The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30
WAKE SUPERIOR COURT.
Several Important Gases Set for Trial.
superintendent Ssctson. OF Maine,
TO Visit North Carolina-Deer Do
ing Damage in Granville-Other
News Notes
messenger BUREAU
Raleigh. ~. c.. September u.

Raleigh. ~. c.. September q.
Clement Smith. a colored Holiness
preacher. ma been sentenced by Judge
Furgesol here 10 eight months on the
county roads. on the charge of steal-
ing a watch from the Southern Ex-
press Company.
James Blakeley. OF Louisburg. Is TO
be tried in Wake Superior court Thurs
day or the charge OF embezzling the
proceeds OF the sale OF several car loads
OF horses and mules. He claims that
he was a partner with the western horse
dealers and the shortage could not
therefore be an embezzlement. n
! prosecution charges that Blakeley was
merely an agent in Raleigh for the sale
of the tock.
A charter has been granted n the
company formed for the operation Of
the WAKE County Savings Bank, the
capital being $4,000 subscribed and paid
In and $780, 600 authorized. The officers
have not been elected yet. Such well
known business men as T. II. Briggs,
w. W. Vass, w. b. Grimes constitute
the directors.
J. r Upchurcn, warden for the North
Carolina Society, for the en-
forcement OF the game laws of the state.
has just returned from a tour of the
entire county of Granville. He says
farmers IN the northern section OF the
count adjoining the Virginia line,
complain greatly about deer being so
numerous in the woods that they go
into the fields at night and do great
damage. The people in that section
want the law changed SO they can kill
deer at least from August TO March, in
stead Of from October to January.
Bronze inscription plates have just
been put on the two cannon on either
side of the Washington statue in Cap
itol square, the plates bearing the in
scription Bought in France by Rich
ard Caswell, Mounted at Edenton 1878,
re-mounted in 1881, Captured by the
United States forces in 1862. Presented
- EGenton 20 the State,o of North Car
ma 1907
Rev. r. j. Bateman, for the past two
years pastor of the Fayetteville Street
Baptist church closed his pastorate here
n will leave Thursday for Mt. Olive,
where he has accepted the pastoral
charge of the Baptist church there.
Governor and Mrs. Jos. F. Johnston,
of Alabama, are in the city the guests
of Colonel A. B. Andrews, first vice
president of the Southern Railway.
State Treasurer B. r. Lacy has re-
turned from Seven Springs where he
spent two weeks in hopes of benafitting
the asthma from which ne has been a
great sufferer for a number of years.
He is greatly pleased with the resort,
blu his condition has not sufficiently i'm
proved to admit of his COINS into the
campaign, a thing he says he cant
think of doing until he gets at least four
good consecutive nights sleep, not hav-
ing enjoyed such a treat in more than
two months.
Judge George b. Ferguson convened
Wake superior court this morning, and
in the course of a right lengthy charge
about the only offence with reference to
the suppression of which he especially
! charged vas that OF keeping Gisrvpu-
table houses and the aiding and abet-
ting in the same by knowingly renting
houses for such purposes. This action
creates the impression here that the
grand jury will be asked to return bills
Of indictment against places of this
J character in Raleigh.
The NcBee-Ffnch cases for conspira-
cy in the Atlantic and North CAROLYN.
leceivership matter IS down on the cal
endar for trial mex week, but it is not
believed that any trial will be had.
Another trial of some note will be that
of NJ. NJ. smith, proprietor Of the South
ern Book Exchange, here in which the
charge is made by Bishop Joszpl
| Blount Cheshire that he bought books
that were stolen from his library,
knowing them to be stolen. The pur-
| chaseS were made from several sma
negro boys who stole hem while the
Bishops family was moving from a
rented house into the new Diocesan See
which was just completed.
1 Governor avaooE cnno,,noac +ba+ CIV
| perintendent W. w. Stetson of the pub
lie schools in the state of Maine will
visit North Carolina sometime later in
the fall and visit a number of the
principal cities, in company with the
| Governor and other state officials.