Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-12
ENGINEERS PROTEST..
AGAINST PLACING WESTERN MEN
ON =. A. l.. LOCOMOTIVES.
Egypt Coal Mines stnrt with New
Equipment ON Full Time-Enort to
onst GencrnI-Mannger Winder-
Raleigh Politics.

RALEIGH. n. C., April ll.-(Special)--
| To-day J. +. Garrison. F. II. Fetzcr. and
| &. Il. Haizler. engineers on the Georgia.
| Carolina and Northern railway. arrived
| here as representatives OF that division
| OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engi-
| neers. They came TO protest 10 the off
Gals Of the Seaboard Airline against the
placing by Nice-President 81. John OF
western men a. engineers on the Georgia.
Carolina ana Northern. ghree western
engineers have just been put on this road.
I ne committee called on Superintendent
-MotiYe-Power Read and protested
Three engineers and thre- fremen ar
rived here to-day from Chicago. one OF
these said all the Seaboard Air-Line's new
engines would b. manned by new men.
These six men all had an engagement
with Superintendent Read.
The Importation Of western men here is
causing a great stir among the old en-
plOyees and their thousands of friends.
NEW MACHINERY.
Yesterday the bituminoiIs coal-mines at
Egypt started up on fun time and n
chinery. Fifty men are employed. and
the output is 80 tons daily. In sixty days
the force will be doubled. The new ma
cbinery is all working wen. George W.
Lacey, an experienced cOa-mner OF Ili-
nois. has just been made general mana
ger.
The freshet in the Neuse river tore
away half Of the dam at the Falls OF
Neuse. The damage will be rapidly re-
paired.
There Is now no doubt that the new
management OF the SeabOard Airline IL
trying tO Dust General-Manager John II.
W.nder. This news comes to-day from
high authority. Mr. Winder has much in
fluence. particularly over three divisions
Of the road-the Raleigh and Castor.
Raleigh and Augusta, and Carolina Cen
tral-and will hardly allow himself TO be
pulled down without a struggle.
RALEIGH POLITICS.
II is said that Ham. f. Smith will
BE the Democratic nominee FOR city Clerk
on the first ballot tomorrow evening.
Nobody can name the Democratic nori-
nee for Mayor \ dark horse" Is quite
possible It is intimated that the Re
publicans Will nominate John Nichols.
Mr. r. W. Mabry. "A well-known restau-
rsnteur. thirty years in business here,
died last night. He was IS years old. ana
was q native OF northampton county.
The trustees of the Baptist Women's
College here to-day awarded the contract
70 the North Carolina Car Company. or
Raleigh. for constructing the main build
inc. which Is to be Of brick. and is to
cost $4,000.
REMAINS BURIED.
To-day the remains OF Engineer NJ. H.
I'm l.. Ia
Western North Carolina railway Monday
night. were buried near Salisbury. But
little over half Of his body was found,
80 frightfully was it mangled.
one hundred men yesterday began work
on big new cotton-mill at Henrietta
Mills
The naval reserves Will ask Governor
carr 10 secure FOR use az their time OF
instruction at southport next summer the
cruiser Raleigh II Is proposed To present
tho vessel with n e. GEO silver service. The
reserves are beginning 10 raise money
for this fund The editor OF the South
port Leader has also begun the collection
OF a fund all over the state.
The SUPREME Court Yesterday disposed
Of the appeals from the Tenth Judicial
District
RANSOM FACTIONS.
There are Vet Ransom and anti-Ransom
factions in the Democratic party III TINS
State. \ State committeeman, VINO dt-
sires to see this whole matter eliminated,
SO informs me.
The report that the Southern railway
had secured the chester and Lenoir mar
row-gauge is not true.
The Maiden Cotton-Mfl In Catawba
county. is putting in 3,ooo more spindles.
The new per cent. interest Law soes
into effect day after tomorrow. II was
ratified by the Legislature March lJth,
but az II had no enactng clause thirty
days time was required before Il became
n law
Mr.. oliver Null 4 well-known resident
of caldwell county. was drOwned-yester-
day.