The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-12
HUNTING Up PROFESSORS
For h Agricultural College Raleigh
Base Ball Club Declines Cunning
hams Oner-An Important Case De-
cided.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. n. c., July 9.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., July 9.
Governor Aycock appoints bred Pea
cock, Of Greensboro, a director of the
Oxford orphan asylum, vice Ben N.
Duke, resigned.
Commissioner of Agriculture Patter-
son and DR.. George T. Winston, pres
ident Of che Agricultural and Mechani-
cal college, have gone north to select a
professor Of agriculture. They will also
look out for a state veterinarian. 1t is
probable that Professor TAFT Butler. of
Kansas viii he the veterinarian. He
Is president Of the national veterinary
association.
Among the arrivals are Richard J.
Jones, G. H. Smith, Wilmington; John
d. Briggs, Williamston; Iredell Meares,
Wilmington; B. F. Aycock, Wayne
county; Ex-Governor D. L. Russell,
Wilmington. The latter is Of counsel
In a suit by saloon keepers here against
this city, to recover the taxes they
nave for many years paid the city on
barrooms outside the boundary, involv-
ing some $12, 900. Ex-Governor Russell
says there are other suits Of the same
kind against the town of Durham.
A telegram from Manager H. T.
Eryan of the Tarboro base ball club,
who was IN Norfolk to buy the Norfolk
team, was received this morning and
appeared to mean that he had been sue
cessful. he wanted Mace made an UNI
pire, and not Staley. President Cum
ningham offered his Norfolk team to
Raleigh for $1,000, but it was not amt
ed here.
Judge 7. r. Purnell today received a
letter from Judge Golf notifying hin
that he and Judge Jackson of West
Virginia would again sit on the circuit
court Of appeals at Richmond at the
next term.
In the important case of r. S. Neal
ct ais VS.. G. T. Briggs & Co., OF Nor
folk, involving a large saw mill and
timber interests at Morehead City,
Judge Purnell today approved the find
ing Of Special Master Green OF New
Bern, as to the facts and law. The eff
feet of the decision is that Briggs &
Co., are indebted to Neal and the First
national bank of New Bern in the sum
of S., 255, instead Of Neal being indebted
to Briggs, as claimed, to the amount of
$4,000.
The state board of education met to-
day to consider the condition of some
Of the seven negro normal schools.
These are at Elizabeth City, Plymouth,
Goldsboro, Fayetteville, Franklinton,
Winston and Salisbury. After the
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school examiners has control of them
and of the election of teachers. \
strong delegation from Fayetteville is
now here In the interest of the school
there, Senator Ward appearing for the
Plymouth school, Professor S. l.. Sheep
for that at Elizabeth City and Daniei
Gillian for that at Tarboro.
The state auditor is sending to al
banks a notification of the taxes they
must, under the new law, pay directly
to the state treasury.
The state superintendent of public
instruction is informed of the reelection
of the county superintendent, while
not a few are dropped n in somc
counties there are squabbleS.
Governor and Mrs. Aycock leave
here Saturday for Wrightsville. The
governor will inspect and review the
Third regiment, in camp there, next
week.
Insurance Commissioner Young is ad.
vised that a negro charged with arson
He desired the arrest OF this suspect
made. He is now investigating a case
of supposed incendiarism at Greens
boro.
The agricultural department has beer
in correspondence with a. l.. Trent, o!
Ohio, in regard to his removal to this
state. He has settled at Fitzgerald
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fine herd of Angus cattle. These he
will exhibit at the state fair at Raleigh
E. l.. Fleming. of Raleigh, is appoint;
ed an official umpire of the North Car
Dina base ball league.
The trial of w. j. Tyson, charged
with swindling the Virginia State Life
Insurance Company out OF $1,000, b,
swearing his wife was dead, was put OF
trial here today. There are five
charges: bigamy, forgery, conspiracy
perjury and false pretence.
The trial today was for bigamy. Hi:
first wife STore he married her clever
years ago: that they a five children
tina they had lever been divorced; tha
Tyson had sent her nothing for months
and that her brother. Waddill, at he
request telegraphed Tyson at Raleigh
she was dead in order to get Tyson t.
Fayetteville. Tyson came, saw her ant
the children and stayed there severa
days: then he left, and h heard n
had married another woman, after col
lecting the insurance in a Richmont
on her life. A magistrate
swore he married Tyson to a woman
named Powell last March. Tyson wa,
at Virginia beach with this wife whel
arrested. The jury found Tyson guilty
The Judge sentenced him to ten years
His first wife with an infant OF ST.
months in her arms went to the 1ai
at his request and told him goodbye
He asked ner pardon for the grea
wrong lone her, and for the sake o
their children she said n pardone'
him..
The state board of internal improve
ment returned today from an inspection
of the Atlantic and North Carolin;
railroad. Its members say the physi
cal condition of the road has greatly
improved and so has its business.
Senator Ward says the rain this wee
has greatly benefited the crops i
north eastern North Carolina. For
fortnight the ground had been so Or
no work could be done