The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-04
HANGNG Of NEGRO MUTINEERs
United States Marshal DockeU
Will Execute the Sentence
Date Set Falls on Sunday and Will be
Changed-Information Regarding
Educational Institutions in the State.
Many Charters by the State.
Messenger Bureau.

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. c., May 1st.
The state grants charters to the w.
NJ. Troutman Company Of Wilmington,
capital stock $4,000, to manufacture,
rectify and sell whiskey and also to
raise and kill cattle, J. G.. Broadnax,
-Jr.. being the principal stakeholder,
*. L. Finger and w. M. Troutman
holding the other stock. A charter is
also granted the Charlotte Leather
Manufacturing Company, 100000 to
manufacture belts, operate tanneries
and make articles generally from
leather, w. Z. Shaw, R. 3. Pharr n
F. NJ. Reid stockholders. The jack
son Club of Monroe, social and liter
airy is chartered, r. NJ. Morrow and
others stockholders.
Referee in Bankruptcy Victor H.
BOyden left today for Lewiston, Ber-
tie county, to hold a meeting of cred
itors of the general merchandise firm
of RenfrOW & GarriS, in bankruptcy.
Upon an offer of compromise at so
cents on the dollar. There are many
Norfolk creditors and the amount in
vOIved is over $4,000.
superintendent Robert H. Brooks
of the Soldiers home here has re-
turned from the Confederate reunion
at New Orleans and says it was the
most enjoyable he ever attended. The
~uniO are great affairs, and it is
no wonder he says that cities desire to
have them. At headquarters 238
North CarOlinians We're registered and
forty veterans from this state were in
the parade. The veteran drum corps
from Raleigh and the Hornets Nest
from Charlotte won the honors Cap
tain Brooks says and got more APP
plause than any other features. The
hornets nest was torn to pieces and
given away as souvenirs.
Mention has been mad of the state
ments by officers of the cotton grow
ers association that the acreage this
season is being planted on a basis Of
las rear planting, showing some 20
per cent reduction from the 1904
crop. A prominent cotton buyer says
this does not at all agree with the
information which comes to him,
which is that the farmers are planting
every acre they can put in. Such are
the two statements, the difference be-
ing very wide indeed.
insurance Agents here say they hear
of no cancellation Of policies at this
point on account of the losses in the
San Francisco fire. At Atlanta the
agents nave had a good deal of trouble
on account of cancellations. The peo-
pie at Raleigh show much confidence
in the stability of the companies which
are hard hit n indeed any one which
found itself in trouble would %re-insure
its risks in some other company of
marked strength. a..
Insurance Commissioner Young
% grants a license to the Carolina Mu-
u Life Insurance Company Of High
Mt to do business E. NJ. Armield
j. the president, and the capital stock
all paid up is $50, 900.
Arguments on appeals from the 18th
district began in the superior court
today, among the lawyers present be-
ing T. M. Huffin and w. A. Self Of
Hickory, w. c.. Newland, Edmund
Zones and Lawrence Wakefield of Lee
noir.
The city of Raleigh desires to i'm
pose a $500 license tax on trading
stamp companies, and to impose a tax
of one per cent on telegraph compa-
mics.
Extremely few rural free delivery
DOstOffice routes are now being estaO-
lished anywhere in North Carolina.
Mr.. Samuel Parrish, for some years
organist at the First Baptist church,
goes to Norfolk to become Organist of
the First Presbyterian church.
United States Marshal Dockery will
have to hang the negro mutineers who
committed murder on the schooner
DEL ~ IlS LII ~ ~
hanged July LIST, but that date falls
upon a Sunday, and of course there
will have to be a change. II is said
no United States marshal has ever
hanged a person in this district: IN
fact hanging by such officers are so
rare that the hanging in Norfolk b.
one ebout five years g attracted a
great cal of attention, and was SAID
20. have been the only thing o. the
KIND on record in the south. Such Is
the statement made by officials here.
The state board of internal improve
ments is collecting Information regard-
ing educational institutions excepting
the university, which is immediately
under the supervision of the govern
or and has visited all these institutions
except two. Mex it k up the pena
institutions and afterwards the rail-
ways and turnpikes. Partial report
to the governor were made as soon a.
each inspection is completed. Mem
bers of the board say they find ne
graft anywhere and that the condition
to affairs is satisfactory indeed.
The supreme court will devote thi:
week to appeals from the Thirteenth
district, the docket being quite light.
Raleigh will soon have another
handsome office building on the north
side of the postoffce. Excavation 70
the foundation is now well under way
1t is intimated that there will b.
still further extension of Raleigh
street railway system by the new syn
dictate which now owns a controlling
interest, and which will spend a gOot
deal of money. 1t is understood tina
$4,000 is to be Immediately spent 70
improvements.
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