The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-30
NORTH DAY.
Celebration I'm all Pablo
pre- Court Announces an
Amendment tn a Rule-Triaf of
Lorenzo Norris.
Messenger Eureau.
Raleigh. y. G. September =.


Raleigh. y. c. September =.
State Superintendent OF Public IN
.Istruction Joyner will in a few days des-
Ilgnate the day which will this year be
iobseryed as North Carolina Day" in
the public schools Last year the day
Iselected was TOO early. as many schools
We're not open. He will In all PROBABLE
iity select the Friday after
ing day. Then all the schools Viii be
open There Will be special exercises.
The supreme court today
a rule amending the gIles regarding the
nIing Of briefs. Printed briefs are now
REQUIRED in all cases. except in pauper
appeals. The appellant nus nle MS
brief on Thursday before the call or the
TO which the case belongs. ana
tine appellee must h;e his on Monday OF
the week OF the district Printed copies
OF the above amended rule viii be sent
TO the clerk of court tn each county and
20 attorneys practicinS in the supreme
court.
In the superior court here today Lo-
renzo Morris. white, said TO be about %
ears old, was put on trial for the muir
ar of Mrs. Catharine Bailey. whose
. was over 50. She was killed in the
lrd OF her home - miles from here,
near the Granville county line, n was
found lying on the ground with her
skull split open and 4 ploody axe lie"
fleet away. Your correspondent mao u
talk today with a man who married an
AUNT OF Morris. and this man said Nor
lris was not bright as to intellect; that
The and Mrs. Bailey once walked all the
way 10 Raleigh TO marry. but that az
tier she gave him So with which 10 buy
the license he decided not to marry ana
they walked back She broke dow II
miles from here. and there Morris iett
her and walked home. Later he said II
ISh. unfll nav for "A buggy he would
take her TO oxford and they would
lmarry. She gave him the money, but
they never went. She wanted to marry
him. She had some property.
He was teased a great deal about her
and was heard to say that he would go
over TO her house and kill her some
DAY. After his arrest he claimed that
Laurence Davis, a young man OF Gran
willie county, had hired him to XIII the
woman and had promised him 80 Tor
THAT work. Davis arrest followed put
he was quickly released on bail as the
STORY was not believed. but people
were sure Morris was the murderer.
Counsel for the defendent suggested and
the solicitor accepted. murder in the
isecond degree as Morris was clearly
partially unsound mentally. The judge
therefore sentenced Morris to thirty
Years in the p~enitentiary.
The Seaboard Air Line trains blocked
by a wreck near Merry Oaks yesterday
morning. got through this morning.
The loss by the wreck. to cars and pri-
waite property is heavy
State Auditor Dixon finds that there
were 3,12S new applications for pensions.
iOf these about 1900 passed. OF the new
applications CAT We're by widows and
9. 5S1 by soldiers. During the year -
widows and Ice soldiers are reported 10
have died and this number will reach
300. There We're last year 5000 pensions.
The net gain this year will be about
9, 1000. Auditor Dixon says this -, to in
his opinion, the high-wa.er mark, and
that henceforward the number will
grow less and less.
The law provides that when the PEN
sions are prorated the reduction shall
apply more particularly to the 4th class
soldiers and 70 widows. Last year the
4th class and widows got $40 annually:
this year it appears they will receive
about SIS.
Much needed rains set in today.
streams are very low. For some lays
this city's water supply has taken
nearly all the flow of Walnut creek
Governor Aycock and Commissioner
of Agriculture Patterson left here this
morning for the piedmont section on n
ten days campaign tour