The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1908-02-07
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, N. c.. FEB 4

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CONS at noon on February 18th. The
eesapany has had a very succ essful
year.
The supreme court today called the
docket of appeals from the first dis
Eict, thus beginning the spring term
All the judges were On the bench.
Insurance Commissioner Young Is no.
titled that the Eagle Fire Insurance
Company of New York, a reinsured
aa It's risks in the North British and
Mercantile Company, this having been
done January oath.
The following insurance companies
have filed applications for admission
to Go business in North Carolina; New
jersey Pipe Glass, Of Newark; Queen
City Fire, of Sioux Falls, South Dako-
Ia; Carter and MuIkey, general agents.
Mariana, Ga, representing FLORIDA
Home Company, The Seaboard Fire
and Marine insurance Company of Gal
weston Texas.
TIE Wake county ~dispensary will
net be able to dispose Of it's liquors yet
awhile. since it is allowed 10 sell it
Saly to dispensaries in this stale, and
one of the latter care to buy.
The Raleigh schools will ask for
Il cents additional tax, this much be-
ing required. But the enactment of
the law by the Legislature at the extra
session, it would have been necessary
to have kept the schools open mex
cc.acNn 0nIu hoIf tho raor,Iar TINA Thu
law now allows an election to be had
Mt any time and If the one 60 be held
fans. then another can be had after
two months is past
Fertilizer men say that business has
been very dull on account Of slow col
iections n hat a great mary per-
SOas who W for fertilizers took ad-
vantage Of the panic saying they could
Not make payments.
At the Marlborough House, in the
offices fOrmerly occupied by the Sea-
board Air Line, Asheley. Horne OF
johnson county has opened his head
quarters. and a long streamer an
nounCes that fact. 1t is rumored that
Locke Craig and William W. Kitchin
will also have headquarters here
The federal court is c0nvicting many
moOnshiners and there will be a large
batch of them to go to the peniten-
tiary at Atlanta.
The clerks Of the senate ana GUS
Gnished up their work yesterday and,
with the enrolling clerk went home.
leaving the 205 acts and resolutions
and the journals all ready for the pub
lie printer. During the session the
captions Of part of the acts were print
ed and later pamphlets will contain all
OF these. The new laws, public and
private are 70 appear in n volume.
Out at the Agricultural and Mechan-
. ,ical college the heating plant has been
pat in operation and much other work
has been done. The committee Is ar
ranging TO give a complete water SER
vice and fire protection for all the
Buildings.
State Treasurer Lacy will, in all
probability, remain in Arizona for a
Is couple OF months yC,. He has gained
almost twenty pounds in weight dur
ing the three months he has beer
there.
There have been q great many cases
Of grippe here, but it seems that the
disease is now abaiting. 1t has result
ed in a few fatalities.
Under a new law the governor is
authorized TO sell the North Carolina
building at jamestown together with
tAe grounds on which it stands, One
OF two offers for the building have
been named. 1t none have named
a satisfactory price.
The governor pardons Mat Thorpe,
George Anderson and Sampson Jones,
convicted last June in Lenoir county
fer playing craps and sentenced to
a year. The judge writes the
governor that he thinks the sentence
excessive II as tho men had before
this time behaved themselves well and
since their conviction have made a
good record, and upon recommends
nCn of judge and citizens he grants
N conditional pardon. based opon their
remaining Of good behavior. and be-
ing sober M Industrious. Another
pardon goes to NJ. f. HART, who was
convicted two years ago in Lenoir OF
larceny.
OF course there will be inquiry for
ssUie days about the disposition OF
the $17, 500 which the governor has re-
oeiyed from the Southern railway and
which will be applied to the payment
OF lawyers fees and costs in the rate
litigation, not a dollar of it to go to-
costs OF the SPECIAL session
Al the bills are not