The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-16
Hearing Given to Attorney for ]. R.
Mitchell, Murderer
Work OF the Masonic Grand Lodge.
Cases Before the Superior Court.
Meeting of the Raleigh Chamber of
Comnlerce-Marriaee of Colonel Ar
rington and Miss Latta-Other RAJ
leigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
raleigh, =. C., Jan II, 1906.

in the case of J. r. Mitchell, or Reb
killed his wife at Askewville, BERTHE
county, on the 18th Of last June. AZ
ter having committed the murder Nit
chell burned the body of his wife. Be-
fore Judge PEBBLES at the September
term, he was sentenced to be hanged
December 21st, 1905, and was later
respited until the 22nd of January.
The negrO's attorney now appeals to
Governor Glenn on the grounds of
the negro's insanity. Governor Glenn
has not yet announced any additional
respite.
A private conference was held by
the Yellow Pine Sash Door and Blind
Manufacturers Association, and forty
companies were represented, ranging
from Virginia to Texas, with varying
interests from thousands to near the
million mark. Eleven new members
were added to the association. Mr..
Wood, the secretary, seems to talk in
whispers when it comes to the dis
CuooIOu Win OulSluCIS % Tic dlldIIS
Of the organization. These meetings
are held at irregular periods in diff
ferent sections of the south, and have
for their object the betterment of
trade relations, as we'll as the strength
ening of social relations.
The Masonic Temple Building Com
mittee are enthusiastic in their pur-
pose to forward the aims of Masonry
Iirnc+ly on1 nIiroc+Jr Tho Tororlo
fund of the Grand Lodge is increased
from $4,000 t So, 900, as was adopt
ed by the Grand Lodge in this session.
There is 10Y every assurance that the
Temple, which will be erected at a
cost of $129, 900, will have been CON-
pleted and equipped for occupancy by
the first of next year. This reasonably
means that the next annual commune
cation of the Grand Lodge will be
held under it's own roof.
The election of grand officers was
held, with the following results: Fran
ces D. Winston. Windsor, grand mas
ter; S. NJ. Gattis, Hillsboro, deputy
grand MASTER; r. n. Hackett, North
WilkesbOro, senior grand warden; w.
B. McKoy, Wilmington, Junior grand
warden; Leo D. Heartt, Raleigh, grand
treasurer; John c. Drewry, Raleigh,
grand secretary. Only three lodges
voluntarily surrendered their char
tiers. while eleven new lodges were
installed in the various counties cver
the state.
Judge George w. Ward. presiding in
Wake superior court, adopted new
methods to preserve order in open
court. For a period Of fifteen minutes
the judge ordered a deputy sheriff to
close the court room doors, both to
incomers and %outgoers, later allowing
outsiders to enter the room. This was
done on account of the noisy move
ments of the spectators and lOafers
about the court room, though the I'M
usualness of it made an impression
on lawyers, jurors and casual look
ers-on. The sentencing of twenty-five
young negroes to the roads, varying
from thirty to ninety days, is a fair
indication of the judges opinion Of
this class of offenders, and seems
to mark the beginning of de-
StructiOn to the petit gamblers.
Much time of the court is taken up
with lesser negro ARRAYS and affairs
in various quarters which are usually
settled with the aid of a stick.
twenty-five rural free libraries were
just issued from the department of
education.
Special tax for school purposes has
just been carried at ROseland, in Co
iumbus county.
The Raleigh Chamber Of Commerce
and Industry. in a meeting, with
marked enthusiasm, adopted resoiu-
tiOns endorsing the Lodge bill, which
applies to consular service, With a
Cion m uiHoninu tho inHnnnnn nf cIJnh
officers of this country, and in the
more careful selection of such repre-
sentatives, in so far as selection can
be made to apply to more active
agents with wider and more diversified
knowledge, not only as it applies 90
the United States, but to the country
in which such will serve. Official en-
dorsement was also given all efforts
to secure legislation favorable to for
estry protection. Senator Overman's
bill, looking to the promotion and eX-
tension of commerce with foreign
countries, received the endorsement Of
that body, which instructed the sec
rotary to communicate with represen-
tatives in Congress to urge the pas
sage of such a bill.
The matter of forming an interstate
chamber of commerce, in the south.
without sectional lines. and as had
been suggested by Atlanta, Ca, and
Richmond, Va, was also discussed and
will be acted on at the next monthly
meeting Of the Raleigh chamber. Sec
rotary Phillips, of this body, and three
representatives will attend the meet
ing of the Piedmont immigration AS
ISOLATION, to be held in Greensboro TO-
morrow. Hon. T. X. Bruner, secre-
tary of the North Carolina board OF
agriculture, will also be present.
A marriage of unusual interest was
solemized this morning at II o'clock
in the Church of the Good Shepherd,
DR.. Pittinger officiating. when Col,
Archibald H. Arlington. secretary
TO Governor Glenn, and Mis- Maule
Middleton Latta, took the VOWS be-
fore aslarge assembly of friends and
relatives. The bride was attended by