The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
ASK FOR COaMUlATIDK
RELATIVES OF JABEL REGISTER
DENY THAT HE is MURDERER
Hearing i'm Selma Connection Case
Postponed - Evidence Against
PoweIl-Other Raleigh News Notes
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. y. c. Janiary 90.

Raleigh. N. c.. January 80.
This morning Mrs. II. 3. Register
and her daughter. Mrs. Morton, ar
rived here from Columbus county
and called on Governor Aycock. They
at once asked for Communication Of
the death sentence Of label Register,
the son of Mrs. Register and the
brother Of Mrs. Morton. They claim
that he was not guilty of the double
murder of Jesse Soles and Jim
Staley. On Monday there will be a
regular hearing of this case.
Fresh evidence is coming IN as re-
CARDS the man j. B. Powell. who is
IN jail here. on the charge of per-
petrating a fraud by the use OF the
mails by taking the name of Jones
& Powell, an old firm here. Powell
has made the claim that it was his
SOL and not himself who was the
Powell in the firm. Officials slid to-
day hat Poweirs son, who lived in
Norfolk, 1t IS said, Is only Is years
old. A business man here stated to
some of the officials that he had
heard that some firm, doing business
in this way, had secured some $780,
600 worth Of goods from various
i VI Tic SoulIlIy. HdSlUS ASdu-
quarters at Newport News, Va.
The sleighing here Is the best in
several years. and there have been
three days Of 1t. There was another
little snowfall today. the third this
week.
The insurance commissioner is
notified that the North German In
surance Company Of New York de-
sires to enter North Carolina to do
hrJ-fpnCc IIn +n1n- -rar<aI n Ean-r0
TO do business here to the Federal
Union Surety Company of Indianap-
oils.
The state auditor says that up to
this time ten of the 81 sheriffs have
made full settlement OF the taxes of
1903.
There was to have been a hearing
before the corporation commission
this morning OF the case IN which
the Atlantic Coast Lin was ordered
to make connection with the South
ern Railway at Selma, to which or
der that railway has excepted. but
the hearing is postponed until Tues
day morning by reason Of the sick
ness of Mr.. r. Borden, superinten-
dent Of transportation of the Atlantic
Coas Line.
The insurance commissioner, who
has charge of the insurance of the
PUBIC buildings mas tnat the value
of the property destroyed by the fire
at the State Normal and Industrial
College is $4,000, while the amount
OF insurance which the companies
have paid. is $4,000.
Negroes from this part of the
country are In great request to work
on railways in other srate~ Z. w.
Robertson has been bound c--, to
court here, on the charge of violat-
ing the labor law, in inducing ne
groes to go to Georgia to work on a
railway without having paid the Ii
cense tax charged sucn agents.
The NJ. McMahan Company, of
Halifax, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy with $4,000 assets and $50
liabilities.
Judge Purnell in the Federal court
has filed his decision in the case of
W. E. Trenchard and c.. P. West
colt, against F. Kell, involving tim
Der lands n a railway in North
ampton county. The plaintiffs bought
land guaranteed to CONTAIN not less
than $4,000, 600 feet of lumber. while
there was really only $500, 900. The
suit was for fraud and for the diff
ference between the real value of the
property and the alleged value, this
difference being about $40, 900.