The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-22
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
THE n. n. COMMISSIONER CASE RE-
FORE THE q. IS. SUPREME COURT.
Mrs. Watson who Was Shot by Her Hus-
band Dies From Her Injuries After
Much Suffering.

RALEIGH. ~ c.. Jan. 2l.--Special.-All
the counsel in Railroad Commission case
have returned from Washington city. me
United States Supreme Court may render
it's decision on the case without hearing
Argument or they may send for the coun-
sci TO come on later and argue The case
Mrs. Watson. whose husband shot her
last October. and then killed himself dled
early yesterday morning.
The sentence OF Ben Fields, who was
sentenced To be hanged on the iStn: loi
poisoning a man named Keel in EDGE
cOmbe county. was a few hours before
the execution was to have taken pace
committed to life imprisonment
\ leading Populist says that the past
will lie forgotten and that the Butter an !
anti-Butler factions will soon be united
Judge L. C. Fuller left to-day for mis-
court in Santa re. New Mexico. lie VIII
be gone until the end OF March
THE DRUGGISTS.
At meeting Of the Raleigh Druggists
Association. held yesterday. f. g. Bird
song was elected president.
Some Of the politicians can now rest
easy. The District Attorney has Deen ap-
pointed and Bernard gets the plum. Chan,
burne gets the Wilmington postoiilce anu
Tyre Glenn gets the Greensboro postofice
The Raleigh pOstofiice VIII prODapiy lail
TO Bailey of North Carolina.
Another farm was leased by the EXecu-
tive Committee Of the Penitentlary Board
and confirmed by the Board. Two acres
farm 10 test the idea Of the sugar beet IN
dustry in the State.
The Railroad Commission has sum-
moned Major j. w Wilson TO appear be-
fore the court next week Major VIII
son will be pretty sure TO give the new
holders of the commissioner s office a
lively time. for he never whips the devli
around the stump.
A WOMAN GRADUATE.
Miss Sallie Stockard. one II the four fe-
"a d. ct al ITniN9rgifN
graduate with the class Of ss II VIII be
the first time a female has ever received
a diploma from the North Carolina Uni
yefsity.
United States Marshall Dockery has ap-
pointed seven new deputies They will
be required TO give 500 bonds before
they get their commissions.
The Underwriters Insurance Company
was formed I'm Greensboro with 2 capital
Of 100000. There is SO much inclination
TO start local companies.
The catch of fish I'm the State. 14l 5000,
last year was enormous. This Is given by
the Labor Commissioner report. The
value of the catch is IL .Si3.GlS.
The president Of the Republican League
says that Governor Russell has promised
10 canvass the State. and 10 is probable
he will do so.
The Governor has pardoned two Of the
graveyard insurance men who were con-
vlcted at Beaufort last year-One was
Scdcn Dclemar white. and the other was
William Fisher, colored. Both were in
dreadful health.
no BOARD L. 5. PRISONERS.
The Penitentiary Board authorized its
cha rman Claudius DockeTy 10 make an
agreement with the Federal authorities
10 have the Federal prisoners put in the
penittntiary here, instad of sending them
10 different parts Of the country. The
Government will pay 81 weekly Tor the
board of the prisoners. and the state
VIII get the use Of them
there arc LOGS State cOnyicts. Some are
i'm the prison here. and others are out
on the farms, etc. at Work. This is a
smaller number than has 0een IN nfteen
years. one prisoner, who was serving "a
thirty-yoar sentence escaped a few nights
ago. He was from Wake county, and told
his people that one Of the guards who
had been told he would be discharged
let him out Of the gate. lie has not yet
been captured.
GROWTH OF COTTON MILLS.
The prospect for further cotton mill eX-
tension in the South is good. and the in
crease within the last i've years has been
large. Commissioner Hamrick says that
I'm lSS6 there were ~ mills and iOl looms
with 1898 spindles. I'm 1897 there were
20 mills and l.il0 knitting machines. 2i5li
looms and 10H.3S5 spindles. That even
with that number the prospect Tor rapid
extension of the cotton mill industry III
this State, is fine. all the mills are IN eX-
cellent condition and are declaring from
. to 10 per cent. dividend on the capital
invested. Many Of the mills run day and
night North Carolina has fine water
power facilities and the cotton is grown
here and can be manufactured without
the cost of shipping elsewhere.
The wife of Mail Agent Benton, who
was killed last spring in collision sues
the Southern for 5000 damages. Her
lawyers say that she will get the heaviest
damages ever awarded in a North Caro-
lima court.
J. w McIvor. who for twenty-one
years has been employed at the peniten-
tiary as one of the officials, retres.
The Attorney General decides that pub
lie school teachers are not liable TO in
dictment for teaching without certih-