The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-07
NEWS ITEMS FROM RALEIGH
Board of Agriculture in Session
Hearing of Case of Mrs. Rowland
Set for Wednesday-CottOn Re-
ceipts-Other News Notes.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., June 4.


of the state, Pitt county and rounda'
bout. He says that cotton is about
a month late and according to his cal.
rculations that means the crop will be
20 to 25 per cent short.
The board of agriculture met this
morning, Commissioner Patterson
presiding. Reports were made by him
and the various sub-chiefs of the va
rious sections That by State Chem
list KilgOre contained the regulations
under the new pure fed law.
The hearing in the case of Mrs. DAY.
I'd S. Rowland, who is under bond
here to answer to the very grave
charge of aiding DR.. Rowland in pois-
oning her late husband, Charles r.
Strange, is set for hearing next Mon
day, before Justice Scpark. This is
the same date on which the hearing
OF DR.. Rowland on the charge of pois-
>oning his son will be heard at Hen
-dersOn.
The cotton receipts OF this market
this season amounts TO 1854 bales
against 1873 for the corresponding
date last year. The present price in
this market is 13 to Is 1-2 cents
against 10 3-8 to 10 IS a year ago.
A charter is granted the Wolf Rock
Granite company, Wilkes county, cap
ital stock $500, 900. The Oxford Real
ty company is authorized to increase
its capital stock to half a million dol
lars.
Among today's visitors was Mr.. P.
M. Pearsall, of Newbern, who is so
well known in North Carolina poll
tics and who has recently been from
n to end of the state. When he was
asked who he thought would be the
next nominee for governor he replied
that he believed that Lock Craig would
win in a walk and wherever he had
been he found hat Craig had strong
supporters. !!
I Three portraits Of the North Caro-
lima signers of the Declaration of In
dependence which are being made by
an artist, Mr.. Spencer Baird Nichols,
Of Washington, D. c., are now well
underway and will soon be ready for
shipment to the jamestown exposition
at the close of which they will be
brought here.
Deputy Revenue Collector J. P. H.
Adams came in today from a raid in
johnson cornty where four miles from
-Four Oaks he got q hundred gallon
Illicit distillery and G negro employee
Horace Saunders. The white man who
owned the plant got away by jumping
III a creek which was quite deep. De-
putty Adams came up on one side OF
The still and had his posse on the 9TH
er and the negro was thus taken, but
The white man lodged and plunged
headforemost into the stream in his
desperate effort to get away.
The Insurance commissioner licenses
The American Life Insurance Com
pany. at Galveston Texas, Mr.. Spencer
Hummer being the general agent, with
headquarters at Raleigh.
Several charters were granted to-
day as follows:
The Stony Point Manufacturing Co.
to spin n weave cotton fabrics in
Alexander county, capital took 1925
900 "A. T.. Watts. NJ. X. Steele and
Others stockholders. The Miller Sus.
Kin Dry good s company, Salisbury
Harry Miller of that place and Louis
Suskin Of Baltimore, stockholders, cap
itaI $4,000 The Cheoah Lumber Co.
Baskerville, 500, 900, j. C. Arbogast o.
lake Charles, La. and H. B. Stevens
of Asheyille. The Durham Hardware
Co, $780, 900, G.. f. Lawrence and 9th
ers stockholders. R. F. Loftin. in
o%orporated, High Point, furniture ant
undertaking, $25, 900. The firm of Gar
nett & Co., grape growers and win
makers, Halifax county, is authorized
t oincrease its capital stock to a mil
lion dollars. Paul Garrett being tn
president of the company, which ha
its plant at Berkeley n suburb Of Nor
folk.
While the people in such a large are
of the state are bewailing the grea
rains and the damage to the cOttol
crop by these and more so by the col
and unreasonable weather, the peopl
of A1amance county seem to be strict
Iy in it. for Mr.. Scot a member c
the board of agriculture of that coun
ty, says rain has done g great deal {
good in his particular section bein
much needed on the high clay land
Wheat, oats corn loo very vel
The rain was particularly needed
Wilkes, Forsyth and that tier
counties.