Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-06
Gov. CARR WILL VOTE
DEMOCRATS AND rUsIoNIsTs CONF
DENT or SUCCESS TO-DAY.
noth s,des Claim $1,000 WAority-AlI
Business- Houses "a Bs Ciossd-An
AGED Lutheran Faster Gone.

RALEIGH, N. c.. November 5.-(spe-
ciai.)-Goyernor Carr left to-day for
Edsecombe county. In order to vote at his
home there tomorrow
Both sides. Fusionists and Democrats,
continue confident OF success tomorrow
The Progressive Farmer. Farmers ALI
ance and PopulIst organ. says in Its edi-
toriai columns this evening that the Fu-
sionists. or "Co-operationists." will carry
the State by 10000 perhaps 10000 to 10000.
Chairman Pou, OF the Democratic State
Committee adheres firmly to his estimate
of 10000 which he made some days ago
In an interview. The Fusionists claim
fusion Is complete. or almost 80, while
the Democrats claim that IL has broken
down. The latter are making the most
of the declaration of such men as ex-
Congressman Kitchen. Edward +. Powers,
I. b. Keogh. &c, that they will not sup
port fusion. Democratic Chairman Pou
says that Butler and Hatton. the fusion
chairmen. have issued "A circular in which
they call on spies to be at polling booths
tomorrow. Pou says II these enter the
booths. save TO vote. they will certainly
be arrested.
HIS SECOND MURDER.
AS yet the authorities have not cap
tured Charles Walton tcolored) who, In
bar-room here Saturday night stabbed
and almost instantly killed James Davis,
also coored. II Is the second murder
Walton has committed. Twenty years
ago he killed a man In a few yards OF
the place where he stabbed Davis. he
then got of on the ground OF self-de-
fence.
Bishop Cheshire, OF this Episcopal do
cese yesterday preached his first sermon
here since he became a resident OF RAJ
leigh.
The Democratic State chairman calls on
all businessmen to close their places OF
business tomorrow. He has advices that
in many towns this will be done.
GREATLY GRArIFIED.
Mr.. Thomas r. Jernigans friends here
are greatly gratified to know that he has
been congratulated by the Chinese Gov
eminent on the course he has pursued at
Shanghai. and also because he has been
specially complimented in a dispatch to
the State Department from Minister Dem
by for his careful course In regard to the
property of Americans and the neutrality
| laws
Rev Samuel Rothrock. aged 81, and
| for sixty-three years a Lutheran pastor,
is dead at his home i'm Rowan county
A steamship left Wilmington Saturday
for Liverpool with l.250 bales of cotton,
| the largest cargo which ever left that
| port.
The Governor has received from Edge
| combe county $1,000 foy. the Vance monu-
| ment fund.
FRAUDULENT TICKETS.
| 1t Is said that unusually large num-
nov Of Ittia MT Ia. VII Oh
| in circulation all over the State. The
| Democrats are on the watch for them.
Two convicts arrived a the penltentlary
| to-day from BERTHE county.
| James Martin, n telegraph operator at
| Marion IS in luck. Yesterday ne arrested
| Lee Richards. notorious murderer.
wanted in Tennessee, and will get 800
] reward
r. F.. Willis, formerly Of Morehead city,
| but for some years agent OF the Atlantic
| Coast Line and the Southern Express
| Company at Kingstree, S. c.. is under
| arrest at Wilmington. charged with en-
| bezzllng 1851. He was arrested at the
! instance of the American Guarantee Com
| pans of Boston. On Wtills's person
! when he was arrested was found an ex-
press package which had contained s25.
He had operHd 1t. taken the money, and
| forged a receipt for IT, He Is a cripple
and ii is said Is morphine fiend" and
| not responsible for his acts
| WILD CLAIMS.
| The Fusionists claim that they expect
| to carry the First. Third, Fifth, and
Sixth districts They consider the Se-
cond and Fifth doubtful. and the condi.
| ton of affairs in the Ninth as greatly
mixed. They do not question the fact
that the Democrats will carry the Sew
snth, and Eighth. Democrats laugh at
| the fusion claims.