The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-07
Total Amount SIG, 050,54 Show
ing Increase of S677,2I5.
Losses by Fire During the year i'm This
State Have Been Heayy-Lease of
Tobacco WarehOuse-Fire at the
Hospital for the Insane-Other Ra-
leigh News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., August, 1906

AC W. ltddN
announced its assessment of the va
rious railways and other common car
rier companies. The total amount is
S~76,O50,548, which is an increase of
$677,215 over last year. The railways
aggregate s7O,077,361, Of these the At
lantic Coast Line being $24, 454, OLA; the
Seaboard Air Line s12,50O, 0CO, the
Southern for owned lines s14, 735, $50,
and for leased lines 81, 739, 679, mis-
~cellaneOus railways, $685. 0S. Tele-
graph companies aggregate 81, O16, G25;
telephone 1898, $50; express $4O8, 109;
Pullman SIG, 900; electric light and gas
$608,O84; street railways $1,749. $50:
waterworks $547,670; steamboats, s142,-
209; bridge and canal companies $780,
100; refrigerator companies Sill ,427;
the total Of such companies being So
973,187.
During the month Of July just ended
h rainfall aggregated 5.35 inches,
rain having fallen on no less than is
days; the normal rainfall here for July
is 4.99 inches. There was heavy rain
today. The damage to crops continued,
corn standing the rain better than any
other crop.
There were Il number Of fires in the
state, the largest at RutherfOrdtOn
with about $35, 900 loss; the losses this
year by fire have been heavy in the
state and it is said that not a company
operating in the state whose losses and
expenses have not exceeded it's income.
One Of the leading companies shows a
loss ratio of about 100.
II is not now expected hat the new
postmaster here will take charge before
the 18th Of this month. That seems
to be the opinion Of officials.
The penitentiary authorities an
nOunce that George Hardy, a dark
negro, aged 80, escaped from the con-
vict camp near Wilmington on Mon
day. He was serving a sentence of ~
years for burglary, the crime having
been committed in BERTHE county, eight
years ago. twenty-five dollars reward
will be paid for his arrest.
The corporation commission is now
d~ispOsing Of the docket of minor cases,
and when this is done will take up the
very important telephone case against
the Bell company in which there are a
thousand pages of typewriter evil
dence.
The Raleigh Electric company which
operates the street railway will almost
double the size Of the power plant. It
has been hoped that the company
would build a line into East Raleigh
but there does net now seem to be any
prospect of it 1t is said that the conf
pany operates the street cars at d loss
of something like $4,000 a year. II
49,, D,oo ~ +hn 1irh+c n11h1i0 nnS
private.
There are two leaf tobacco ware
houses here and these baYe been taken
for the Coming season by r. T. Gowan,
s. r. Virgins and B. HobgoOd. This
year the chamber of commerce will do
everything it can to aid the leaf tobacco
trade here, which has not had the pub
lie attention it deserves. The mrs.
warehouse was opened about twenty
years ago.
Secretary of State Bryan Grimes re-
turned today from Wilson where he
went with the body Of Mr.. Alexander
Green whose death was reported yes
terday.
Fire broke out this morning in the
laundry is considerably in the rear OF
sane here, a stove pipe being the cause.
The employees worked very rapidly
and effectively and eXtingulShed the
fire before the city fire department ar
rived. The damage will not exceed
81, 900 and is covered by insurance. The
The laundry is considerably in rear OF
the buildings occupied by patients and
is connected with these by 4 covered
way. The water supply is furnished
from the city mains, and there is also
an arrangement whereby the city ffe
deDartment SWe calls. there being
alarm boxes at the institution. Super
intendent Mckee is much gratifiei at
the effective work done by the EN-
plOyes.
Charters are granted to Milton Leaf
Tobacco Warehouse Company. capital
stock $4,000. J. J. LipscOmb and Others
stockholders: the Rowland Cotton
Storage Company. of Robson county,
$4,000, l.. K. Hamer and others: The
Goldsboro knitting Mills, $25o,Ooo
ROyall and Borden and others: Blades
Cutler Hardware Company, New Bern,
$4,000; Forsyth Manufacturing Com
pary. Of which II. E. Fries and others
are stockholders. authorized 10 in
crease its capital stock by issuing $50
600 common stock and $4,000 cumula-
tive preferred stock.
Internal revenue collections of tAls
district for July aggregates S1'5,l4e
of which only $3.50 was for llquoS
stamps. s153.S7G for tobacco and Sill
499 for cigars.
The report Of state board of. health
for July says there was smallpox IN
twenty counties. with seventy cases IN
Martin. twelve in HEREFORD. ten IN
Hyde: typhoid fever in 81, with over
four hundred cases, Wake leading
with 80.