The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-24
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N. C. November 20.


Raleigh. n. C., November 20.
A telegram received here today an
nouneed that Mr.. Julian Howard OF
Tarboro had been killed BY a pistol
shot AT Millville. Ky. He was until two
years ago Il cadet At the Agricultural
and Mechanical College here and then
engaged In civil engineering In Ken
lucky and his brother John Howard
No details as 10 the shooting have Is
yet been received. A brother OF the
dead man is a cadet AT the Agriculture.
and Mechanical college, and he yeceiv-
ed the telegram conveying the sad
news. The body will arrive h re Wed
nesday on the way to Tarboro tor bn-
rial. The dead man was about u
years of age and is said TO have oecn
very brilliant and attn active in char
acter.
State Chemist Kilgore says thai the
bulletin which will appear this month
will cover the analyses of stock iced
FGa @iii &c We'll Illustrated ami that
the uext bulletin, namely that for De-
cember will cover food for human be-
ings.
ne Cpreme court Is at work on
the thirteenth district appeals this
week. the docket being quite a Ugh.
n
1t is always the case that there Is
qci.e : rush of applications for CHAR
ters towards the end of the fiscal ear,
and this year there Is no exception To
this rue. Charters were gr~ today
-. -na TNar.haoa JNalao~onh C@nnanv
w. c.. Petty and others stockh2lfcrs:
the Tuckaseegee Lumber Company. ar
Hazelwood. HAYWOOD county. capital
stock, $50. 600, E B. Quinland and 9TH
ers stockholders. The Tryon Paper
Pox Company. of Tryon, Polk county.
Henry w. Miller and others STOCKHOLM
ers. capital stock, $4,000.
This afternoon the funeral o. Cash
Ter James o. Litchford, OF the Raleigh
Savings Bank was held from the
Church of the Good Shepherd. and was
attended by all the bank officials and
employees. 1t is found that Mr.. Litch-
ford's death was due TO the blow on
the head by the point OF the shaft OF
the buggy drawn by the runaway
horse Saturday afternoon. He lived
about ten hours after h accident, u
spoke only a few words.
A letter today announced the death
at Goldsboro of Major w. Ii. Smith,
who was assistant inspectors general
on h general staff of the
north Carolina national guard. He
had been in poor health for nearly n
year. Death was due to bright's dis
ease. and it had been expected for
some time.
Insurance Commissioner Young has
returned from a visit to Winston-Sa-
lem and Greensboro. At the former
place he made some investigation into
p Ere thought ID be of incendiary ORR
gin. At Greensboro he re-valued a
property of two of the state schools.
increasing the valuation Of the Normal
and Industrial College from $3.50, 900 To
1920, 900. and that of the colored Acri-
cultural and Mechanical College TO
SIS, 200. This evening the commission
er left for Charlotte TO attend to sew
eral official matters.
Among the arrivals here Is w. w.
Fuller. Esq, of New York, general
counsel of the American Tobacco Com
pany, who recently bought the Deve-
reux mansion and grounds at Glen
wood. the new suburb of Raleigh. He
says he expects TO begin extensive I'M
| provements there in the spring.
The weather reports for North Ca
Dina for October issued today by Df
rector Thiessen Of the weather bureau
| says the mean temperature was 59.s
degrees which is precisely normal, the
highest being GS at Southport and the
lowest 40 at Linville. The highest abb
solute temperature is so degrees at
Lumberton and Kinston and the lowest
was 16 degrees al Linville and Pink
Beds. The average rainfall was only
2.40. which is 1.21 below normal. This
greatest was 6 inches at Horse Cove,
and the least was two-thirds of an
inch at Charlotte. The monthly per-
centage of possible sunshine was 60 at
Asheville. 80 at Wilmington and 81 at
Raleigh.
The October bulletin of the agricuf-
tural department overs the farmers
institute work for this year. and shows
that State Veterinarian TAFT Butler at
tended So institutes. and the state hor-
ti~culturist 4s, these making addresses
at each of these.