circumstances is likely to have 10 pay
twice. The Etna has not paid in Penn
sylvania.