The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-17
800 of These Examined by State
Auditor Dixon.
No Change in the Carpenters Strike
misunderstanding of Text BOOK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Notice Be-
ing Sent Out by the Insurance Com
Observation-Disclosures Invited to VIM
stOu.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. C. August 18th 1906.

State Auditor DIXON returned OQdy
from Shelby where for ten days he had
been looking over the new pension ap-
pIications, of these there are about 800,
most Of them soldiers of the fourth
class and some widows. The deaths
that have occurred about equal the new
applications, and so the auditor said
there would hardly be any increase in
the number of pensioners over last
year. He confidently expects that
fourth class pensioners and widowers
will this time get 800 a year.
There is no change il the situation
as regards the union carpenters strike
here. No regular contractors have en-
DIoyed any of the union men. About
40 of the latter are at work on odd
jobs in the city. A dozen left today.
About 60 now remain here, it is said.
Others will leave this week. They ara
waiting for work TO begin at the James
town Exposition It seems. The boy
cott by the lumber men is a very close
one.
Work is in progress on h athletic
field at the A. & NJ. College. It will be
500 by 800 feet wit a grade Of 800 feet
1t will be fenced and 25,500 feet of lum-
Der will be required to build the fence.
Mr.. William H. Hughes, long in the
crOckery business here. and a prOmi-
men Confederate veteran, died yesCer-
day, aged 20 and was buried today. He
was a native of Virginia and served
from that state.
Day after tomorrow. democratic
state headquarters will be opened for
the campaign in the Marlborough cafe.
There will be the usual force of work
ers in the office. The campaign will
b a very active one.
Next week the work of installing
the sewerage system at the A. and
M. College will begin. Two miles of
ten inch pipe will be laid to connect
the college with the city sewerage sys-
TEN. 1t is said this work can be com.
pIeted in 60 days. The fall from the
college to the point of connection will
be 104 feet.
No incidents attended the bringing
of George Hall, the convicted lyncher
from Salisbury, and the other man,
who is yet to be tried to the peniten-
. JldTN Yesterday hlOll Ii w bhC btOOpo
from Statesville. These men were
turned over to the penitentiary III
thorities and are now in cell. The
troops went or to camp.
The text book commission met at
moon today in the office of the gov
sernOr. 1t is composed of the state
board of education and it will select
the text books for the next five years.
1t will give a hearing to he school
book men and it will also confer with
The sub-cOmmission, which after a
months work made report 10 it.
The newspapers have had a good
deal to say lately about Susie Han
non, the girl convicted Of murder and
now being in the penitentlary. she
says she was u years old last April.
The farmers institutes Of the exter-
sive series ended Saturday, and the
three parties of field workers came
in. DR.. TAFT Butler left today for the
west, and will cover fourteen counties
there. This will make 104 Institutes
held during the summer.
Very s~easOnable rains occurred here
Yesterday and last night. The crops
are looking very we'll. The hot weather
made cotton shed a little, but it makes
a very good appearance, and there VIII
be some large crops in this section
though some of the cotton is much be
low the average.
Insurance Commissioner James r.
Young is sending notices TO the var
ious chiefs of police and sheriffs in the
state in regard TO fires. All fires must
be reported, all incendiary fires lnveS-
tigated, and all buildings inspected.
The notice is as follows:
1.-THE Insurance COMMISSIONS Of the
state desires to call attention TO the Of
ficers and all citizens of the state To
the law (chapter So. laws 1899 ana
amendments here to- requiring that
all fires be investigated by the chief
of the fire department, or chief OF po-
lice in the cities and towns of North
Carolina, by the sheriff hen the ire
occurs outside of the incorporated city
or town, and that the result of such
investigation be reported to the lnsur-
ance commissioner at Raleigh.
Under the law the officers are re-
CURED within three days to examine
into the origin and circumstances Of
each fire occurring in their city, town
or county, and within one week 10 re-
port to the insurance commissioners
such facts as are called for by the
blanks furnished by the department.
When there is any reason TO suspect
that any fire is of an ~incendiary or
careless origin, the officers must fully
investigate the same, and send the
facts obtained to the insurance COM
missioner, who will look fully into the
circumstances and cause the arrest of
any persons guilty of arson.
Under the law the town officers above
named are required to examine all
premises in their cities Of towns and
move therefrom all ~combustible mater
ial and infamable conditions danger
GUS to the safety of life and property.
They have the right to enter all build
ing and premises for the purpose Of
making such examinations.
Penalty-Any officer who refuses Or |