The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-16
The 297 Reporting Show an Invest
nent of 37.494,62
Employment is Given to More Than
Prepared by Commissioner Warner
Slow Progress IN the WiIliston and
Clark Case-Charters by the State.
Fire Losses During the Year.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, \. c., anJuary Is.

Insurance Commissioner James Il
Young, in talking with your CORE
spondent, had the following to say re
garding fire insurance, or more proper
ly fire losses for the year 1905: 1.-The
year 1905 closed with heavy fire losses
$175,115,S00. This is the mount a:
shown by the records compiled by the
Journal Of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin, and is the largest in any one
year except those Of the disastrous
CONGREGATIONS of 1871, 1872 and 1904,
There were especially large fires in
1905, and the loss is to be accounted in
the unusual number of fires and the
increased valuations of stocks destroy
ed. The losses in 1904 were S252, 301,-
600 and in 1903 $156, 195, 100. Then
1904 had the confagrations of Balti-
more and Toronto. The December
losses for 1905 were $15,276,60O Or over
81, O,UJC les than for the Sar!s Month
in 1904. During 1905 there were 1868
fires where losses reached 100000 or
over, and rs fires where half Il million
was involved, or even more than that
amount. The general Navt of pros
perity sweeping over the country has
SO greatly increased the values that the
year has been Il good one fron the I'M
derwriting standpoint, Notwithstanding
the heavy losses"
Captain NJ. O. Sheriff., state libra
rian, is i'll receipt of portraits of Cen
oral II L HnLyo ATrS q - Cnonaor
the North Carolina authorizes, and
Governor J. NJ. MOrehead. They are
gifts from Mr.. Charles r. Fan Mop
pen, and will be hung on the walls of
the state library. The work is care
fully executed and engraved.
The state charters the Allen Com
pany of Winston to do a gents furn-
1shing business, with $25,00j capital
stock. p. e. Allen r. p. Dalton and
w. Z. Franklin are stockholders. The
Charles Creek Lumber Company at
Elizabeth City will manufacture lum-
Der OF all kinds, with Il total capitali-
ZatiOn of $4,000. Incorporators are
j. III. Townsend, G. w. Hussey and A.
%. Davis, all Of Elizabeth City. Viii
son, II. c., is granted charter for the
Clark Pallet Ice Company. In addi-
ton TO the rlanufaCtuIe of ice Trey
will also conduct q storage and re-
fr%igerator plant. $4,000 of a total is
subscribed by J. A. Clark, J. b. Far
-rior and C.. n. Nurney, out of a total
capital of $4,000.
The report Of The receiver has been
made and filed in the matter of the.
American Bog Company against the
North Carolina Lumber Company, and
order has been Issued approving same.
The matter of II. c. Pippen & Co.,
bankrupt, has been adjudicated and Or
dered for reference to James r. Gas
kill, referee.
Judge George w. Ward presiding in
Wake county superior court RENTED
fine imposed on William G. BOylan Of
Raleigh yesterday for absence from
court.
State Treasurer B. Il. Lacy, while
kept within doors by rnclement wealth
er has so far improved that he is not
confined to his room and is enter
tanning friends and associates at his
home.
Governor Glenn will tomorrow ad-
dress the young men at Charleston, S.
c., after having had to decline repeat
C1 IL 1JdtIOllS. III SIo 1SoboL
the governor will be the guest of Mr..
Alexander Sprunt.
The case of the state VS.. LillistOn
and Clark for the alleged murder of
George w. Smith of Petersburg, Va,
seems to proceed slowly. Evidenced so
far abduced is of a contradictory ma
ture, Notwithstanding the high charac-
ter of witnesses. The supposition now
is that several days will be consumed
in this trial. There are many techni-
cal details as to the location of the
spot where the tragedy occurred in the
Union station, and the diagram pre-
pared by an architect here seems Of
itself Il puzzle to some witnesses. SO
far only six witnesses have been ex-
amined, and the strictness of cou
procedure is being preserved.
Charters were also issued to Ray
Goodwin Company, Selma, general mer-
chandise with $4,000 capital stock
r. L.. Ray, c.. e. Goodwin and others
are interested. Kelly Suspender Com
pany at Fayetteville is incorporated fol
S25, 900. V, E. Kelley, and others stock
holders. This company will manufac-
ture ~suspenders. carriers and other
h1IluISu SOOuS-
Commissioner Warner today issues
the following summary as to cotton
wooden and knitting mills in NOrtf
Carolina:
1.-The following table indicates the
present condition of the cotton, wool
en-. silk and knitting mills now beins
operated in the state, 2S1 of these
being represented. There appears tt
be a strong tendency toward the con
sOlidation of textile institutions IL
several counties, and a number of in,
stances of the kind have occurred since
the publication of the departmental re
port of 1904. The reason assigned fol
this is scarcity of labor, a condition
which is not confined to any particu
lar section of the state. \ number o.
new mills have been constructed ane
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