The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-04
Building at Raleigh to Cost About
s1O0,O00.
JcIn Dockery VII be Taken Homo
Next Week-Holiday for Inmates OF
Methodist Orphanage-Pcculiar De-
%currcncc on an Atlantic aud North
Carolina Train-Woman Uses Hus-
bands Razor 10 Cut Her Throat
History of the Jackson-Ayery Duel
Attracts Attention.


ulIltIC VI tne AldSOnlN SAipA sAA
meet here 20 open bids for its "onstruc-
ton. 1t is understood there Will be
four of these, from Washington, Baltl-
more, Philadelphia and Greensboro
contractors. The building will cost
nearly 100000. The site was pur-
chased for $4,000 and has been paid
for. The funds, in subscriptions and
first mortgage bonds, aggregate S12O,-
coo. Work is to begin in NovemberI
and will be pushed as rapidly as posi-
BILE during the winter.
y new lodge of Masons has beenl
chartered at State Road, in Surryl
county.
This afternoon an interesting gameI
of lawn tennis was played here, on one
side being Henry Winston, who is the
captain of the baseball team at the
United States Military Academy, att
West Point, and the champion tennis
player there, and Harner Winston, thel
winner of the Rhodes scholarship, whoI
is the champion tennis player at Ok
ford, England. On the other side beingI
William w. Vass and Brown shepherd,
Of Raleigh.
Your correspondent mentioned in
June that there was talk of having|
Commissioner of Agriculture Patterson
60 to Europe to look after the matter
of securing immigrants for North Car
| DINA. 1t seems that this plan was
abandoned, but that Mr.. and Mrs. Pat
terson may soon leave for quite an eX-
tended tour for pleasure. Mr.. Patter-
| son has been an extremely hard work.
| er and the rest and change will greatly
benefit him. -
1t is expected that John DoCkery will
| be taken to his home at Rockingham
| next week. His physician talks as il
| he will be able to leave about the mid
| die of the week.
Weather Observer Won Hermann eX-
| poets to leave acre about August 18th
| for Baltimore, his new post. Mr.. A.
| II. Thiessen, who is to succeed him., is
expected here a day or two before that
Gate. Mr.. Thiessen is d very capable
man and his salary is $1,000.
THE BANKS OF RALEIGH.
Raleigh now has one national bank,
the Citizens; three savings banks, the
Raleigh, the Mechanics and the Wake
county; and three state banks, the
Commercial and Farmers, b Carolina
Trust Company and the Raleigh Bank
ing md. Trust Company. The latter
was up to last week the National Bank
of Raleigh for twenty years and for
twenty years before thai time was the
Raleigh National Bank. 1t becomes a
state bank under the same officers.
Next Tuesday the orphans at the
Methodist Orphanage here will leave
for their various homes for a little non
day to return on the first of Septem-
Der.
w. f. Fox, aged "A, from Rocky
Mount, died late last night at the Sol
diers' Home. He had only been there
two days. He served in Company 4.
Twenty-ninth regiment, n. T.. L., ano
was in the western army, having e
in the great battles there,
| Chickamauga.
TWO CONDITIONAL PARDONS.
The governor pardons two men con
ditionalIy, under the new law, that Il
upon condition of good behavior. one
is John Archie, of GuilfOrd, sentenced
to three years on the roads for perjury
The governor requires that he VIII
t never again retail liquor. He was /;
model prisoner and his pardon wa
recommended by many officials. Ih'
: other pardon is to Will James, OF Stan
lv county. who was sentenced to Ii
month on the road for assault with
deadly weapon. He is very sick n
. is said will die if not released. -,
Charters are granted the a
l Mica Company, of Macon county an
the Southern Spindle Company, y
! Charlotte the latter having S20,Ooo cap
+ iial. and John NJ. PartillO and other
= being the stockholders.
] Governor Glenn last evening gay
E out an open letter in reply to one troll
Attorney A. S. Hall, of Cumberlan
{ county. who recently came here TO Sc
: the governor in regard to the pes
method of securing immigrants. IN
q governor suggests that this work U
e done by liberal advertising. Congres
c sional district in which FayetteVlIi
is, desires to act as a unit IN securn
desirable immigrants from the mort
and west and from Scotland and I'm;
land and Wales, and action regardln
this may be taken later.
K NEGRO CONVICT SHOT. .
d George Collins, from Northampto
county, was shot yesterday at the COZ
a 1 tIcJ cdIlD HedE
,e hundred lei were at work on the Ra
lie eigh and Southport railway. He Is
n. negro and is serving two years for la
s ceny. Though badly wounded he co
= trived to escape.
!, Last evening Mrs. James Ware
!. whose mind has been feeble for mar
years, cut her throat while In bed
home. using her husbands razor ID
er husband returned home a q
n ter she had committed the deed 3
he was at once taken to a hospital n
y is said will probably o
=. Secretary r. Is. Bruner OF the agl
= cultural department, returned last es
ming from Portland, Oregon, where
attended the annual meeting OF I
~ National Pure Food Association.
or was elected treasurer Of this L
I name was changed to the one abo