The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-03-13

mills. at Cooloomee, with f. L. Fuller,
IF. c. Hairston and K. ". Winston al
stockholders. and a capitalization Of
$4,000.
Raleigh and the people thereof are
interested in the possible and probable
faction by the city in the purchase Of
THE plant of the Wake County Water
go, which has been under Amusement
ltor some time. The proposition Of the
water company is 20 sell to the city
for 60 cents on the dollar. and the
lefty to assume the bonded indebtedness
(which amounts to S250.OOO. together
with slight outstanding obligations in
1.-THE way Of current expenses. With
this is also carried the agreement that
1.-THE city may have the benefit of an
adjustment of rates now obtaining,
with the privilege OF purchasing the
lplant. The present company was in
Iaugurated about 10 years ago, and the
plant was built and equipped by west
Iern capitalists, who used their own
funds and ioated their own stock and
bonds The present outlook is that
raleigh will enter into municipal
Ownership" and will later take up the
matter of gas and electric lighting as
well as water.
That insurance supervision is worth
!more to the state than the tax amount
$50 derived, is amply shown by the
work of Commissioner Young of the
state insurance department. Commits
jSloner Young has just paid into the
state treasury sol ,356.13 from his Feb
Iruary collections, which makes a total
iOf $195, 268.24, which has come into the
state since the beginning of the last
fiscal year., Or April /, 1905. Last
year the March collection amounted to
lSS,OO3.67, and the collections already
ifOr this month have passed that
lamOunt, and will more than pay the
Expenses Of the department. Before
the establishment of the commission
ers office the highest amount ever re-
lce1yed in a year was SS4 200. These
figures will make many Of the incred-
lulOus stare.
The Bankers Life Co., of New York,
and II Illinois Life, of Chicago, have
ceased to do business within the state.
The Independent Order of st. Luke, a
negro fraternal order, of Richmond,
IVA, has been admitted. Commission
ler Young approved the charter Of the
independent Order of J.. L. Giddens
and Jollifee Union, incorporated, of
Wilmington, N. G.
Through his attorney, J. R. Uzzle,
George r. Gay is pleading for pardon
from Governor Glenn. Gay was tried
and convicted and sentenced to Il term
iof 80 years Imprisonment for the MUIR
der of Wade Aycock in whose saloon
he was a bartender at Wilson, n. c.
There was first a mistrial, and at the
second trial a verdict of murder in the
second degree was returned. Gay has
now spent four years of his sentence
and makes appeal for freedom on the
grounds of INSANITY" There has been
mo interference by the governor.
The state chartered the Afro-Ameri-
can Industrial and Investment Com
lpany at LumbertOn, y. c., with an au-
lthorized capital stock Of $4,000 Of
(which amount $3.50 is subscribed. In
Icorporators are W. c.. Pope, R. E.
Evans, and about twenty others. 1t is
the purpose of the organization to
handle lands, erect buildings theron
land to generally develop certain pro-
Iperty.
Sheriff 7. NJ. Smith of Caldwell
lcounty brought three white convicts
to the states prison, two of whom,
George Franklin and James McCrary,
under sentence for one year for lar
lceny, and Roy Walsh who was convict
led Of murder in the second degree and
sentenced to three years confinement.
walsh was tried for killing a man by
1.-THE name of Sehehan in LenOir II
lSunday afternoon last November. The
H. ~o-a ~ oyI IaI 01,or-
reled early in the day, but without any
Unusual results; later the affair was
renewed, and the subject of their diff
lferences over a game of cards was dis
lcussed, Shehan advancing with a
ldrawn knife which act was resented
lby Walsh who drew a pistol fired first
lat the ground about the feet Of his as
~Isailant and later fatally, presumably
lin self defence. The courts however
drought in a verdict of murder in the
lSecond degree.
Postmaster Bailey has received mott
lfcation of the appointment of an add
ltional rural free delivery carrier at
White Plains, n. c.
J Commissioner Warner, one Of the
Istaunchest supporters and believers in
THE progress of Lexington, \. c., and
1.-THE county centering about it is fairly
lbubbIing over with enthusiasm which
assumes the form of figures. some
thing like this: 1.-THE population Ill
jl9OO was 1.234. a carefully taken CEN
|sus at the beginning Of 1906 shows
l5,O17; in 1900 five factories were op-
ierated there with a capital aggregating
IS225,OOO, these have increased TO thirty
factories of different kinds with a cap
Ittal stock of one million, two hum
edred and fifty thousand dollars. A
~lparticularly interesting feature of this
development lies in the fact that the
Industries there are diversified, con
'sisting of cotton mills. knitting mills,
|chairs and other furniture, touser FAC
tories and wood and iron working es-
Establishments. Mr.. Warner is especial
Ay boastful of street improvements IN