The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-13
NATIONAL GUARD OF THE STATE
Encampment at Morehead viii
Be Held in July
egates to, Conference Of Southern
Methodist Church-Movement for
Monument to Sir Walter Raleigh
Messenger Bureau.


Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c.. April Sth.
Last night John Price. a white car
penter employed at the Seaboard Air
Line shops here, while looking after
some cars. was caught and crushed in
the chest, his injuries being yer.
serious. He is a native Of Raleigh.
The farmers all say that the rainy
weather in March has put them very
much behind in all kinds of farm
work. A farmer from Warren county
says that a number Of the best farm
ers there have done no blowing az
all.
Charters are granted to the Dunns
Rock Building Co., Of Brevard; TO -he
North Carolina Distilling Co., Sails
bury, to make corn whiskey, capital
twenty thousand, G.. A. Leaf, H. o.
McInturff and J.. ]. Cudihy, stockhold-
ers, also to the ]. d. Erik Company,
Statesville, twenty-five thousand cap
ital, to manufacture organs, pianos
and other musical instruments.
Governor Glenn goes TO Washington
Wednesday to look after the adjust
ment of North Cardinals quota for
the National Guard and will endeavor
to obtain extra aid. He was asked
about the date of the encampment
and said that it would be sometime
in July but as yet the date had not
been fixed. The mayor of Morehead
City wrote him today that good pro-
o-sacc was hoinO made in nrona finy
the grounds and that they would soon
be ready.
The governor returned this morn
ing from Concord where he spoke yes
terday morning in the Methodist
church to the young people. Las:
evening at the Auditorium he address,
ed one of the largest temperance meet
ings he ever saw, 500 being present,
while as many were turned away He
expressed his delight at the people
and town Of Concord and says their
kindness and their thrift are alike,
proud of North Carolina and says he
can truthfully say no state has finer
men and women and none in he south
is making more progress.
On the 3rd day of May at Birming-
uduI, Aid, LIE SOuIucIu Al6IlOuiSs
Episcopal church will hold its general
conference. To this will go eight del
egates from North Carolina, these
being the Reverends John c. Kilgo,
T.. n. Ivey, J. N. Cole, and j. D.
Pegram, and Messrs. Joseph G. Brown,
Tbos. j. Jarvis, John F. Bruton, and
Henry A. Page.
The governor orders a special term
Of court for Yancey county, Judge
Justice to preside, because the regular
two weeks term there was recently
continued on ccoun of his sickness.
State Treasurer Lacy left here Feb
ruary 1st to go to Solomonsville, Ari-
IONA, for his health. He will return
at the end Of this week or the first
Of next week, his health being en-
tirely restored. He visited his broth
eT at SOlomonsville.
Superintendent Hicks of the Oxford
Orphan Asylum is here and says of
27S orphans not one is sick. Last
summer there was an epidemic of the
measles.
The revenue officers are very chary
now about giving out new about
seizures of illicit distilleries. The rea-
son for this is that they wish TO arrest
if possible the men who are the back
ers of the listilers. They say there
are Always such hackers who put up
the money and who take and dispose
of a large part of the products of the
stills.
1t is expected that tomorrow in the
supreme court there will be argument
in the case of Bob Lilliston who last
fair week, it is said, shot and killed
Charles G. Smith in the union station
here and who was sentenced to four
teen years in the p%enitentiary.
Ben Williams, the negro sentenced
to be hanged April 18th, at Raleigh,
upon conviction of the murder OF an
other negro, with a pistol, has appeal
ed on the ground that the jury took
a vote, this being that whoever. was
in the minority would be subject to
the judgment of the majority.
Pinehurst is now almost closing
after a most successful season. The
winter was warm and people stopped
In this part of the south TO a very
great extent instead Of going on 20
Florida. Southern Pines has had q
| good season also and it began with
the coming of winter.
The movement for a monument TO
Sir Walter Raleigh is now being quite
actively pressed. II is proposed 10
have a statue of bronze standing
upon a massive boulder Of North Car
| DINA granite in the park in front of
the union station.
} About half the room on the second
floor Of the e dormitry at the Sol
dier's Home is now occupied. occu-
pants going in as rapidly as the
United Daughters of the C~onfederacy
equip the rooms. The plastering Of
the Elks Temple here is nearly COM
pleted and it is expected that the
building will be ready for use by the
FIRST of June.
There has not been a case of small