The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-06-25
DEATH Of dHls. S. ALlfs
Had Been Connected With S.A. |.
foy Fifty Years
sirny Bids Received for Construction
OF q and ~ Power Plant-Cllargcd
WIKI Numbering an Infant-Teie-
sraphers Appear Before Corpora
ton ComAissiOn-Bank Chartered.
Messenger Bureau,
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Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. June 81
Hr. Charles s Allen died this morp-
ing at his home he:e. aged 63 years
He had been continuously with the
Sezboard Air Line ~ years when he
ended his connection with il early last ]
Decsmher. Since than he has been in
very poor health and came very near
diving last winter. He is extremely
popular here and bad a very wide
acquaintance with he railway men
in the state. Fol thiTty-fse years hs
had been tee freight agent of the COM
pany at Raleigh
Last evening, until "a very late hour
gaS nighx and all today the execu-
tive committee of the new board OF
trustees CS the A and NJ. College was
in session here TO receive bids for the
new $50, OO1 power TIant. There were
80 bidders these coming from all
parts of the United States. h fact
that the BIDS were 10 be made a
been advertised in all the great trade
DuI IEd1S d1u 40 q AS1eAN NAS
tee had been overwhelmed with let
rars and literature. All OF the bids
were in e xcesS of the sum named. but
this is al most always the rule. 1t
seems. In one case a bid which was
made was cut so per cent, because OF
the fact { hat it was an educational
institutions and it was thought the
award OF tn e CONTRACT would be a good
one for the manufacturers of the par
ticluar kind Of machine that vas sold
In the press ut case some OF the bids
were for con structinS the building and
installing thu heating, light, and pow
er plant con lplete; others merely for
the building; some for the plant; some
for special div isions Of the plant; some
u lerely for t turbines, and some for
dynzmos
Today before Juntice Separk, an old
n egro woman, Elvtra Powell, whom
the negroes cal led by the nickname of
f IelEFire, this being their corruption
Of ha- real nan he was given a hearing
con- the charge of numbering the new
DorH infant of Rosa Johnson, a young
WHITE woman a couple of months ago
Tin this city. The mother stands charg-
with infantic ide, and she and the
: Powell woman h ave Been in Jail ever
since d day or Sc after the crime. The
.>evidence against the Powell m
is sImnst entirely that of the johnson
omar The father OF the child has
never been captu red. he having fled
when he found that he was TO be ar
restsd. Justice Separk says the man
is in Harnett county and that all eff
forts to get a warrant served on him
there have failed. 1t seems that he has
/! a Number of k~inspeorle in that codn-
ty- -
Se1ne Raleigh men who returned to-
day from a trip Though Johnston
comfy say the farmers there told them
that cotton there broke the.record there
this season for smallness. 1t has hap
psned there that blooms have appeared
as early as June 20. This year the cot
ten is all ~"runty' as one1armer puts
it Yesterday and today have been
tine two most favorable dHys for the
plants.
The attorneys for the Rowlands do
Lot say what they propose to do. but
il seems from what can be gathered
Dday that the trial will 10. come of
in July but will go over. As to the
fabeas corpus PROCEEDINGS II can be
accurately predicted that nothing will
be lone until after the July term OF
court.
Some of the finest peaches seen here
:. this year were brought IN today from
this county, very near Raleigh. They
were of fine size, beautiful color and
without fault and brought good prices.
A commission is issued to A. N.
Daniel as second lieutenant, Company
A. Second regiment or KinstOn, vice
J. b. Gray, resigned
The arrangements for the encamp-
ment OF the National Guard at James
town exposition are now practically
complete and the las: acquisitions On
the war department :or supplies have
gone forward. The blue uniforms will
be worn as already stated at dress pa
rades and reviews. hut the drills and
gua<d-mOunting viii be one in l3lah
uniforms, which fs5 known as the field
service uniform for all troops.
The Citizens Bank Of Creedn ore. in
!, Granville county, is authorized TO in
cease its capital stock to $4,000
Special agent j. l.. Luptoa. of the
!. interstate m commission had
. "a conference with the corporation COM
mission today regarding tha securing
of uniform blanks AID reports from
: railways IN making Ieporas. II 3 the
, desire of the corporations commission
that these, blanks shall be uniform so
2 far as the United States and all the
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