The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-10
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
State Committee to Meet and
Decide ON Time and Place
Raleigh Actively at Work TO Get the
Conyention-Annual Report OF the
Adiutant GeneraI-Directors OF Gen.
traI Hospital in Meeting-Letter Be-
ing Sent Out by the North Carolina
Division OF the Southern Cotton As
sociatiOn.
Messenger Bureau,

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, \. c., April 4.
Appeals from the Tenth district will |
be called in the NorthCarolina supreme |
court, next Tuesday, April 10. in the
following order: State VS.. Williams, |
State vs.. Whitley; Dunn VS.. Currie; |
Harwood VS.. Shoe; Hairston V s. Be-
scherer; Dobbins VS.. Dobbins: Alley VS..
Howell. The following have
been set at the end Of this district.
State VS.. Lilliston, from Wake county,
Stewart VS.. Railroad from Wake
county; Davis VS.. Smith, from Dur
ham county. The Lilliston case is that
Of Robert LilliStOn, who was tried IN
Wake superior court for the killing Of
Charles Smith, at the close of the state
fair in Raleigh last October. Because
of new evidence the matter will seem
to have taken a new turn, though the
appeal is on regular grounds.
The annual report OF the adJutant
general of North Carolina has just
issued from the press. The strength
of the national guard Of North Caro-
lima is 2,O49 officers and men. Twenty
officers Of all grades and lib enlisted
men go to form the brigade Of naval
militia, there being two divisions OF
the naval reserves. General Robertson
congratulates the state on the fact that
a fair condition Of efficiency obtains,
and the manifest desire of officers and
| men to render whenever demanded
faithful and full service. THE guard
| of the future will be what the officers
| and men comprising it See tit to
make it,
W. T. Delemar, deputy collector of
| the internal revenue department, went
to Greensboro this morning to convey
and have in charge certain records
from this office to be used in the Uni
ted States court in that city.
The secretary of state granted
charters to the D. L. Arey DistillinS
Co., at Salisbury, with an authorized
capital stock of $4,000, of which there
has been paid in $4,000. The incor-
porators are G.. II. Knight. L. w.
Smith and E. c. Arey. h Hickory
Mercantile Co, Hickory, has an au-
thorized capital stock Of $1,000, when
NAV be increased to a limit of S25,OOO.
Incorporators are S. E. Killian, j.. T..
Abee. T. S. Greene, 7. c. Harris, .. 6.
Wolff.
A meeting of the board Of directors
of the central hospital for the insane
was held today, it being the regular
annual session of hat body. The
board consists of J. w. Thompson.
chairman, DR.. r. Fl. Stancill, Marga.
t r~ettsville:: DIR. L. J. Picot, Lincolnton
DR.. ". a.. Whitehead, Rocky Mount
, Edward Smith, Dunn: S. o. Middleton
Hallsyille: DR.. J. NJ. Parrot, Kinston
r DR.. J. Graham Hun, Oxford: DR.. j. d
E Briggs, Williamson
r The states prison board is also il
I session. The matter of paving th'
: walks about capitol square was dis
8 cussed informally with the governor
though nothing was given out concern
ING the immediateness of the WORK
u For several weeks the stakes hav
e heen on the ground and additional sur
a veying was o
q A great and deep interest center
about the meeting to be held tomorrow
e evening at 8 o'clock. when the demo
cratic forces of the state through thei
committees will gather in Raleigh TO
the start of the campaign. The ca
as issued by Senator Simmons, IN
chairman, includes b mber OF III
state advisory, the central and the ex
e ecutive committees. endorsement
will be made for ju~dgeships, and tn
time and place of the state convento
u of democrats will also be decide
= mon. The forces in Raleigh are az
j lively at work in behalf of thec capita
city for the holding of this ~convento1
and there is a wide hOpefulness TO IN
effect that this place may be cnosel
e Notwithstanding the contentious Q
a other towns the people of the stat
a feel that Raleigh is the right point Io
such an assembling.
a The Citizens Trust and SAVING
q / COMPANY. Asheville. was authorize
with a capital stock Of $4,000 paid
: and with the following named incol
. norators: J. K. S. Ray, 7. a. Campbell
d E. J. Ray, L. NJ. Bourne and W. Il
q Whitson. all residents of ASheVllie.
- Hon. T. Y. Joyner. state superlntel
9 dent of public instruction, will go
, several points in the state III behall [
d educational progress and VIII oeIlNt
# addresses on the following oates: hal
o April ), $50 p. m: Beaver Dam' san
day 7:3O p. M: Belwood lnduslri'
school, $50 p. M. and Piedmont Hle
st school same evening at 100; Beaver
+ Mill April Z, 10 a. H., and waco san
n afternoon at $50. Mr.. Joyner Will M
n AGAIN be back in his Office until mel
Ie Monday, April 3.
re DR.. B. F. Dixon, state auditor, WI
le deliver a lecture Thursday night
Beaufort OH the subject Of local tax
d ton for graded schools, and next SUI
II, day this same eloquent and able sta
officer will address the Masons ar Jacl
v son. in Northampton county. Inc la
I'd address will be in the morning
Governor Glenn in acknoWledsi