The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-11
DEE DARN MYSTERY.
S0ne AandiedI Dollars Offered TO Unfold The
StoIy Of a Murder.
LIQUOR slAsY CASE IN The COURTS
otlpnnies IGNORE an Ac,
s ssS OF tie |, tscncr.,i Assembly : Rniiroad
t s8: directors DO NOT Think Much OF
st5 tho Governors Sannuilncut case !
silly order Resented.

SIS Raleigh, N. c. July 1o,--(Spcclai.)
Russell offers $500 reward Tor
d The perpetrators Of a strange crime
April 51st.lf$ The body of an unknown
isslan was found floating in The French
q Broad river, in Euncomhe county. The
4 coroner held an inquest and the jury
was OF. opinion that he body was that
/ of5Willinm NSstal. There seems 10 be
4 no Ecluciswhatever TO the murderer. It
was found that the latter after Killing
3 aim had thrown his body into the
ftsp YER q K. IA Ri
ssa. An interesting legal case comes up
EESoH3 Chatham county. A. S. Terry, OF
V attsboro. made application 10 4.ie
s coun tyS commissioners for license 10 sci,
F li1uor, and 275 out-of the 40 voters in
u tile township signed the petition. The
3 county commissioners refused to grant
IS license. Proceeding We're begun to-day
B 20 .fnrce$t them to grant it, on the ground
Z thlt the law does not give them abso-
y lutte discretion or power TO refuse gene
B rally The wording OF previous act
Wa shall without discretion grant IL
L Eense, while that Of the present act is,
4: may. But there is 4 pruViso, which
& was in the former act, and which was,
Il evidently by oversight, left i'll the new
Il one. audit is OH this proviso that Terry's
y counsel base their contention
55i:s5 The Sou theastern Tariff Insurance as
8 sociation will not comply with the law
LOT the last Legislature requiring in
4 surance on farm houses to be as low
t as the rates in the Suuthside counties
r 5uf " Virginia. The act also requires q
Il reduction OF rates on farms in the coun-
TRY; With this act The companies COM
! ply,'but they ignore the part Of 1t rc!a-
{ tive to country dwellings.
AAss$l'lnktrtcl detective is now at Tex
d IN sSst,ils tying ID unravel the mystery
sof, the murder OF Mrs a 4. Springs.
The Louisburg dispensary is MAJ. ing
q sales at the rate Of about so a day.
4 IN observation-disclosures ordered beer kept on.
3 Ice, but this the board OF control stop
ped.
Ii Ille new State directors OF the North
Il Carolina railroad seem TO Dc quite Tie
reverse or Sangu.iit as To Governor,
III t !!ells carrying out his plan to annul
Stfthe lease OF the North Carolina railroad
to the Southern.
The keeper Of the Capitol issued an or
\ der that no children o. nurses would be
Il Il alloWed.in the Capitol square after /
+ r.: N. The Board Of Public buildings
I Seid q special session yesterday ana re-
scinded the order
There Is some comment on the fact
that not the least NOTICE was taken at
1.-The $5tlh Capitol or by the IRE F;ury Depart
s :, L.. OF me death of ex-State Treasurer
& p mod. Tate. The Capitol Board syea
4 terday discussed this natter. in, View
= OF newspaper structures
Ihe$ law now requires "a report of the
amount Of air -furnished in mines. The
/ nrst report OF This Kind evGr made came
today from the Cumnock coal mines.
h.he. military company at Henderson
VIII iillas 30 to Washington Monday on it.
annual outing.
j3i me deputy revenue collectors in thi!
district have made IN excellent recor,
this year in the matter OF seizures O.
Illicit diStilleries