The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-04
ALL LITIGATION Is OVER.
McBce-Ffnch Conspiracy Case Is
Nolle Prossed-Reception by DIR.
and Mrs. Burkett - Democratic
Speaking-Prize for Map Drawing.
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, N. u, October L.
Carle Duncan. collector of internai
revenue for the Eastern district OF
North Carolina, SeveraI
changes in deputies. S. A. Hodgin is
and T. A. Albright is made general
store keeper and guager to succeed
Hodgin. Another change IS that Row
an Rogers is appointed general store
keeper to succeed John Mckee, who
goes back to Baltimore to resume his
medical studies.
An elaborate reception was given
last nighc by DIR. and Mrs. Burkett, of
the chair Of Agriculture at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college, in
honor of the agricultural students and
faculty Of the college. 1t was quite an
elaborate and very elegant affair. Two
hundred or more Of the people Of The
city called during the evening.
sheriff J. c. Crawford, Of Martin
county, was here today TO commit TO
the penitentiary three convicts. two
white men Jane Ed Moore and Geo.
w. Bower to serve respectively 10 and
20 years, and one. negro-Will Small
wood-to serve IL years, all three being
convicted of murder.
Walter Suggs and Buriey Mansum,
two young white men, have been indict-
ed by the grand jury for driving and
beating a livery horse so severely thai
the animal died from the effect of the
treatment.
In Wake Superior court this morning,
Judge Ferguson made an order mol
pressing the famous cases of conspiracy
against Captains V. E. McBee and K.
5. Finch, IN which they were charged
with onncr,irnox o~of1e- 49, =
their litigation for putting the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad in the.
OF receivers . The case was first
some days ago, continued for the term
on account of the continued illness o;
Captain Day of counsel for McBee and
Finch. Then today, F. 1. Osborn, for
McBee and Finch stated TO the court
that counsel on both sides had agreed
to drop the whole case and asked for
the mol prose, which was ordered with
out comment by the court, so that now
every phase of the litigation is off the
docket of State and Federal court, and
the road is safely in the hands of the
Rowland syndicate, yielding a good
rental for the state and private stock
holders.
Announcement is made from Demo-
craNc headquarters of the following ap-
pOintments:
Colonel Solomon Gallert, Bat Cove,
Henderson county, October 10; Mills
River, October IL; RoSemom. Transyl-
Vania county, october II; Brevard, Oc-
tober IL; Fair View, Buncombe county,
October IA; Weaverville, October Is;
Ashevile- October Is, at night; Canton
Haywood county, october II; Pigeon,
October IL, at night; Dellwood, October
Is; Waynesville. October 18, at night;
Sylvia, Jackson county, October 10;
Cullowee, October 20; Andrews, Chero-
kee county, October 21; ~Robbonsviqle,
October %; Bryson City, Swain county,
October "a.
"A statement of average October
weather for II years in North Carolina
issued today shows tina the earliest
date on which a killing frost occurred
was October s, and that the lowest
temperature was on October 80 and 81.
| 1898. The warmest october was in 1900
with an average of &C degrees and the
coolest in 1888 with an average of 90.
The boys and girls of Raleigh are
delighted and many of the grown up
people too, for that matter, who feel
| children. over the announcement that
the Forepaugh's and Sells enormous
| shows. united, are heading this way
and Will be in Raleigh November 4th.
The state superintendent of public
| instruction was called on yesterday to
act as a Judge IN passing the merlts
of township school maps drawn by
various teachers in the county, in com,
| petition for a prize of $40 in gold offer
ed by superintendent Clemmons of the
Wake county chools j. NJ. Turner. OF
Panther Branch, won the prize. Su-
perintendent Clemmons is himself pre-
pairing a very valuable school map or
the whole county.
The order of Judge Purnell refusing
allowances for counse fees etc, &c
Cuyler and Finch in their ~receivershiI
litigation against the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad Company
4 meets very general approval here.