The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-06-13
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
| Fayetteville, June S.-Sheriff w. II.
Marsh has made his tax settlement
with the board Of county commission
ers, showing the total of all taxes col
Ilected in Cumberland for the year 1904
to be $62 2,996.73, against $50, ,71l.51 for
1908. In the last named year, how
lever, the rate was 80 cents on the
800, while for 1904 it was 81 cents.
The net tax is as follows: State, $13,-
374. %; graded school, $5,o29.69, coun-
ty, $27,377.41; public schools, SIG, 49,
"a. The rate on the 500 has been fix
ed at S6 cents, apportioned thus: State,
25; schools, IS; county, %; bonds, IL;
roads, 8.
The Liberty FONT Association will
meet at the residence of Mrs. S. 6.
Aver at o'clock this afternoon, for
tn election of officers for the coming
year and the transaction of other i'm
rortant business.
| THE name of the negro preacher
mentioned in last letter as arrested,
was given to the correspondent incor-
lrectly. 1t should have been Crumpler,
rot Montgomery. Crumpler confessed
his guilt
! Mr.. Harry Smith, engineer on the
Seaboard Air Line railroad, from Will
mington to Hamlet, is here on a vaca-
ton.
Mrs. D. B. McKethan has returned
to her home at Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs.
Levi Anderson and Miss Matte l.. An
derson, after a pleasant visit to Mr..
and Mrs. B. c. Gorham, have returned
to Fair Bluff, S. c., accompanied by
Mrs. J. C. GOrham and Miss Lucille
IGorham. :. |
Mr.. r. D. Dickson, one of the faculty
Iof Bingham school, at Ashevllle, Is
spending her vacation at his nome at
tRaeford. He was a Raeford Institute
student, whose fine training always
puts it's pupils in demand for teachers
Last night Antony Reagan, negro
was killed in this city by Robinson, an
|other negro, his brother-in-laW. Ihere
was bad blood between the two men
iabout their wives, Robinson accusing
the other of criminal intimacy They
Imet in front of Brick Row" or TEX
as" where they had a quarrel, a1ter
which. it is alleged, Robinson went OH
Igot a revolver, returned and shot Ree-
gan. killing him instantly. Robinson
1made his escape, but just before Gay
light he went down sand SURRENDERED
himself to the sheriff. Reegan was MS
lwife's second husband, the first, named
Newell. having also been killed, anu
John West and his son were charged
with the crime, and imprisoned.
The following have beer elected
trustees for the city graded schoois.
IH. r. Cook, \. A. Sinclair, W. L. Ha"-
LEV. B. G. Hollingsworth. At the iast
injecting of the board the following
lwere elected teachers of the schoois'
IProf. J. \. Jones, superintendent; Mrs'
kate Utley. Misses Clifford Jordan'
IEtbeI Fisher, Margaret Whitehead
lKate Matthews. Marion Mclean. Inc
inext meeting of the board will nli the
vacancies remaining, including those
made by the designations OF ProIs.
lStafford and Conley. Mr.. John Under-
Iwood was made a trustee to f1li the un-
Iexpired term of the late Mr.. =. ..
lAhearn.
'rhe new municipal board OF the
lfourishing town of Hope Mills nave
leone into office as follows: j. r. MUS
,selwhite. mayor: Ell. Pate. C. Brown ;.
Morrison, J. Davis, J. Stone. aldermen.
The new jury list for the county OF
lcumberIand contained 5000 names A
lcareful reyisal cut off nearly SIC, ieas
Iirc 200 names for the jury box
s. W. Hall, tried before united
Istafes Commissioner Sutton, charged
with selling whiskey, was bound over
Ito Federal court Halls friends claim