The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-04
ATLANTIC COAST LINE MACHINISTS TO
GO OUT TODAY
THE STATE GUARD ENCAMPMENT
Location Therefore Not Yet Selected.
Two Companies Added To the G,ora
Board of Agriculture Makes Appro-
p~riations for Exhibit at Charleston
Exposition and to Continue the Soil
survey-Arrested on the Charge of
an Insurance Company.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, n. c.. May BIAS yet no
decision is reached as to the location of
the state guard encampment. A re-
port mas not even been made to the
governor. Great quantities of stores
for the use Of the state guard were re-
Questioned for today.
The board Of agriculture authorizes
Commissioner Patterson and State
Chemist Kilgo to attend the cotton
states exposition at Little Rock in Au-
gust. John W. Thompson. now of Phil
adelphia, is requested to represent
North Carolina in the southern indus
trial convention June 18th. The board
appointed Patterson, Allen and Daught-
ridge a committee to assist the state
fair executive committee in arranging
premiums. Cunningham, Cannon and
McCallum were appointed a commit
tee to make suggestions as to salaries.
The board made a $40, 900 appropriation
for continuing h soil survey of the
state.
President Winston, Of the Agricul-
tural college today invited bids for the
construction of the textile building
there, work to begin about Tune Goth,
the building to be ready in September.
Orders from h adjutant generals
office today accept the Oak City
Guards. of Raleigh, and assign it as
Company z, second regiment, George
Syme captain; the Holt Rifles, of Bur-
lington, accepted and assigned as Com
1, Third regiment, r. L. Boyd, cap
tain. Company /. Third regiment, of
A~sheville, is transferred to the First
regiment as Company K. The Fayette-
vile Independent Light Infantry is as
CIOna6 &c Tnnnnonv ENirc% ra-;~o@~%
Captain ]. G. Hollingsworth. The Lee
Rifles. Of Charlotte. is made Cd" in
stead of a Company, of the First regi-
ment.
Superintendent whisnant, of first di-
vision of the Seaboard Air Line. will
tomorrow move his office here, and it
will be conducted in connection with the
second district. which has already an
office here. The office of master of
rains of the first division is to be NOV
ed back here.
The board of agriculture today APP
propriated $4,000 for an exhibit at
Charleston. 1t has a vast store of
material ready. Editor Hemphill,
of the News and Courier, addressed the
the board. He incidentally said. refer
ring to the contest Of Senators Tillman
and McLaurin. that Tillman would
surely beat him out of his boots.
The striking Seaboard Air Line rail-
way macnlnlStS mere say the iantl
Coast Line machinists will strike to-
morrow and that the Florence shops
have been unionized.
Today w. j. Tyson was brought here
from Virginia Beach and jailed on the
grave charge of swindling an insur-
nee company. He is a native Of Fay
etteville, y. c., but has lived at Raj
eigh some time. Tyson's wife wrote the
company. saying she had deard of his
fraud, that he had deserted her and
five children and had married here.
Wife No. 2 was with him when cap
tured, came here with him, and swears
she will stand by him to the end.