The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-28
Seriously Injured While Tr5Ing to Board a
Moving Street Car.
5000 JOKE ON GOVERNOR RUSSELL
i&JRdge Ewart says Complimentary
rs Free Passes Are Not Unlawful.
.3.s How rahiic school Money is >quan
{ dered ON Assistant Tcnchcrs-N New
Morning. Paper TO Appear Soon.

Raleigh. N. c., Oct. 21.-(Spccial)-
4 This morning Samuel Wait, Il student
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
& Collese, was injured hero while at
tempting TO get on q street Gar. Dur
& ing the vacation he was q conductor on
the line. This morning he attempted to
Z get on the front platform Of ii car which
/ was quite near the Capital Square, but
caught 1t with Only one aand. His feet
were under the car and he was dragged
z forty-five feet. The car did not run over
his body. His head was; slightly cut,
( his hip injured and one foot crushed SO
{; mat part OF 1t may have to be amput att
ed. The accident was entirely due to his
{ own faui.t
49, dr:: Merton, an architect of Durham.
y who was so seriously hurt by {, railway
B train there last year, sues the Southern
Z railway for $4,000 damages. The case
Z comes up here.
The news that the new lieqt ship off
n cape HatteraS held llcr own during the
4 9atc great storm Is very gratifying.
seas break there in thirty feet OF waiter.
Inc Weather Bureau mas lately been
4 away OIL the mark in some of Its pre-
s4dictions. To-day fair weather was pre-
v SlSteos put instead There We're the low
4 efinS clouds which have marked the
N past eight days There has been no
4 sunshine since last Thursday afternoon.
\ Inc streets are as muddy now as they
usually are In winter
some cotton Is now being shipped
Foreign from here, The nrst this season.
No There We're large safes of lands here
Yesterday and the prices obtained were
X about two-thirds those paid ten years
ago.
rs, Sne or the best known Popu7iste I'm
4 the state tells a good story ito Illustrate
d SsoVernor Russell's prcdiclment about
z runway passes. Some darkcys one cold
J1.Nr 1 t,,.r
5ztheir feet towards 1t. One of Them
e .HaEed and. smelling burning flesh.
Vi Walked THE one next to him and said:
feet are burning" Net
Ii NINE was the reply And so It went
Z oTol'rd the circle, until finally the one
i VINO had done tbs awakening and made
4 the discovery found the s.Caes nearly
Y burned from his own feet
iE Judge Ewart, In charge to Ernnd
TJnry} says purely complimentary free
& passes ara not prohibited NY law Pco-
pie can't understand why Governor Rus
* sell should have written the So called
!; interview with himself about free passes
5f1e was rot called on to maker a stnte-
nlent. He is laughed at by people im all
& parties There is nothing but absurdity
4 In the matter. people gay
Inc attitude Of one Of the Supreme
\ Court Judges in regard to the Ohio VIII
son 3RaFiW'ay Commission case is guessed
- e1'' ttilta Nfiutle 10 w llSOD. II Is said
Y rhat this Governor thinks two Judges
Z are favorable to his Views in the matter
John p. Harris. president of the Amer
y lcan society for lhc Prevention OF Cruel
E ~ to Animals offers 500 reward for the
y arrest AND conviction of the persons
( who tortured by fire the elephant Gin
\ clnnaitus, belonging 10 Robinson &
Franklin Bros. Circus, at Greer.s boro,
last week. Dr.. II. NJ. Ballard, CT Ashe-
VIE, presldel1t Of the State society, Is
notified Of the offer Of the reward.
- A Surry courty man was divorced Mt
4 . a. m. one day last week. walked
Z twelve miles 10 his nome and got his
q best Clothes, walked ten miles to the
Z Courthouse and SCI, n marriage license.
4 then walked ten miles 10 the home Of a
widow, whom he married Mt . D. IN.
Ine Static Superintendent of Public
instruction in an address issued TODAY
to County Supervisors says no person.
save those with certificates from Super
Yhsors. Should be permitted 20 teach ms
assistants In the public schools. He
finds Instances in which prhlcinal; are
+ paid $40 to $50 4 month out Of the public
4 FUNDS. with the understanding that the
: principal teachers were TO furnish their