The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-17
PLEASED WITH WILMINGTON
STATE TREASURER LACY GREAT
LIZ ENJOYED HIS VISIT.
February Number OF the North Caro-
lima Booklet is by Judge NcRac-
Portraits of Three Grand Masters OF
the Grand Lodge of Nasons-Board
of HeaIth's Bulletin.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. C. March IL.

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a decree is issued for the final dis
tributfon of funds from the sale
| of the Wilmington Street Railway Com
pany two years ago, the order being
from Judge Purnen in the Federal
| court, to IT. w. Davis, Of Wilmington,
as trustee in the case of Morton Trust
Company, of New York VS.. The Will
mington street Railway Company. The
road was sold for $4,000 but the great
er part of the amount has already been
distributed.
1t was decided in the Supreme court
today to defer the argument of the
appeal from Wake county court in tle
case of State VS.. Tom Adams, colored,
who is under sentence to be hanged fo-
the murder of a negro woman and her
child a few miles from Raleigh, the
-postponement being on account of the
failure of the trial judge to make up
the case On appeal in time.
A case that was argued today that Is
of interest was State VS.. Blackley, the
defendant being a well known citizen
of Louisburg who is under sentence to
serve five years on the Wake county
roads for embezzlfng $4,000 from Nc
Adow & Co., of Kansas City. Blackley
contends that when he sold several car
loads of mules i'm Raleigh he was a
partner and not an agent of meadow,
therefore the charge Of embezzlement
Will not apply.
In the Federal court here George +.
Westroy of Spring Hope has been de-
clared a bankrupt and the case referr-
ed by Judge Purnell ito James E. Gas
kill, of Tarboro. The assets are $2,15U
INC the liabilities $3.50.
The life-size bust portrait of three
of THE earlier Grand masters Of the
North Carolina Grand Lodge Of Ma
sons, painted in oil by Jacques Busbee,
the we'll known artist of this city, have
just een hung on the walls of the
hall of the Grand lodge here. They
are William R. Davie, 1792-1799; Samue'
Johnston 17S7-17SS, 17S9-1791; Hutchins
Burton, 1S25-1S27. They were painted
by order of the Grand lodge.
State Treasurer Lacy a returned
from Wilmington where he delivered an
address before h Y. M. c.. A. Sunday.
He says ne fell in love with the people
there. That he was never so cordially
received or so royalty entertained. He
Mayor Springer an ideal
host and THAT THE audience he address
ed Sunday afternoon was large and de-
Ijghtffully enthusiastic. {
The February number of the North !
Carolina Booklet published under the ,
auspices of the North Carolina Daugh-
ters of the Revolution is just issued.
1t lis devoted ito a, deli g.htful and high |
ly instructive paper by Judge James
C. MacRae of the State University on |
1.-The Highland-Scotch Settlement i'll
North Carolina" |
The February issue of the Bulletin OF
the North Carolina Board of Health |
is devoted largely ito the report of the |
cases of typhoid fever at the
Baptist O~rphanage at Thonrasville last /
fall. The summary of diseases in the |
state show smallpox reported in SI
typhoid fever in %, diphthe-
ria in Is, measles in 25 counties. The /
death rate in the state shows 1913 for /
people and 24.2 for colQred.
A charter is issued for the Lucas Tel |
ephcne Company of Albemarle, capital
900. J. E. Love principal incorpora-
The charter of the McEwin-Gib-
son Lumber Company of Aahevflle IS
announced so that the name of che |
company is changed to the McEwin
company and the capital is increased
from $40, 900 to $4,000.