The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-02
Corporation Commission Starts
ON Annual Tour Today.
Investigation OF Alleged Insurance Ir-
rcgularifies - Bar Association tn
Meet at the Seashore-Beil Company
Heavy Losers in the Recon Storm.
James Corbe.t paEioned BY the
Pre>ident-Buifdin. Activity In VIII
mington Commented on.
Messenger Bureau.


~ III AAEA las ASaa
Of inspection over the system of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway, going
t:rst 20 Rockingham. thence 10 oiher
points and Plymouth and Washington.
The commission will 20 over the entire
lines n that section o: the state.
On account Of the press o. business
i his department, Insurance Commits
s,oner Young has been fCrced 10 aban-
lon his trip to Chicago. where he
togsd % attend the meeting of thu
insurance authorities o. the United
States, composed principally of the
commissioners. the governors. secTeta-
RE o. state, accepting service Tor IN
surance companies and those interest
ed in that specific line of work.
Ihe Uat5d Surety COMPANY, Of raj
timore, Md, is admitted 10 that st2te
x the cond C O.. is bus mess. The
Li.ectirg cftice of the company has not
ye- hen named.
Dep2ty Comnisst~n-r ". A Scott
has just returned from an extended
trip TO seven or eight cites and towns
OF western NORTH Carolina, where he
rad ben called by Ger, a n INSURANCE
irregularities and 20 l1Jk into certain
matters ThJce the fire uCmp4nies hal
been callei n 10 pay claims for dam
"ees Of a supposed incendiary nature.
There is a possibility that the State
Bar Association will meet this year at
the seashore, Morehead City beng fav-
orally considered. This year, the meet
ing will be held the last week in June,
the 9th having been selected. AT the
meeting held here no definite lnfor-
nation is given out, but Morehead
seems a favorite. The names chosen for
special addresses will not be given at
until acceptances are received. Officers
were elected as follows: E. c. Smith,
Raleigh, chairman Of the executive
committee; T. P. Hicks, Henderson,
secretary, others present were Clement
Manly, of Winston; J. Crawford Biggs,
of Durham, and w. S. OBJ. Robinson,
of Goldsboro. Judge Avery. OF Nor
canton, J. C. Martin, Ashevile, and
G. w. Tillett, Of Charlotte, were alb
sentees. Mr.. TillettF having missed
connection at Greensboro on account OF
belated trains.
Giles B. Jackson of Richmond, direc-
tor general of the Negro Development
and Exposition Company, will speak
here Wednesday night. c. K. vii
hanson, of this city, is the commits
sioner Of this department for North
Carolina
The people who are everywhere in
clined to ''bless out" the railroad, tel
egraph and telephone lines because OF
inefficient service which was occa-
stoned by the terrible sleet storms ano
weight of ice on wires and poles, will
possibly pause for a bit and take up a
little more time in the consideration
of the magnitude of the necessary 81
erations before the wires can possibly
be readjusted. Not only a few men,
but toilers by the hundred have been
and are yet at work along all me
lines t~raversed by these various COM
nanies. and still there is more TO be
done. Between Raleigh and Cary, on
" the very short distance OF anon,
nine miles, over $50 men have been
laboring along the line of the Sea
board Air Line railroad. The Iel'
Telephone Company, among the mos
marked Of the local sufferers by sucn
a cause, have had thirty men busy day
and night. and this number was To-Day
Augmented by fifteen more. Inc loss
to the Bell Company, is figured conser-
vatively by the management and those
who are in a position TO be lnIorhed
to reach the $1,000 mark, and all ::
not even yet accounted for IN the Tn
studied figures. Their enters into ne
same consideration the fact that tEe
Bell people have more distance service
all of which has been so badly crlpp.ef
within the radius of many miles imme-
diately near Raleigh as we'll as r.
moter points. It is expected and STAT
ed with a considerable degre Of Ger
tainty that all lines will be in acfna
operation before midnight
James Corbett. wh0 was conVlcte9
and sentenced TO five years IN >
for tampering with registered MAJ
matter in the Selma p~ostoffce, is par
doned by the President, after naVine
twice refused. The last appear naaS
before Christmas was effective, naElns
heen in the hands OF Colonel j. I. l.
Harris. at Raleigh. and Marion Butter
in Washington. There was some douo'
as 10 Corbett's guilt, and ne IS no"
allowed to return to his {. lie and chli-
dren who reside at Selma. =,
! rather unique case of assault VII
he tried before the City Police justice
when three young men will be arralgn-
ed for having suspended a small 10Y
stage hand within. the fly space al Ihs
Raleigh Academy OF MUSIC. Ihe
youngster was % held with rope aoon'
his neck until he e~onsented.to treat
TO ries valued at five cents each
The corporation commission author
lied the Bank of Aberdeen n the
Bank of winterville, respectively, u
business These concerns
will conduct a regular or general pasi-
ness.
Professor II. L. Hume and Professor
IT p Parker returned today from oth-
or parts of the state where they haFe
been conducting farmers institutes IN
der the direction of the North
department Of agriculture the last
cne having been held this afternoo
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