The semi-weekly messenger., 1906-07-27
A Banker or Newspaper Man Will
Draw the Prize.
Meeting OF Policy Holders in Mutuai
Life and New York Life Called.
Illicit Dis;ilIery Captured in Cum
berIand-Fined for Killing Deer Out
of ScasOn-NOrth Carolina journal
of Education soon to be Issued.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, y. c., July "a.

FtdlelSn, y. L., ulS "a.
Governor Glenn who has been enjoy
ing a rest sojOurn at Atlantic City will.
return to Raleigh and will be in the
executive offices Tuesday. Letters re-
ceived from the governor are TO the,
effect that his stay has been most ben
eficial and enjoyable.
Hon. S. L. Patterson, commissioner
of agriculture has gone to his home
in Caldwell county on personal bust
ness.
Insurance Commissioner Young to-
day issued q call requesting policy
holders in the Mutual Life Insurance
Company Of New York and in the New
York Life Insurance Company Of New
YORK 10 attend a meeting to be held
in Raleigh September 18th fer the pur-
pose Of deciding what steps the" shall!
take in rerard to the election Of Off
GERS in these two companies The
meeting will no doubt be largely at
tended a. he companies Lave an old
and established list Of patrons IN
North Carolina.
1t is said by those, presumably IN
artborit" lat the prize box containing
the Raleigh pOstmastership and having
six strings TO il will be opened We'd
nesday night or Thursday Since the
winding up of the Wake county demo-
cratic primaries the all absorbing topic
and the main question asked is who is
the next postmaster The general
public somehow asserts that the list is
now down to two these being Banker
John Harden and Willis G. Briggs,
newspaper man. The contentious are
held just as easily for others among
the six Judge Adams, republican
state chairman and essentially the
master OF ceremonies is presumably n
Washington looking after the final
move.
A special interest attaches to the
publication Of the North Carolina
Journal Of education, the first issue
which will appear September 18th, and
thereafter semi-mOnthIy. II. E. See
man of Durham will be publisher and
Superintendent r. G. Brooks Of the
GOldsbOro city schools has assumed
the duties Of pditOr-in-rniof 4 board
Oh dSSOCidiF PttijOlS VIII tF tttDuiIctu
later, as contributors to the various de-
~partments ! prospectus viii b. issued
in a few days. The board Of managers
is composed Of representatives Of all
the educational associations Cf the
state and the policy Of the Journal VIII
be under the direction Of this board.
The following departments will be reg
ularly represented; State departm ent|
of public education. county super!n
tendents, city superintendent; high
schools and colleges, primary and in
termediate work. plans among teach
erS. Improvement among school houses
and grounds, nature study and agri-
cultural interests. An associate editor
will head each one Of these depart
ments they being chosen from the
leading educators of the state.
Revenue officers returning from a.
raid Sunday report the capture Sat
urday OF another Illicit d;stillery in
Cumberland county. This time one Of
a fifty gallon capacity and a quantity
of spent beer. A part Of the outfit
having been removed.
This is the seventh Illicit distiiIery
seized or destroyed in Cumberland
county within the last thirtE days and
was located seven miles east Of Fay
etteville in the noted Flea Hill town.
ship. When asked as to che person.
ality of those owning CT operating
these diStilleries the revenue officers
state that of this particula" seven
six We're white democrats. the Seveneth
a negro. while all Of the infOrmantS
had been republicans.
The wreck news on the Seaboard
Air Line road Sunday night brought
sorrow to Raleigh by reason of the
death of Engineer Lewis. who was a
resident here and whose wife was a
Raleigh woman, the daughter Of Cap
tain McGlenn. for so long master me-
chanic in the railroad shops here. For
hong it was repeatedly reported tha.
John Bowen. conductor on the pasSen
ger rain, and a brother Of J. J. Bowen.
agent of the Southern Express COM
pany, in Raleigh, had been killed Mr..
Bowen left here and went TO the scene
of the wreck and later wired 10 friends
in Raleigh that John Bowen had es-
capped the dreadful tragedy. Mr.. Baxter,
Durham, Il young Raleigh insurance.
man, was at Hamlet and went down tOi
view the wreck. He was permitted tHi
assist in the work Of relief and painted
many pictures of the agony of those.
who were pinned beneath the wreck.
age. He graphically described the al
most miraculous deliverance Of a
mother and three children who sat,
huddled together scarcely able to lake
in the narrOWneSS of their escape and
deliVerance. He spoke too OF the
Frasence of mind of Engineer Bundy
who deliberately re-read his orders, rs
he leaned against a telegraph pole!
by which he had run his train into the
jaws of death-refecting that he had:
gone by orders.
A local undertaken went to the scene
from Raleigh and carried a number Of
caskets and collins by special order 1t.
was first rumOred in Raleigh that sixty
odd people had been killed but this lu-.
NOR was soon corrected There was