The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-12
Enforcement of Vagrancy Law Will
Improve Conditions.
Bulletin of the Board Of Healthy
c. l.. to Establish an Agency at
CoefeId-Death of a Soldiers Home
Inmate-Campaign Appointments
Other Raleigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Chamber of Commerce Rooms,
Hollaman Building,

HOllaman Building,
Raleigh, n. c., October 10.
At the Soldiers home today w. r.
Barrett died, aged ~. He was a ma
tiv eof Moore county and had been
in the home five years. Not long after
the wal he went from this state toI
Tennessee settling at Hardeman juno
ton and represented that county
twice in the legislature. Ever since
he came to the home here he had been
in the hospital.
Insurance Commissioner Young paid
into the state treasury as tn receipts
for September s5.C5S.S4, making s129,-l
322 paid in since April LIST, this being
$10,332 more than was paid in the
same time last year, when the total
for the year was sos ,124.
A charter is granted the Weldon.
Livestock Company, capital stock
$1,000, J. S. Allen and others stock
holders.
This morning was the coolest Of the
autumn so far and there was a decided
frost but not a killing one.
The sale Of seats for the Nordecai
concert next week began today and
there was a long line of buyers, all
holding cards. The price Of each be-
ing So.
This morning Deputy Sheriff Stell.
brought here and placed in jail Clyde
Faison, white. aged about 30, charged
with stealing $500 from a trunk in this
a.4x --:-~- I-l 1.-- Co., Jox-
at Jail in Columbia. 3. G. He denies
the theft.
The American BANKING Association
meets at st. Louis next week and
Joseph G. Brown Of MS city goes as
4 member Of tho executive council.
W. A. Hunt Of Henderson, the secre-
tary Of the state banking association
has arranged to operate a special car
from North Carolina and it is under
stood a good delegation will go from
this state to the meeting which Is the
annual one.
Joseph E. Pogue is made commits
sioner general for North Carolina at
the jamestown exposition. The state
agricultural department Will also have
a representative there, very probably
T. K. Bruner, its secretary who is now
at Boston at the Food Fair. The Bos-
ton-American says Of the North Caro-
lima exhibit: "This exhibit is in Paul
Revere Hall, upstairs and IS one of the
most beautiful exhibits Of the products
Of a state or country ever shown"
It is the purpose Of the Methodist
orphanage trustees to build a resi-
dence on the grounds for the new su-
perintendent Rev. John N. Cole. For
the present he will reside In the city.
At democratic state headquarters the
following appointments are made;
State Auditor Dixon, Clinton, October
%; A. L. Brooks, Pelham, October
18th, Milton Goth, Sandy Ridge 22nd.
Mention was made the other day OF
a raid at night on a gambling place
here when the police caught a mer-
chant and several other people in the
act Of playing for money. One man
got away by means of telegraph wires
but he has been caught and turned out
to be a railway conductor.
The Se~iember buIl-tin CT the
North Carolina board Of heath shows
that the counties Of Jones, Stokes and
Iyrrell have no county superintendent
or health ord hence make no report.
The report shows that typhoid fever
Is very widespread in the state, Ashe
reporting 80 cases., Caldwell 43. Ala
nance p, Durham 80 Greene 40. Hert-
ford 20, Montgomery 20, Union so,
Wake 62, Northampton and Rowan
simply reporting many cases. Sixty
three counties report this terrible
disease. Very interesting feature of
the report is that the annual death
rate of the whites is Is to the thous-
and and that of the negroes % to the
thousand. This difference is certain
ly great enough t o attract attention
The deaths from consumption among
the negroes exceed those of thu whites
and so do the deaths of children under
five years Of age. The deaths from
typhoid fever among the whites are
double those among the negroes.
Tobacco men from Wilson here To-
day stated that the season at the Leaf
Tobacco warehouses there began the
second week in August, being about
two weeks late, owing to the rains
but since that time 5000, 900 pounds
have been sold at the five warehouses
There are double sales and even then
the business can hardly be disposed Of
1t is claimed that Wilson leads con
siderably every other market for leaf
At one warehouse last Friday there
was a very novel scene, this being two
sales in progress at the same time witt
two auctioneers, two sets of clerk, etc
The auditorium question was dis.
cussed today at a meeting of the
directors which was held at moor. This
is n of the sburngng questions
here in Raleigh, and has been for q
long time.
The jamestown Exposition Conn
mission was in session today at the
agricultural department., E. L
Daughtridge presiding, nearly all the
members being present. One Of the
members said that Governor Glenn did
not greatly favor the idea of the North
Carolina building at the exposition.
1t vas said that the site selected for
| such q building is quite remote from