The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-24
" Supreme ~ Court Sustalns the Governor In
Dlls'HIsslng Them from Office.
PLANS MATURING 10 CRUSH BUTLER
Pr ~. Growing ON y z.nrse scn.o-Jim
Boo k kern. AeId for rrial-Rynn n
neprnyoa criininaI- statistIos OF
cro ops -ne"a ards ,oGered by The
Governor, III

The Supreme Court to-day decided M.
very important case which involves Inc
Governor's power to suspend ]. w vii
son ana 5. otho Wilson, Railway Com
mlssioners, until the Legislature meets.
The Court. Chief Justice Naircloth dis
SehClns and Associate Justice Robert NJ
douglas, son of the noted Stonbcc, A
douglas, delivering the opinion. holds
that the court below acted propcrly in
refusing a jury trial; also that the Wi
sons nave no vested right in the Office,
but took It with full knowIedre or The
Sovernor's power OF suspension and thn
leslstative power to impeach and re-
move. The court gave Judgment NAT
caldwell and Pearson, Governor Rus
seils Apprentices. must take immediatc
possession, and an execution was i'm
.neulaleiy issued to the Sheriff in order
Writs Of error from the United States
supreme Court before the Governors
appointees get possession. This cas-
alas for months excited deep interest all
over the State. n
ihereWas delight to- day with the sun
sn me rain OF three days past was
knocking out the holiday trade THO
county roads are something nwrul
no cooler or more ,deprayed Grim NAL
than r. 8. Ryan, the white man
hanged to-day at Greensboro for wife
murder has been known In this State
~ was In 1883 that Stanly county
so.eu me 800 600 to the Yadltin Valley
t allway. me supreme Courts decision.
mat the bonds are Invalid, appears ia
cause JOY TO the people there. The lat
Ter were angry because a mortgage wns
put upon the road, it seems.
mere is to be another hearing Of the
ENorth Carolina railway lease question
5etore Special Master Kerr Cra!ge at
salisbury January nth. The nntIRus-
sell side will then have IT'S ,nnin,rs
&%lt is now known that the PoDulists
are arranging a concerted plan TO III
orally crush Senator Butler and end
his power. s{l5s
Mr. Sidney Scott,one of the foremost
eitizens OF +Alamance county, died yes
Moses Cone will 20 into fruit rojstnr
on a large scale In watauga county,
die is planting $1,000 trees.
day before a magistrate here lin
Booker, alias ChaVis, the negro who
olew out the brains OF his sweetheart,
Mahata White. was given preliminary
a s. ana was returned to JAIL to be
cried IN January for murder.
IS learned that there will be n
considerable Increase after the holidays
in the number of students at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College
In the North Carolina Methodist Com
ference there are only thirty-two Ep-
worth Leagues. with 1,473 members
The Secretary OF State recently sent
w. P. Bachelor. for years n clerk IN
mat Office, to Baltimore to examine the
DOCKS and assets OF the guarantee COM
panies. One of these desired an cx-
animation. The information was spe-
csally desired by the Secretary of State
IN order that he might certify as to
the status OF this class Of compa MES
The law really gives him the power to
make biennial examinations
ihe Populists have not abandoned the
1dea or ousting w. C.tNIcNIackin, Road
supervisor here, in order to get in one
OF their people
The report OF the Labor Commissioners
VIII give the following as the years
crops In this State: Wheat, 4. OBJ. 900
bushels; corn, 29,504, Jas; oats. 5,777, 256
rye. 3S9.6l0; bucltwheat, 81, 040; irish po-
fatoes, LAC, al; hay, 177,616 tons; sweet
potatoes, 1.4l5,000 bushels; tobacco, G5, :
629.lTo pounds; cotton. 423.519 bules.
During his term OF Office Governor
Russell has offered the following re-
wards: John Keel, white, for the muir
der Of David Phillips. Pitt county;
.Shober Owens, White, for the murder
of Rufus Phillips, Ashe; John Gardner
Write. for the murder of David Lar
CURT, Mcdowell; unknown, for the muir
der or J. r. Baker, Wayne; unknown
for the murder of Mrs. a. A. Springs
!. Davidson; unknown, for the murder of
4 William Vestal, Runcombe; Daniel
Webb, negro, for the murder and rape
of an S-year-old girl, Cchowan; Asbury
Nichols and James Nichols, white, for
the murder of Ida Young, Cherokee:
Alex Gilmer, negro, burglary. Cumber-
iand; Gilbert Ward, white, for the MUIR
der of Maggie Durkins. Wayne; a. w.
Jones, negro, for the murder of his
wife Nettie. Wilson; Albert Colliton
negro, rape of little girl, Henderson,;
Osborne Lambert, for the murder of T..
N. Bumgardner. Henderson; Alonzo
Waters. negro, for the murder OF Hen
Z derson West. Pitt.