The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-06-20
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh ". c.. June ID.
Next Monday the State Board of
Agriculture will have an important
meeting 1T which a number of per-
sons viii be present who desire to bus
the public lands in the eastern part
of the state low as the swamp
lands. The board will also decide as
10 the consolids ton of the negro
normal schools. Of which there are
now four. There is all OF having
only two of these. the work Of two
of them being unsatisfactory.
General Manager Barr Of the Sea-
board Air Lin notified the Corpora-I
ton Commission hat his o will
build a substantial passenger station
and also a freight DEPOT at Monroe.
these to cost about 100000. This is
done in 10 a petition for
such Enforcement. flied by the peo-
Die Of hat town.
One of the sensations last wear was
the discovery of a lot OF very valuable
diamonds in the ashes of a burne.i
express car at CT on the Allan
tic Cast Line. 1t was long thought
NAAo lliSSS uldIilOlldS udu uGSu SlSltIl-
and an Investigation has bee iii frog
ress. This shows that the diamonds
were DIN from Paris. France. tcI
Havana. Cuba. by way of New YORK
in registered mai; by way of New York
in bend. so to speak and We're not
stolen proDertv.
In the trial TODAY of J. E. Powell
the Norfolk man charged with swind-
ling he Was again put on the Witness
- ~ u =. NJ
district attorney cross questioned him
III the veIy closest sort CT a way. The
government regards hat il has made
out a very stropg case awainst Powell.
and gave evidence that the latter hal
conducted similar fraudulent business
at Norfolk. Smithfield and a dozen or
more ether places: that he had killed.
a man in Kentucky, elored with 4 girl
from Smithfield. Va. and had
been Jailed for the latter offence
Insurance Commissioner Young has
approved the charter of the CALI
we'll county Farmers Mutual Fire In
a COMPANY. When asked about
the business being done by home
comDanies he replied that there we're
now three regular life companies
AMI min fire. five of the latter being
at Greensboro. There are besides
a NUMBER of farmers mutual m !
ll2SS. ~ tINIS I'LL l1lNlS. nv
home companies have done a very
fine and greatly increasing business
as his forthcoming report will very
clearly show.
State Treasurer Lacv has been do
ing very hard WOrk this wear and
rc4.larked TODAY that he had had to
answer from SO to 500 letters a day
about the franchise tax. He goes to
Cherokee county to take a fortnight's
rest and will camp out with his
friend Jack billiard and Marchal Bell.
The state Library was closed yes
teriav Is a mark of resDect to the
late State Librarian Ellington, whose
funeral services this afternoon We're
attended hv all the state officials now
ill RALEIGH.
The executive committee of the
North Carolina State Fair adopted
a resolution bv a rising vote thanking
president Roosevelt for his a%cceDtance]
of an invitation to attend the fair.
and extending him greetings. The
resolution expresses the pleasure the
people OF North Carolina feel at his
coming visit to the state. 1t was or
6ered hat the old grand stand. which
which was built in 1874 when the
lar rounds were located on the|
present site be torn down and a new
IL erected. to seat 2.5O0 persons
TIE poultry department was opened
to South Carolina birds. a request to
this effect having been made to the
committee. The resolution was adopt.
ed offering two gold medals for the
best %orations in a contest opened to-
al the colleges in the state. the ora
tons tC be delivered on FRIDAY even
ing of the fair in some suitable audi
to,lum in Raleigh. Another resolu-I
tior adopted inviting all the fraternal1
orders to come to the fair on We'd
ncsdav and rendering free admission
to the orphans in the various orphan,
ares maintained bv such orders.
at Sanford q might or two ago al
negro was killed bv a passenger train
on the Seaboard Air Line. InuuirieSI
INFO this case shows that the man had
been at q "Festival' dancing. until a,
little while before the train was due
and a hen attompted to ride on the
trucks. the result being that he wa
cut to pieces. He had old his assoc
ciates hat he. was going to pea his
wav 70 Richmond.
Farmers express the opinion thai
the weather now is more favorable
than it has been at INV time during
the season. for crops. The cool wealth
er last week checked the growth of
cotton considerably. but is said to
have Zone no particular damage 9th
erwise.
COL WAnDETT AT