The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-20
NUMBER OF BIDS RECEIVED.
For What Not Own
Several Convicts for the Peniten-
~ary-Str Car in Ra-
leiEh-W eather Report for Febru-
ary-Eighth District Appeals.
Messenger Rureau.

"A nunOer or DlQS fOf the new state
bonds are being received by Treasurer
Lacy, but as the bids are sealed he does
not know for what amount the are.
The state public printing board. OF
which Governor Aycock is the head,
met today and advertised for bids for
the state printing for the next w
years.
A commission was today issued to
Rev. Alpheus McCullen o. Oxford as
chaplain of the Third regiment, n. G..
n. c.
Sheriff House of Halifax county, to-
day brought five convicts to the peni-
tertiary; one of them a negro, to serve
i've years for forging a $500 check Oh
the Scotland Neck Bank. He would
have been given a longer term had not
physicians stated that he was mental
ly unbalanced.
A charter is granted to the Myrtle
Grove Building and Trust Company,
of New Hanover county, with leave to
own and operate saw-mills, steam
boats, shell roads, barges n flats,
hotels and other resorts On Myrtle
Grove Sound: also to ship fish, etc;
capital $25, 900.
Another charter is granted the Ivy
Mill Company. to manufacture cotton
N opiSt o,O idS VI ooS
ness Hickory, A. A. Shuford and 9TH
erS stockholders.
State Auditor Dixon today received
his appointment from Governor Ay-
cock as the states representative to
furnish the United States War De
! partment with information regarding
North Cardinals Confederate troops.
Auditor Dixon said he would get ac-
lively at work at once, so as to lose
no time in securing the information.
The Southern, S. A. L. and Norfolk
n western railways will be given a
hearing by the corporation commits
sion March 2Sth, regarding the union
depot at Durham, in order to see
whether the design submitted by the
southern railway is satisfactory to all
This design is for a $780, 900 building,
and is submitted by the Southern,
which will construct the building and
give the other road trackage rights, OF
will Join with them in erecting it.
superintendent William J.. Andrews,
of the Raleigh street railway, is now
at work on plans for it's extensions,
which he says will double the present
trackage. There may be one or per-
hapS two new lines.
Very few persons can be found who
believe that the Haywood murder case
will be tried next week. The remark
able retlcence of the attorneys con-
tinues. 1t is very natural that as re.
CARDS witnesses, etc, there should be
retlcence, but there seems no reason
for it as regards any effort to secure
a continuance.
Arrangements are perfected here fol
an associated board of charities. Oh
this Editor Bailey of the Biblical Re.
corder is the president, and he has ap
pointed committees to take charge OF
every line of the work.
Two deputy Sheriffs went out to q
suburb of Raleigh last evening to ar.
rest D.. Russell, a deserter from the
navy, who is also charged with as
saulting and holding up a man fol
robbery last Saturday night. Russell
was found at his fathers home. He
a and was fired at three times. His
father claims he is under q years OF
age
Copies of the new pension law were
today sent out by the state auditor.
The weather report for February fol
North Carolina was issued today. The
month was comparatively mild, but
n rainfall was very heavy, especial
ly IN the west, being 2 inches and one.
half above normal all over the state
and 4 inches above in the west. Al
one place Highlands, 16 inches. The
mean temperature was As degrees
which is 2 degrees above normal: the
highest being 80 at Wilmington, an6
the owest 50 at Linville. The highest
absolute temperature was IS degrees
at Wilmington on the 18th, and the
lowest 3 degrees below zero at Linville
on the 18th. 1t was the warmes1
February since 1891. The average ain
fall was GIL inches.
Eighth district cases will be called
by the supreme our mex Tuesday
March oath, as follows: State VS.
Crook; State VS.. Marsh; State VS.. Bar
rett; Austin VS.. Austin; Cotton Mills
VS.. WaXhaw; Barringer VS.. Trust Co.
Efird VS. Telegraph Co.; Davis VS.
Railroad; Willeford VS.. Bailey; Gordon
VS.. Railroad; Shute VS.. Cotton Mills
Rusing VS., Bivens; Seawell VS.. Rail
road; Hendley VS.. Mcintyre; Perry vs.
Insurance Co.; Mcneil VS.. Railroad,
Caudle VS.. Long; Lockhart VS.. Coving.
ton; Hamrick VS.. Quarry Co.; Hunt
ley VS., Hasty; Hinsdale VS.. Graham.
Today the state auditor, who has
charge Of pension matters received &
request from some North Carolinians
now living in Tennessee for pensions
The state of Tennessee will have tt
pay them. This state pays n Con.
federate soldier or widows of Confed
crate soldiers who have lived here on
ear. There are quite a number from
other states who now live here and thu
receive PENSIONS, among these being
some from Georgia. Several of the
states do not thus pay persons from
other states. AS Auditor Dixon sale
today: I'VE TAX care of soldiers anG
widows from Georgia and other states
We don't care where they come from
SO they have been living in this state