The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-14
THE STATE PENSIONERS
THE NUMBER TO BE GREATLY IN.
CREASED THIS YEAR.
Corporations Reporting Satisfactorily
Under the New Law-The Finch
Opinion on the Swamp Lands De-
clared void-The Machfnfsts, Strike.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. C. June IL

Raleigh, y. c.. June II.
The state auditor was specially inter-
viewed today regarding pensions. He
said: Twice as many blanks for appIi-
cants have been sent out Yet there
are requests for more. There are now
5000 pensioners. 1 believe there will, be
10000 this year The increase will be of
soldiers. All h widows who can get
on the lists are now there and. of
course. some will be dropped under the
new law, as under this they must have
been married prior April l, 1865. Great
as the increase in soldier pensions will
be. it will be larger e year, as the
information as to the new law will not
spread through the outlying districts.
n county boards will go over the
lists. Their they go before the state
pension board. 1t is a great ask to
review the 10, 900 applications
The auditor says that the CORPORA
ions in the state are reporting salts
factorily and rapidly under the new
law and that building and loan associa-
atlons are also reporting promptly.
State Treasurer Lacy says he and all
tAANN lHoN
ought to a income tax on salaries
but that the attorney general could
find no law for it.
There are now 465 inmates OF the in
sane asylum here. This is the largest
number it has ever had.
The state superintendent of public in
struction left his afternoon for
Wr1ghtSVille, where he will on Thurs
day deliver an address to the Teachers
Assembly. His secretary, John w.
Duckett goes to Kittrell tomorrow to
deliver an address to the state associa-
ton of colored teachers.
The board of education elects NJ. G..
>. Noble, of the state university; S. l..
Sheef, of Elizabeth City, president of
the North Carolina Association of
Academies. and w. J. Terrell, of
W~adeSboro, a state board of public
school examiners. Noble was re-elect-
ed. The two others are new men.
Today there was a hearing before a
magistrate of the case Of three of the
men brought here to take the places Of
the striking machinists, the charge be-
ing that they stole three valises full Of
clothing belonging to q woman in a
diSOrderly III to which they were
taken Saturday night by strikers or
strike sympathlZers. There are state
ments and counter statements, as to
the matter. On the one hand it is said
III lie III Tic SlcdllIlS, Oh tie Oll6T,
that it was part of a plan to drive them
out Of town. One of the new men was
assaulted last night by strike sympa-
thizers. This is Raleigh's first strike.
There is no popular interest in 1t, for
n side or the other. On the streets
there is nothing heard about it. One of
strikers declared that the assault of the
new man was by town" boys. Thirty
nine witnesses were m by the
Seaboard Air Line railway as witnesses
in the larceny case, these all being
striking machinists. Three or foul of
the latter have been away from home
some days, to get work elsewhere it is
said.
The state board of education declares
the option which the fusion board gave
K. S. Finch on the sta te swamp lands
to be null and void.
The weekly crop bulletin for the week
ended last night, was issued today. 1t
says:
All reports indicate that the past
week has been very favorable both for
farm work and for the growth of crops.
Temperature average about normal
and the days were generally warm
without extremes. but cool nights pre-
vailed toward the close of the week.
The light showers which were quite
general about the 9Th or 7th were very
beneficial, softening h soil which be-
gun 10 De marc 20 WOrk. Inc amount
of sunshine was abundant. Farmers
took advantage Of these favorable con-
ditions to push work as much as pos
sible; many fields have been cleaned Of
a and are we'll cultivated, but the
amount Of work to be done was so
great that grass has not all been SUBJ
dued, and another week of fair wealth
er is required. Crops still average
two to three weeks late, but nave made
considerable growth and show renewed
vigor.