The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-21
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c.. February Is.

messenger bureau
Raleigh. N. c., February Is.
The temperature took a sharp fall las,
might n the indications are that the
great snow viii remain a considerable
time Very few sidewalks are cleared
and there are merely narrow paths.
There is, strange to say. no municipal
regulation in regard to clearing side
walks and the city dos nothing to-
wards clearing Them.
! The state authirizes the Raleigh Hos
:iery Company TO issue preferred stock
to the amount of SIS. 900.
| The news hat there is being formed
an association to turn out the "vanI-
pire' fathers who make their little chill
dren work in cotton mills while they
themselves live in utter idleness, is very
gratifying. There are plenty of such
vampires" here n indeed at most
places where there are mills. In one
county the association has begun work
and is driving the vampires" from It's
limits.
Governor Aycock pardons Ed. Hill,
Icolored, Of Tyrrell county. who killed
his wife and was sentenced TO five years
for manslaughter, of which he had serv-
ed two. The pardon vas recommended
by the solicitor and man citizens. The
jury was very doubtful about convicting
him. There was evidence that the kill
ing was accidental and not malicious.
A pardon is also granted James Ma
rine. white, Of New Hanover. who was
convicted of larceny n given a two
years sentence. The judge. jurors and
many citizens recommended the pardon.
Tho UnllnO MN had 0lunU1 horn n
good character.
Another pardon a granted to Val
ter H. James, white, of Eigecombe, who
was sentenced to eighteen months On
the roads for stea ing the use OF a hoI Sc.
THE judge n many leading citizens
recommended the pardon.
1t will be remembered that Insurance
Commissioner Young some time since
published the Old Wayne Mutual Life
Insurance Company as a fraud and
warned the citizens of the state against
it. He had arrested and put on the
roads of Wake county for two years
the mar C. r. Hassell for representing
this Commissioner Young Is
continually receiving letters from c!ti-
lzens of the state about this company
and wishes to publish the statement
below that he has just received from
Hon. w. H. Hart, insurance comm.s-
%sioner of Indiana. Mr.. Hart says:
"The Old Wayne Mutual Life is or
lganized under one Of the very loosest
assessment laws that could be conceiv-
ed. This objectionab bic law has been
superseded by one more stringent in It's
provisions, so that 1t Is no longer opsr-
Iative in this state for the organization
lof new companies. / do not believe that
this company complies with any insur-
lance law in this world. or the next. and
Isome time ago. / asked the attorney
general to commence a suit to deter
mine the matter in the courts, with a
view of having 1t wound up, bur, so
far. this suit has not been commenced
The company generally pays from 10 TO
rs per cent on the face of Its policies.
when 1t pays at all. 1t is a disgrace 70
Indiana that such companies should be
permitted under the color of law to &c
an alleged business, and I trust ere
long, that the courts will have the op-
p~ortunity of deciding as to whether lis
methods can have their endorsement
under the statute"