The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-23
LEASED BY S. A. SCHLOSS.
Wilmington Man Gets the Raleigh
Academy OF Music-ApplicatiOn for
Respite for label Register-Other
Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c.. February 20.

Raleigh, n. c.. February 20.
Today S. a. Schloss leased the Acad-
envy OF Music here for five years from
the Raleigh Auditorium Company. the
owners. BY the terms of the contract
the company will spend $500 in re-
modelling II r~e-furnishing the build
ing. this including the charging OF the
stage. four private boxes. extending
the balcony and an entirely new equip
ment OF scenery. Mr.. Schloss pays
Sl,2o0 a year. and gives bond for the
entire five years rent. The Leath-
Schloss Circuit of theatres now con-
trois eleven. with one OF two excep-
tons covering the Virginia and North
Carolina theatres. There were several
bidders for the lease.
Captain V. E. McBee will not make
any further bid for the lease of the At
lantic and North Carolina railway. as
ne cannot comply with the terms re-
CURED by the governor, namely the
nifty year lease. Without power OF
transfer, the payment OF the outstand-
ing debts. and interest, and beginning
with a three per cent. rate. He says
the rate would really be seven and a
quarter for the first year.
The governor todayx received an ap-
plcation from the attorneys Of label
Register. the condemned OF
columbus county for a respite until his
evidence can be given in court against
a maa named Smith. who by his con-
fession was an accomplice IL the double
murder The governor says no applica-
ton for respite has yet come from the
solicitor n there will certainly be no
respite unless the solicitor asks for Il
and then only to give Register an OPP
portunity to give evidence. Nothing
must give Register any hope of commu-
tatlOn of his death sentence
The ex-saloon men here who a put
IN lockers in order TO accommodate
the bottles OF their drinking patrons.
nave taken out the lockers. since the
ordinance by the board OF aldermen
against that sort OF thing.
There is only one important ca 81 be-
fore the Supreme court next week, his
being that OF Alfred Daniels the muir
derer OF the venerable father OF Sena-
tor Simmons. which will be taken up at
the end OF the Fourth district The
following week the murder case of Dan
Teachey. is to be argued.
State superintendent Joyner leaves
Monday for Atlanta to attend the great
meeting Of the Southern Educational
Association. at which he is to make an
address.
Relatives OF Mr.. James Davis, OF
Beaufort. were there today TO attend
his funeral. Mr.. Davis was well known
here having served several years as a
member of the board OF directors OF the
penitentiary.
As the meeting Of the trustees of the
Greensboro Female college the plan OF
bringing il to Raleigh will be pressed
by several members.
Dr. William Z. Dodd. Of Randolph
Macon college will teach history in the
Summer school at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college here. The course of
instruction will be as follows: The
study and teaching Of history. The
history OF North Carolina and the prac-
teal benefit TO be derived from knowl-
edge OF II. The history of the United
States, with the practical side Of IL as
well as the best means of bringing IL
home TO common school children. Eu-
rope. and What every man ought TO
known OF its history. Nathaniel Macon.