The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-18
Conservative Mutual Life of Char
l0tte Out of Business
Special Prizes for County Exhibits at
State Fair-NOrth Carolina Building
at Soldiers Home Engage i'm a Fight.
Cattle Dying From Texas Fever i'm
durham County-PostOffce Df-con-
tinued.
Messenger Bureau.
tinud.
Raleigh. y. G Septemher X

@AS1LAST vi Tic SJuStEEA-
I've Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY
OF that city. This used 10 be the Eas-
tern Life Of Washington. y. c.. and
most OF the stock was bought BY Char
ictte men and the name OF the COM
pany changed. Captain T. S. Franklin
was president. The stockholders de-
sired TO wind up the company. The
insurance commissioner did not think
II was safe &C continue. The couDanv
really done very little. The gen
tiemen in charge of it for two Years
acted as officers without paw. The
company was doing business under a
special charter from the Legislature
allowing it to begin business when $40 =
oOO was paid in. The total amount
when mad been paid in never exceeded
$4,000. Despite the best efforts of the
gentleman at the head of the company
they could not make it a success.
A charter is granted the Bessemer
City bank, capital stock S10,O coo, !. s
Carr and S. J. Durham being the prin-
clpal stockholders.
Ihls year at the state fair there will
be special prizes for the best county
EXHIBITS. Wake intends to make a
brave show and will fill a SPACE 20 by
so feet
Irene Valdez, the oma from he
tenderloin district of Raleigh who a
a witness of the shooting of Bertha
Brown by Wayland Terrell and who has
Deen IN Jail ever since gave bail today
and was released. Terrell is out on
bail also.
The post Office at Millbrook in his
county on the Seaboard Air Line is to
be discontinued. Some of the residents
nave made a fight against discontinue
ance on the ground that it is a railway
station n that the rural free delivery
cannot entirely take is place IN the
mail service.
Miss Eliza Pool, who spent the sum-
mer in Europe, has returned and be-
ONES a teacher at St. Mary's female
college here. For a number of years
she has been the principal at one Of the
city public schools.
1t is found by Architect Benthiem og
Charlotte, who has been here conferr-
ing with state officers .hat the North
CT IhC OollSSlO"u Il
position must be Of very light construc-
ton as the soil is SO insecure that it
Will not stand heavy weights without
costly piling.
A charter is granted the Harnets
Dry Goods Company at Dunn with $1O,-
600 capital stock.
Thursday there was a very unusual
occurrence at the Soldiers Home, this
being a fight between two veterans.
The mind Of one of these is badly af-
fected and he has beer declaring that
there We're two societies of the Malta
o against him. He had
been reading the papers about this
Italian secret society and his mind in
way got hold of the idea that it
was in the home. He became very !
noisy and was slamming the door of
his quarters and when another inmate |
him to please be quiet he cursed
veteran and called him a NOR |
phine eater-this led to a blow with
the fist on the side of the head to which
he man who started the trouble re-
Piled with n with a stick. the head
DI winch was heavy with nails and
with this be knocked a hole in the back
the head of the man who had struck
aim. State Auditor Dixon went over
o the nom to straighten matters out.
tie found hat the la whose mind was
affected had threatened superintendent
3rooks because the latter had taken a
Inire away from him and was declar-
ng that Captain Brooks belonged to
he Malta. The poor fellow Will prob
IDLY have to be taken TO the asylum.
State Vat orr n n rio, D,+lo,
friday from Durham where he Wen to
inspect the herd Of cattle Of J. G.
'owler, q OF these animals having
leo OF Texas or tick fever. 1t is
but true, Dr.. Butler says that
lr. Fowler did not seem to be aware
bout the disease or to nave known or
that ticks were the sole cause
I 1t. 10 this lack of information the
OSS OF cattle is due. Of course Mr..
knows it now. No cattle are
eported as dying elsewhere there from
fever this herd, so far as known
eng the only one affected.
In the course of an interview with ,
POgue of tie North Carolina
commission the latter said
lat 1t had arranged to buy a lot 40 by
lO 1eet, on the water front for a state
u1lding, the site being beween the
ate buildings Of Florida and Connec-
cut 1t is the plan TO erect upon this :
te an attractive building of a perma- !
ent character. which can be sold. g:
land costs $4,000, the uniform rate O..
eng % cents per square foot and !
ERE IS an option for the purchase of =
rs within 80 days after the Exposition -
oses. The commission can therefore q
IL both the building and site and !
Secretary Pogue says that by being I
-reful ii will probably be able to get
l its money back. The commission =
Is chosen a location for North Caro- 7
exhibit in the main building. :
king $500 feet free and condition G
" taking $500 feet more, for which r
e uniform charge is 81 per square i
The commission Will report 10 :,
e governor and the council Of n
S11-p and tho Io%,o- -.;lI d: