The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-20
JUDGE SIMONTON'S ORDER.
Concerning Taxing of Salaries of
Federal observation-disclosures by
the State-Charge of Cruelty to
COnvicts-The State Guard.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., February 16.

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The Corporation Commission was in
conference with Governor Aycock to-
day regarding the injunction which
Judge SimontOn of the United States
circuit court has issued, restraining
Sheriff Page of this county from COL
Letting tax upon the salary of Judge
Purnell of the United States district
court. 1t is not yet settled, the chair
man of the committee says, whether it
will be represented in person or by the
attorney general or by an attorney, at
the hearing which is to take place at
Charleston, s. G.
S. D. Cole. who has been removed as
COUNTY superintendent of education of
Cumberland appeals his case to the
State Board of Education. His APP
peal was to have been heard tomorrow,
but today upon application was post
poned until the following Tuesday.
The supreme court devotes this week
to appeals from the Third district.
Nearly all the members of the New
Bern bar arrived today to appear these
being A. B. Ward, u. l.. Ward NJ. d.
w. Stevenson. w. w. Clark, L. j.
Moore. r. A. Mum.
A commission was issued today to
p. +. Pogue as second lieutenant,
company Z. Third regiment. N. Z. S.
G.. Henderson.
A charter was today granted by the
secretary of state to the Alberme Ice
Company, of Hartford. capital S14, 900
TO deal iii ice II water, operate d say
mill and box factory. and d cotton seed
oil mill.
The Minneola Manufacturing Com
pany of Greensboro, of which Moses
Cone and Others are stockholders, was
granted permission today to increase
it's capital stock to S100, coo.
Chairman Warren, of the joint CON-
mittee which is investigating the
charges of cruelty to convicts says the
report will be made this week. One
more witness remains to be examined.
This being Wilcox, who preferred
charges against Warden Fleming. Of
the penitentiary, and who has been
summoned to be here tomorrow to give
his evidence. There will be a separate
repOrl as to the charges Of improper
treatment of convicts at Dover, on the
Atlantic and North Carolina railway.
The rate Of insurance taxation in
the revenue act which is to be taken
up by the legislature Wednesday,, re-
mains the same as at present.
The town of Pine Bluff will have a
novel bill introduced in the legislature,
this being to allow itself to be taxed
! on property and poll for the specific
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north and west as a winter resort.
People from the north who have set
tied in that county, Moore, during the
past ten years have added a fourth to
the taxable value of all property. Such
is the statement made by the sheriff.
The legislature has 50 far char
tered the Southern Life Insurance
| Company, and The North Carolina Mu-
tuaI Aid und Home Protective Asso-
c%latiOII.
The bills providing for the giving Of
negro taxes alone to negro schools,
and to allow discrimination as to such
schools were reported today in the
legislature, without prejudice.
The Adjutant General of the United
States army writes Adjutamt General
Register, regarding the section of the
Dick National Guard Act, which pro-
vides that the president shall in time
of peace fix by order the minimum