The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-06
ON GOVERNOR AYC0CK IN THE SOUTH
DAKOTA BOND SUIT.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FIRE
Board of Trustees lake Up the
Matter-To Borrow Funds to Erect
Two New Buildings Wreck and an
Accident on the Seaboard Air Line.
Supreme Court Decfsfons-C. II. Has
sell Sentenced to Road Work for vfo-
n
lating Insurance Law
Especial to the Messenger.)

Raleigh, N. c., December 3.-The Sea-
board Air Lin train due here at II
o'clock this morning arrived at ABS p.
m. Three cars left the track near
Greenwood, S. c., and ran half a mile.
No one was hurt. A train on the same
road, bound south. at Suffolk this norm
ing cut off a leg of Mitchell Dunn, Of
Monroe, one of the train hands.
The governor was today served with
through Marshal Wright, of the United
States supreme court in order that he
should accept service. He has not yet
accepted service
At a meeting of the board of agricul-
ture as trustees of the Agricultural and
Mechanical college this afternoon Presi-
dent Winston, of the college, by re-
quest, made a full statement as to the
recent fire, saying building burned cost
5000 1t was insured for three fourths
of it's value, and from this, deduction
must be made for the walls yet stand
ing. He said SO, 300 of loss was unin-
sured. He urged that two buildings re-
place the n burned and that a loan be
u lOI ISDulIulHS. he appeared 10
think SIS, 900 should be the mou thus
to be secured.
The board discussed the matter and
on motion of John S. Cunningham ap-
pointed a committee to call on the gov
ernor and inform him of the ituatio
and see if the council of state would
agree to authorize a loan.
Cunningham, Allen, McRae, Dunn
and Cannon were appointed and chair
man S. L. Patterson was added. 1t at
once called on the governor and laid the
case before him.
No doubt is entertained that a loan
will be authorized, as the need is very
urgent. Vine hundred dollars worth of
rifles and equipments issued to the col
lege by the United States were burned.
Supreme court justices filed the fol-
lowing opinions today: Loughran VS..
City of Hickory, from Catawba, mod
flied and affirmed with costs against de-
PENDANT: State VS.. Harwell, from Ca
tawba, no error: State VS.. Peterson,
from Catawba, no error; Brown VS..
Plott, from Iredell, reversed; State VS..
Howard. from Guilford, affirmed; Com
missioners VS.. DeRosset, from New
Hanover, error; Brendle VS.. Railroad.
from Swain, judgement by consent
filed affirming. The cas- againS Howard
is known as the gold brick" case The
court affirms the sentences to the pen
itentiary imposed on Howard and his
fellow swindlers. Justices Furches
and Douglas dissent and say the
prisoners though guilty, should nave a
new trial because there was error in
what the judge said in the lower court.
In the supreme court today the case
of Sheriff Jackson, of Beaufort county,
VS.. the Corporation Commission to force
the latter to assess railway franchises
was continued at the request of the
attorney general on account of his sick
ness and also at the request of the cor
poration commission.
In the superior court today DR.. c. R.
Hassell, formerly connected with the
notorious graveyard insurance swindle
It Beaufort, submitted to false pretense
and soliciting insurance without license
and for an unlicensed company, and
was sentenced to two years at hard
labor on the public roads Of Wake
county. Insurance Commissions Young,
who had procured the arrest OF Hasseli
was present. There were two cases.
Judgment was suspended In one OF
| them.